Daniel Rachel

Norfolk & Norwich Festival 5x15: Revolutions
2017-05-27 13:00 - 14:40 UTC
EVENT
Revolutions: 5×15

SATURDAY 27 MAY

ADNAMS SPIEGELTENT, CHAPELFIELD GARDENS

1 – 2.40PM (INC. INTERVAL)

£8 / £80 WEEKEND TICKET

A one-stop guide to our world in transition. Five renowned speakers, no script, and 15 minutes each to blow your mind. Featuring historian and novelist Rebecca Stott on breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult, astrobiologist Professor Lewis Dartnell on aliens and space exploration, musician and writer Daniel Rachel on using music to combat racism, writer and documentary maker Polly Morland on personal metamorphosis, and David Bellos on Les Miserables – the revolutionary novel of the 19th century. This is an event you won’t want to miss.

Rebecca Stott (Norwich based author, new memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult), and Daniel Rachel (author of Walls Come Tumbling Down: The music and politics of Rock Against Racism).
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About the speakers
David Bellos is Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University and has won many awards for his translations including the Man Booker International Translator’s Award (2005). He is the author of Is that a Fish in your Ear: The Amazing Adventure of Translation.
The Novel of the Century by David Bellos review – the story of Les Misérables (Guardian, January 2017)
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Lewis Dartnell is a Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Westminster. He has won several awards for his science writing and contributes to the Guardian, The Times and New Scientist. He has also written for television and appeared on BBC Horizon, Sky News, Wonders of the Universe, Stargazing Live, and The Sky at Night. Website

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Polly Morland is an award-winning writer and documentary-maker. Combining the journalism of her background in film with ideas from psychology, philosophy and literature, her books blend remarkable human stories with reflections on how we live today — and how we can live better. Polly’s first widely-acclaimed book The Society of Timid Souls, or How To Be Brave (2013) won a RSL/Jerwood Award, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Metamorphosis – How and Why We Change was published in hardback in May 2016 and will appear in paperback in May 2017. Website
‘Forget self-help: we’re programmed for change’ (Guardian, May 2016)
Human metamorphosis (The Independent, May 2016)
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Daniel Rachel was born in Solihull in the summer before The Beatles announced their break-up. He wrote his first song when he was sixteen and was the lead-singer in Rachels Basement, which he formed in his early twenties. In 2001, he released his debut solo album, A Simple Twist Of Folk, on Dust Records, followed in 2006 by A Taste Of Money. Daniel is a specialist in Forum Theatre direction and lives in north London with his partner and three children. Website
His latest book Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the extraordinary and pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 during the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they both shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.
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Rebecca Stott is a novelist and historian. She is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. She lives in Norwich. Website
In the Days of Rain (Harper Collins, 2017)

BBC Radio 5 Live Fairport Convention special
2017-05-26 03:00 - 15:30
An exclusive interview with Fairport Convention original member Simon Nicholl.
Simon will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Liege and Lief with an special 30 minute in conversation with Daniel Rachel

BBC 5 Live The Record Club
2017-05-26 02:00 - 03:00
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums with Richard Foster and special guest contributor Daniel Rachel
Episode 4:
Michael Jackson Off The Wall
Led Zeppelin II

Episode 3:
Bruce Springsteen The River
The Specials Specials
Episode 2:
James Brown ‘Live At the Apollo’ (1962)
REM ‘Automatic For The People’
Episode 1:
The Beatles ‘Revolver’
The Human League ‘Dare’

