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I moved from Manchester to Glasgow in April 2006, planning to set up a revolutionary socialist band called “Galaxia”, which has a page on this website and its own website. I am now in favour of calling the band Red Day (like Green Day but explicitly socialist) since it gives more of an indication of the politics of the band than “Galaxia” and I am not in favour of an extreme communist society, which is what Galaxia was in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series – at least not until GOOD humans and animals join aliens in outer space before the earth is destroyed, if that is what will happen, since the presence of BAD people on the earth makes a state and money necessary. [For my analysis of the struggle between GOOD and BAD forces on the earth, read my document on how our brains help or hinder the struggle for socialism.] However, the name should not just be my decision but made collectively by band members.
Time is now short before the very important Scottish parliamentary elections (and local elections) on Thursday the 3rd of May 2007. I now have a good idea of who I would like in the band, but I do not know how to contact most of them. On the 4th of March, my mum suggested doing poetry instead of music (and somebody else suggested the same thing later that day) and it makes a lot of sense, especially since some of my songs don’t scan very well and won’t easily be put to music. I can easily do some recordings really (or fairly) quickly and put them on the internet. I will speak many lines of some of my songs, but do want to sing some lines unaccompanied, so I am calling it musical poetry.
For more information, including plans to arrange gigs with Sandi Thom and Love Music Hate Racism (either for the band or just myself if it is not established in time) before the elections, visit my musical poetry page.
I have composed a list of some of my favourite songs of all time (quite a long time ago) and a list of songs I have performed on karaoke (which indicates the more popular end of my musical taste and could be used as a guide for the sort of songs which I expect my band to perform, which may tend to be pop, folk or soft rock but I want us to do songs in many different genres and songs that do not neatly fit into any particular one).
