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British music stars will be donating their time, talents and clothing to an upcoming fundraiser for the crisis in Darfur, reports NME. Coldplay’s Chris Martin will be giving up a coat, while Elton John will be donating an old Versace suit. No word on whether the John suit will be bedraggled with sequins and feathers….
Oxfam New Zealand is getting the ball rolling in conjunction with the upcoming Fair Trade Fortnight (set to kick off April 28), with spokesperson Kirsten Morrell of the New Zealand pop band Goldenhorse leading an Oxfam fundraiser. In a recent New Zealand Herald article the singer also shares a favorite coffee cake recipe. On a related note, the article says that demand for Fair Trade coffee in New Zealand rose 1700 percent in the last two years.
NOTE: This is another post from another blog I kept up, but it fell by the wayside…. I’m in a bit of a lazy mood this morning, but I’ve been listening to this album with my morning tea, so I thought I’d just reprint it here. Thanks.
In “Three Hours”, the third song on Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left 1969 debut album, Drake sings about being “..in search of a story that’s never been known…” Reviewing an album by a long-dead young man, in particularly one who died from “complications” related to serious mental illness is a dangerous task. Immediately there’s a temptation to look to the lyrics as some sort of warning sign, a suicide note, to his death at the age of 26. There are other many many other words, written in other places, about his life, his middle class upbringing and his frustration at the lack of commercial success in his lifetime. The song “Fruit Tree” for example, has in my opinion been wrongly interpreted as a sad man’s last, bitter words.
Nothing much to write in this current post, but I thought I’d post the Coldplay/Oxfam video that’s been around the internet for a while. It’s not overly educational (doesn’t go into much detail), but it’s a fairly effective introductory commercial. The song is What If, from the X&Y album.
