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John Sinclair (1941-2024) Last of the Beatnik Warrior Poets and Cultural Revolutionary has passed away at 82. The work must go on

2 April 2024Mark

“Rock N Roll music is a weapon of cultural revolution. There are not enough musicians around today who are hip to this fact” John Sinclair is best known as the Sixties "marijuana" activist who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for giving two joints to an undercover policewoman. He was eventually freed when John Lennon and Yoko Ono spoke out on his behalf. Less understood is his role as the founder and chairman of the radical anti-war group, The White Panther Party, an offshoot of the Black Panthers. The Black Panther Party was a militant political organization formed after the brutal murders of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Robert…

John Sinclair – Renegade Poet, Beatnik and Cultural Revolutionary

2 April 2024Mark

Immortalized by John Lennon’s 1972 song that bears his name, Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist White Panther Party and for managing Detroit’s legendary proto-punk outfit MC5 early in its history. Following a highly publicized two-year stint in prison for marijuana possession (Lennon’s song was a protest against his incarceration), Sinclair has stuck to his guns as an advocate for marijuana reform. “Living Euro to Euro, sleeping on the couches and extra beds of friends, a man without a country and a post office box in New Orleans for a permanent address.” That's how spoken word poet John Sinclair describes…

Transglobal Underground – A band of cosmic mutant rebels representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain, a living rebuttal of race-hate politics

12 January 2024Mark

All booking enquiries please email Peter Conway Tel: 44 (0)20 8378 1012 / 07885 288512 “…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Follow Transglobal Underground on SongKick There are few acts in the UK with as strong an influence and as complex a legacy as Transglobal Underground. For over 25 years it’s been a DJ/musical collective, one of the founders of global fusion, a working band famous for it’s scorching live shows, a techno soundsystem, a folk festival rabble rouser, a pop group, a club night, a Middle Eastern hit production team, an improvised study group for Indian classical music, an Albanian brass band, a duo..or was it an octet?…a…

Transglobal Underground – A band of cosmic mutant rebels representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain, a living rebuttal of race-hate politics – Tour Dates 2023

31 May 2023Mark

“…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Listen to more than 27 Transglobal Underground Releases here: https://transglobalunderground.bandcamp.com/music June 23rd - The Forum, Tunbridge Wells July 20th - Pizza Express, Holborn July 22nd - Festival of the Edge July 30th - Landed Festival, Powys, Wales August 26th - Solfest, Cumbria Transglobal Underground will be touring as a five piece band featuring original members Tim Whelan, drummer Hamid Mantu and storyteller TUUP alongside percussionist Rav Nieyyar and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee. “Representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain”  HMV “They drag the world music scene into a seething global disco. TGU are a living rebuttal of race-hate politics…”  NME All booking…

Transglobal Underground…..a band of cosmic mutant rebels representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain, a living rebuttal of race-hate politics – Touring Availability for 2023

24 February 2023Mark

“…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Transglobal Underground will be touring as a five piece band featuring original members Tim Whelan, drummer Hamid Mantu and storyteller TUUP alongside percussionist Rav Nieyyar and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee. “Representing the living, beating heart of multicultural Britain”  HMV “They drag the world music scene into a seething global disco. TGU are a living rebuttal of race-hate politics…”  NME All booking enquiries please email Peter Conway Tel: 44 (0)20 8378 1012 / 07885 288512 There are few acts in the UK with as strong an influence and as complex a legacy as Transglobal Underground. For over 25 years it’s been a DJ/musical collective,…

John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop

1 December 2022Mark

Not many people can say that John Lennon wrote a song about them, but John Sinclair is among that select bunch. Viewed by the powers-that-be as a dangerous revolutionary for his involvement with the White Panther Party, Sinclair was handed a ludicrously harsh sentence – “they gave him ten for two” – for marijuana possession after a police sting. In 1971, Lennon, along with Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs and Archie Shepp played a freedom rally in Michigan and three days later Sinclair was freed. Sinclair is probably best known in the music world for managing riotous proto-punks The MC5 and imbuing them with a radical zeal. But Sinclair is…

Sheema Mukherjee – Sheema (Vinyl) with USB stick

30 July 2022Mark

"Classically trained but a fusioneer by nature, sitarist Sheema Mukherjee has played with trance troupe Transglobal Underground and folk radicals the Imagined Village among others. This solo debut (vinyl/MP4 only) draws from her palette with panache. Slash Sitar is a showboating rock thrash (air sitar, anyone?); Sikkim Girls comes drenched in Bollywood strings; Morning Celeste is a dreamy neoclassical raga; and the driving Little Dragon sounds as though John Lee Hooker had mastered the sitar. More unexpected are sweetly sung covers of Radiohead and Françoise Hardy and playful evocations of 60s pop (Mrs Moo) and sodden samosas on an English beach (Bit God). A charming, altogether singular creation." - Neil Spencer…

Transglobal Underground July 2022 UK Tour continues…..

