Released on Record Store Day (Aug 29) and to celebrate its release, we’re selling off the Queen’s Royal Assets in an online auction!
Sure you are aware, her majesty owns the following amongst other things :
• Nearly all of London’s Regent Street • Half of the UK’s shoreline • Six royal residences (All the royal houses) • More than 200 Launer handbags • The best seat in the house at Wimbledon • The tower of London • 150,000 works of art (many of them priceless) • Queen Victoria’s sketchbook • A winning team of race horses • A car collection worth more than $10 million • A tiara covered in 1333 diamonds • The Crown Jewels • A massive Fabergé collection • Westminster Abbey • Hyde Park • The world’s largest clear-cut diamond • An Aberdeen Angus cow • Two tortoises from the Seychelles • Her own flag • A gold Blue Peter badge • The British seabed • An offshore wind farm • The UK’s continental shelf • All of Scotland’s gold mines • 25,000 acres of forest • Trafalgar Square • Henry VIII’s arbor • Queen Elizabeth II’s own tartan • Millions of square feet of retail space • A knighthood (£33 million donation to the NHS)
On Record Store Day, Ian’s label Kitchen Disco Records are auctioning the lot off right here!
Also on eBay.
The People Not the Crown
What was ‘Oliver’s Army’?
Who are the ‘Sandinista’s’?
What is ‘Going Underground’?
13 year old Ian Prowse
couldn’t have had a better education than the one encoded in the music of his era. It was the greatest explosion of conviction music the UK had ever seen.
Fast-forward to 2020, Britain and the world, more than ever, needs music to remind us that democracy doesn’t start and stop at a vote. That debate, awareness and freedom of thought is needed to make sure our political leaders are held accountable. Music can remind us our assorted histories doesn’t always have to define a future injustice.
The People Not The Crown is a 4-track, 10″ EP of protest. Taking two songs from his days leading Pele (cult 90s band) ‘Raid The Palace’ and ‘The Sport Of Kings’, one song from the acclaimed Here I Lie album ‘All The Royal Houses’ and a brand new track called ‘You Don’t Own Me’ A song specially written and exclusively for Record Store Day.
We have no idea what the future holds for any of us, but we do know – now is not the time to sit back and wait to see what happens. With the power of music we believe now is the time for change.
