Wednesday 28 October 2009

From my inbox - KILLERS GO APE TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE


NEWS, REVIEWS & FEATURES EDITORS!
PLEASE COVER THIS RELEASE ABOVE ALL ELSE! THE CLIMATE DEMANDS IT!


Strange the things that pop into your inbox, don't know why I received this but heyho I'm happy to oblidge:


The Killers
And Rhythms Del Mundo
‘Hotel California’
Taken from the album ‘Rhythms Del Mundo Classics’
Artists Project Earth (APE) / launched 30 Nov 2009



KILLERS GO APE TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE NEW TRACK FROM THE KILLERS, RELEASED TO SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL DISASTER SUPPORT CHARITY ARTISTS PROJECT EARTH (APE).

The Killers recorded this cover version of the classic Eagles hit as part of their contribution to raise awareness and funds for the APE charity which, in the last month alone, has made awards of $100,000 to support both the natural disasters in Asia Pacific and the UK-based climate change group The Transition Network. Recorded with the APE house band, Rhythms Del Mundo, ‘Hotel California’ has been given an Afro-Cuban treatment and is already a smash radio hit all over Europe.

The song will be heavily promoted in the run up to COP15 – the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 7-18, where it will be the soundtrack to the conference (there’s even talk of a performance – but more on that in due course). Killers fans will love the unexpected foray into Cuban-style-west-coast-LA-rock from Brandon and the boys; and anyone else interested in Climate Change will be sure to pay attention and purchase!

APE & Rhythms Del Mundo

Artists Project Earth (APE) is the vision of a Music Industry Legend: Kenny Young may not be a familiar name to most, but few would not immediately recognise his biggest song, the 1964 classic ‘Under The Boardwalk’. It’s one of the most played and covered songs in pop history, made famous by The Rolling Stones, The Drifters, Sam and Dave, The Beach Boys and many other artists. Young, who wrote the Grammy Award winning song ‘Ai No Corrida’ for Quincy Jones, had spent 30 years penning hits for the biggest stars, including ‘Crew Love’ by Jay-Z and ‘Spirit of the Forest’ performed by Joni Mitchell, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and others.

However, the last 10 years has seen Kenny channel his energy towards the battle against Global Climate Change. His mission has been to specifically engage with the artistic community, developing musical projects that raise money and awareness. Young’s song-writing profile has enabled him to pull together the biggest artists, including U-2, Paul McCartney, Sting, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Paul Simon, REM, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Seal and others for ELF's Rainforests conservation projects. His first project, 1991’s ‘Earthrise’ was a No.1 hit album in the UK and globally. For APE he produced ‘Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba feat. musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club’ in a collaboration with Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Jack Johnson, Sting, U-2, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, and Radiohead.
The APE charity now extends across the world, with a board of internationally recognised directors and advisors. Kenny himself has been a recipient of the United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding practical achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment for his work as co-founder of the Earth Love Fund which supported and initiated over 200 community based projects in Brazil, Africa, Asia and Australia.

The Killers ‘Hotel California’ is also available on the album ‘Rhythms Del Mundo ‘Classics’ which features cover versions from many international stars including The Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse, Keane, Editors, The Zutons, Fall Out Boy and others. All are united in raising money to support APE and its climate change initiatives. Together, ‘Rhythms Del Mundo ‘Classics’ and ‘Cuba’ albums have sold over 1 million albums worldwide, raising millions of dollars for charitable causes. Every year APE makes an award of $100,000 to one or more climate change initiatives from the proceeds of the album sales. To date APE has supported over 170 different climate change tackling causes and natural disaster relief.

For further information please visit http://www.apeuk.org/

Monday 19 October 2009

The Illustrated Book of Garden Flowers

Just wanted to share these gorgeous illustrations



by B. E. Nicholson

from The Illustrated Book of Garden Flowers


published in 1979 by Peerage Books, London.

Aren't they wonderful?





Thursday 15 October 2009

Blog Action Day - Climate Change

Have you read the book?

Seen the film?

Do you believe it?

Does it worry you?

Is there anything ordinary people can do?

YES! YES! YES!

How about this for a start?

"A computer that is used for four hours a day and turned off the rest of the time costs about $70 less a year than one that is left on all day and all night. It also reduces the machine's CO2 emissions by 83%. "

Or this?

"Turn off the lights when you leave a room and turn off electrical appliances at the mains. Standby can use between 30% and 70% of the energy the appliance uses when it is on."

We can all do that, can't we?

And there are loads of other things ordinary people can do to help combat climate change, I 've quoted from 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear where you'll find a further 98 "examples of how you, your family, companies and politicians may solve or counteract the effect of climate problems."

Take a look and if you're intending to blog today join over 8,000 fellow bloggers by posting about climate change for Blog Action Day 2009, you can find out more and sign up here.

Thursday 8 October 2009

Mrs Crosse's Weekly Housekeeping Tips

Way back in April when I started this blog I stated that it would be a place where, amongst other things, I would talk about cleaning naturally. I'm very much aware that I never have but that is all about to be rectified with a little weekly feature on the website renaissanceshop.co.uk called
Mrs Crosse's Weekly Housekeeping Tips.
You can read the weekly tips here.
If you want to find out more about Mrs Crosse you'll find it here
and if you're interested Mrs Crosse has a gardening counterpart, Hobb,
his weekly tips are here
and you can find out about him here.
Enough links for one post I think!

Monday 5 October 2009

Quotation

"We need to grow our own food.
It's the most rational, practical response to the situation we're in now -
our food system is in as fragile a state as our financial one."

Monty Don in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine

Thursday 1 October 2009

Inspirational Recycling - More on old themes




Same old themes but I just couldn't resist these lovely photographs.
(All images found via The Tao of Dana)