We’ve been asked to play at Strummerfest in K-W, on the tenth anniversary of his passing. Practiced last night. Our ‘Bubbles’ video, for those who care what we still sound like, below. (Oh, and our new LP is being sold everywhere, now.)
In part, yes, I am posting this to drive down that ‘As It Happens’ clip, below, so that the damn thing doesn’t reopen every damn time I refresh the damn page.
Or is it better strategy to understand that there has always been something else going on here?
Questions, questions.
UPDATE: And here’s a gem from the archives. There’s a lot more.
The Globe And Mail
Mon Oct 16 2006
Page: A1
…The heated exchanges involved three of the four major contenders, leaving out Gerard Kennedy, who warned later that the internal attacks threaten the unity and renewal of the Liberal Party.
“Unity isn’t just language, it’s what you actually do. I’m in this race because I believe we need someone new that can draw this party together. There’s still some old battles being fought on this stage,” he said.
*UPDATED TWICE*: I have been told, and I accept, that what Kennedy did was not done to boost anyone else. So that speculation on my part was wrong. My criticism of him biting the hand that long fed him, however, remains. Kennedy should read John McKay’s very perceptive comments, at the bottom of this story.
I don’t recall saying that Trudeau was the only solution. But he’s a great, great guy.
Anyway, here I am back in The Charlatan – thirty years after I was an editor there. I grow old, I grow old, etc.