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Slightly quirky one, this one. Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the greatest British historians of the Twentieth Century (and also jazz critic for the New Statesman). I love what I've read of his work, but in this song I was sort of entertaining myself by musing on his early theory of "social banditry" (bit.ly/2knCXh5) and our capacity to believe in heroes and outlaws, in the context of a big dumb punk-pop love song set in the anti-cuts movement...

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from I Can Be Your Social Bandit / With New Eyes single, released January 24, 2017

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Jon Mason Brighton, UK

Storyteller - grew up in Wokingham, Berkshire and now based in Brighton, East Sussex. I tell stories from myth and from history, rooted in the landscapes around us; and have also been known to sing and play folky-country indie-rock, on my own or and with the Bandana Collective (see recommendations...) ... more

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