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Captain Beefheart is a hero of mine. His music might not be to everyone’s taste, but there is not much I can do about that.
Here is a selection of Captain Beefheart clips from YouTube:
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Actually, everything in the above headline is an absolute lie.
I’m afraid there is not much activity with the band just now as as we are all too busy. Adam has just got married, Denis recently became a dad and Gary has just got engaged.
We did make a short but sweet (or at least sweaty) appearance on stage at suppertime during Adams wedding. I’ll post photos here if/when I get some.
Beyond this, there is speculation that we’ll play some gigs in the winter. Watch this space …
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Here is an excellent clip of Stevie Wonder doing a funky version of the Sesame Street song
What a guy.
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Sakchai Makao has won his appeal.
The full story is here on the BBC Website
Well done to everyone who organised and supported the campaign.
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Craig Chapman, who took the first ever official band photos for Jamieson’s Big Pockets, has a new website. Check it out if you possibly can.
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This morning in an early morning Grampian(we think) police raid, 23 year old Sakchai Makao of Haldane Burgess Crescent was taken into custody and transferred from Shetland to and Aberdeen as “an illegal immigrant with a criminal record” for subsequent deportation to Thailand within five days.
He will be transferred tomorrow from Glasgow to a detention centre in London to await deportation to Thailand this weekend. He has no family in that country and does not speak the language. Furthermore if he is deported he faces the immediate possiblity of being conscripted into the army in Thailand.
Sakchai has lived in Shetland for thirteen years, having moved here with his family at that time. His father died here in 2001 and his mother and sister now live in London. He has worked for most of that time in the Clickimin Centre swimming pool and is well liked throughout the whole community.
Sakchai has a Thai Passport and, according to his family, has a visa which allows him to stay indefinatley in this country. He served a short prison sentence in 2004 for “arson”, a label and sentence that many of us still feel was totally unjust.
I understand that he was in the process of applying for a UK passport and it may be that this has brought him to the attention of the Home Office.
This is being done as part of this Labour Government’s ‘round-up’ of undesirable illegal aliens. I leave you to form your own opinion of them – I know I now firmly have mine, but its not for printing here.
We are in the process of appointing him a lawyer qualified in immigration matters, our MP and MSP are firmly on the case and we have already attracted, and hopefully will continue to attract, widespread local and national media attention to his case. He also has the full support of his employers Shetland Recreational Trust.
We have set up one on Yahoo at nodeportationfromshetland@yahoo.co.uk Please sign on and show your support if you can.
Sakchai is Shetland through and through (he even represented us at the Island Games last year) and I / we simply refuse to sit back and allow this to happen.
This Labour government (who I long supported but no longer that’s for sure) cannnot be allowed to return us to the days of McCarthy in 50’s America and Sakchai does not deserve to be treated in this way. Much of what has happened today is against basic human rights if nothing else.
I am hopefully going to be back in touch with him later and will keep you posted re any developments(currently they wont even allow him to have his phone on, and have not as yet allowed him to contact his family, or done so on his behalf)
Cheers for any help any of you can offer.
David Gardner
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Hi everyone,
Here is Jimmy Carlyle’s Shetland Blues Festival Podcast.
Check it out.
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Now then,
Jamieson’s Big Pockets has a Myspace site, which you can find at http://myspace.com/jamiesonsbigpockets
Feel free to be friends with us.
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Shetland’s official parking champion visited St Olaf street recently to demonstrate the right way to do things. You really have to admire the skill required to achieve this.
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Jamieson’s Big Pockets have been confirmed for the third Shetland Blues Festival. It will be our first gig since the birth of Dennis and Dorothy’s Miss Peerie Pockets, Marianne Thomasina (Congratulations from us all!).
We are playing at the Royal British Legion, Lerwick on Sunday night with Leah Seator and SAS Blues, Mean Business, Rumshack Blues Band and Bitumen River (Acoustic), which means Adam is in for a busy night (Again!). Concert Starts at 9pm, tickets £10
Visit the Shetland Blues Festival website for more details.
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