Freakin Hell.. They chose Eleven 59 for Freak...

Dear friends,

We would like to ask you a favor....

The Future Shape Of Sound have made it to the final phase of The People's Music Awards competition, which ends on 22nd March. Having battled through 3 previous rounds, we are now No. 1 in the funk & soul chart. However, from now on the number of votes is kept secret and will not be revealed until the final winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at Mass, Brixton/London on 2nd April, where The Future Shape Of Sound will be performing live.

It will take about 5 minutes to register with The Peoples Music Awards and place your vote to ensure numbers for winning. (apologies for asking you to spend yet more time on the computer). You are more than welcome to join us at Mass on 2nd April (details in our gig guide)!
Listen to TFSOS song on The People's Music Awards website, and vote using the link below ..

www.thepeoplesmusicawards.com/thefutureshapeofsound

Thanks for you support!

Regards,
The Future Crew

www.wtfcollective.co.uk asked me to write something about the future. This is what I wrote.

Evolution is a slow process, unnoticeable to the carriers of it. Things are changing all the time but not from one day to the next. Humans only know about evolution through their ability to record history and be interested in studying it. That is only because our brains have evolved to be a bit more complex than other species. We don't know about evolution by "experiencing" it.

So how is London evoluting? we could think of something as being great even though it is not so great anymore just because we remember it to be great and we want it to be that.
I used to think of London as a great city and maybe it still is. Personally, I don't really like it anymore. The distribution of corruption is very unfair. It only happens on a big scale. An ordinary person can not bribe a parking attendant to not issue a ticket by giving him/her a tenner, but London Underground can spend millions and go over budget by more millions and still not work properly to get you from A to B.

London's fate could be that of The King's Road in Chelsea. All the innovative and creative people have left and been replaced by people who want to associate themselves with innovation and creativity but are not that themselves, leaving a pretty package without content. Innovative artists and musicians may move away from London because property prices have gone through the roof causing everything else to become over-priced as a consequence. They are moving away to Berlin or other sunnier and more affordable places in the world. Maybe one day we will see the equivalent of the Berlin Wall, The London Wall, to halt the exodus of cool people and stop the influx of foreign millionaires turning London into a rainy Monaco. The English traditionally don't complain but rather suffer in silence. This tradition encourages corrupted policies and strengthens governmental powers. Anti-social policies breed crime and anti-social behavior. If you keep the majority of the population struggling, you will keep them from rebelling effectively because they don't have the time and the nerve. In their spare time they want to get drunk and have sex. A great thing in itself but if it's only an escape, it will enable the ruling elite to have you their way.

If it goes on like it does, in 30 years time, London will not be a place where new and innovative music or movements come from. Except Peckham. Peckham is now what Hackney used to be 30 years ago. The unconventional AREA 10 spearheading the trend. There is a lot more to be said about the future of London, and I will, but for now I have to cure a hangover and think about my next date…

Good luck to me

Captain Future

18 Sep 2007