Golliwig Holiday

Track 10 from Gareth Calway's 2001 album "Bristol City Ruined My Life...". Gareth writes- " I love Bristol - and I hate those reminders of a key part of its heritage that a certain children's doll-caricature of black features embodies. Such items say slavery, slavery, slavery and it's high time they went. I hope you like my attempt at a Pero bridge in the middle eight. But I'm not very confident that you will. I know you will like Les Chappell's punk guitar answering the question 'are you good enough to be on Capital radio'? For me, it was like being in the studio with Mick Jones of the Clash. For Les, it was a holiday from his usual job of backing and producing the sublime Lene Lovitch. Lene has a complex variety of vocal styles to choose from. I just have the one.

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• Bristol
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• slavery
• slave
• trade
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• song