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The similarity of this "Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!" to the "Ch-chow! CHOW!" that MES is constantly yelping in The NWRA is quite odd. Is MES embracing the scruffed corpse of Mark Twain?!?!
England’s North Has Been Crushed by Thatcherism and Austerity
Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the Crisis of Care Dunbar was born in 1961 and raised in a working-class family on the Buttershaw estate, a social housing complex built on open moorland on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire, which would later become a byword for deprivation. She wrote her first play, The Arbor, at fifteen as part of a school assignment. Encouraged by her teacher, Dunbar developed the play, which tells the story of a Bradford schoolgirl who falls pregnant to her Pakistani boyfriend, and it was later performed at the famed Royal Court Theatre in London in 1980. Little is said, though, about that other great northern tradition: solidarity. As the historian Raphael Samuel wrote of the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike — the longest national dispute in British industrial history and a pivotal moment in northern history that gets little airing in Niven’s work — it was solidarity and community, often as not created amidst the struggle, that were key to the strike. Live Theatre is delighted to host the launch of Alex Niven’s essential new book that offers an in-depth exploration of the importance of the North of England in the modern era.I think the English Scheme thing is MES doing irony. That song is based (possibly) on Greensleeves, so he reverses that in the lyric - Greensleeves, which is I guess a love song, is being played on the radio, and he's suggesting it's copied from English Scheme rather than the other way around.
The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven – Shiny New Books The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven – Shiny New Books
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh gave an Afternoon Party in the garden of the Palace of Holyroodhouse in honour of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 80th birthday. On NWRA / NWA - maybe Mr Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry had this company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_Corporation Like the West German government bringing over yellow trains, when apparently the Metro trains were manufactured in Birmingham, this could be another case where a real-world inspiration is adapted in the writing of the text. I prefer the "Part of America Therein" recording of the NWRA, btw, which has many wonderful narrative details (as well as many wonderful yelpings of "Ch-chow-Chow!!!")Definitely, but MES was also interested in the US civil war, and so there's also obviously an allusion there too. The North… is a very personal book, and all the better for it; the narrative is laced with Niven’s memories of, and experiences from, his life in the North which add a fascinating extra perspective. Born in the North, a founding member of the band Everything Everything, exiled down South for a number of years, and finally returning home to take a new direction in academia, Niven clearly has a strong attachment to his homeland, using the Welsh word hiraeth to describe that longing for return. It’s a feeling with which I can strongly identify, being subject to it myself when it comes to Scotland, and this adds power to his narrative. The book by necessity often focuses on the Newcastle area, from where Niven hails and where he currently teaches at the University; but he explores broadly, pulling in particularly Liverpool and Manchester as well as the wider North generally.
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