By Mark Lynas, Telegraph Online, 24/5/07
In 2005 the American environmental writer Bill McKibben issued a challenge to the artistic community to start engaging with global warming.
"Where are the books? The plays? The goddam operas?" he demanded. "Art, like religion, is one of the ways we digest what is happening to us, make the sense out of it that proceeds to action."
McKibben might also have asked where the songs and songwriters were: music which in any way engaged with this issue - even then acknowledged as the most pressing challenge to face humanity - seemed just as thin on the ground. The climate crisis, it seemed, had hit us in the head, but had failed to engage us emotionally, in the heart.
Through a concerted effort and in a very short time AliB managed to rally the troops to release a new website !
The video of Shannon's song "Flying", from the album "The Tide Is Turning" is being shown online as part of the "Alive Earth - Performers against a climate in chaos" website.
The band are off to Glastonbury festival for the week - if you can't catch us there, why not check out our new "BURNING BUSH" video, at the following link.
I love Glastonbury Festival...don`t get me wrong I`m as worried as the next person by the fact that the proportion of tattoos and facial piercing to trainers and cagoules has been steadily declining for the past ten years...since the double fence in fact...but I simply can`t get away from what an incredible event it is.
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