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Editorial

Well we hope you had a good Christmas and hope you have a wicked time with your New Years Eve celebrations tonight! It's been a good year for Street Voice with the more varied artists/bands we brought you and will continue that way in 2009.


The downer for us has been the recession with people losing their jobs globally, the on going conflicts around the world including Afghanistan, famine still continues and the four animal rights campaigners found guilty for trying to save the lives of animals. Not forgetting the disgraceful acts in Palestine either. This is to name but a few downers for us.


At Street Voice as well as bringing you more music we will also be writing more socially aware articles to help encourage people to get off their arses and do something about it!

We should all be making a new years resolution of becoming more active than ever in 2009.


However tonight is the night for partying tomorrow is the day that action should begin.


Have A Safe New Years.


Steve DIY + Keimi Yamagata

31st December 2008


Models featured in this issue are ANARCHY + Kip Suicide.
Check them out. Very cool people.



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Syren are an all female alternative/rock trio delivering powerful and well-crafted songs with the dynamics and intuitive "tightness" that come from a never-ending show schedule.


The band formed in the USA September 2006. Being a highly motivated bunch and due to audience demand, they went on to record their debut album "Dehumanized," which was self-released in January 2008.


Having been offered a tour of the UK, Syren decided to relocate and since their arrival they have played many of the country's top venues.
After making an impression on the highly respected band Hawkwind at their 2008 Hawkfest, Syren were invited to open the show

It was actually through checking out Hawkwind that I came across Syren and the moment I heard them I knew I wanted to feature them in Street Voice.
You can check out the interview I did with Syren HERE.



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This site is a great place to check out if you're bassist and comes highly recommended from various bassists who've given this site the thumbs up. It's all free so no costs unless you want to make a donation to keep it running. Now that's cool in our eyes with some one wanting to pass on their experience without charging the earth.



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Gig 4 A Quid is collaboration between Street Voice and the West Coast Bar/Venue in Margate.


Our aim is to promote decent gigs with a door entry of just £1!! Yes that's right £1!!

With the recession hitting people hard and live music taking a nose dive in attendances we came to the conclusion that live music needs pushing so we've taken the plunge and decided to put on gigs that everyone can afford.


We also realise that if more people are to be encouraged to come out and support live music then the quality of the artists/bands has to be spot on. We're both experienced at what we do and will do our best to make sure that the quality of bands we put on are spot on.


Bands we are approaching will be mainly from the London/South East area of the UK who have new releases to promote.Also bands on tour will be asked to drop by including the odd overseas band too!

Gig 4 A Quid gigs will start putting gigs on at the West Coat Bar/Venue in Margate from February 2009 on a fortnightly basis. These gigs will be of mixed genre artists/bands to appeal to a wider audience.


If you're in a band we'd like to hear from you.


If you're a lover of live music make sure you pop along and support these gigs.
Remember they're only a quid!

For more information either contact through the Gig 4 A Quid Site or email gig4aquid@yahoo.co.uk


Dates Confirmed


Friday 13th February 2009

Dirty Revolution
www.myspace.com/dirtyrevolution

Controller
www.myspace.com/jennadonnelly

Kingskin
www.myspace.com/kingskin

The Startover
www.myspace.com/thisisthestartover


Friday 27th February 2009

Syren
www.myspace.com/syrenbandmusic

The Shilling Whores
www.myspace.com/theshillingwhores

The Starfighters
www.myspace.com/calvertstarfighters


Friday 13th March 2009

Sukie
www.myspace.com/wearesukie

The Duel
www.myspace.com/theduel

Captain Mildred
www.myspace.com/captainmildred


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Mel Chappell has played in the band 'Hotbox', runs her own label 'Roach Coach' and is currently a solo artist. This lady is cool as fuck and had to be featured in Street Voice.You can read what Mel has to say about herself HERE.



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At War With The People

Last week in the UK the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit, the government's gang of agents whose remit is to destroy the animal rights movement, announced that they were happy with the number of activists now in prison or heading there. At the same time we were informed that the role of those issuing the warning remains indispensable because of the emerging threat from the group Earth First!

