Influences: Tom Of England

 
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Shrouded in mystery and suspicion Tom Of England is a man with a story to tell… Working as both a producer and disc jockey he has released a variety of unsuspecting music on a well versed and eclectic array of record labels including the likes of Hinge Finger, The Trilogy Tapes, Tummy Touch, Meakusma, Dope Jams and many others. He has operated under a spectacular range of monikers including Mammal, Otterman Empire, The Hankins Mountaineers and The Mirror Boys. He has established himself as an extraordinarily reputable figure, a man who knows more about music than me and you put together. 

This weekend he will play in London alongside Powder and Dave Harvey at Five Miles as Love International touches down in the capital far away from distant Croatian shores. 

We invited him to talk about influences and he has accompanied each with a piece of short prose or poem… Essential. 


More details of the party HERE

Warrior The Life Of Leonard Peltier

“I honestly believe that you made up your mind long ago that I was guilty and that you were going to sentence me to the maximum sentence permitted under the law, but this does not surprise me because you are a high-ranking member of the white racist American establishment which has consistently said “In God we trust” while they went about the business of murdering my people and attempting to destroy our culture. The only thing I am guilty of and which I was convicted for was of being Chippewa and sioux blood and for believing our sacred religion”. Leonard Peltier.

The action in this documentary takes place in Dakota where the Standing Rock pipeline protests are still going on today. In essence, the story of the incarceration of Leonard Peltier is the the story of corporate backed governments vs the people, greed vs Nature, fear vs love.

  • Warrior The Life Of Leonard Peltier

    “I honestly believe that you made up your mind long ago that I was guilty and that you were going to sentence me to the maximum sentence permitted under the law, but this does not surprise me because you are a high-ranking member of the white racist American establishment which has consistently said “In God we trust” while they went about the business of murdering my people and attempting to destroy our culture. The only thing I am guilty of and which I was convicted for was of being Chippewa and sioux blood and for believing our sacred religion”. Leonard Peltier.

    The action in this documentary takes place in Dakota where the Standing Rock pipeline protests are still going on today. In essence, the story of the incarceration of Leonard Peltier is the the story of corporate backed governments vs the people, greed vs Nature, fear vs love.

  • Volcano At Skateland 1984

    If I had a time machine, I would take it here.

  • Tj Morgan & Myron Tachiinii - Peyote Songs

    “The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

  • You Are Determining Your Reality

    “Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
    In the forests of the night;
    What immortal hand or eye,
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

    In what distant deeps or skies,
    Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
    On what wings dare he aspire?
    What the hand, dare seize the fire?

    And what shoulder, & what art,
    Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
    And when thy heart began to beat,
    What dread hand? & what dread feet?

    What the hammer? what the chain,
    In what furnace was thy brain?
    What the anvil? what dread grasp,
    Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

    When the stars threw down their spears
    And water’d heaven with their tears:
    Did he smile his work to see?
    Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

    Tyger Tyger burning bright,
    In the forests of the night:
    What immortal hand or eye,
    Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”

    William Blake

  • Billy Childish - Sunday Painter Part 1 Of 3

    “I am a desperate man who demands to connect…who denounces the dullness of money and status…who will not bow down to accolade or success – ‘i am the strange hero of hunger”
    Billy Childish

  • Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show - Musikladen 1974

    Sometimes you just want to feel happy so you let go and remember that it’s all going to be OK.

  • Los Destructores De Memo Ocampo En Charo, Michoacan. Diciembre 2013

    It’s hard to capture an essence of mezcal culture. You could come at it from this way.

  • T-Coy "Carino" 1988 / Official Video Clip

    No MC, no comment.