6 July 2022Mark

If we’re in your area this summer, here’s where you can get tickets….come and see us and bring your two best friends too..... Thursday July 7th, Pizza Express, London https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/trans-global-underground Friday July 8th: Rhythm Tree Festival, Isle Of Wight https://www.rhythmtree.co.uk/ Saturday July 9th, Thekla, Bristol https://www.alttickets.com/transglobal-underground-tickets/bristol-thekla/2022-07-09-19-00?_ga=2.89286046.448348833.1653819017-1716246054.1653819017 Sunday July 10th: Readipop Festival, Reading https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/readipop-festival-2022-tickets-77815499253 Friday July 15th, Pizza Express, Birmingham https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/transglobal-underground-2 Saturday July 16th, Colchester Arts Centre https://www.colchesterartscentre.com/events/gigs/transglobal-underground/ Sunday July 17th: Big Love Festival, Monmouthshire https://biglovefestival.co.uk/ Friday September 2nd: Off the Tracks festival, Donnington Park https://offthetracks.co.uk/tickets/ For all future TGU Bookings email: peter@peterconwaymanagement.com Listen to the entire Transglobal Underground catalogue here on bandcamp: https://transglobalunderground.bandcamp.com Walls Have Ears by Transglobal Underground

Transglobal Underground – Exeter Phoenix 2nd July, 2022. Doors 7.30pm

27 June 2022Mark

Venue Address: Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS. Box Office 01392 667080 Venue Website: https://exeterphoenix.org.uk Advance Ticket Link: https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/transglobal-underground/ An unmatched opportunity to catch these international festival favourites in an intimate setting. Specialising in a dynamic fusion of Western, Asian and African influences, their unique world fusion sound has been wowing audiences since the 90’s. Their music is a blend of tradition and innovation. Famed for their scorching flamboyant live shows featuring fantastic costumes, belly dancing, hypnotic percussion, and members of the group disguised as Nepalese Temple Guardians, no two shows are ever the same as audiences get drawn into an ever more dramatic and exciting performance. Their debut album,…

Transglobal Underground on tour in the UK 2022

30 May 2022Mark

It’s a huge pleasure to announce that, with live music returning again after two years of loss, Transglobal Underground have a UK tour in July to September 2022. It’s been a long time and we’re looking forward to a new start. To all those we won’t be seeing this year, we’re planning get out further in the UK and beyond in 2023. Meanwhile, if we’re in your area this summer, here’s where you can get tickets….come and see..... Sunday June 5th: One World festival, Stanmer Park, Brighton https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oneworldfestival/680342/ Saturday July 2nd, Phoenix, Exeter https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/ Thursday July 7th, Pizza Express, London https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/trans-global-underground Friday July 8th: Rhythm Tree Festival, Isle Of Wight https://www.rhythmtree.co.uk/…

Transglobal Underground – Touring Availability 2022

25 January 2022Mark

“…a band of cosmic mutant rebels” — BBC Transglobal Underground will be touring as a five piece band featuring original members Tim Whelan, drummer Hamid Mantu and storyteller Tuup alongside percussionist Rav Nieyyar and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee. Latest album ‘Walls Have Ears’ There are few acts in the UK with as strong an influence and as complex a legacy as Transglobal Underground. For over 25 years it’s been a DJ/musical collective, one of the founders of global fusion, a working band famous for it’s scorching live shows, a techno soundsystem, a folk festival rabble rouser, a pop group, a club night, a Middle Eastern hit production team, an improvised study…

50th Anniversary Celebration of the John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Detroit, 10th December, 2021

8 December 2021Mark

Beatnik Youth Ambient by John Sinclair (Detroit, November 20, 2021)—Former Michigan marijuana prisoner John Sinclair, his family and friends will celebrate his release from Jackson Prison 50 years ago with an early evening party at the Ralston Holistic Healing Center at 19730 Ralston Street (near State Fair) from 6:00-10:00 pm on December 10, 2021, exactly 50 years after the John Sinclair Freedom Rally at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor where John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Seale, Phil Ochs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Seger, Commander Cody and a host of others gathered to speak, play and protest the imprisonment of their friend John Sinclair following a sentence in Detroit Recorder’s…

50th Anniversary Celebration of the John Sinclair Freedom Rally to be held at Ralston Center in Detroit on 10th December, 2021

1 December 2021Mark

Beatnik Youth Ambient by John Sinclair (Detroit, November 20, 2021)—Former Michigan marijuana prisoner John Sinclair, his family and friends will celebrate his release from Jackson Prison 50 years ago with an early evening party at the Ralston Holistic Healing Center and Stonehouse Bar at 19730 Ralston Street (near State Fair) from 6:00-10:00 pm on December 10, 2021, exactly 50 years after the John Sinclair Freedom Rally at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor where John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Seale, Phil Ochs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Seger, Commander Cody and a host of others gathered to speak, play and protest the imprisonment of their friend John Sinclair following a sentence…

Transglobal Underground at The Jazz Cafe, London, on Saturday, 6th November 2021 with Natacha Atlas and the Dub Colossus Sound System.

31 October 2021Mark

World fusion pioneers Transglobal Underground will be performing live on stage for the first time since 2019. The first concert will take place at The Jazz Cafe, London, on Saturday, November 6th, 2021 with Natacha Atlas and the Dub Colossus Sound System. The concert will be held in honor of original Transglobal Underground member, bassist guitarist and producer, the late great Nick ‘Count Dubulah’ Page, who passed away earlier this year. On what would have been his birthday, Transglobal Underground will be having a special celebration with original members Natacha Atlas, Goldfinger and Larry Whelan, who will join the regular Transglobal Underground crew to celebrate his memory, and debuting onstage one…

Transglobal Underground – Walls Have Ears released 15th May 2020

14 May 2020Mark

‘WALLS HAVE EARS’ is the new album from Transglobal Underground, featuring family members from the beginning, the present and the future. If you would like a review copy of Walls Have Ears email mark@ironmanrecords.co.uk Transglobal Underground - "Walls Have Ears" released Friday 1st May 2020 Transglobal Underground have been described as "an anarchic self-built non-structure that goes it’s own way." It's probably the best record they've made. Here's a video for a track called Ruma Jhuma. The track features Natacha Atlas and Sheema Mukherjee. Transglobal Underground - Walls Have Ears You’ve gone your own idiosyncratic way since the 1990s. You’ve refused labels, moved in and out of different scenes and styles,…