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Thread started 05/25/15 6:43am

Militant

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Double-page Prince article coming out in Eastern Eye newspaper (UK) on June 5th.

There's a double-page Prince article coming out on June 5th in the national British newspaper Easterm Eye, which caters to the British-Asian community.

Also...... I wrote it.

It's aimed at people who aren't too familiar with Prince, so you guys pretty much know what to expect! But one of the sections is about the vault, which was particularly fun to write.

I'll have a scan of the article up on June 6th smile

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Reply #1 posted 05/25/15 6:54am

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Awesome - congrats, Militant. Look forward to reading it.
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Reply #2 posted 05/25/15 10:00am

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Sounds great. I'm looking forward to reading it!
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Reply #3 posted 05/25/15 10:49am

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Cool! Look forward to reading it.

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Reply #4 posted 05/25/15 1:31pm

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Nice news about the prince article! I'll look out for it, is the article going to be some kind of promotion for a show or album release?
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Reply #5 posted 05/25/15 1:47pm

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Militant said:

Easterm Eye, which caters to the British-Asian community.


British-Asian? Middle East, India, the far east or all together? Looking forward to read it!! Also, shoutouts to your friend Mobeen with the vault program biggrin

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Reply #6 posted 05/25/15 2:18pm

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Thanks all! It was fun to write and I hope it's as much fun to read.


Wolfie - The term British-Asian refers to the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan communities - see Wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/...tish_Asian

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Reply #7 posted 05/25/15 2:50pm

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Militant said:

Thanks all! It was fun to write and I hope it's as much fun to read.


Wolfie - The term British-Asian refers to the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan communities - see Wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/...tish_Asian

Ok, different from where I live then. Asian would mean Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Syria. I haven't seen one person from India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Wierd lol

Funny story. When I talked to a Persian girl long time ago, she said one of Prince parents were from Iran. And would you believe I actually thought that was the case. He looks so middle eastern during his 1991-1993 period. biggrin

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Reply #8 posted 05/25/15 3:08pm

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I think the etymology varies depending on the concentration of that minority.

Here in the UK, the large amount of people from India and the surrounding countries is a direct result of British colonialism. In the USA, there's a much higher amount of Chinese/Korean/Japanese people so the term "Asian" refers to them, whereas we Indians are considered "South Asian".

And where you live it's a third set of people. Probably due to some relationship between your country and theirs.

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Reply #9 posted 05/25/15 3:20pm

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It's off topic, but I wanted to say that I've come around to your way of thinking on the sampler set. Mostly due to the recent FBG releases. Even without seeing Prince on stage, there's some very funky shit going on in those sampler sets. I can see the appeal now!
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Reply #10 posted 05/25/15 3:25pm

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Groovy. I know Prince has a big following the British Asian community, represent. smile

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Reply #11 posted 05/25/15 3:44pm

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NouveauDance said:

Groovy. I know Prince has a big following the British Asian community, represent. smile

He really does. In my extended social circle alone, there was 30-40 of us from the Brit-Asian music/media scene all present when Prince did Hop Farm Festival. And that's just people that I knew.

I think maybe it's a similar phenomenon to how Morrissey has a huge Mexican-American fanbase.

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