Change is in the air! …………… 2017 and it felt like a New World was coming!
Spaceheads released their 13th album on the 7th November 2017 a date that coincided with the centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution.
There are 13 new tracks that celebrate peoples struggle through the ages for a better world.
Released on Electric Brass Records it is available on Vinyl, CD and download.
Video for opening track “The revolution Sashays up the Mall”
Video for second track “What is to be Done?”
Video introduction to the album
Track by Track Guide
Each of the 13 tracks are each inspired by particular movements and moments
1 The Revolution Sashays up the Mall.
A Revolution of the Heart that celebrates diversity and difference and rejects hate and division. A re-love-ution that sashays away all the old undemocratic traditions. A revolution that completes and supersedes the Peasants’ Revolt of the 14th century. Bring your pitchforks and spread the love!!
2 What is to be Done?
A political pamphlet written by Lenin in 1902, which set out his plan to build a revolutionary party, the Bolsheviks, who went on to lead the Russian Revolution in 1917. This album celebrates the centenary of a moment that changed history – which empowered workers the world over to make demands that still resonate today.
3 A New World in Our Hearts,
Taken from a quote by Buenaventura Durruti, who led a 6000 strong column of anarchists against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. “We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute”
4 The Starry Plough.
As well as referring to a constellation of stars, The Starry Plough was flown as a banner by James Connolly‘s Irish Socialist Republican Citizens’ Army and has since been adopted in various guises by other sympathetic groups. The significance of the imagery was that “a free Ireland would control its own destiny from the plough to the stars.”
5 Space Rebel.
This track is inspired by disabled activist Francesca Martinez‘s redefining of “normal”, where she declares that the greatest act of civil disobedience is to be yourself. It also honours the continuing struggle for rights and acceptance of Disability Rights Movements across the world.
6 Diggers and Dreamers.
This piece pays tribute to the 17th Century Diggers Movement led by Gerrard Winstanley, which proclaimed the land as a common treasury for all and inspired a movement today that supports and promotes communal living.
7 Laugh in the Face of Power.
“Any form of domination and authority has a burden of proof to bear. It has to demonstrate it is legitimate, no matter what it is, whether it is inside a family,or global economy…… If its not legitimate it should be dismantled”- Noam Chomsky defining Anarchism
Watch live video here
8 Fanfare for the Exiles.
“There are more refugees now than at any time in recorded history” UNHCR 2016. This is set to grow without a radical change in global priorities by the world’s Governments. Stop Wars! Stop the arms trade! Refugees are welcome!
9 To the Children of a Wiser Day.
Commemorating the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester 1819 the poet Shelley wrote ” Children of a wiser day….Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few!”
10 Arise.
“Arise, ye workers from your slumber, Arise, ye prisoners of want. For reason in revolt now thunders, and at last ends the age of cant! Away with all your superstitions, Servile masses, arise, arise! We’ll change henceforth the old tradition, And spurn the dust to win the prize!”
The Internationale
11 May the First
May the first has always been an important date on the Spaceheads calendar. A birthday, a traditional spring holiday and International Workers day. “Workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains” wrote Karl Marx as he identified the forces in a class struggle that can change the world. Watch live video here
12 Sitting Down at Standing Rock.
Honours the leading role of indigenous peoples around the world against catastrophic climate change and in particular the ongoing fight against the Dakota Access pipeline by the peoples of the Standing Rock Reservation in North & South Dakota, USA. Watch video here
13 Mon’s Dream.
This track is not on the vinyl version and is only on the CD and download. Our engineer Mon told us that he drifted into a dream when he heard us improvising this in his studio. Dedicated to all dreamers and utopians. All power to the imagination!
