Netil Radio Weekly
#016
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Hello and welcome back,
Hope you survived the spooky weekend, winning the costume of the night contest and most importantly - you remember the fun you had. Exciting times are coming - Beer tax will be lower, and seeing BJ’s performance at the COP26 summit, there will be loads of projects making Britain greener and offshore companies richer. Not sure in which order or what the priority logistics are though..
Reading a story of how someone working in a nightclub can become a target for the government to spy on - the same government whose family members are friends of BJ’s shady donors - makes me feel worried. Worried that we are having way too much fun for the IRL situation we are actually in.
We are political on social media, but real life actions have a weird form of a loud minority’s mystical opinions, whilst the rest of us are just trying to catch up on imaginary feelings of freedom - not able to see that it’s just a reused plaster on a badly broken limb.
Pictures of ourselves on social media are called “content” and we believe that we are tricking the algorithm by posting them. The real content is lost in noise. Facebook is going to fix the mess they created by rebranding to Meta - which means Dead in Hebrew. Still think it's a good time to party?
Oh wait - it’s always a good time to party! Just sometimes we should maybe stop to think beyond the pinch of our noses and beyond our hangovers. The music and the essence of community will not die if we are more respectful to reality and start to take things seriously.
Elections are coming and we need to stop the corrupt - who seem to be going wild. It’s time to think about how. There don’t seem to be many options, so we have to show-up and say what we want, Stop being experts on everything and focus on things we understand.
Here in Netil Radio, we are trying to do only things we understand - We managed to stay open in the pandemic and we are adding content to exercise your mind and inspire your opinion via our early morning shows - our djs don’t pay us for using the studio, they actually turn up and use it.
Music is the healer they say, so the best self-care you can do is to listen to Netil Radio while you’re making the world a better place.
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Coming Up
✧ inklingroom is back with their monthly movement class. This time inviting a London based emerging dance artist Katie Serridge to curate the first hour of the show. And a new audiovisual project of electronic producer Yraki in the second part of the show. Today 3-5pm ✧ Dave will join Altai and they will Chase The Cuts together 5-7pm ✧
✧ It’s that time of the month where Isobel Ripley returns to talk periods. This month it’s all about PMS- what it is, how it feels and what we can do about it. Think of IN SEASON as your local period support group and the cycle education you probably never received. Your menstrual cycle matters. Thursday 9-11am ✧ Oli Silva will join Jos and they will Expand Your Awareness later in the night 9-11pm ✧
✧ PJ & Abdel are in charge of Friday mornings, Reclaiming The Narrative of everything important from previous week. This Friday 9-11am ✧ Joshua Corbett will fly solo with Eyes Have Babes 1-3pm ✧
✧ R Lionheart will take over of Tropical Problems this Saturday 1-3pm ✧ Gary and Anya are starting new monthly show All Zipped Up - every 1st Saturday of the month 3-5pm ✧
✧ Next week, Hannah Holland will join Edwin for a session. Holland has played a pivotal role in London’s alternative and queer London club scene since the mid-noughties, with her distinctive electro tinged techno DJ sets and productions. Don’t miss her set next Thursday 5-7pm ✧
Full programme here
Listen Back
Last week’s highlights and superstars:
✧ Jimmy Oakman in conversation with Brémond ✧ REVIVEHER’s Bi-Bop taking over of discøisdead ✧ In Memory of JahFire all day long memorial for our dear friend Lamen ✧ Hidden Sounds’s comeback with everything Emotional visionaire Chuggy ✧ or Ivan Smagghe in The Ransom Note Dispatch ✧ or find out more about The Dignity & Hope Mixtape dedicated to support detained Palestinians
And there is much more in our Archives
New Music
It’s Bandcamp Friday this week, which means all purchases are commission free. Support Your favourite labels, artists, or a good cause, to make the world a better place.
✧ In accordance with the Dignity and Hope detainees fund, The Dignity & Hope Mixtape aim to raise money for the over 2000 predominantly working class Palestinian citizens of Israel, illegally arrested and detained by the Israeli police ✧
✧ Next week’s discøisdead guest Hannah Holland just dropped new album ✧
✧ Alapastel’s new album Ceremony is a beautiful ambient trip and one of the favourite albums for our ambient matador Miro sundayMusiq. Tip! ✧
That’s all for this week
Stay tuned, stay connected
NR Team
London’s community voice, broadcast live from a converted shipping container atop of Netil Market - project facilitated and supported by Eat Work Art