My Life (part 1) - video of my musical poem
Steve Wallis
1)", formerly known as "I Walk The Earth", to MySpace (it's a bit too
long for YouTube). You can find it at
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&channelid=133579758
and on my MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/galaxiasteve; I've
included below a description I've written accompanying the video:
This musical poem I wrote describes some important events in my life,
including the influence of some women I have met and fallen for!
It starts with the anti-poll tax campaign of mass non-payment (that
eventually defeated the tax and was the main factor leading to the
ousting of iron lady Margaret Thatcher as UK prime minister),
including the People's March Against the Poll Tax (that I took part in
from Liverpool to London), a Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) camp
in Germany, the 1998 European School of the Committee for a Workers'
International (CWI) at which I was the only speaker from England or
Wales to support the establishment of the Scottish Socialist Party
(SSP) in the debate, followed by the circumstances that led to my
first incarceration as a political prisoner.
This poem is dedicated to Paula Mitchell, Naomi Byron, Susan (a
revolutionary socialist from Dublin), Sinéad Daly, Whatsername (a
Polish anti-racist), Dorotca (a Polish woman who was a lodger of my
former best friend Julian Beard), Morag Allen and Cath Bann.
My father recorded me performing it in the Rusholme (curry alley) area
of Manchester on the 29th of May 2009. He messed up the recording at
the start (so details about the miners' strike and Bogle Stroll are
omitted) and the end of the poem is missing too due to a printer
running out of paper and me not having the sixth of five sheets of
paper ! This actually made the musical poem better than it would
otherwise have been!!!
You can find the lyrics of (a slightly out-of-date version of) the
poem at http://socialiststeve.me.uk/lyrics/my-life-part1.html and more
of my musical poems at http://socialiststeve.me.uk/poetry.htm. You may
also like to browse my YouTube videos at http://youtube.com/galaxiasteve.
I have also been in two bands - Red Day in Glasgow (http://red-
day.net) and Galaxia in Manchester (http://galaxiamusic.org).
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Steve Wallis (Manchester, England)
Preferred email address: revolutionary...@yahoo.co.uk
Super-blog: http://www.twitter.com/socialiststeve
Other blogs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/steve-wallis-socialist-blog,
http://blog.myspace.com/galaxiasteve
My socialist website: http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk
My pages at Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1038291480,
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/galaxiasteve and Bebo:
http://www.bebo.com/SteveW519
Founder, Ethical Capitalism Network: http://www.ethicalcapitalism.net
Founder, Foundation for Proportional Representation-based Socialism:
http://www.PRsocialism.org
Founder, Revolutionary Platform Network: http://www.revolutionaryplatform.net
My revolutionary socialist band, Galaxia:
http://www.galaxiamusic.net,http://www.myspace.com/galaxiamusic,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Galaxia-a-revolutionary-socialist-band/84310120180,
http://www.bebo.com/galaxiamusic.
My socialist band, Red Day: http://www.red-day.net,
http://www.myspace.com/reddayband,http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Day/27468311341
Author, "Revolution Destroyed? Have I ensured that a world socialist
revolution will never happen?": http://www.revolutiondestroyed.net
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