We wrote and recorded this piece of music for the lead presenter Faisal Rajput of XIN TV in Pakistan to head their news, politics and current affairs programme. He had contacted me about our work in politics and I created a piece of music for the programme in my basement studio. XIN TV is the first Pakistani and Chinese collaboration in broadcasting. Here is the introduction to the programme.
Get in touch via The Academy of Rock for bespoke music production to fit your TV / radio or online media.
Join us this Wednesday on ZOOM at WorldWide Wednesday for a masterclass on changing minds about Europe and Brexit.
Check out this article about Tom Hagler, author of “We could be … Bowie and his Heroes”. Tom and I offer superb participative masterclasses about business lessons from Bowie:
Our tribute song for Bernie Torme is now released with a contribution to the Teenage Cancer Trust. Get copies of the songs on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify etc. There are both male and female vocal versions.
We’ve had just about every word added to Brexit so why not a Country and Western XMAS Brexit? !! 🙂 “Theresa, May’s a Remainer” is a Country and Western inspired Brexit Hoedown by “The Brexit Cowpokers” released on Friday 14 Dec for UK chart success on Friday the 21st – could this be T May’s Bonanza moment at the OK Cabal in the Westminster cattle ranch? Watch the “Strong and Stable” film below:
TO KILL THE BREXIT BEAST, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Buy the song in the week commencing Friday 14 Dec till 23.59 Thursday 20 Dec on all platforms. EVERY click counts towards chart success and a cup of coffee gets you three copies. Please gift the song to weary Remainers or Leavers in regret, or just your Brexity friends. We are all sick of Brexit. Here are the main links to download – just click the images and follow through:
Share the project widely with others. Keep sharing throughout the week. We need a minimum of 20 000 downloads to reach the UK Top 40 charts. It would be simple if all the Remainers bought a copy or if the central Remain movements got behind the project. Of course Brexit apathy is a thing and it’s Christmas, so we must press really hard. If we succeed, we’ll inflict more mortal damage on the severely wounded Brexit beast and the stasis that grips our Government.
If you have contacts in the press, tell them about it using the press release at our “WebStable“. We have just done press items on BBC Radio, Norwegian TV, Kent Messenger and KM TV
If you are able to reach the main Remain movements, please ask them to mail their people. They have 700 000 contacts and we could easily get the song to No 1 with just one click from them !!
Streaming is available, but please remember this. We need 150 streams to equal ONE download. So if you choose to stream on Spotify, Deezer etc. the best option is to stream on repeat overnight – turn the volume off, we cannot be held responsible for the psychological effects of listening to Country and Western Brexit music for extended periods!! Streaming options via Brexit stream
The Brexit Cowpokers ask our PM to put her spurs on and use the courage of her convictions to go with the will of the people and stop Brexit in favour of Remaining and Reforming Europe. We ask Parliament not to accept Theresa’s false binary choice of “Deal or No Deal”, intended to bludgeon MPs and a weary public into accepting any Brexit at any cost, economically, socially and politically. Chief Cowpoker Peter Cook aka Dolly Mayhem intends to undermine the botched “meaningless vote” on December 11 by getting a single of “more meaningful Brexit music” into the UK Top 40 charts. The song lyrics to Theresa May’s a Remainer give a “Hoedown evaluation” of the Brexit options on the blanket on the ground … If we chart the song on Friday 21 Dec it will:
(a) seriously impact ongoing Brexit chaos, driving yet another stake through the Brexit Hydra’s heart
(b) impact mainstream culture and thereby affect events following the “meaningless vote”.
(c) shake the foundations of Parliament as they are forced to listen to an awful Country and Western song at Christmas !!
The song lyrics to Theresa May’s a Remainer give a “Hoedown evaluation” of the Brexit options on the blanket on the ground …
“No Deal is Kinda insane-er
May’s deal is mostly Remain-er
Remain is a no-brainer”
Professional singer Rachel Ashley aka “T May Whinette” said of the song:
“Theresa May is dun for unless she gets on a horse and runs down the wagons of rivals such as Jacob Rees Mogg and the Saddle Bums circling her reservation. Just like Johnny Major, she must shoot the bastards with her revolver”.
