London Animation Festival will showcase….

Every 100 Day Cycle People, we have just had some very good news. We have always appreciated the hard work of our video makers, whom have provided their skills and time for our low budget truely independent Ample Play Label scale, for a song, if you will.

Well now, London International Animation Festival have put together, in their words “20… of the world’s best and most innovative music videos produced in the last 12 months,” and no less than 2 Cornershop videos feature in this Top 20. ‘Soul School’ by Abi Williams, and ‘Free Love’ by Chris Hemming. We are very happy for them.

London Animation Festival will showcase all the 20 videos SATURDAY 28 AUGUST, 8.15pm d’tails below:

http://www.liaf.org.uk/2010/pr/musicvid.html

5 Things you may not know about Cornershop…

We at Cornershop HQ are surprised and gladened how the band are often described and at times horrified. So we thought we would leave a few titbits before we eventually get to the main body of information. Therefore we will be putting up extra curricular snacks over the next month. Wikipedia being so Waki.

  1. First English group to work with Dan the Automator of Kool Keith Dr Octagon & sadly more laterly for Gorillaz fame. See Candyman track for Nike
  2. The London club night Buttoned Down Disco is named after the track Buttoned Down Disco from the Clinton Album
  3. Original Cornershop drummer David D Chambers used a lawnmower grass collector as part of his initial drum kit with the group
  4. Laura Marling & Jeffrey Lewis had their cover version of Eminem’s Brain Damage recorded by Tjinder at his Sassy P Studios.
  5. Cornershop were the last group to work with Allen Ginsberg on track ‘When The Light Appears Boy’

International Front Covers

NFbookcover

As well as collecting records, I have slowly developed an interest in books. I generally go for old books, mostly factual, with a view to see what the writers opinions were at the time of writing, against how things panned out in reality. Of the Fontana book shown in the picture written by Martin Walker, there is amongst many other tit bits this paragraph, which shows history in the repeating:

Pg 220

“The responsibility for ending racism in general, and stopping the NF in particular, now seems to rest with the Labour Movement. For it’s own sake, it will have to end the erosion of its once core support in deprived urban areas, and the evidence suggests that it will increasingly have to challenge the NF for that support. This will mean, almost wholly, relying upon the weakest of three elements of the

Labour movement, the constituency Labour parties. The other two, the trade unions and the Parliamentary Labour Party, will have their own tasks through organising in the workplace and passing legislation. But in fighting racism in the communities where people live, the burden is upon the CLPs and upon Labour councils. They seem, in 1976,

to be ill-equiped to carry it.”

If you have an interest in items like records and books or car manuals etc., that you can pick up & smell, which may from time to time be used as a handy weapon, please share it with us. This blog space has not been well promoted as we think best how to push it, but one day it will of course be bigger than the Imperial Google Library at Queens.

Live gig list/history

RadioCSHP Live history (cropped) Hello there, as a few people have asked for a list of live concerts and gigs, I thought it would be a good to put up some dates here for people to add to, and even talk about the gigs. Thereby we can slowly build up the jigsaw of what has been a pitifully restricted yet rare catalogue.

Sweets for my sweet

Hello there, this is the new Message Blog of the Cornershop.com website, designed to rally around any topic whatsoever. Its all new to us, and to start with I have decided to show a picture I took yesterday – behind the sweet jars is a London Street that I think will be bigger than the Portobello Road in less than 10 years, but for those of you not in the capital, the sweet jars themselves are candy enough. Tjinder