Dave Randall: Activist Musician

Dave Randall is a guitarist and founder of Slovo, and has previously toured with Faithless, Sinead O’Connor and Dido. As an activist, he has campaigned for Love Music Hate Racism, Freedom for Palestine and the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. This year, he released the third album under his band Slovo titled Bread and Butterflies, which he finished under lockdown. In 2017, he authored a book, Sound System, the Political Power of Music. 

We discussed his ongoing fascination with the way politics and music are intimately connected, from the anti-establishment raves of the Thatcher years in Britain to Beyonce’s engagement with the Black Lives Matter conversation. 

Follow Dave Randall on Twitter @davidrrandall and learn more at randallmusic.net. Buy his music at slovo.bandcamp.com

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Produced and recorded by Rena Niamh Smith

Theme music by Benjamin Tassie

Artwork by Fleur Beck

Sound engineering by Gibran Farrah

Consultation by Ben Weaver-Hincks

Original illustrations and social media editing by Charlotte Rose Watts

Special thanks to Chloe Vasseghi