Find out more about the Rage Against The Brexit Machine project, which reaches people’s heads via their hearts. We have produced an album’s worth of songs to defend against the dark Brexit arts. Some are poignant, such as our song “In Limbo” for the 5 million EU citizens and UK Ex Pats trapped by Brexit uncertainty. Others are pointed, such as “Nigel Farage’s Garage” and “Jacob Rees Moog” – an 18th Century Tory Synthpop Trancefloor groove.
We are entering the 4th industrial revolution. This is not the age of steam, coal or manufacturing, but the information revolution, where value is created primarily through the intelligent combination of knowledge and wisdom.
How shall we cope in a world where it has variously been predicted that up to 50% of our jobs will disappear in the next few decades? What does that mean for education, where the half life of knowledge is in freefall? What will become of money in such a world?
These and other topics are the subject of a new book I’ve just released with Gower / Routledge entitled “Brain Based Enterprises“.
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Brain Based Enterprises offers a unique synthesis of cutting edge academic research and pragmatic insights into business practices in the art and discipline of leading and managing enterprises where ideas, intelligence and insight are the currencies of sustainable collaborative and competitive advantage (SCCA). From the first signs of intelligence through making axes and fire, we now have access to unprecedented powers of creation through the convergence of humanity and technology. Rapid and dramatic advances in our understanding of genomics, biotechnology, computing and robotics make it possible for us to create a better world or destroy what we have created. Brain Based Enterprises explores both sides of the equation so that you can choose wisely.
Four scenarios for our union between man, woman and machine
Brain Based Enterprises draws upon leading edge research but expressed clearly and concisely for the busy person seeking to inform and illuminate themselves with a rich mixture of pragmatism and wisdom. Featuring numerous case examples from companies ranging from biotechnology to banking and bots, Brain Based Enterprises grounds the ideas and relates to busy people seeking practical inspiration.
How shall we function in a world where man and machine will have interchangeable and complementary functions?
How will we re-organise organisations to make best use of collective cybernetic and human intelligence?
What will intelligence actually mean in a world where we are drowning in data? Instead how shall we swim with information?
How may we become more intelligent, individually and collectively?
What can and should Governments do to encourage intelligent societies?
How will education need to change in order to continue to be relevant and effective?
What role can leaders and Human Relations specialists play in stimulating an enterprise’s collective synapses? How can they engender climates and cultures where ideas, intelligence and insight are the norm?
The book and our other offerings lend themselves to keynotes and longer masterclasses via our websites Human Dynamics and The Academy of Rock.
Rather than drowning in data we must learn to swim with knowledge and wisdom in the machine age
Tomorrow marks the release of our 7th single in the Rage Against The Brexit Machine series. Fiscal Cliff charts the story that led to the last major recession and which sewed the seeds for our decision to self harm by leaving the EU:
Click the links to pre-order the song:
Here is the video to whet your appetite:
And the lyric …. written in bus shelters, banks, bath, beds and bars :
The story behind the song – Illustrations by Simon Heath @SimonHeath1
As with many things in modern life, the ideas for the song started on Facebook – with big thanks to Andee Price for finding me within an hour of asking for a professional bass player on Facebook and Christopher Gamble for his “online oral stimulation”:
I placed an ad for a female bass player on Facebook and within an hour I had three recommendations for Andee Price – she read the advertisement accurately and responded. A true professional.
We have a Eurovision … no, we have not written a Bucks Fizz record … we see the prospect for a better Britain in a united Europe and have written a heartfelt song to capture that vision.
Will you help us chart the song this week? It needs just 79 pence to buy a copy, preferably on multiple platforms … see below for links.
“Don’t Throw It All Away” is Madeleina Kay’s “Song for Europe”. The song speaks to our hearts of all the things we stand to lose if we leave the EU.
“Don’t Throw It All Away” has moved several people to tears with its perfect storm of Madeleina’s poetry set to music.
The song was written in a stairwell at the European Union by Madeleina in an emotional outpouring after she was removed from the EU Chamber for daring to wear a Supergirl costume to a Brexit Briefing by our “Brexit Bulldog” David Davis.
This orchestral version of “Don’t Throw It All Away” was recorded and produced by Peter Cook in his studio “The Basement of Cognition” with vocals recorded at Rock God Bernie Torme’s Barnroom Studios in darkest Kent.
