Category Archives: save the trees

A Poet at War

It just so happened my mum made me realise the battle we are living in Sheffield with our street trees is also happening in many places in France, where residents either realised too late or are still fighting the administrative evil!

So I ended up gathering info about “Les platanes de Gien” (The planes of Gien) and made a song addressed to their mayor…… Continue reading

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Let’s Hear it

“either write something worth reading…. or live something worth writing about…!”. 

So there has been a lot of activities that my various selves have been undertaking. Please bear with us while we restructure our projects priorities. For now and before introducing correctly the unicorn (wth?*) …. yeah you read right….. So first things first, The event below will feature our musical self and much rehearsals and open mics etc have drawn our time and energies.

Much thanks to Tommy Binks of Twoteas records who kindly recorded 4 of our tracks on a casually mad afternoon….. and probably regretted having ever proposed the idea!

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Sheffield Women of Wood

Since our poetic self is banned from attending the ecocide happening in our soon to be grey-city, it means I can watch from home a lot of distressing videos from the protest sites in Sheffield…… and because there is no point moaning at my screen, here’s my homage to the women protestors who keep coming up with very creative ideas to bring ridicule to the situation. Continue reading

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Ameyrica III Ameyndments

The saga continues in Sheffield, with more new words to teach our future children! Now the Police has invited Amey plc in their control room with views develop techniques to use on fracking protestors. We are loving it in Sheffield. My poet self is still on bail but a roundabout performance is on the way….. although swapping corporate entertainment for coporate* entertainment wouldn’t really fit my schedule and plans. So, here we are, Ameyrica III Ameyndments is I believe the best so far, we’ve had such a laugh working on it, enjoy, Continue reading

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Ameyrica II Ameyndments

So here we are again, in the street of ex-leafy Sheffield, where I am not allowed because on bail….. which hopefully will soon be amended to allow me to collect more artistic evidence from the incredible one-in-a-lifetime human experience in the making there (albeit a 100m from work zones…… but possibly with a megaphone!).

This is the second parchment of words and their definition that we have recollected from our anthropological excursions in the Stump city. Enjoy Continue reading

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Verbal obstruction

There has been a little break with the publishing for a few days now, we are still here! We have survived a computer crash due to a faulty ram that probably didn’t like the last coffee spill! And also we … Continue reading

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The Cursetakers #19

So here is a piece that i wanted to express in a different flow that I had been up to now.  One always has to catch up with oneself, and  neglecting one’s own feelings is only postponing the time to address them.

This piece is inspired from a piece cara sutherland, a sheffield trees sympathiser wrote about her feelings in regards to the situation on meersbrook park rd on the 19th of january 2018. For having witnesses myself the whole saga happening in every streets I ever lived in for the past 12 years. Sheffield city council…. you’re doing great! £#%$! Continue reading

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The seeds of Future

Still inspired from the actual situation around my street, in Sheffield, january 2018. When our future is governed by men/women who have no understanding of their own actions. but at the end, we re all the same, without purpose, there is nowhere to go. This has been inspired by a discussion (to put it kindly), with some police liaison officers who come on site apparently just to warn people they can be arrested….. but in fact the conversation is pretty much oneway and gets boring quickly….. enjoy

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(Tree) Hug Life #17

january 2018, Amey and Sheffield City Council are back to try enforcing their dodgy pfi deal in the streets of Sheffield where the fight is intensifying. Nonsensical arrests, amateurs in charge of functions that require critical thinking abilities. Human clones in playmobil uniforms just doing their job….. but not understanding concepts like purpose and meaning, pawns vested with illusory authority and credentials …. this is all happening in Sheffield streets, the council playing hide and seek, Foxes and bunnies so to reach their quota of healthy trees massacred tobe transformed in unnecessary biomass energy……. Continue reading

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From Hunters to Gatherers

This 2 parts piece has been designed to address the fact that sometimes the function we occupy within the society doesn’t make much sense by human referential.

Private companies (like Amey/Acorngroup in Sheffield, and fracknatic INEOS) hire private security and private evidence gatherers to try incriminate peaceful protesters instead of aiming to find a consensus. On the ground, it resembles an awkward ballet performed by inarticulate playmobils….. And we have travelled so far on our human journey …. from the first Hunter-Gatherers…..to now have for human function(!?) (as private evidence gatherer) to record other humans so the hiring company (a non-human entity) can incriminate these to push their agenda of environmental destruction. Continue reading

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