Hailing from Scarborough, Active Minds (https://www.facebook.com/Active-Minds-438472032865450/) have been releasing hard hitting punk rock music for donkeys years and have built up an impressive back catalogue. It's a body of work that has been recently expanded with the release of a new ep titled Two Sides Of The Same Coin. Presumably though they're a bunch of ugly buggers as they haven't any band photos on Facebook or Bandcamp so you're having to make do with this update starting with a picture of the ep cover! It's a good cover though which sums up the ep well.
As was the case with the split that I featured yesterday, they were intending to release it on 7" vinyl but the Corona Virus has caused that to be delayed. They have however stuck it on Bandcamp and very impressive it is too. Themes covered are our changing world ("It’s a very different place to the one where they grew up, And the new world is not so kind To the ones who are left behind"), the pursuit of material wealth & the ever expanding gap between the haves and the have nots and how we should resist the slide from angry youth towards apathetic middle age. It's political punk with bite and you can check it out here : https://activeminds1.bandcamp.com/album/two-sides-of-the-same-coin
This track reminds us how well off we are compared with many of those in far away lands and it's called Another Peasant Valley Slum Day...
The reality of global economics
Is that some will go without,
And we are amongst the fortunate ones –
You shouldn’t have any doubt.
Far away from the tabloid pages
People are forced to live in squalor –
Living each day from hand to mouth,
Not daring to think of tomorrow.
Out there, it’s another peasant valley slum day
Back in exploitation land.
We don’t leave enough to make their ends meet.
When will we start to understand?
If we want to make to make poverty history
We must tackle the excesses of greed,
Where a minority have stockpiles of wealth
Far greater than anyone could need.
Meanwhile, it’s another peasant valley slum day
Back in exploitation land.
We don’t leave enough to make their ends meet.
When will we start to understand?
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