To mark today’s strike day, my N30 song Greedy Fingers has been released as a single on iTunes.
Click here to download Greedy Fingers from iTunes
Have a great day today and be proud of the stand you are taking.
I’ll be singing to the picketers in Bolton this afternoon.
Here’s the song below so you can listen first
There is a fantastic full feature on me in the current edition of R2 Magazine (Rock ‘n’ Reel).
R2 is a national music magazine published bi-monthly in the United Kingdom. It focuses on roots, singer songwriters, folk, rock, world and blues.
You will find the feature on p83, written by Liverpool music writer Eddie Cooney.
You can get your copy at News From Nowhere in Bold Street, or the likes of WH Smith.
As well as my feature there are also features on Martin Simpson and Alison Krauss, as well as a review of my friend David Ferrard’s great new album. Plus a free CD of music on the cover!!
Bolton UNISON commissioned me to write a song supporting the strikes about to take place on November 30th.
Check out the unofficial video to go with it.
Click here to download Greedy Fingers from iTunes
A week tomorrow (Sun 4th December) I’ll be donning my Father Christmas outfit and running the 5k Santa Dash.
Those of you who follow me on Facebook will know that I went from my slobby couch to a fairly advanced running schedule in the space of a few months, thanks to the Couch25k training schedule.
Well this is my first proper public run since I started. And I have to do it dressed as Santa!!
To add to the drama I’ve been ill for pretty much the past month so am all unfit and challenged again.
I ran again for the first time this morning (uugghh!) so have set myself a new training regime to be ready by next Sunday.
Cue Rocky style montage.
Who am I running for?
I’m raising money while I run for an organisation I’ve been involved in since its inception. It’s called BeOnePerCent.
I first heard of it last Christmas while it was in its planning stages.
I was having a festive drink with a bunch of friends, including the wonderful Liverpool musician Steve Pilgrim.
Steve is a great songwriter in his own right, but music fans will also know him as the drummer of Paul Weller no less, and before that John Power.
Steve and some friends had the idea that they could convince people to donate just 1% of their earnings to BeOnePerCent and it would be targeted directly to high impact projects fighting poverty across the world.
It’s now well up and running so that’s what I’m asking you to do too.
Sponsor me for 1% of your pay this month and in return I’ll make a divvy of myself running round Liverpool in a Santa outfit for 5 kilometres.
Stick with BeOnePerCent
To become part of the regular BeOnePerCent community funding fab things each month with just 1% of our dosh then visit BeOnePerCent’s website and join us
Last month for instance, we raised enough money so a school of 351 Malawi kids were fed for the entire year, and in April we got 4,500 kids vaccinated against measles.
Sponsor Me Details
Click here to sponsor me – the actual project this month is HIV/Aids Prevention
Greedy Fingers – Alun Parry by alunparry
Bolton UNISON commissioned me to write a song supporting the strikes about to take place on November 30th.
So here it is. Enjoy! It’s called Greedy Fingers.
Click here to download Greedy Fingers from iTunes
There is no crisis. Only capitalism is in crisis, but we don’t need capitalism. There is no crisis with regard to anything real. All attempts to worsen our living standards are purely arbitrary. Good luck on November 30th.
This track will be available as a single on iTunes over the next couple of days.
Big thanks to Barry Briercliffe for recording the track and being an all round good egg as ever.
Photo Credit: Bridgid Dineen
Lyrics
I know a man who tried to rob a bank but he did fail
They dragged him to the courthouse and they sent him off to jail
When people rob the banks they are securely locked away
When bankers rob the people they are given extra pay
Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
Your greedy thieving fingers off the workers pay
Tens and tens of thousands are on strike today
(sayin’) Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
There’s not really a crisis no matter what they say
There are no less factories than we had yesterday
The same amount of workers, same stuff to make things from
So why do they keep telling us how bad things have become
Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
Your greedy thieving fingers off the workers pay
Tens and tens of thousands are on strike today
(sayin’) Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
No asteroid has struck the earth as far as we all know
There is no global drought that means that things no longer grow
There is no epidemic meaning workers are not fit
How can this be a crisis when nothing’s changed a bit
Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
Your greedy thieving fingers off the workers pay
Tens and tens of thousands are on strike today
(sayin’) Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
Our wealth is only measured by the things we can create
It’s only rich men’s orders that have shut the factory gate
We have the same ability to make stuff as before
Let’s keep on making things we need and not make people poor
Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
Your greedy thieving fingers off the workers pay
Tens and tens of thousands are on strike today
(sayin’) Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
So I am here to tell you of the truth that they conceal
The problem’s with their system not with anything that’s real
Let’s keep our jobs and pensions, there’s a fairer world to choose
The system is the problem, it’s the system we should lose
Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
Your greedy thieving fingers off the workers pay
Tens and tens of thousands are on strike today
(sayin’) Get your greedy fingers off the workers pay
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