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No to whippings and executions of worker activists in Iran

A very urgent message came to me today from Labourstart:
On May Day this year in Iran, two brave women - Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi - participated in open celebrations of the international workers’ holiday.
The regime considers this to be a crime and the women were arrested.
They have just been sentenced to 15 lashes apiece, [...]

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Chadie | August 15th, 2008 | Continued

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Fidel Castro - a blogger

Fidel Castro is a blogger. He blogs here, since some months. No, the 82 years old former president of Cuba does not blog about his food or his health. He blogs mainly about political issues and is said to be rather outspoken. He also shows videos in his blog/homepage when he has famous guests.
It [...]

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Chadie | August 12th, 2008 | Continued

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Why Twitter has not failed

I am possible to follow in Twitter. I am not a big Twitterian, I prefer Jaiku and maybe Facebook too. But I am to be found at Twitter too. Of course.
Twitter has often technical problems and are off. But that does not matter at all, Twitter users still hang on. That´s why Twitter has not [...]

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Chadie | August 11th, 2008 | Continued

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MUSIC fans might soon have their iPods searched by Customs officers at airport checks

A very stupid idea. Some australian politician want the Cusom officers to seach in travellers ipods for illegal music:
From News.com.au:
The push for the unprecedented searches of travellers’ laptops and MP3 players has been revealed in a leaked discussion paper relating to a treaty being negotiated by the Federal Government.
I wonder: how many songs will [...]

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Chadie | August 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Fleet Foxes and Neil Young - oh I wish I was there

I love to go to music festivals. But I could go to Gothenburg these days for the festival Way Out West.
Yeah, I wish I could.
Neil Young played and the music writers in the Swedish newspapers all give that gig high marks. The youngest 62 years old man, they call him in Aftonbladet.
But even [...]

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Chadie | August 10th, 2008 | Continued

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This is my blog in English. I know, my English could be better, yes a lot better. But I try as good as I can - and maybe I improve while trying.
The one who never try will never achieve anything.
This blog is about communication, about global issues and how to live and work globally and [...]

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Sharia is very stone age

It is very strange, the issue about Sharia. In counties there Sharia is the law the women have no equality against men. But this is something what is very difficult to talk about. All muslims are not for Sharia. Sharia is something very stone age.

Here is a Swedish blogger writing about it.

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I am back again - and here is a unique song with Patti Smith

Time just goes to fast. I have not had time to post in this blog for a while. But I am very busy in my two blog projects in Swedish: Kulturbloggen and Bloggtidningen.

Anyhow, BlogHer is recently hold in US - and I could not go this year. But I and a blog collegue have promised each other that next year we will go there. Sure.

I want to show you a very special film I got from Patti Smith. She played in the Stocholm Jazz festival recently. I was one of about twenty journalists who was invited for a press conference with her. And suddenly Patti Smith took her guitar and played a song, just for us. It was great.

Here it is and under there is a live song from her play in Stockholm this summer.

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Johnny Flynn, Wild Beasts, Foals and Band of Horses - the first great day of Accelerator


First day of Accelerator, a music festival in Stockholm, had four bands playing.

The festival has a nice and friendly atmospere and it does not matter where you stand or sit, you feel you are rather close to the band anywhere.

First to play was Johnny Flynn from UK. He is both actor and musician. He had his sister on the stage too. She was supporting Johnny with her song.

Next on the stage was Wild Beasts. They are very good singers, you know falsett singer. And not only one singer in the band. But the namn on the band, is it not the wrong name? They are goog, but not especially wild.

About to be wild: the next band was wild: Foals from Oxford. Their singer is sometimes said to be a young and angry Robert Smith (from The Cure). Maybe. But a lot more angry.
The singer in Foals were going down to the audicence during the play and he was kicking on the drums after the play.

The last and final band was Band of Horses. The lyric and nostalgic band is so GREAT.
And the best thing: they have just made two albums yet, so I think we can look forward to a lot of masterpieces and great concerts with this Seattle-bases band. How can I describe them? I think they are inspired of an early Neil Young, from his Harvest-time.

Some of my films from the concert:

(I have also posted about the concert in my Swedish blog).

And in my place at MySpace.

Band of Horses:

Foals:

Wild Beats:

Johnny Flynn:

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Band of Horses and Wild Beats - live: yeah

Tomorrow I will see them live. I am talking about some of my favourite bands.

Tomorrow the music festival The Accelerator starts in Stockholm. The festival is going on for two days.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 24 of June, its a more laidback start day with four bands:
Band of Horses
Foals
Johnny Flynn
Wild Beasts

Other blogs about Accelerator:

Festivalbloggen

Kulturbloggen

Some Swedish newspapers about The Accelerator:

Dagens Nyheter

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Find Sebastian Tellier

Sebastian Teller

Eurovision Song Contest has one great opportunity: to find and discover artists from many European countries.

As for example: this year I found Sebastian Tellier from France.

Some facts from Wikipedia about this wonderful musician:

Sébastien Tellier (born 1975 in Paris) is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently signed to Record Makers, a French independent record label. He sings in English, French and Italian.

Tellier’s first album, L’incroyable Vérité (The Incredible Truth), was released in 2001. Tellier went on tour with Air in support of the album and was joined on stage by world-renowned theremin player Pamelia Kurstin. L’incroyable Vérité is a pop album featuring styles from lo-fi electronica to bizarre cabaret tunes. Its sleeve featured Tellier in full evening dress on the front, while the back of jacket had a shot of him cavorting in a playboy’s pool. He instructed listeners only to listen to the album by candle light. The track, “Fantino”, was chosen by Sofia Coppola for the soundtrack to her 2003 film Lost in Translation.

Of course you can read more about him and listen to his music in his place at MySpace.

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