I created this before the election, but thought it far too negative and apathetic to post – I then had a misguided faith in the UK democratic process and that people won’t give the Tories even a slight majority – or work together to avoid a Tory government, surely the party of SDP and Liberalism can’t get in bed with Tories? I was wrong. The last few days have changed that view – and with the Con/Dem Nation I have to say I’m never voting LibDem again, probably never in my lifetime. I’d rather vote independent or green or socialist and not have them get in but be honest rather than waste my vote on a bunch of power-hungry toffs who chuck their principles as soon as it suits them and reveals themselves to be rather more right-leaning than left as they were.

Pathetic. Just confirms my previous assertions re: liberals (you can never trust them, woolly, sometimes dodgy allowing fascists space, always infighting and usually infuriating) but had been lulled into an Obama-style ‘change’ 3rd option dream. As I say, never again. As I speak Dave Cameron is resurrecting from the dead all those Thatcher crones, Hague has-beens and Major Zombies – including Teresa May laughably as Equality Minister when she voted to KEEP Section 28, the most homophobic and red-top bait piece of legislation in UK history. Nice.

I TOLD you so, but looks like a few of you statistically didn’t listen

(Jeremy Deller)

(Bob and Roberta Smith, Mark Wallinger)

Yes there’s an election on and I love these alternative artist’s election posters via the Guardian.

Vote how you want as long as it’s not Tory (yes I’m biased, as you can see from this selection) – because as they on occasion accidentally drop the guard and show, they still are the party of rich daddies, homophobia and anti-immigration.

(Audio is NSFW).

I recomment those who get your sound muted or get a nastygram from Warners Media Group use Audioswap and swap in the same song – something unsigned like Playgyrl Slim’s ‘Shut the Fuck Up’ – be warned some of the selections are actually Warners – oh the irony – Fearless Records who Classic Case and Plain White T’s are on is owned by Warners….so don’t promote that shit. Check it on Myspace/Wiki first.

This helps promote those bands and tells Warners where to go…

(after Shepard Fairey)

OK I’ve been working on this mashup of Stereo MC’s vs Rolling Stones vs Benga vs Fun Boy 3 for a while – kind of a State of the Nation address in a mashup as regards how I felt in the run up to the US election, Georgia v. Russia, Iran and Iraq, Military Industrial Complex and various things…but history in the fact of Obama being elected president overtook me, so the paranoid worried bootleg seemed a bit at odds with the times.

So I’ve created two – one called (Fear) the full-length extended version with the Chris Rock intro, and a short radio version called (Hope) using Barack Obama’s recent speech in Chicago after he won the presidency – really they are different mashups, with a common basis.

Ground Shelter (Hope) - Stereo MC’s ‘Ground Level’ vs Rolling Stones ‘Gimme Shelter’ vs Benga ‘Lightbulb’

Ground Shelter (Fear) - Stereo MC’s ‘Ground Level’ vs Rolling Stones ‘Gimme Shelter’ vs Benga ‘Lightbulb’ vs Fun Boy 3 – ‘Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum’

Apologies to Shepard Fairey for abusing his wonderful artwork; and love goes out to Ian Fondue who gave me some tips on an earlier version – hope it works Ian!

(Shepard Fairey will be after me…)