New Orleans is easily the most written about music city in the world. Manchester is solidly in #2. The latest: “The North Will Rise Again” about the Manchester music scene from 1976 to 2008 by musician and writer John Robb, “The Buzzcocks. Joy Division. The Fall. The...
FoodMusicJustice Archive
About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
FoodMusicJustice
Herman’s Hermits and New Orleans
For a while there, this Manchester band was second only to the Beatles. During their six years in the sun, they racked up twenty British hits and seventeen US ones. Their first EP “Hermania” which came out in January 1965 included two New Orleans R&B covers –...
“Home” wins New Orleans Film Festival
Matt Faust’s short animation “Home” just one first prize in the New Orleans film festival in the experimental animation category. We’ve posted about this film before. Here’s the link again in case you haven’t seen it: http://www.levees.tv/home Congratulations Matt!...
On tarps and TARP
I just learned the name of the federal bailout program for the nation’s reckless speculator class. It’s called the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The acronym for it is…TARP. It took less time for the Congress to write away $700 billion than it did to get food and...
The battle for New Orleans continues
Thanks for all the support our video “The Katrina Myth.” At the moment, we’re a hair away from having had over 60,000 viewers in just 10 days. I hope you’ll continue to spread the word about this video. It’s the only “quick read,” comprehensive source of info on...
Thelonious Monk