The FRUK Blog
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Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse Big Brother steps in with his great big boots creating even more red tape. Enter Form 696. Reported upon recently in The Independent:
The form demands that licensees give police a mass of detail, including the names, aliases, private addresses and phone numbers of all musicians and [...]
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This is my second attempt at unleashing some of the great counterculture media out there upon you. Arthur is a free bi-monthly magazine in the US but UK folk can download it from their site for free or subscribe for 6 issues and get it delivered for $11.00. It’s reminiscent of the hippie free press and, according [...]
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Your FRUKie guide to Counterculture. I’ll be drip feeding you information in a series of posts on how to stay up with what’s happening in the Counterculture music scene. This is vast so the focus will be around the sort of music that gets played on the FRUK Indie broadcast.
There are a number of magazines [...]
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I watched a documentary tonight on Akhram Khan, a fascinating dancer who combines Khatak dance (a classical form of dance from Northern india) with contemporary dance. He has become a leading dancer and chorographer. The following clip is from a production called ‘Zero Degrees’ performed at Saddler’s Well theatre, London in 2005. The music is [...]
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The off-grid population is growing in the Scottish Highlands at an unprecedented rate. For the first time in a thousand years that there are more people moving into the Highlands than are moving out, Professor James Hunter told the Financial Times. If the trend continues, the Highland population will be back at 1851 levels within [...]
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The BBC has just announced that the new Gaelic TV Channel, BBC ALBA, will be launched on 19th September. The channel is a partnership between BBC Scotland and the government-funded MG ALBA. The first night’s programmes include a live concert from the Isle of Skye featuring some of Scotland’s best musical talent.
The BBC Scotland [...]
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The following article appeared in The Times on 28th July 2008. It was written by Chris Wood, yes, that Chris Wood, you can hear his great album Tresspasser on the station.
by Chris Wood:
Whenever anything colossally stupid - such as the invasion of Iraq - happens, I hear voices in my head. They are not the [...]
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