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Editorial
Words by Miro, from Slovak English translated by Amris
Hello and welcome back,
I hope you had a nice easter time somewhere peaceful or a good rave through the extended weekend. Or both. Speaking of raves, festival season is coming and in the last few weeks we learned that there will be much fewer small festivals this year in the UK and to be honest, I am not so sure if that's a bad thing.
On Tuesday 26th of March, the Culture, Media & Sport Committee held a session as a part of the “short inquiry into the ongoing crisis facing grassroots music venues” and it was something. A full picture of bleak reality, industry experts and professionals explaining the situation to politicians and the corporations within the industry coming up with ridiculous proposals defending all undefeatable. It's an extraordinary read with the climax in the form of saving grassroots venues by charging You - the ticket buyer - an extra quid on top of already not-so-grassroots prices. Beautiful. And complicated, obviously, without this one magical solution which will solve the problems through one short inquiry into an ongoing crisis.
It’s hard to decide where to start because pretty much everything needs some solution, change or emergency intervention. Well… I believe that this is where You become very important and you don’t even have to donate anything to save something. And what is exciting is that it’s where your true freedom of expression begins. The only tricky part is that we still don’t have the date yet.
So far we only know that the moment of action each one of you can contribute and the key to all possible solutions will come “in the second half” of 2024. General Elections are where any change has a chance to start.
The current government is not able to find competent people to govern and serve, therefore any genius idea to fix something will crash on the wall of this simple reality. Let’s be honest, I don’t think there is one institution in this country functioning to its purpose. Without functioning institutions served by competent people, we will not be able to change anything. One of the reasons we have this incompetent government is that many young people simply don’t exercise their most important right to choose people working for us because this is the actual point of elections - to choose people who will temporarily work for us - citizens of this country.
It’s a fundamental element of our freedom and as a person who remembers how it was when my parents had to vote and of course, they knew exactly which party they had to vote for. The power of your choice is much stronger than you might think looking at politicians these days and that’s why they keep trying to fool us pushing the boundaries of our tolerance higher deepening the already low.
I spent hours, days and months thinking, reading, listening and talking with people and I strongly believe that just a simple change for more competence will make every idea and solution worth the energy used to create and innovate.
Happy spring! And you know where to find the perfect soundtrack as you wait for the GE date announcement.
Thank you for reading and stay connected
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Coming Up
○● Helen will start the weekend program with her Dig Yourself on Saturday 11am-1pm ○● Angel Numbers will join Irene Goodnight right after 1-3pm ○● All Zipped Up crew Anya and Gary are back from their time away keeping the Saturday vibes between 3-5pm ○● Mystic Zeno will join Mihnea for a fragile female vocal channelled fragile enclosures Sunday 2-4pm ○● New show on the block with a new label in the hood Long Gone starting this Sunday 10pm till midnight ○● Momo will take over Meg’s SWN on Monday 11am-1pm ○● House Of Good on guest duties for discøisdead - Tuesday 7-9pm ○● London School of Electronic Music showcasing three incredible talents - Jane Darke, and Nymorea. Both of these amazing DJs developed their craft during the LSEM DJ Course, which was led by the exceptional Aimie, aka Herberta. Catch them on Monday 3-5pm ○● This month on Vulnerability In The City we are talking with guest speaker Robbie Griffin about how vulnerability has played its part in getting him to where he is. As a mentor and facilitator, Robbie empowers people to connect from the depths of their hearts and communicate transparently, authentically, and vulnerably. Allowing for radical self-acceptance, opening the doors to deep love, connections, and intimacy both within and with others. Tune in on Thursday 9-11am ○● Valentine Comar will host Soph, founder and resident of South London’s vinyl collective Social Records Society as well as co-captain of former record store and soon-to-be community-owned live music venue Sister Midnight - next Friday 1-3pm ○●
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Music Tips
Our residents’ current favourite songs in the form of Bandcamp links. Full circle.
○ TSUNIMAN ○ PLASMA ○ 4th Tuesday 9-11pm
● Kitsta - Liefmans EP - Manual Smiles ● Nickon Faith - Digital Moss EP - Manual Smiles ● Halo Varga - Future! - Hooj Choons ●
○ Angel Maze & Kitsch ○ SPECTRUM ○ 1st Tuesday 5-7pm
● Two Shell - Talk to Me ● Shauna - Elektra - Working Classics ● Kitsch - tombée du ciel ●
○ Mihnea ○ fragile enclosures ○ 1st Sunday 2-4pm
● MJ Lallo - The Channeled Voice - Full Spectrum Records ● ccctyyy - Reappearance - TAX FREE RECORDS ● Gossiwor - LIGHTHOUSE - 5 GATE TEMPLE ●
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Special Offer
For those thinking to do a music production course
£150 off the LSEM 3-month Ableton Course, starting next week! The London School of Electronic Music is offering an exclusive opportunity to the Netil Radio community for the first two students to sign up.
The lovely people at the LSEM, who have been our residents for over two years and whose Fresh Beats show returns this Monday, hosted by Pablo Ranacat, are offering an exclusive opportunity to the Netil Radio community to become professional music producers and learn Ableton Live via webcam with a fantastic £150 discount.
As you are aware, becoming a producer is both a creative process and a valuable tool for taking your DJ career to the next level, and at LSEM, you can also have the opportunity to release your music on their exclusive label Fresh Beats Records.
Use the code Netil150LSEM at checkout when you view the course by clicking the link below to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity!
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Listen Back
● The People and Dancefloors w/ Alex & Giulia ● Angel Lebailly ● Good Smells w/ HENDERSON b2b DEPA ● OS Community Service w/ BARON & Aisling ● Neighbourhood Cotch w/ BIG LEG ● One Thing w/ Precious & Jason Roy ● Ondo Onda w/ Gerah, Sanoy & Cosmo Sofi ● Move w/ Christina D & Larney P ● alice.km ● Research & Document w/ Coco Brigitte ● Tracing Faces w/ Raelle ● Primordial 00ze & Aitch ● Persistent Stickiness w/ W.H.Y. ● Feed The Void w/ Birds & Desinformant ● PLASMA w/ Kitsta & Kmya● ● The Breakfast Brapp! w/ Solly LDN ● Kasmik Flow w/ Patricia Doors● The Augenblick Press Show ● It’s Not Too Late w/ Blake Creighton & Che Groovara ● Max Q invites Spike Melt ● Orientate w/ ixxi ● EZ-Listening w/ The Sausage King of Chicago ● LAFV Radio w/ DON’T CALL ME TAKO ●
That’s all for this week, stay tuned
NR team
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London’s community voice, broadcast live from a converted shipping container atop Netil Market - a project facilitated and supported by Eat Work Art