Feel the Dream’s main site has temporarily shed its colourful theme for a decidedly more somber outlook in sympathy for the innocent men, women & especially the children currently suffering in Gaza. It is to be hoped that this change of theme is short-lived, one which we hope will last hours, not days & God forbid weeks! We can only watch, protest and petition our representatives as the situation unfolds.

A video of Brian Eno has been recently posted on our site in which he talks calmly, lucidly but nevertheless frankly about the horrors being perpetrated right now and the totally disproportionate attacks on a people already imprisoned by walls & denied basic human rights & needs.

Our site supports Amnesty International, an organisation to whom we in the West owe so much thanks for their consistent work on behalf of us… and that means all of us… human beings & their rights everywhere. We urge their support throughout the world.

In the words of Martin Luther King ‘Let Freedom Ring’ and let it ring NOW for the people suffering so barbarically in Gaza. There is no doubt that where he alive today the word ‘Muslims’ would have had equal emphasis with ‘Jews & Gentiles’ in his famous speech and he would be fighting and motivating change with all his might on behalf those who are currently suffering such abominal atrocities.

I’m sitting in a Delta Airline window seat on the way back from a really inspiring coupla days in Memphis Tennessee at an event in aid of Amnesty International called ‘Keeping the Dream Alive’ ….. many thanks to DJ Saturna, who you’ll all know is a key player in the whole ‘Feel The Dream’ scene.

I was in San Franscisco where the weather was DREADFUL &desperate to get as far away as possible from this all too English feeling, y’know, cold, damp…. only times 10! The girl in the hotel suggested Vegas, which seemed like fun, so we arranged all the flights & hotels & then just as I’m about to leave, Saturna (AKA Lorin) Facebooked me about the event…. now how could I POSSIBLY miss this??????? So there was an ……errrr quick change of plan!

Highway 101 quick to the airport to try to negotiate some kind of deal…… they refunded my ticket & before you know it I was booked on an 8 hour flight to Memphis Tennessee…… (& wondering if I’d completely lost my mind Plane left at 11.55 pm, touch down in Memphis about 9.00 am next morning… there’s some time difference, don’t ask me to work it out.
Suddenly I am recieving Tennessee hospitality & all fears of jet lag, sleep deprivation or rain was gone out the window. The sun was really shining in Memphis!

The event was in Tom Lee Park in which a group called circle up now, www.circleupnow.org, (really inspiring guys, do really interesting stuff) got a whole bunch of people to make an aerial shot of Martin Luther King’s face, they do this stuff all over the place….. & so we all lay down on the ground like perfect activists, looking up at the helicopters above taking our picture…….You can see the results here.

It was a great day & brought home something I’ve been increasingly noticing since I’ve been here. And that is the effect Obama is having on the people themselves, they’re really getting motivated for some radical change…. they’re gonna be not just supporting him or voting for him…… but civil rights, liberties and radical thought is coming back on strong. I can honestly say, I’ve never felt myself to be in such an inspiring time in America.

There’s more to come, let’s HOPE!

READ ON: It’ll take two minutes: If you’re time poor, just print the instructions below this section.

We are doing something no-one has done before, there is no rule book to read & all the feedback we have received is that it’s the DJs (obviously enough) that are leading it. It’s grassroots, it’s happening all over the world.

It’s very difficult for us to know exactly where & when over this weekend across the Globe, that each event will happen, the time is from start of play Thursday night, through to Sunset on Sunday.

It could be at a club near you so we are asking DJs who want to take part in the experiment to simply print the following message to give out on the door & just work the MLK mix into a climactic part of their set.

(If you join www.feelthedream.org, we’ll have it up as an officially designed flyer by tonight. (Sorry for short notice but this is, but it’s nature, meant to be spontaneous.)
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PRINT THIS SECTION:
Feel The Dream
World-Wide Experiment
INSTRUCTIONS

Tonight, DJ (xxxx) is going to work something very special into his set…. just listen out for the words… ‘I HAVE A DREAM’ & get your ass on the dance floor!

As it moves, you’ll hear….. ‘LET FREEDOM RING‘….get ready… put your hands up for (your club/city)… stay in the groove…. & wait for these words …. oh brothers & sisters………

‘……..All God’s children, Black Men & White Men, Jews & Gentiles, Protestants & Catholics will be able to sing in the words of the old Negro Spiritual’…………..

……NOW JUST PUT YE HANDS UP, BIG UP & YELL THESE F*CKIN’ WORDS AT THE TOPS OF YER HEADS’

‘FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE ARE FREE AT LAST’

……………..Congratulations; you have just joined together with people in clubs world-wide….. find out why & tell us how it was for you on www.feelthedream.org.

HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!
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If you join www.feelthedream.org, by tomorrow night, you’ll be able to download it as an official flyer design…but it’s the words that count. On plain paper will do. Also, if you aren’t going out tonight, we’ll have a dowlaod availabe you can play at home, get yer posse over…..just record your yell, a mobile phone will do nicely Send them into us.

IMPORTANT: DJs, Record your set, we will be releasing an official ‘Super-Mix’ on Martin Luther King day, Jan 09…and also try to mike up the crowd for the yell

Have a great night & get back to us

‘Give Chance A Piece’

Feel The Dream

Yup… that’s the mantra… & jeez it’s funny when it starts really kickin in… traipsing around Brighton getting organisational formalities set up & then go on to talk with … well we think the best club in town, response great, more to come…… then get home & get online & get these feeds coming in from Memphis… ( Saturna is … oh dammitt, just go to myspace & be her friend!), California, Texas, New York….Penzance….. Tunisia !!!! Big thanks to Charlie from the Urban Prankster Network too… straight up guy! Also to Danny Rampling for his support & advice, which is turning out to be very wise.

Black point? Pissed off a formerly good friend who said I was spamming her, what’s that they say about making omelettes?

Still, with just that exception, everybody has been so great…. but with the clock ticking away the moments which make up another crazy day, boy does your adrenalin gland get to know its function!?!? Went to bed last night thinking (uncharacteristically for me) ‘God…. this IMPOSSIBLE!’ Woke up feeling (uncharacteristically for me) just the damed same…. kick start with a caffeine drip…. before you know it you’re balancing two phones, typing an email and furiously re-arranging appointments.

Tomorrow we’re updating the main hub, www.feelthedream.org… I know it’s a bit fuzzy wuzzy right now, but it was a case of publish & be damned. We’re overhauling it though….. so you might errr understand what we’re on about !!!????!!!;) Check it out & check in, all will become clearer & clearer. Facebook page seems to have suddenly doubled in size. Go deh!

Come in Supper Club Amsterdam… we want you… come in Berlin… waiting to hear back from the Jungle Brothers too. We want you…. come in to Our House ! It’s Your House! It’s gonna rock !

Give Chance a Piece,

Righteous Knockside