Cosmo and Ms Something-Else present: Kicking back In Austerity Britain

Event information

Kicking back In Austerity Britain Tour 2012 is a night of hard-hitting, socially engaged acoustic music. Two performers and activists from the UK, Cosmo and Gail Something-Else AKA Muddy Summers and the Dirty Field Whores, present a show with songs, story-telling and visuals, as well as discussion and literature about the various campaigns they have been involved in.

As the UK reels from the relentless onslaught of government cuts and institutional corruption, protests have mushroomed nationally. Globally, revolutions and uprisings have swept the board. We want to share our tales about these, as well as hear from you!

The programme will start at 7pm with some short film clips from Reel News Greece and Spain: Miners' strike, hospital occupation, food co-ops and other resistance to austerity - or who knows what other exciting stuff might happen in the meantime! Music will start about 8.

Cosmo
Edinburgh and Hay festival, award-winning agit-singer
"A cross between Woody Guthrie and rapper Jay-Z, Cosmo is a folksinger of our times with a veritable hive of bees in his bonnet."
- Rob Adams, Edinburgh Fringe Review
- Album of the month - Spillers records
- "*****" - Miniature Music press.
http://cosmoguitar.net/

Ms. Something-Else
"Well constructed, played and concise and to the point. In short excellent. Good luck with this!"
- JC Carroll, The Members
"Here's what the nation will be singing when the Tory scum get what's coming to them."
- Ian Bone
http://muddysummers.co.uk/