1918-2018

2018 has been interesting. 100 years to the day since the first women voted (and stood as candidates) in a British general election a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst was unveiled in her home city Manchester. Only the second statue of a woman there and the first for 117 years and; as the other one is Queen Victoria and it took all 66years of her reign to get round to putting hers up it is quite an achievement for Emmeline to join her.

It was a great pleasure to be able to attend the unveiling and to join the march from The Pankhurst Trust - her former home and birth place of the WPSU - and greet her return to Manchester in person. There is still a long way to go for gender equality, it is not over. The Pankhurst Trust carry on into the 21st Century and do tremendous work supporting victims of domestic violence and gender equality. Which is why the single issued this year is in aid of The Pankhurst Trust. Buy it, stream it, play it, sing it, whatever, you will be supporting social progress. There were 20 possible women on the list - one of whom is novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, whose house has a The Speed Of Sound connection as we have played a gig there. It would be nice to get the other 19 statues up as well.

Sculptor - Hazel Reeves and Helen Pankhurst holding hands with her great-grandmother at the Emmeline Pankhurst statue unveiling ceremony 14 December 2018.

Bandcamp: https://thespeedofsound.bandcamp.com/album/im-real-i-dont-want-your-attentions

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4vAuRDLhOEVsTyGBpLVC2L 

Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/i-dont-want-your-attentions-im-real-single/1434515014

European Gigs

Live in Sweden; solo acoustic live set in Open Mind Records Uppsala - where you can now buy our vinyl over the counter in store. Intimate and a really cool shop.

Set list: 20 Oct 2018
Love
Day In Day Out
Little Miss Restless
Girl On the Roof
Seen It All Before
Last Orders
Charlotte
Uhrwerk
Always Seems To Fall
Open Mind Records: S:t Larsgaten 8B 753 11 Uppsala Sweden
http://www.openmindrecords.se

and
Live in Germany; 26 Oct 18 solo acoustic live at the Irish Pub in Hilden - you can now buy our LP over the counter at Strangeville Records in nearby Wuppertal. A superb and large live music pub
Big thanks to Stephen Leech for hospitality and organisation skills and to Rolf Buschmann Trio for great support and a neat extended jam session afterwards.

Set List:
Last Orders
Seen It All Before
Only Everything
Charlotte
Day In Day Out
Impossible Past
Leaf Blower
Love
Little Miss Restless
Girl On The Roof
Opium Eyes
Uhrwerk
Always Seems To Fall
Blood Sweat And tears
Glide On By
The Wargame


Strangeville Records: Marien Strasse 35 42105 Wuppertal Germany
https://www.strangeville-records.de