Apparently, warned the detectives of NETCU, environmental activists might be about to start a war on humanity with a view to taking out 80% of the human population! Remember, read what those who represent all that is bad in our society say and turn it on its head. Now you're getting close to the truth! What is increasingly clear is that there is an agenda taking shape across the planet manipulated by those who control human affairs to reduce the human population massively. Not so? Look around the world it's happening on a massive scale. Aids, War on Terror, environment destruction, junk food, CJD, malnutrition, cancer, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, Codex Alimentarius. The list goes on and on and on and it's not happening by accident or because we're stupid.


People are dying in the millions but it's not those of us trying to make this world better that are responsible for any of it, not a single death! If the monsters that oversee this madness tell you more vaccinations are the answer will you continue to believe them?

In recent years a raft of new laws have been created that make any kind of protest activist either illegal or dangerous or both and consequently we now have decent people languishing in prisons for running websites, for running lawful campaigns, for being near to exposing animal cruelty.


In Austria, where a broad, seemingly random group of activists was recently rounded up and imprisoned for their views the situation has continued to deteriorate as the Supreme Court ruled this week that if a demo is "only" 5m away from the entrance of a shop, it hinders customers and therefore infringes on the right of free trade. Using this ruling, the police have now banned Kleider Bauer anti fur demos in 3 cities in Austria. Further, to hinder the country's big anti-fur march this week, only 15 participants were allowed to walk near the Kleider Bauer shop and the whole demo banned from marching through town and instead forced to remain stationary for 3 hours and then disperse!

In London another half dozen protesters were arrested yesterday for standing outside a fur shop, same thing happened last weekend and the week before in fact every time they turn up month in month out the police arrive en masse with various powers and proceed to harass, assault and arrest those present, even legal observers who are documenting the event are being targeted by these roaming, lawless gangs. That such extreme harassment is deemed necessary clearly indicates that wild police claims of the AR Movement in disarray and its effectiveness halted is more nonsense. And anyway since when was it the role of the police to seek to attack community groups? Is not their job to deal with crime? For ongoing London anti fur campaign details contact:
info@londonanimalrights.org.uk

This week the Queen, an immigrant with evil intent, announced once again that 'her' government was set to create yet more laws to deal with animal rights activists! She said, "Legislation will be introduced to establish the Serious Organised Crime Agency, and the powers the police and others have to fight crime will be strengthened. In particular, the bill will introduce new measures to deal with harassment by animal rights extremists".


The whole lot is HERE

There can surely be no laws left to invent to stop people protesting unless the intent is to stop people speaking out at all! Perhaps the thinking about staging a protest will be their next point of focus? Whatever it is it won't be used only for those currently rocking the boat here on this island of drone workers and shoppers. AR activists are labelled extremists and their rights trampled on today but tomorrow anyone brave enough to speak out about the wrongs they do will be treated the same.


Keith Mann - 13th December 08

Note: This article is Reproduced from Keith Mann's site.


You really should check out Keith Mann's site. It is very informative and gives you a different perspective to what you see in mainstream newspapers and on the news etc.


Keith's book 'From Dusk 'Til Dawn' is certainly worth picking up and you can read more about that HERE.



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Yet again Israel massacres Gazan civilians - and yet again world leaders sit on the fence while people burn...

The whole world is watching while Gaza burns and implodes under the might of Israel's military machine. On all major news outlets the charred remains and scattered bodies are a graphic reality TV horror show, right down to the shrouded bundles of what was once 5 little girls who sought safety in a mosque only to be incinerated in a direct hit.


The collective punishment of civilians is a war crime; the whole world is watching gruesome war crimes taking place.


Stop! Look! And listen! Then lobby, campaign and fight for human rights enshrined in international law to be upheld and enforced in this case against the Israeli state war machine.


Reproduced from Indymedia

To write to your local MP in the UK please go HERE

To write to your local Senate in the USA please go HERE


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Well that's about it from us. We hope you have a safe one and act on the information in this newsletter. See you in 2009.