Easterhouse (Again)
Going on about Easterhouse all the time on this site has brought me an unexpected treat.
I have just been given, free, the 12 inch single "Whistling In the Dark". This comes with two great B sides, "Confrontation" and "Ain't That Always The Way". Records denouncing trades union bureacrats are hardly in keeping with the musical climes of 2007, but back in 1985, with the miners having just been smashed and a genuinely politicised working class, this release was not extraordinary.
Easterhouse never got the publicity they deserved, in part I guess because left-leaning music journalists preferred the SWP supporting Redskins, and secondly because there class politics were a bit too hard for some. Ain't that always the way! Last word should of course go to Ivor Perry's sleeve notes:
"We will only be able to fight effectively when we smash the influence of the Labour party which is committed to this economic system, to its social order and to Britain itself. The miners paid for this knowledge by hard experience. It is our duy to see it is not wasted."
Easterhouse were a brilliant band, sadly much overlooked and should have been bigger than oasis
Posted by: Tomc | December 03, 2007 at 10:32 PM
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Posted by: Tomc | February 13, 2008 at 09:39 PM