Radio Woking Walls Come Tumbling Down 2 hour special
2017-05-25 20:00 - 22:00
Fiery Bird Show featuring Daniel Rachel
Very happy to announce that my guest on 25 May Fiery Bird Show on Radio Woking is Daniel Rachel – author of ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down – The Music & Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2Tone and Red Wedge’. Daniel will be joining me to talk about his book where he has brought together the memories and reportage of the people that were there, that started the movement – musicians, writers, photographers, audience members, the research, the movements and the songs that encapsulate those movements. Couldn’t feel more relevant at the moment it will be good to find out more from someone who has painstakingly interviewed, researched, recorded and double checked the details. To me, this is where we leave behind the iconography of old music heroines and really listen to what was being said and what was being done – and what profile is all about and the good that can be done from it.
SYNOPSIS
Winner of the Penderyn Music Book Prize, Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain’s musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and ‘the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang’. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Daniel Rachel follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they all shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.
Composed of interviews with over 150 of the key players at the time, Walls Come Tumbling Down is a fascinating, polyphonic and authoritative account of those crucial sixteen years in Britain’s history.
IN THE MEDIA
A triumphant oral history of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge . . . a tale of resistance: first, against a surge of racism and bigotry that an inspired group of activists and musicians played a key role in rolling back; and then against a government, as the same spirit of defiance quickly resurfaced in opposition to the social revolutions of Thatcherism . . . a vivid portrait
Guardian
By the Eighties rock had grown a conscience, and Walls Come Tumbling Down, charts how, in the late Seventies and Eighties, musicians became engaged in struggled surrounding race, gender, sexuality and class
Choice
Charts punk, 2 Tone and then Red Wedge’s subsequent battle for a multicultural Britain in a brilliant account of the period
Q Magazine
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West End Lane Books with Travis Elborough
2017-05-22 19:00
To launch paperback of Walls Come Tumbling Down…More details to follow

Brighton Festival with June Miles Kingston
2017-05-10 19:00 - 21:00
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We were trying to change the world in our tiny way by stopping the rise of fascism amongst youth with the power of music. Red Saunders, founder of Rock Against Racism

Join writer and musician Daniel Rachel to celebrate the paperback release of Walls Come Tumbling Down. His book charts the extraordinary and pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 following Eric Clapton’s now notorious and inflammatory speech in support of Enoch Powell and ‘black’ repatriation. Daniel and guest June Miles-Kingston will discuss how three key movements of that era: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge were shaped by the music of a generation.
Daniel Rachel is the author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters – a Guardian and NME Book of the Year and a regular guest contributor on BBC Radio 5. Since the late Seventies, June Miles-Kingston has played drums and sung with a multitude of influential bands (including The Communards, Fun Boy Three and Everything But The Girl). Now an award-winning filmmaker, music continues as the central theme in her work.

Radio BBC Surrey and Sussex interview
2017-05-10 15:30 - 16:00
Daniel will be in conversation with Allison Ferns ahead of this evenings ‘in conversation’ with June Miles Kingston at Waterstones Brighton. part of the brighton Festival / City Reads

Afternoon with Allison Ferns

Spend your afternoon in the company of Allison with great music and good conversation.

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Lewes Labour Club
2017-05-08 19:30 - 21:00
Does Music Have ther Power to Change Politics?

With additional guest local speakers, Stevie Freeman, Union Music Store and local concert promoter https://unionmusicstore.com
And Steve Franklin who is a director of the Starfish music project in Lewes see http://www.starfishlewes.co.uk

DJ Mag presents music changes the world panel
2017-05-02 18:00 - 20:00

Portobello Live 2017
2017-04-30 15:00 - 20:00
Rock Against Racism panel event
3pm – Chris Salewicz introduces Daniel with other guests including Don Letts and Glen Matlock
4pm – Daniel presents Rock Against Racism
Mick Jones (the Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) introduces festival highlights:

