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This is for me probably my most successful attempt at writing a song about anarchism. Anarchism frequently gets identified as being represented & defined by actions & images of anger, chaos & destruction.
But anarchism is also about the everyday practice of cooperation & non-hierarchical self-organisation.
Chumbas “Never Mind the Ballots” album was a bit of a lightbulb moment. My friend Graham Barnes, bass player & general cool intelligence in the acoustic agit-prop trio “The Ministry of Humour”, whenever horrified folkies would accuse us of being “political”, would always respond “ everything’s political”. What we hadn’t realised though was that political doesn’t just refer to the politics of political parties, locked as we were in the life or death struggle to bring down the Thatcher government by singing songs in pubs & clubs up & down the Thames valley, often explicitly on behalf of the Labour Party. We had all joined the Labour Party too, & Neil Kinnock had promised to invite us to play in Downing Street when he got there. The revelation was that actually, politics was more than just being in a Party, more than just singing for the Labour Party. It is what you do & how you do it on the everyday days, not simply on the polling day days.
“Cauliflower Curry” is a song generated by the experience of being part of a friendship group collectively working together & sharing food together. It’s a celebration of an everyday day. Usually when I play it, all sorts of audiences enjoy it & sing along in the choruses, & when I do the line about “perfect anarchy” most people smile too.
I kind of wish I’d written more songs like this now.
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