MANIFESTO - Planet Hubris and The Apathy Myth (aka: MAILMAN)

This was a former incarnation of mine. My current musical offerings can be found here: MAILMAN - http://www.mailmanstan.co.uk

This song is track one from the election protest and charity record MANIFESTO / TELL ME LIES that I released in April 2010 under the pseudonym Planet Hubris & The Apathy Myth (PHAnTAM) to coincide with the UK General Election. With no promotional budget it didn't trouble the charts - but it is still available to buy. To buy this record is to:

a) donate to Amnesty International and support the hugely important work they do defending human rights around the world

b) support totally independent new music and

c) support the ongoing fight for political and electoral reform in the UK

Here are the main download links:

i-TUNES (79p per track):
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/manifesto-tell-me-lies-single/id363760553

AMAZON (69p per track):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manifesto-Tell-Me-Lies/dp/B003DTW242

You can stay up to date with all things MAILMAN and NOTA-UK related by joining these facebook groups:

MAILMAN on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/MAILMANMUSIC

NOTA-UK on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=173779446985

Song background:

MANIFESTO is a song I wrote in 2000 documenting how I felt about Tony Blair's lamentable rise to power. The lyrics are a translation of what I think these scarily ambitious career politicians are really saying when they try to secure your vote.

Ten years later I decided to release the song as the A side of my UK election protest single in aid of Amnesty International - because with the spectre of Cameron, ideological spawn of Blair and Thatcher (ergh!), possibly taking office in the UK in May 2010, it was, unfortunately, as relevant as ever. In light of the nationwide post election realisation that our system of electing governments in anything but democratic, I feel it is now, arguably, even more so.

TELL ME LIES is an adaptation of the late Adrian Mitchell's famous anti-war poem 'To Whom It May Concern Remix' (AKA: 'Tell Me Lies About Vietnam'). Adrian's powerful words were used with kind permission.

If you'd like to, you can donate to Amnesty International direct (RATM 4 xmas #1 style) on the Just Giving page here:

http://www.justgiving.com/PHAnTAM-4-Election-Week-Top-20

Thanks as always for your support :)

Stan x

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Amnesty
• International
• charity
• fundraising
• planet
• hubris
• apathy
• myth
• manifesto
• election
• expenses
• scandal
• Westminster
• parliament
• brown
• cameron
• clegg
• labour
• tory
• lib-dem
• corruption
• democracy
• liberty
• truth
• NOTA

[lordpenut1]

Bloody quality mate :) (Matt the hat)

[anokist]

well done stan really good. ( im one of yer FB Freinds and firm beliver in the NOTA movement)

[58cef]

Telling it like it is..fantastic video Stan.

Good luck with the campain & good luck with the single too.

NOTA UK Rules !!