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All Eyes West UK tour ‘12
All Eyes West is a three-piece band from Chicago, IL. They like to play loud music in the vein of Husker Du, Swervedriver, Seaweed, Drive Like Jehu and Jawbreaker. Currently touring in support of the self-titled debut, out now on Jump Start Records!
AEW feature Jeff Dean from THE BOMB and NOISE BY NUMBERS!
in the UK this June…
3rd June - Crash Doubt Festival, Lincoln
4th June - The Cavern Club, Exeter
5th June - Minsters Bar, Stoke
6th June - Karma Kafe, Norwich
7th June - Met Lounge, Peterborough
8th June - The Hop, Wakefield
9th June - Kage, Dundee
10th June - The Bay, Glasgow
11th June - The Maze, Nottingham
12th June - tbc
13th June - The Soundhouse, Leicester
14th June - The Well Green Tavern, Bath
15th June - UNIT, Southampton
17th June - Wharf Chambers, Leeds
18th June - Newcastle tbc
19th June - Star and Garter, Manchester
20th June - tbc
www.alleyeswest.com
www.flyingsaucerbooking.co.uk
The Queen versus Exeter
I wonder if Elizabeth the second’s visit tomorrow will be quite like the two main royal encounters in Exeter. Probably not.
In 1285, Edward the 1st came to Exeter to work out who had killed the Precentor (an important minister for the cathedral). Edward did the investigation himself and decided it was the mayor and had him killed!
When many civil servants decided they wanted a new royal family and William of Orange was chosen, he landed in Plymouth and camped out in the Cathedral for a fortnight, before he marched for London and claimed the crown.
I’m doubting that it’ll be quite so eventful tomorrow!
A Request!
Hi everyone, I’m looking for volunteers! and not just for a one-off thing, but instead for long term, committed people! If that hasn’t put you off, i guess things are looking promising!!
As some of you know, I work for The Methodist Church in Exeter. My job is kind of an experimental role, and so my theology, work load and inspirations are able to be whatever I want them to be! Don’t stop reading though!!
As part of what might be the strangest job I’ve ever had, I’ve started to set up (in conjunction with some great people from all sorts of different organisations) what will essentially be a place where food that is still entirely edible, but was headed for the landfill, can be redeemed and sent to places that would benefit from not paying for food - places like the Exeter Food Bank, the YMCA, St Petrocks Drop In Centre, and loads more places too.
The reason that this has happened is thanks to some friends in Plymouth starting the Devon and Cornwall Food Association which does exactly this. Did you know that often, supermarkets will simply not take food from wholesalers because they don’t think the sell-by date gives them long enough to sell it, and so these wholesalers put this food (still in its packaging) straight into the landfill? Crazy, right?
We (DCFA- Exeter) have taken on a property on Sidwell Street. We get the keys next week. We want to start this redistribution from wholesalers to service users as soon as we can. For this, we need volunteers. You would be working with me, on some early mornings, or perhaps during the day to get this food from the back of delivery lorries and vans, and then get it collected by those who are involved. There will be some carrying, lifting and early starts. There will also be unlimited cups of tea. The more volunteers we have, the fewer shifts you have to do! You’ll need to be in Exeter, or be able to get here early!
If you’re worried about this being a Christian thing (and it isn’t actually just run by people who believe things), you can read what we believe and how that is acted out here; hopefully you’ll not be further put off! http://signalandaccord.tumblr.com/whoweare and http://signalandaccord.tumblr.com/whatwedo
The only other thing to tell you is that if you feel you want to support this in other ways, you can do a few things. We have no money. If you would like to do something to raise awareness and sponsorship, that’d be great! If you work for a company who can support this in any way, we’d love to hear from you! Not just for money, but perhaps you know about good food going to waste? Get in touch!
my email is jon_shoe@hotmail.com - it’d be great to hear from you! And share this as widely as possible
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St George says get rid of the border!
St George is celebrated today in England. This is an opportunity for some English people to talk about definitions of Englishness and what it means to be from here. Who knows why?! George was most likely from Turkey or Palestine, which absolutely doesn’t mean he isn’t worthy to be understood, but for me it reasserts the notion that humanity is one, and we cannot be defined by our locale.
Truth is, I’d open every border. No borders at all- simply register for tax locally. Would we be flooded with immigration? I don’t believe people (in general) want to leave their homes unless they have to. Proof? I can move to a lot of places, but i haven’t! Perhaps it would make us address foreign policy a bit more seriously?!
All of these borders are arbitrary- just lines drawn in the sand. Nothing like this is God-given.
No borders, no boundaries. How can a person be illegal?
Dan Webb and the Spiders UK dates
Excited to say that Dan Webb and the Spiders are coming back to the UK this week! Here’s the dates…
3rd March- The Pennywhistle, Northampton.
4th March- Mothers Ruin, Bristol
5th March- Karma Kafe, Norwich
6th March- Hobos, Bridgend
7th March- Prince Albert, Brighton
8th March- The Cavern, Exeter
You can hear them at http://danwebbandthespiders.bandcamp.com
This was written for the Express and Echo, but was edited hugely!
This article was intended for last week’s Express and Echo. My Dad noticed that I made even less sense than usual! Here’s what it was meant to say!
Protest is a word that’s being used a lot at the moment. The Occupiers on the Cathedral Green are being told to move as I write. Also, it’s the first anniversary of those in Egypt who stood up against the President and caused his government to fall, and just recently we have seen the worker’s unions moving to voice their concerns about public sector changes. Often, protest movements call upon examples of great women and men who have fought injustice, or cynicism, or even violence and have triumphed in their cause. We can think of numerous examples, and we are grateful for those people’s examples and determination in the face of huge pressure and difficulty.
Almost everything that Jesus did was an active protest against some way of life, unnecessary law or misunderstanding of what “doing good” actually meant. Throughout his life, he encountered lots and lots of people (and these are only the incidents recorded in the four gospels) who attempted to correct what he did, or how he did it. So, when he accepted the downtrodden and hated as friends, he was roundly criticised. When he did what he could to make the sick better, he was told that he couldn’t do it in that particular way. When he spoke about his thoughts and beliefs, it was called blasphemy.
When we see protest, or protesters, or even people whose way of life we struggle to deal with, it’s very easy to get drawn in by our own understandings and prejudices when it comes to making decisions about our own opinions on the cause or complaint. I certainly do this very happily on numerous occasions, and have to try to not get carried away. But Jesus’ message and life shows us (at least) two things; firstly, he believes that it’s the reasons that we do something that are most important and secondly, just because the world hates someone and their actions, it doesn’t mean that the hated minority is the one in the wrong.
My point here isn’t to side with one particular protest group or another; you can and will make up your own minds, and this isn’t the place for me to persuade you. However, Jesus is the perfect example of how we must examine the cause itself, rather than dismiss because we don’t agree with or like how the protest is taking place. When Jesus was executed so brutally by the Roman Empire, he is recorded as saying of his executioners and those who mocked and taunted him, that “they don’t understand what they’re doing”. I hope that when the time comes and I am shown my mistakes, that those who I have misunderstood, and the causes that I have not supported, and the people that I have not helped, similarly show me enough grace to understand that I didn’t know what I was doing. Here’s to a better world where we judge on others intentions, not on our own feelings.
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