A Walk Through The Paris Metro

From my friend, the wonderful French singer Emma Mory - the video features Emma with her daughter Camille-Molly on a journey through the Paris Metro. The accordion music is by Patrick Houdusse.

Listen to the songs of Emma Mory:
Emma's songs on YouTube

Enjoy !!!

Just imagine

The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

Occupy Wall Street

It's the economy stupid !

Cameron was it again yesterday.

Blaming the country's present economic problems on profligate spending by the previous government. 

No, no, no. A thousand times no.

Spending under the previous government was neither spectacularly high nor spectacularly low - broadly it was on a par with Lady Thatcher's Conservative administrations. In short it was affordable and when he was in opposition Cameron pledged to match the spending until 2010.

No, our present difficulties were caused primarily by the recklessness of the banks and other financial markets and institutions.

We now suffering cuts because the country bailed out the banks. That is why we have such a large deficit - and to address another lie - it is not at an historic high, even for peace time.

The problem is that Cameron has reversed the growth policies of the previous government with the result that growth has flat lined, inflation is rising and so is unemployment.

In the first few days of its administration the coalition scared the living daylights out of consumers by raising the prospect that we could end up as another Greece - not only did this destroy consumer confidence it was also utter twaddle. 

Greek debt, as a perecentage of GDP, is over twice the size of ours - and Greek borrowing is through high interest, short term, loans whilst ours has always been at lower rates over much longer periods. There was never the remotest possibility that we would go the same way as Greece.

However, we now have the worst of all worlds - a stagnating domestic economy, a European financial crisis and a struggling economy in the States.

Where, pray, is the growth supposed to come from ?

Yet the British public, in its infinite stupidity, still thinks that Cameron is the best person to deal with our economic situation.

Pah, let's see if that holds when the cuts really start to bite next April.

Steve Kelly 6th October 2011.
Review of the speech in The Guardian

Life Songs - poking you with a pointy stick

Sure, it's rude to point but it needs to be pointed out, in a pointed way, that Steve Kelly & Andy Towell's album 'Life Songs' is available.
Just pointing you in the right direction......
Buy it here from Endless Records

Life Songs - now available on eBay

The album that I have just released with Andy Towell - 'Life Songs' - is now available via eBay:
Click here to buy Life Songs on eBay

Life Songs - Launch day +6

Steve is trying to play it all cool - what with Andy clearing off to the Cayman Islands with the proceeds from their new album 'Life Songs' - the irony being, of course, that 'Life Songs' lays bare much of the human experience by exploring our fears and our foibles.
At the moment Steve is colourfully exploring one of the seven deadly sins - can you guess which one ?

Support wit, intelligence, classic song writing and Steve and Andy's 'joie de vivre'.
Get the album here:
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Life Songs - Launch day +5

‎'Life Songs' is an album about life's experiences and lessons.
One might say that it is all a question of trust.
I trust Andy - his friends and family might think that he is camping in Cornwall - but we know better don't we .....
Buy the album now:
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