It’s back! For the third year running, Portobello Live! returns to West London with its winning formula of music, cabaret, spoken word, performance and art.
Held over the May Day bank holiday in association with dance label Wall Of Sound and Rough Trade records, this year’s festival also takes a retrospective look at Rock Against Racism, a movement which sprang into life 40 years ago.
A stunning line up of new bands and performers, rock royalty and special guests will play out across the stages of Portobello’s iconic pubs, clubs and venues. This year, Portobello Live! is delighted to announce punk performance poet John Cooper Clarke as one of the headline artists, along with Bandante (The Bad Seeds), Glen Matlock (the Sex Pistols), The Egg, Youth, Salad Undressed, Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot (Curiosity Killed The Cat), Don Letts, Rusty Egan and Noel Watson, with more to be announced. Music, film, poetry and art lovers will join with music industry and media professionals to enjoy the best of the West in a diverse programme of delight.
A Community Interest Company (CIC), Portobello Live! also represents the local community. The ‘It’s Behind You’ exhibition looks back over 25 years of the iconic Portobello Panto, neighbourhood music academy The Rhythm Studio will hold drumming sessions and beautiful harmonies from the Portobello Live! Choir open the festival.
Particularly relevant in today’s social climate, Rock Against Racism photographer Syd Shelton will reflect on the movement which, 40 years ago, came to public attention through music and marches, or ‘carnivals’, inspired by Notting Hill’s annual event where many RAR artists had their musical and street-fighting apprenticeships. Also highlighting current social affairs, the Oasis World Choir, composed of refugees from Sudan, Syria and Afghanistan, will sing at the festival.
Once again, the watchword of Portobello Live! is accessibility, with one affordable wristband allowing entry to all acts and venues over two days. Under 16s go free. Aimed at preserving Notting Hill’s rich and diverse artistic heritage, the festival provides a deserved platform for the area’s past and present music and cultural history. Venues are all within walking distance and include Acklam Village, the Cow, Mau Mau, Rough Trade, Westbank, Rum Kitchen, Maxilla Social Club and Book & Kitchen.
Ongoing support for this year’s festival is being provided by established sponsors and local patrons including Mick Jones (the Clash), actress Anna Chancellor (Four Weddings and a Funeral), film director Kevin Allen (Twin Town, Under Milk Wood), Don Letts (B.A.D., DJ, filmmaker and author) and artist Mark Wigan.
‘Not only is it great to be working alongside some of the amazing people and organisations who consider West London home; these important collaborations have presented Portobello Live! with the opportunity to expand and develop, as well as giving it greater visibility in the community,’ says Portobello Live! promoter, Micky P.
Wristbands for Portobello Live! are available now at here. They can also be purchased at Rough Trade, 130 Talbot Road W11.
Press inquiries to: info@portobellolive.com

Jarvis Cocker loves Portobello Live!

BBC Radio 5 'The Record Club'
2017-04-28 02:00 - 03:00
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums with Richard Foster and special guest contributor Daniel Rachel
Episode 3:
Bruce Springsteen The River

The Specials Specials

Episode 2:
James Brown ‘Live At the Apollo’ (1962)
REM ‘Automatic For The People’
Episode 1:
The Beatles ‘Revolver’
The Human League ‘Dare’

Laugharne Festival with Pauline Black
2017-04-09 16:00 - 17:00
THE LAUGHARNE WEEKEND 2017
APRIL 7-9
The tenth anniversary iteration of The Laugharne Weekend takes place on the weekend of April 7-9th (one week before Easter).
Weekend tickets, priced at £90 are sold out. Sorry! Check our Facebook page for news of any returns.
The line-up is shaping up very nicely, Check the Line-Up page for the latest information
Last Year
Thank you to everyone who took part in last year’s festival – a rainy triumph!
Click on the picture to read a lovely piece written by festival guest Tracey Thorn for the New Statesman which sums it all up nicely.

You can contact the Laugharne Weekend on this email address – laugharneweekend@gmail.com
* as ever the full line up will be released subsequent to a funding decision from the Arts Council of Wales

Clash Night '77
2017-04-08 20:00 - 23:00
On the 40th anniversary of the 1977 release of The Clash, the band’s debut album, ‘Clash Night ’77 is a Philosophy Football night out both to remember all the anger for change The Clash helped ignite back in ’77, together with a celebration of the Clash’s culture of resistance which continues, alive and kicking, today.

How? Side one will be played in its entirety, live,’as was’ by punk rock jukebox’s 48 Thrills featuring Steve North from the acclaimed stageplay Meeting Joe Strummer.

Side two played as ‘now’ remixed and rewritten by artists of today. Featuring solo artists Sean McGowan with Nia Wyn and Joe Solo. Spoken word by Emily Harrison and punk quartet Dream Nails.

Linking ’77 to 2017 specially comissioned sets by Attila the Stockbroker and Comrade X.

Opening the night, the Rock Against Racism photography of Syd Shelton plus solo set by the Lone Groover with ranting verse of from Poetry on the Picket Line.

And for the unwritten future, a headlining ‘riotous protest music’ (TIme Out) from the sensational Captain Ska

The night opens with a panel including Daniel Rachel author of The Walls Come Tumbling Down Dave Randall author of the forthcoming book Sound System: The Political Power of Music Red Saunders and Roger Huddle, founders of Rock Against Racism and editors of Reminiscences of RAR with writer and artist Caroline Coon, manager of The Clash 1978-80. Pandit G of Asian Dub Foundation and ex-music journalist Ngaire Ruth from Loud Women Club

The show will be at the excellent Rich Mix Arts Centre in Shoreditch, East London, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA. Doors open 6.00pm, show starts 7.00pm.

