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Issue Number Forty Two| Let’s Give The Bankers A Spanking Although RBS are effectively nationalised by the government, they still feel the need to pay themselves massive bonuses to keep them motivated to do their jobs,poor loves. Imagine a nurse coming late into work late and telling the patient ’well with no massive bonus I just cant be arsed really’ Planning to go down to Speakers Corner to support Billy Bragg in his campaign to limit RBS bonuses to the paltry sum of £25,000. 
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Issue Number Forty One
| Domestic Extremist The suburbs have been radicalised by politicians lies. Behind those neat hedges hides an army of discontent,beware. They may be white middle class Radio 4 listeners but.
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Issue Number Forty
| Celebrity Sewage This is a good riddance to Big Brother track. George Orwell gave us books. Bazalgette senior gave us sewers and Bazalgette junior brought us a really bad TV programme. The modern day Big Brother has brought us nothing but celebrity sewage.
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Issue Number Thirtynine
| Santas Got A CRB Its a South London Christmas, donkey and a policeman but everybodys happy cause Santas got a CRB. This track specially created for the East Dulwich Christmas Parade 19th December 2009.
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Issue Number Thirtyeight
| Change The Libel Laws (gagged remix) Gagged version of Change The Libel Laws. Contains references to Trafigura and the Ivory Coast toxic waste scandal, the scandal that the lawyers Carter Ruck have managed to use libel laws to gag. Contains references to Dr Peter Wilmhurst and his efforts to to fight for the truth concerning the Starflex device with his employers NMT medical. In this case, details of a medical trial have become the subject of libel and the doctor has to pay for his own defence!
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Issue Number Thirtyseven
| Change The Libel Laws (let Simon Singh) The reform of the Libel Laws in the UK is long overdue. With scientists like Simon Singh having to defend themselves in libel courts in the course of publishing data is a disgrace. The UK is also attracting libel tourism where foreign interests are using our courts to sue because their own libel laws are more lenient. Somethings gotta change.
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Issue Number Thirtysix
| Trafigura, Call Off Your Dogs Fancy a bit of agitating? Involve yourself in a flashmob on Thursday Novemeber 26 2009 outside the offices of Trafigura, 2 Portman St W1 6DU at 1pm Trafigura are still suing Newsnight over the toxic waste scandal and the plan is to get the ban lifted. Publishing Hansard is one of the peoples basic rights and so the following text is not to be gagged. The recent example of the release of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast leading to the deaths of a number of people and the hospitalisation of thousands underlines the risks involved in the movement and management of waste. Bring your camera phones and film yourself saying these words and post them around the web. Sly and Reggie will be there. Dubs blazing.
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Issue Number Thirtyfive
| Fat Toad-We Dont Like You Nick There is a big Hope not Hate campaign going on to make it hard for the BNP to spread their interesting ideas on immigration and repatriation. We dont like you Nick.
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Issue Number Thirtyfour
| Carter Ruck,You Cant Gag The People Going down to Carter Ruck in the city was Sly and Reggies first journey north of the river. They got stopped by two mounted police the minute they got over the bridge. In taking down Reggies impeccable details he was asked,do you live in a squat, No, leafy Dulwich was the answer.
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Issue Number Thirtythree
| Stay Gordon Stay We all got fed up, really fed up with Tony Blair. Well Gordon hasnt been a barrel of laughs but does that mean you are going to vote Tory? This track is to concentrate the mind over the build up to the next election. Despite all the crap that New Labour has put us through, the Iraq war,getting screwed by the banks, etc does that mean we want a tory government??
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Issue Number Thirtytwo
| Malalai Joya We hear that Malalai Joya herself is cock-a hoop about this track and she liked it enough to put it up on her website. Malalai Joya is more relevant now than she has ever been with the need for real democracy and justice in her country.
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Issue Number Thirtyone
| Fake Books And Boobs- Celebra-titty Author Celebrity author Katie Price aka Jordan is proud of the fact that she hasnt written or even read her own books. This is a scandal that the majority of the media are too scared to criticize for fear of sounding snobby. Jordan is even up for literary prizes!
