Post by Zhana21 on Oct 11, 2004 10:59:23 GMT -5
THE LAST POETS - UK TOUR FINALE IN BRIXTON
Monday 18th October, 8pm
The DogStar Brixton, 368 Coldharbour Lane
Admission TBC
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The UK Spoken Word Community present...
The Revolutionary
LastPoetsLastPoetsLastPoetsLast PoetsLastPoetsLastPoetsLastPoets
Revolutionary Greetings Family (pass this one one yeah!)
We have been asked to organise a last minute finale date to close the
Last Poet's UK Tour. It gives us great pleasure to bring to you none
other than The Last Poets right here in South London...
No time to waste.
You can catch this ground breaking group from 8pm. If
you know what The Last Poets stand for you'll be there.
If you don't, you'll wanna get to know right? Arrive late
and you'll be missing out!
More info will follow this mail in days to come. Know that
due to the shortNOTICE, importance and nature of this
event, we will be promoting this one every day up untill
the night of the show.
SOUND.BITES
Hopefully, you have just read poems of THE LAST
POETS. Now you can read their biography below, but
while you are doing it why don't you hear them:
Search the internet for the radio station KCRW. Find
the link for the program "Chocolate City" on the music
page. Once there find their Last Poets show (taped
February 14, 2001).
LAST.POETS.BIOGRAPHY
Last Poets were rappers of the civil rights era. Along
with the changing domestic landscape came the New
York City-hip group called The Last Poets, who used
obstreperous verse to chide a nation whose inclination
was to maintain the colonial yoke around the neck of
the disenfranchised.
Shortly after the death of Martin Luther King, The Last
Poets were born.
David Nelson, Gylan Kain, and Abiodun Oyewole, were
born on the anniversary of Malcolm X's birthday May 19,
1968 in Marcus Garvey Park.
They grew from three poets and a drummer to seven
young black and Hispanic artists: David Nelson, Gylan
Kain, Abiodun Oyewole, Felipe Luciano, Umar Bin
Hassan, Jalal Nurridin, and Suliamn El Hadi (Gil Scott
Heron was never a member of the group). They took
their name from a poem by South African poet Willie
Kgositsile, who posited the necessity of putting aside
poetry in the face of looming revolution.
"When the moment hatches in time's womb there will
be no art talk," he wrote. "The only poem you will hear
will be the spearpoint pivoted in the punctured marrow
of the villain....Therefore we are the last poets of the
world."
Selected Last Poets Discography
The Last Poets, Douglas 1970
This Is Madness, Douglas 1971
Chastisement, Douglas 1972
Hustlers Convention, w/Jalal Nuriddin recording as "Lightnin' Rod,"
Douglas 1973
At Last, Blue Thumb 1974
Delights of the Garden, Celluloid 1975
Jazzoetry, Celluloid 1975
Oh! My People, Celluloid 1985
Freedom Express, Celluloid 1991 (?)
Be Bop Or Be Dead, Umar Bin Hassan w/Abiodun Oyewole, Axiom/Island 1993
25 Years, Abiodun Oyewole w/ Umar Bin Hassan, Rykodisc 1994
Holy Terror, Rykodisc 1995
Time Has Come, Mouth Almighty/Mercury 1997
CATCH THE LAST POETS IN BRIXTON DOGSTAR MONDAY 18TH OCTOBER 2004 8PM
SHARP. PRICE TO BE CONFIRMED...
onroom.com
"Wake up in the office, doing works for the people..."
shortMAN's Ligali Link...
www.ligali.org/afristory/poets/shortman.htm
Monday 18th October, 8pm
The DogStar Brixton, 368 Coldharbour Lane
Admission TBC
---
The UK Spoken Word Community present...
The Revolutionary
LastPoetsLastPoetsLastPoetsLast PoetsLastPoetsLastPoetsLastPoets
Revolutionary Greetings Family (pass this one one yeah!)
We have been asked to organise a last minute finale date to close the
Last Poet's UK Tour. It gives us great pleasure to bring to you none
other than The Last Poets right here in South London...
No time to waste.
You can catch this ground breaking group from 8pm. If
you know what The Last Poets stand for you'll be there.
If you don't, you'll wanna get to know right? Arrive late
and you'll be missing out!
More info will follow this mail in days to come. Know that
due to the shortNOTICE, importance and nature of this
event, we will be promoting this one every day up untill
the night of the show.
SOUND.BITES
Hopefully, you have just read poems of THE LAST
POETS. Now you can read their biography below, but
while you are doing it why don't you hear them:
Search the internet for the radio station KCRW. Find
the link for the program "Chocolate City" on the music
page. Once there find their Last Poets show (taped
February 14, 2001).
LAST.POETS.BIOGRAPHY
Last Poets were rappers of the civil rights era. Along
with the changing domestic landscape came the New
York City-hip group called The Last Poets, who used
obstreperous verse to chide a nation whose inclination
was to maintain the colonial yoke around the neck of
the disenfranchised.
Shortly after the death of Martin Luther King, The Last
Poets were born.
David Nelson, Gylan Kain, and Abiodun Oyewole, were
born on the anniversary of Malcolm X's birthday May 19,
1968 in Marcus Garvey Park.
They grew from three poets and a drummer to seven
young black and Hispanic artists: David Nelson, Gylan
Kain, Abiodun Oyewole, Felipe Luciano, Umar Bin
Hassan, Jalal Nurridin, and Suliamn El Hadi (Gil Scott
Heron was never a member of the group). They took
their name from a poem by South African poet Willie
Kgositsile, who posited the necessity of putting aside
poetry in the face of looming revolution.
"When the moment hatches in time's womb there will
be no art talk," he wrote. "The only poem you will hear
will be the spearpoint pivoted in the punctured marrow
of the villain....Therefore we are the last poets of the
world."
Selected Last Poets Discography
The Last Poets, Douglas 1970
This Is Madness, Douglas 1971
Chastisement, Douglas 1972
Hustlers Convention, w/Jalal Nuriddin recording as "Lightnin' Rod,"
Douglas 1973
At Last, Blue Thumb 1974
Delights of the Garden, Celluloid 1975
Jazzoetry, Celluloid 1975
Oh! My People, Celluloid 1985
Freedom Express, Celluloid 1991 (?)
Be Bop Or Be Dead, Umar Bin Hassan w/Abiodun Oyewole, Axiom/Island 1993
25 Years, Abiodun Oyewole w/ Umar Bin Hassan, Rykodisc 1994
Holy Terror, Rykodisc 1995
Time Has Come, Mouth Almighty/Mercury 1997
CATCH THE LAST POETS IN BRIXTON DOGSTAR MONDAY 18TH OCTOBER 2004 8PM
SHARP. PRICE TO BE CONFIRMED...
onroom.com
"Wake up in the office, doing works for the people..."
shortMAN's Ligali Link...
www.ligali.org/afristory/poets/shortman.htm