Recording session for “No Jeremy Corbyn” with Rock God Bernie Torme and Rage Founder members Gareth Dylan Smith and Doug Grannell
Sony Records’ associate Mark Christopher Lee said of the song:
“Don’t Throw It All Away compares favourably with Sinead O’Connor’s version of “Vienna”. There is also a little bit of Nico in Madeleina Kay’s voice”.
The original acoustic version is here for comparison:
Place your order for the song on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play now: Just click the images to find the song online. We are aiming for Top 40 success, not so much for the fame, but to “take back control of the media from Murdoch’s Murderous Media Machine”.
Click to buy the song / stream and stop Brexit full stop
Jacob Rees-Moog is the third song in the “Rage Against The Brexit Machine” collection and is a rather unusual number. Not so much a song, rather a groove. If you remember the song “19” you will get some idea of where this song takes it’s lead from.
If you want to pollute your fields, eat chlorinated chicken, burn lightbulbs of any wattage, put your children down the mines, insist that women who have been raped should have the children and so on then Jacob Rees-Moog is the groove for you. Recorded on 18th Century retro Korg and Moog synths and analogue Theramins. We can guarantee that lots of electricity was used and that women and children were neglected during the recording of the song …
Fortunae naufragium
Madeleina Kay – Artist, Writer, Musician, Activist
Jacob Rees-Moog was produced in an experimental exponential synthesiser laboratory after eating excessive amounts of chlorinated chicken and gorging on English Mead and Port plundered from the colonies. The piece features star of Channel 4 News, Madeleina Kay, some samples from the Moggster in “Full English Brexit” mode and an obligatory Siamese cat called Boris. The pussy was paid less than the minimum wage for the work and now scrounges from food banks, having been disowned by Jacob, due to being “foreign”. Of course, all of the above is “fake news” in keeping with the zeitgeist of the age 🙂
Click to buy Jacob Rees-Moog on Amazon, iTunes etc.
Jacob Rees-Moog or “JRM” as it is known on the Latin speaking dance floors of Ibiza, Chew Magna and Midsomer Norton is an entirely new genre of music : ECTSTF or “18th Century Tory Synthpop Trance Floor”. JRM “celebrates” a post Brexit world of gratuitous land pollution, the sublimation of women, flower border control, slavery, the return of the penny farthing and Stephenson’s Rocket as national transport, re-introduction of ricketts, typhus and plague as national diseases, Latin as the national language, nationalised jam making, the use of the Cutty Sark as the Royal Yacht and Britain’s role as a major warring nation.
We have entered the Top 200 chart on iTunes and at the time of writing we are No 20 on the Amazon chart. We have an opportunity to crash the UK Top 40 chart this week by 23.59 on Thursday 13 October. If we do, we will OWN Rupert Murdoch’s Brexit obsessed media and will be able to “take back control” of the media and in doing so help stop Brexit, full stop. You can help by buying and streaming the song – all purchases and streams count. Click the link and / or the images below to find individual links to Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify etc. and click away please.
A superb interview by Rebecca Buck with Madeleina Kay et moi about the “Rage Against The Brexit Machine” project which seeks to crush Brexit Populism with Pop Music. Do check our suite of songs out on Amazon, ITunes, Google Play and let’s Break Brexit Before Brexit Breaks Britain …
We now have three songs online so please buy them now and tell your friends … Pants to Brexit, No, Jeremy Corbyn and Jacob Rees-Moog.
I’ve interviewed both Peter Cook and Madeleina Key for Conversations with Europe over the last few months. As two of the most high profile and creative pro-EU campaigners at the present time, it was inevitable that I’d soon be chatting to them about a joint project.
RAGE Against the Brexit Machine, which I’ve also written about previously, is a Crowdfunded album of songs to fight Brexit, a project created by Peter Cook but with a team of collaborators, many of them high profile. You can find about more about the whole project in my previous article.
No, Jeremy Corbyn is the biggest release of the project so far. And, the comma is important, as Madeleina was keen to point out. Here’s my chat with Peter and Madeleina.
1. Tell me about your single No Jeremy Corbyn. What style of music is it? When we can buy it?
Peter Cook - Speaker, Author 