Tickets just £9.99. Book as a group of five and five tickets for the price of four, group of ten tickets for the price of seven.

Presented in association with a union that defends Career Opportunities for all, the RMT. And because without them London’s Burning, the Fire Brigades Union too. The new Trade Union Pale Ale is provided by Brigadista Ale, and R2 the Rock’n’Reel magazine are our media sponsor.

The Collaboration Session with Nick Soulsby and Daniel Rachel
2017-03-30 19:00 - 20:30
Waterstones Camden Town are pleased to announce the first in an exciting new series of events: “The Sessions”.
Each month we will be inviting 2 authors to talk music, books, and the vital role both have in today’s and yesterday’s cultures – with each “Session” focused on a central discussion topic, such as Authenticity, Gender, and Collaboration.

Kicking off with “The Collaboration Session”, we welcome…
Nick Soulsby, author of We Sing A New Language: a fascinating insight into Sonic Youth co-founder and forefather of alternative rock Thurston Moore’s lifelong dedication to musical performance and exploration; and Daniel Rachel, whose most recent book, Walls Come Tumbling Down, charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britishhistory.
Come and join us for an evening that promises to be as enlightening as it is entertaining. Tickets are £5/£3 for Waterstones Loyalty Card members and include a glass of wine/beer or soft beverages and are redeemable against books purchased on the day. Tickets are available in store or please contact us at camden@waterstones.com or on 02072844948 to reserve your place. See you then!
Further details: 02072844948

We Sing a New Language: The Oral Discography of Thurston Moore (Paperback)
Nick Soulsby

Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge (Hardback)
Daniel Rachel

FT Oxford Literary Festival with Pauline Black and Clare Short
2017-03-26 16:00 - 17:00
Walls Come Tumbling Down – The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge

Sunday 26 March 2017 4:00pm 1 Hour

St John’s: Auditorium

Venue

£12.50
Ticket price

Musician-turned-author Daniel Rachel discusses his book about the coming together of pop music and politics in the 1970s and 1980s with the Labour politician Clare Short and singer/songwriter and lead singer of platinum-selling 2 tone band The Selecter Pauline Black. The event will feature a unique soundtrack of the period, compiled by Rachel, and a presentation of more than a hundred images of related ephemera including archive film footage.
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts a period between 1976 and 1992 that saw a youth generation challenge racism, gender inequality and social and class divisions as never before. Rachel spoke to more than 100 campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, including Short, to follow the rise and fall of three movements in particular – Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge.
Rachel had a career as a singer/songwriter including as lead singer in Rachel’s Basement and with his solo albums, A Simple Twist Of Folk and A Taste Of Money. His first book, Isle of Noises (A Guardian and NME book of the year), is a series of in-depth conversations about songwriting with some of the UK’s greatest living musicians of the past 50 years. Rachel has also written for the Kinks, Ray Davies and Bryan Ferry and is a regular guest contributor on BBC Radio 5.
Short was Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood between 1983 and 2010. She served as Secretary of State for International Development for six years in the Blair government, gaining a reputation as an effective minister in the UK and abroad. She resigned from the Government in protest at the Iraq War. Short grew up with Irish rebel songs, married a drummer – and toured in the back of the van – and played a key role in Billy Bragg’s Jobs For Youth tour campaign.
Black has spent four decades in the music business and campaigns for racial equality through her work. She joined The Selecter as lead singer in 1979, and the band went on to become one of the most influential in the 2 tone scene alongside Madness and The Specials. The band is on the road again this year with The Beat for a tour of the UK and Ireland. Black has also worked as an actress and as a presenter on radio and on Channel 4 and BBC Four.

