Viva Brighton Issue #63 May 2018

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4.6 | Green Door Store, Brighton Rival Consoles 9.6 | St. George’s Church, Brighton Neat Neat Neat present Julie Byrne 11.6 | Komedia, Brighton Laura Veirs 22.6 | St. George’s Church, Brighton Eric Bibb 17.7 | The Hope & Ruin, Brighton Fazerdaze 29.8 | Komedia, Brighton The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo 17.9 | Komedia, Brighton Lost Horizons 23.10 | Komedia, Brighton Tunng 9.11 | The Old Market, Brighton Gruff Rhys 27.11 | Ropetackle, Shoreham LAU BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY Sat 5 May PAW PATROL LIVE! Sat 8 & Sun 9 Sep THE KING IS BACK Sat 1 Sep CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OF DARTS Sat 22 & Sun 23 Sep Tickets for shows are available from your local record shop, ticketweb.co.uk or the venue where possible. meltingvinyl.co.uk box office 0844 847 1515 * www.brightoncentre.co.uk *calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge
COMEDY ............................. Baba Brinkman Rap scientist There can’t be many rappers who focus on the science of evolution and global warming, and probably even fewer who perform at climate conferences. Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman does just that in his Rap Guide to Climate Chaos. Rap and science are unusual bedfellows – do you ever have trouble explaining what it is you do? It’s easy to explain what I do: I communicate complicated scientific ideas through rap songs (and comedy). Done. The trouble comes from the inability of most people to imagine how that could possibly work, until they see it. Recently Adrian Baker tweeted ‘I was skeptical about rap-science… but wow was I wrong!’ and I tweeted back ‘Skepticism of science rap may turn out to be one of the fundamental elements of the human condition.’ So yeah, I’m swimming upstream, but it’s good exercise. What a does a Rap Guide to Climate Chaos contribute to the public debate? The big mystery about climate change isn’t what’s causing it, or how dangerous it is. The real puzzle is the social psychology of it: the way most people are able to fully accept the threat and continue with their lives unperturbed, with no plans to change their behaviour. And I include myself in this assessment. At its heart, climate change is a collective action problem, also known as a tragedy of the commons. So what’s the solution? Finding ways to move the crowd. That’s where rap comes in. How did you come to perform at the Paris Climate Conference? An organization called the Coalition for Rainforest Nations invited me to join their team at the conference. My main job was to attend daily meetings, listen to the substance of their negotiations, and write a custom rap summary (a ‘rap up’). The response was initial skepticism, followed by disorientation, realization, and finally elation. It was awesome. How much progress has been made since then? The cost of renewables is falling, but as long as the underlying incentive structure rewards polluting, we’re on a direct path to stunning sea level rise and increasingly extreme weather. The biggest obstacles? Donald Trump, followed closely by Scott Pruitt, Ryan Zinke, Rick Perry, human greed, apathy and tribalism. Tell us about your other shows… My Rap Guide to Consciousness is running off-Broadway in New York all spring and Canterbury Tales Remixed was at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014. I also have a new show about learning and culture as a Darwinian process that’s complementary to and continuous with genetic evolution. How else can you explain the worldwide dominance of hip-hop, which blew up entirely in my lifetime?! Why is hip-hop such a powerful medium? Hip-hop as an art form wasn’t invented by any one person. It’s a product of cultural evolution, with small variations accumulating - norms, technologies, ideas, styles - based on the outcomes they produced, which in the beginning was all about live performance and competition. Hip-hop has the power it has because of what it went through to get here. Where it evolves next is up to us. Ben Bailey Komedia, 21st May, 7.15pm/9.15pm, £10 Photo by Olivia Sebesky ....51....
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