WHEN WE STAY QUIET WE ARE ALSO MORE POWERLESS – AN INTERVIEW WITH SUNFLOWER BEAN

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged activisim, album, alternative, Anger Can Be Power, anxieties, anxiety, Cate Le Bon, collective, conviction, create, Donald Trump, Dream Wife, fat white family, featured, gun control, human ceremony, indie, jacob faber, Jay Som, julia cumming, king krule, march for our lives, MGMT, music, New York, nick kivlen, norwich open, NRA, Parquet Courts, political music, presidential election, psych, punk, Pure X, republicans, Sheer Mag, student movement, sunflower bean, Twentytwo In Blue, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, US, USA, Washington, Wolf Alice.

by Rowan Gavin

Sunflower Bean are a band who know what they’re about. Sitting down with the trio of 22 year old New Yorkers ahead of their show at Norwich Open on March 26th, it becomes immediately apparent how certain they are of their musical and political convictions. Drummer Jacob Faber, guitarist Nick Kivlen, and bassist & vocalist Julia Cumming made quite a splash with 2016’s debut Human Ceremony and its fresh-yet-eerily-familiar blend of indie, punk, psych and alternative sounds.

Having previously visited the Fine City when they supported London alt-rockers Wolf Alice, they returned to headline here for the first time at Open off the back of their entrancing second album Twentytwo In Blue, which was already making waves when I spoke to them three days after its release.

THERESA MAY HAS LOST CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE. HER PREMIERSHIP IS DOOMED.

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Ancien Regime et la Revolution, Britain, change, control, deficit, dwp, elite, free market, French Revolution, globalisation, Hillary Clinton, inaugural speech, injustice, jeremy corbyn, lost control, Louis XVI, modern politics, MPs, narrative, neoliberalism, obama, Osbournism, party whip, policy, politics, post truth, public statements, seeds of change, tax breaks, theresa may, Toqueville, Tory, Trump, tuition fees, Universal Credit, Washington.

by Toby Gill

‘The most dangerous time for a bad government is when it begins to reform itself.’ – Alexis de Toqueville.

Give people an inch, and they will take a mile. This is what de Toqueville hinted at in his Ancien Regime et la Revolution, his celebrated account of the French Revolution. It was just as Louis XVI’s regime began to reform that the masses could take no more. Just as the promise of real change was made, the guillotine fell.Continue Reading

HOW SHOULD WE ACKNOWLEDGE NATIONAL SINS?

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged African American History Museum, America, civil war, Confederate, Crescent City White League Obelisk, Frederick Douglass, General Lee, George Washington Cable, germany, Harriet Jacobs, Jefferson Davis, legacy, Martin Luther King Jr, memorial, Mitch Landrieu, New Orleans, P.G.T Beauregard, slavery, Smithsonian, W.E.B. DuBois, Washington, white supremacy, William Lloyd Garrison.

by Tara Debra G

Content warning: Holocaust/genocide, slavery, white supremacy

Under the cloak of night, on the 24th of April this year, an obelisk that celebrated members of the Crescent City White League was removed in New Orleans. It was erected in 1891 to honour the group that, twenty years prior, launched a failed insurrection against the Reconstruction Louisiana state government, murdering police officers in doing so. Its plaque in 1931 read: “the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state.”Continue Reading

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WHEN WE STAY QUIET WE ARE ALSO MORE POWERLESS – AN INTERVIEW WITH SUNFLOWER BEAN

THERESA MAY HAS LOST CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE. HER PREMIERSHIP IS DOOMED.

HOW SHOULD WE ACKNOWLEDGE NATIONAL SINS?

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