The Art of Protest: Goldsmiths College
2017-03-25 15:00 - 17:00
A free one-day symposium to explore how art and music has supported and been inspired by struggles for equality – particularly around race – over the past 40 years. It will discuss how the arts have also been used to remember, learn from and reignite struggles of the past.
We will focus specifically on two significant events – the battle of Lewisham (1977) and the Grunwick strike (1976) – and explore how these political and social actions were shaped by and themselves shaped dissent and solidarity through the arts.
In 1976, six workers walked out of Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden and ignited an historic two-year dispute which united thousands to demand better rights for poorly treated workers.
On the 13th August 1977 on the streets of south-east London, 500 members of the National Front escorted by Police, attempted to march through the borough of Lewisham and clashed with thousands of anti-fascist protestors.
The Art of Protest will focus particularly on these two significant events and explore how these political and social actions were shaped by and themselves shaped dissent and solidarity through the arts, exploring how art and music has supported and been inspired by struggles for equality – particularly around race – over the past 40 years. It will discuss how the arts have also been used to remember, learn from and reignite struggles of the past.
Speakers include
Dan Jones – Historian
Jagdish Patel – Photographer and Writer
and Anna Ferrie – Artist
Agenda
9.30 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Opening
3.30-4.45pm ‘Tune in, Turn on, Fight Back’. Panel event with Daniel Rcahel and guets. Professor Stuart Hall Building (room TBC).
17.00 Closing
Goldsmiths College
University of London
8 Lewisham Way
London
SE14 6NW
Attendance is free, but spaces are limited so please register your interest via the Eventbrite booking system.
How to get to the venue

5 minutes’ walk from both New Cross and New Cross Gate stations (zone 2), on the main rail network and London Overground.
On major bus routes including 21, 36, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343, 436, 453.
10 minutes’ walk from Deptford Bridge Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station.
On the National Express coach route.
At the junction of the A2 and the A20, on Lewisham Way.

BBC Radio 5 'The Record Club'
2017-03-24 02:00 - 03:00
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums with Richard Foster and special guest contributor Daniel Rachel
Episode 2:
James Brown ‘Live At the Apollo’ (1962)

REM ‘Automatic For The People’

Episode 1:
The Beatles ‘Revolver’
The Human League ‘Dare’

Trinity Academy, Edinburgh
2017-03-18 19:30 - 21:30
Daniel Rachel – Conversations with Great British Songwriters

Daniel Rachel is the author of ‘Isle of Noises’ (Guardian and NME Book of the Year (2013)).
Daniel’s book documents his conversations with over twenty British songwriters from Ray Davies to Paul Weller, from Jimmy Page to Robin Gibb, from Sting to Chris Difford & Glenn Tillbrook from Squeeze, Mick Jones of the Clash, from the Pet Shop Boys to some of the boys from Madness, from Joan Armatrading to Annie Lennox and Lily Allen, each time trying to understand some secrets of their songwriting and how some of their famous songs were inspired and created.
In this event Daniel will be interviewed by author Mike Nicholson.
Daniel will talk about his experience of tracking down and meeting with many famous songwriters and will uncover stories behind some very familiar music. In between the stories, you’ll hear snippets of songs and Daniel playing his guitar, giving examples of how well-known songs came to be.
So, who kicked off the Smiths songs, Morrissey or Marr?
How have single chords or even a seemingly random noise from a moving car inspired familiar songs?
What happens when a record company tells a band their song needs a new chorus and the clock is ticking?
All these questions and lots more will be answered.
Quotes from previous attendees of this event:
“A must-attend evening for anyone who takes their music seriously”
“Great chat, great stories, fascinating insight into the anguish of songwriters – made me feel like giving it a go myself!”
“One of the best nights of my life last year!”
This is a fundraising event towards new sound and light equipment at Trinity Academy.
The event will take place in Trinity Academy school library with a bar and live music alongside.
Doors open 730pm with a provisional event start time of 8.15pm
Books can be purchased and signed by the author after the event.

Aye Write festival
2017-03-17 18:00 - 19:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Daniel Rachel & Dave Randal – Mixing Pop and Politics

17th Mar 2017 • 6:00PM – 7:00PM • Mitchell Library
These books both explore how musicians have tried to change the world with the political power of music.

Musicians have often wanted to change the world – many have believed in the political power of music. Years of touring with Faithless (and protesting) have given Dave Randall a unique insider’s view of the music industry. Sound System talks about music as a force for social change as well as something that has been used to keep people in their place throughout history. Daniel Rachel’s Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together. Musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang. He follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge.

