Shelf Life soundtrack Climate Camp film

Shelf Life and New Model Army in environmental film soundtrack

'Roll Up, Roll Up' has been chosen alongside a track from New Model Army to appear in the soundtrack of a new film. Opening with the first track from Shelf Life's debut album 'Best Before End', the film is about the 2008 environmental protests against a proposed new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth, Kent (UK).

'Covering Climate Camp' by Jason Parkinson documents the police response to journalists trying to cover the story for independent and mainstream news organisations. Reporters were faced with determined and consistent obstruction by the police, whose actions were roundly condemned by the National Union of Journalists and in industry media on the grounds of press freedom restriction.

Part One of the film can be seen above, Part Two can be viewed here.

The band has other material in their catalogue suitable for soundtracks for films about peace, environmental or activism issues. To contact Shelf Life about licensing tracks for soundtrack use, email shelflifemusic[at]gmail[dot]com.

Frontline video from the economic crisis

Here's a report from Jason Parkinson (who did the Shelf Life interview earlier this year) that sheds a little light on the global financial crisis and some London responses to it.

It seems remarkable that while governments drag their feet interminably when it comes to finding the money needed to tackle the real problems that planet is facing, as soon as the banks and money markets start to teeter (having had virtually all regulation needed to save them from eating each other alive), billions upon billions of pounds are magically found to prop them up.

I guess that the alternative of letting them all go to the wall risks bringing down the entire ideological framework that most of the world's 'leaders' have based their entire value sets around - too much to contemplate when primary concerns are more holding onto the reins during short-term electoral cycles.

Andrew Rawnsley also had some good suggestions for better uses of that money for Britain in last week's Observer.