summer of "78, its Cabbage', a B&B musical on Ireland.
Our productions have come our own pobitical experience, and from informal ment activists up and down the subjeets have been diverse: wage restraint, changing Army recruitment techniques, the Lucas Acrospace corporate plan, the alienation of bid people, the fight back against che muttinationals..
Although music has played a large part in the majority of thieve productions, band has toured in its own right as a mauso union sier making some records, it is only recently that we have felt able to move forward.
With the appearance of a music movement which has so forcefully orcated Tor itself a • in the political arena, the and has itself able to resolve some of the contradictions inherent in being political band which CHENYCO IN BEC SONICAL RED ROCK REVUE is the response of those members | fact that rock music was being of the Bell and Braces touring political company most involved on the music side to the The company's shows have always been created in theatre.
Previously, not help but be conscious of the ambiguity of our situation poople of the rock generation ansious to challenge the forms of rock music in an attempt to AGGRESSIVE The contradictions many, and many still remain: using the aggressiveness of TOLE MUSIO aggressive political ideas, while attempting to do battle with the sexism inheren in rock music and music's destegard for wards..
The contradiction in terms of audiences the politics accepted the rock music. alien though it might have been to way of expressing its politics; and TUNIL primarily excited by the very used in this way. theatre These, among other contra dictions, self-consciousness on the part of the company Bell and Prices may haw conle bearer than resolving problems. But the battle is vers far from being won, and the company's long-term arristic the band could policy constantly around the struggle to evolve an integrated, ДОВЕСТИВІС-ЕВЕНАГЕ The emergence of a political released the band trom its selfpolitical bining of musical skills and political awareness.
This side of the company's work istaking its place within the political music movement. repardless of the fact that it still were being aeither punk, nor respac nor jazz nor completely rock. Ti resent is only describable as Belt and Braces Band, with ins slides and is lights and its theatricals, its techniciams usual performers, could political DJ! whom The band hopes that Red HET HE continually capable of whatever is happening at the time, capable of being changed, WEIS updated, continually expanded and improved.
Ted to most to •LIC revolves un-self-conscious calegersation.
and seven Including well be Britain's firs colving show.
VENUES In Tact it is CAPILLE HOWA HEYUE. UPCOMING Elvis Presley respoctively so overdone. best backhanded comb movements I've ever seen, that you can't heip hoping that it mas be The high. (or low) spot of the film is when three jokers decide to take national television for a while it's filming the school's annual dance as a typical American instication.
the spotlight following their three take a bow — with jacks over bead but. as, trousers Meanshile, the proud parAS DICKY AS IT arrived. And while you've heen review the film's distributors will have netted another lew EILEEN POLLOCK on the road to Carnival 2 with Belt und Braces Red Rock Revue. shame Rudolf Valentino and in those days a socialist challenge was hard to come by.
But it's not today...
Socialist Challenge 12 Col. eoning, Dock Pond Fist COOLESTS Centre. Lange ch: Market Choic Wane water Paly Dcatury Co age Boo stuce to necica!
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response to questions arising out of the prevailing political climate writes EILEEN POLLOCK, performer in the revue and author of 'Not so Green as