BBC Radio 5 Up All Night Record Club
2017-02-24 02:00 - 03:00
New show reappraising 5 star rated classic albums
Episode 1:
The Beatles ‘Revolver’
The Human League ‘Dare’
Join presenter Richard Foster wth special guest contributor Daniel Rachel

The Cinema Museum, film screening with Rhoda Dakar
2017-02-20 19:00 - 21:00
WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN WITH DANIEL RACHEL
Mon 20 Feb 2017 @ 19:30 · Events

Walls Come Tumbling Down is a new book about the rise of Rock Against Racism, Red Wedge and the Anti Nazi League in the 1970s and 80s.
Author Daniel Rachel will introduce a rare screening of a 40 minute Red Wedge film, Days like These (1986), followed by a Q&A discussing how the whole movement came about, if racism is on the rise again and where Rock Against Racism and Red Wedge are in 2017.
Days Like These features Billy Bragg, Lloyd Cole, The Communards, Junior, Phill Jupitus, Madness, Johnny Marr, Tom Robinson, Paul Weller and many more.
It documents the 1986 Red Wedge tour when chart topping pop stars joined forces on stages across the UK in an attempt to politicise young people and encourage them to vote against Margaret Thatcher in the 1987 general election. Filmmakers from five cities had All Access for seven days – on the tour coach, in dressing rooms and hotel rooms – capturing a sensational line up performing hits and rousing ensemble encores including Curtis Mayfield’s Move On Up and Jimmy Cliff’s Many Rivers To Cross.
Read a Guardian review of the book.
Doors open at 19.00, for a 19.30 start.
Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.
TICKETS & PRICING
Tickets £3 on the door

Institute of Historical Research
2017-02-13 17:00 - 19:00
Institute of Historical Research
A talk by Daniel including images and film footage.
Walls Come Tumbling Down. From Rock Against Racism to Red Wedge

Date
13 Feb 2017, 17:30 to 13 Feb 2017, 19:30

Series
Socialist History

Venue
IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Description
Daniel Rachel,

Contact
IHR Reception
ihr.reception@sas.ac.uk
020 7862 8740

Union Chapel Billy Bragg Book Signing
2017-01-16 19:00 - 23:00
Union Chapel Billy Bragg Book Signing
Daniel will be signing copies of Walls Come Tumbling Down at Billy Bragg’s gig in Islington

Bringing the House Down! in conversation with Billy Bragg
2016-12-08 19:00 - 21:00
Bringing the House Down! Daniel Rachel in conversation with Billy Bragg
Thursday 8th December 19:00 at London – Piccadilly
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain’s musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and ‘the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang’. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Daniel Rachel follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they all shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.
This will be a very special evening of conversation and music – all welcome!
£5 tickets (redeemable against purchase of the book this evening) are available online, in store, by telephone 020 7851 2400 or by email piccadilly@waterstones.com
London – Piccadilly Waterstones, London – Piccadilly
Thursday 8th December 19:00
£5.00
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Broadway Bookshop in conversation with KEN WORPOLE
2016-12-07 19:00 - 21:00
WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN: A TALK with DANIEL RACHEL in conversation with KEN WORPOLE
Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 07.00am
We are thrilled to announce that Daniel Rachel, author of WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN (published by Picador) will be in conversation with writer and historian Ken Worpole at the shop on Wednesday 7 December 2016. Daniel’s remarkable oral history – with contributions from Billy Bragg, Phill Jupitus, Clare Short, Tracy Thorn and many others – charts the years between 1976 and 1992 when ‘politics and pop music [came] together as never before to challenge racism, gender inequality and social and class divisions.’
Tickets £3 (includes glass of wine). For booking please RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com or call 020 7241 1626. For further information please see below.
About the book:
In August 1976, Eric Clapton made an inflammatory speech in support of Enoch Powell and ‘black’ repatriation, sparking an anti-racism campaign that would soon radicalise an entire generation. The following sixteen years saw politics and pop music come together as never before to challenge racism, gender inequality and social and class divisions. For the first time in UK history, musicians became instigators of social change; and their political persuasion as important as the songs they sang.
Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Daniel Rachel charts this extraordinary and pivotal period between 1976 and 1992, following the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they both shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.
Consisting of new and exclusive in-depth conversations with over 100 contributors, including Pauline Black, Billy Bragg, Jerry Dammers, Phill Jupitus, Neil Kinnock, Linton Kwesi-Johnson, Tom Robinson, Clare Short, Tracey Thorn and many more, Walls Come Tumbling Down is a fascinating, polyphonic and authoritative account of those crucial sixteen years in Britain’s history, from the acclaimed writer of Isle of Noises.
Walls Come Tumbling Down also features more than 150 images – many rare or previously unpublished – from some of the greatest names in photography, including Adrian Boot, Chalkie Davies, Jill Furmanovsky, Syd Shelton, Pennie Smith, Steve Rapport and Virginia Turbett.
“We were trying to change the world in our tiny way by stopping the rise of fascism amongst youth with the power of music.” – Red Saunders, founder of Rock Against Racism.
‘An amazing oral history’ Billy Bragg
About the author:
Daniel Rachel wrote his first song when he was sixteen and was the lead-singer in Rachels Basement. He was first eligible to vote in the 1992 General Election and now lives in north London with his partner and three children. Daniel is the author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters – a Guardian and NME Book of the Year – also published by Picador, and a regular guest contributor on BBC Radio 5.
www.danielrachel.com
Ken Worpole is a writer and social historian, whose work includes many books on architecture, landscape and public policy. He is married to photographer Larraine Worpole with whom he has collaborated on book projects internationally, as well as in Hackney, London, where they have lived and worked since 1969.
Ken is Emeritus Professor, Cities Institute London Metropolitan University, and has served on the UK government’s Urban Green Spaces Task Force, on the Expert Panel of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and as an adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
www.worpole.net

