Come and See My Band The Four Fathers Play at Vinyl in Deptford on Saturday February 13

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The poster for Andy Worthington's band The Four Fathers' free gig at Vinyl in Deptford on Saturday February 13, 2016 (design by Brendan Horstead).Next Saturday, February 13, my band The Four Fathers are playing a gig at Vinyl, a wonderful record shop with an old school rock and roll basement located at the bottom of Tanners Hill in Deptford, in south east London. The full address is 4 Tanners Hill, London SE8 4PJ, phone number 07930 421113. There’ll be a bar, plus tea and coffee and some special pre-Valentine’s Day snacks, so if you’re anywhere near, come and check out our rocking, roots reggae sounds first-hand! If you’re coming, please let us know on the Facebook page (just click “Going”).

The gig is free, and we’ll be playing our first set — of topical songs about love and loss — at 8pm. At 8.30 there’ll be a beatboxing set from my son Tyler (aka the Wiz-RD), and at 9pm we’ll be playing a political set of original songs including live favourite Fighting Injustice, Tory Bullshit Blues, Song for Shaker Aamer (featured in the video for the We Stand With Shaker campaign), 81 Million Dollars (about the US torture program) and several brand-new songs, including Riot and London, which we played live for the first time at our recent gigs at Deptford Cinema and at the Bird’s Nest, also in Deptford, and guitarist Richard Clare’s song She’s Back, about Pussy Riot.

Below, I’m re-posting a video I made available yesterday of me singing “Song for Shaker Aamer” at an event in Washington, D.C., after I had also spoken about the campaign to free Shaker Aamer, during my recent US tour to call for the closure of Guantánamo on and around the 14th anniversary of its opening. The version I played has lyrics I amended to reflect Shaker’s release in October, and I hope we’ll be able to record the new version in the not too distant future.

The version of “Song for Shaker Aamer” recorded with The Four Fathers is available as a download via our Bandcamp page, for just $1.25/80p, although you can pay more if you wish. It’s also featured on our album, “Love and War,” which is available as an 8-track download (or you can buy individual tracks) or on CD, with two additional tracks, including our cover of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War.” The CD can, of course, be sent anywhere in the world.

And also, if you’re interested in having me or The Four Fathers play — with or without the option of me also talking about my work on Guantánamo — then please get in touch. We are available for pub gigs, festivals and parties, and we’re also very interested in playing at political events.

Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer, film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose debut album, ‘Love and War,’ is available for download or on CD via Bandcamp — also see here). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (and the Countdown to Close Guantánamo initiative, launched in January 2016), the co-director of We Stand With Shaker, which called for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison (finally freed on October 30, 2015), and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by the University of Chicago Press in the US, and available from Amazon, including a Kindle edition — click on the following for the US and the UK) and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (available on DVD here — or here for the US).

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  1. Andy Worthington says...

    When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote:

    Here’s my latest article, promoting my band The Four Fathers’ free gig at Vinyl Deptford, SE London, next Saturday, Feb. 13, at 8pm. We’re playing two sets – topical songs of love and loss, and at 9pm our kicking set of protest songs – about austerity, opposing unfettered greed, the need for socialism, ‪‎Guantanamo‬, torture, and more. My son Tyler (the Wiz-RD) will be beatboxing at 8.30. Check out our album here: https://thefourfathers.bandcamp.com/album/love-and-war

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