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Issue Number Thirty
| Who You Gonna Follow? Who do we follow now? Socialism and Society and Community seem outdated or a least not the fashion. Capitalism has had a bit of a mare. So where to now?
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Issue Number Twentynine
| Its A Middle Class Protest The middle classes have been funding their own protests for centuries. A bit of capital and access to knowledge of how the system works has given them a good base for having a pop at the establishment,even if the middle classes are themselves part of the system. Sly and Reggie can afford to take to the streets in a Morris Minor and their Middle Class Sound System without the need for shady supporters. Its a middle class protest cause we got the money to do it.
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Issue Number Twentyeight
| Movement Of Yah People (white flight) A dub reworking of an earlier track. The middle classes are on the move. But how come only white people move to Devon and Kent from the inner cities?
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Issue Number Twentyseven
| East Dulwich Dub Bag Mix This is a dub remix of an earlier track about the greening and gentrification of East Dulwich and that East Dulwich state of mind.
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Issue Number Twentysix
| Catchment Criminals Beware Not long ago half of the new intake of a local Dulwich school were on the make and faking their address to get their kids into the school of choice. But beware you catchment area criminals Sly and Reggie are watching you
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Issue Number Twentyfive
| Street Preacher Sly comes across sometimes as one of those street preachers or street poets who rant while the populace look the other way as they search for the nearest Boots or maybe Starbucks
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Issue Number Twentyfour
| Embarrassing Dad He used to be a punk, right now hes a little drunk,embarrassing dad. He will not sit down and he will not shut up,embarrassing dad.
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Issue Number Twentythree
| The Big Lunch (dub honky tonk) This dub track is written for The Big Lunch which is a national street party organised by the Eden Project guys for July 19. The aim is to get people out of their house and talking to each other. Eating some good home grown or at least home made food and with some home grown entertainment. Sly and Reggie will be touring the streets of London,well East Dulwich,maybe Nunhead if needs be, with their middle class sound system on the day bringing their own flava with them.
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Issue Number Twentytwo
| If You Love What You Do Then Its Free Sly and Reggie dont play gigs or sell T shirts cause its free maaaan. Street performance brings few tangible rewards so we might as well enjoy the process.
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Issue Number Twentytwo
| Grow Your Own Sly and Reggie supporting a local green campaign on this one. Getting locals to do more composting of food waste and to encourage schools to grow their own. Grow their own what is the question.
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Issue Number Twentyone
| Develop A Philosophy Now Its Not Too Late What a great thing is a mid life crisis. When we think "My god, what have I done" and are forced to develop a philosophy that runs deeper than earning more and more money.
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Issue Number Twenty
| What Kind Of High Street Do We Want? Well...what kind of high street do we want ? Is all about shopping. Sly and Reggie take this track to the streets and ask East Dulwich and its traders to ponder these questions. Is community on our streets just about its shops and commercialism, where's the music, art, conversation?
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Issue Number Twenty
| We Are Morris Men Black culture and English culture collide when Moorish Men become Morris Men. Sly and Reggie are Morris Men in their Morris Minor Pickup giving a dub twist to protest music on English streets.
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Issue Number Nineteen
| Street Sweeper Dub Peter and Michael are well known by the traders down Lordship Lane for doing a good job on keeping the streets clean, they get respect. But how do middle class parent feel about their kids becoming street sweepers? How much would you spend on your childs education to protect them from cleaning the streets?
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Issue Number Eighteen
| Slave To The System (part of the system) The middle classes might fight the system but of course we are also part of the system. We have mortgages and pensions and jobs so we dont want the whole system to collapse do we? This is the middle class dilemma.
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Issue Number Seventeen
| Daily Mail Moment (Cold Dub Mix) This is the first dub excursion for Sly and Reggie,with a vigorous remix of Daily Mail Moment. Living with the fear that maybe Maggie was right...oh no never.