BIMM School London, Isle of Noises masterclass
2016-11-17 18:00 - 20:00

BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keevney Show
2016-11-16 08:45 - 21:30
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Author Daniel Rachel joins Shaun
Shaun Keaveny

Shaun is in search of your earworms. What song have you woken with in your head? We’ll play one before the 8am news. Plus, author Daniel Rachel chats about his new book ‘Walls Come Tumbling Down’. The book charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together as never before to challenge racism, gender inequality and social and class divisions. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Walls Come Tumbling Down follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they all shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.

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2016-11-14 14:00 - 15:00
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Louder Than Words
2016-11-13 11:30 - 12:35
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Published on July 22nd, 2016 | by LTWF
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Daniel Rachel
Daniel Rachel is the author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters an NME and Guardian Book of the Year. He is a musician and songwriter, and a specialist director bringing drama to non-theatrical settings. After reading an American book called Songwriters On Songwriting, Daniel went in search of the British equivalent. He didn’t find it. So decided to create the book he wanted to read.
‘Without doubt the finest book I’ve ever read about songwriters and the songs they write.’ NOEL GALLAGHER
Daniel’s latest title Walls Come Tumbling Down: An oral history of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge will be published by Picador in 2016 and we’re delighted and privileged to have Daniel join us in conversation for Louder 2016.
In this special event, Daniel will take the audience through a visual tour of the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, charting this extraordinary and pivotal period between 1976 and 1992, following the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they both shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.
Daniel’s session will also include a screening of ‘Days Like These’ a rare film that hasn’t been screened in full since 1986. Capturing the national tour of that year, the film features Billy Bragg, Madness, Paul Weller, Junior, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Rhoda Dakar, Johnny Marr, Tom Robinson and others.
11.30am, Sunday 13th November: DANIEL RACHEL: WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN: The music and politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
Tix: http://tinyurl.com/hul5dgt

Humbermouth - Hull Literary Festival
2016-11-11 20:00 - 23:00
Humbermouth – Hull LIterary Festival
Days Like These screening

Red Wedge ‘Days Like These’ featuring Billy Bragg, Lloyd Cole, Communards, Junior, Phill Jupitus, Madness, Johnny Marr, Tom Robinson, Paul Weller and many more.
‘Days Like These’ documents the 1986 Red Wedge tour when chart topping popstars joined forces on stages across the UK in an attempt to politicise young people and encourage them to vote against Margret Thatcher in the 1887 general election. Filmmakers from five cities had All Access for seven days – on the tour coach, in dressing rooms and hotel rooms – capturing a sensational line up performing hits and rousing ensemble encores including Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Move On Up’ and Jimmy Cliff’s ‘Many Rivers To Cross’.
This is a rare screening of the 40 minute film which is has not been shown for over 30 years.
