I have uploaded a new music video of my musical poem "My Life (part 1)", formerly known as "I Walk The Earth", to MySpace (it's a bit too long for YouTube). You can find it at http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&channelid=133579758 and on my MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/galaxiasteve; I've included below a description I've written accompanying the video:

 

 

This musical poem I wrote describes some important events in my life, including the influence of some women I have met and fallen for!

 

It starts with the anti-poll tax campaign of mass non-payment (that eventually defeated the tax and was the main factor leading to the ousting of iron lady Margaret Thatcher as UK prime minister), including the People's March Against the Poll Tax (that I took part in from Liverpool to London), a Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) camp in Germany, the 1998 European School of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) at which I was the only speaker from England or Wales to support the establishment of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) in the debate, followed by the circumstances that led to my first incarceration as a political prisoner.

 

This poem is dedicated to Paula Mitchell, Naomi Byron, Susan (a revolutionary socialist from Dublin), Sinéad Daly, Whatsername (a Polish anti-racist), Dorotca (a Polish woman who was a lodger of my former best friend Julian Beard), Morag Allen and Cath Bann.

 

My father recorded me performing it in the Rusholme (curry alley) area of Manchester on the 29th of May 2009. He messed up the recording at the start (so details about the miners' strike and Bogle Stroll are omitted) and the end of the poem is missing too due to a printer running out of paper and me not having the sixth of five sheets of paper ! This actually made the musical poem better than it would otherwise have been!!!

 

You can find the lyrics of (a slightly out-of-date version of) the poem at http://socialiststeve.me.uk/lyrics/my-life-part1.html and more of my musical poems at http://socialiststeve.me.uk/poetry.htm. You may also like to browse my YouTube videos at http://youtube.com/galaxiasteve. I have also been in two bands - Red Day in Glasgow (http://red-day.net) and Galaxia in Manchester (http://galaxiamusic.org).