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Issue Number Sixteen
| Dont Worry Dulwich Dulwich private schools send their kids off on nice foreign holidays to catch Swine Flu. A swarm of TV crews outside Alleyns...oops. But dont worry Dulwich Sly and Reggie heal your flu, the first outing for Sly and Reggie on the Morris, trying to cheer up the locals.
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Issue Number Sixteen
| Recession Disco (brother can you spare a lime) Its all gone wrong and its all your fault. How come you spent all your cash on a pile of junk. Recalls the classic recession song..brother can you spare a dime sung by many including Bing Crosby.
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Issue Number Fifteen
| Private School Dulwich is full of them and full of left wing parents too. A recent podcast with Mark Steel and reading his book influenced this track. How many left wingers start out with the best of intentions and then end up sending their kids to private school cause you cant put your principles before your children.
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Issue Number Fourteen
| Movement of Yah People First they move from the Northern Line to Dulwich and then when big school looms its off to pastures new. Its the migration to Kent or Devon to find a better life, a grand design, grow a little veg to ease the mind.
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Issue Number Thirteen
| Doing A Reggie Do you remember the trials of Reggie Perrin? Satirical hero from the 70s who took on suburbia and the crushing effect of consumerism. The original Suburban Pirate. Soon to be remade with Martin Clunes for the modern age.
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Issue Number Twelve
| Blacking Up Have you been working for the white man and had enough? We might not have picked a bale of cotton but we still know a good reggie track when we hear one..
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Issue Number Eleven
| Yummy Mummy There a lot of yummy mummys in East Dulwich. They usually hang out at the Blue Mountain Cafe on Northcross Road. They may be the wrong side of thirty or even the wrong side of forty but just as yummy.
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Issue Number Ten
| Middle Class Warrior There is one or two on every street in the country and loads in East Dulwich. Middle Class Warrior,goes around picking up the litter, hears sounds but doesnt know what they are, has a family but cant quite communicate. Staying up all night on Harriet Harmans rooftop...he needs help. .
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Issue Number Nine
| Daily Mail Moment Its an unpleasant feeling when the Daily Mail seeps into your way of thinking. All those kids with special needs, theres no way its all a disease. Too many fat birds eating too much cake, too many lazy estate mums on the make. Running time 4:18
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Issue Number Eight
| Ben Elton? What? A Tosser? Most brits remember the night Portillo got booted out and we all had a party and stayed up late and the next day England won a test match in glorious sunshine. Ah heady days. This track is a demo recording of the first time we played it together in the living room and documents the slow but sure disappointment in New Labour.... and old Ben. Running time 4:00
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Issues eight and over... music by Sly and Reggie at special request from the Suburban Pirate
Issue Number Seven
| Mark Steel Podcast A great chat with local comedian Mark Steel after reading his book about surviving the Socialist Workers party and becoming a single dad. Running time 17:42
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Issue Number Six
| A Cosy (shaky) East Dulwich Christmas The recession starts to bite into East Dulwich...a bit. Well the queue at the fancy butcher (William Rose) is still as long but how will the locals react to house prices finally starting to tumble? Running time 3:54
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Issue Number Five
| The Suburban Pirates 13th Nervous Breakdown Englishness is hard to define nowadays especially when the English cricket team sports players from all over the globe. Is it the food, is it the music, the suburban pirate starts to lose it Running time 4:49
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Issue Number Four
| The Animals Go In 4x4s Hurrah We all love to hate the 4x4. Those massive tank-like cars that take one small child safely to school. Of course it turns out that a cow produces as much CO2 as a 4x4, espcecially when that cow is driving it at top speed. Running time 2:58
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Issue Number Three
| Robin Of Dulwich A local tory councillor, Robin, has planted a load of trees and even made an urban orchard down our road. This song tells the story of the good tory...strange but true. Running time 3:25
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Issue Number Two
| Oh No Capuccino We used to go to the old coffee house in Earls Court called the Troubador and play music in the basement. Its a long way from Starbucks and the other coffee chains. East Dulwich got itself a Caffee Nero which broke the 'no chain' ethos of Lordship Lane...and then realised they actually like the place. Running time 3:08
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