It's The Taking Part That Counts - Paralympic Discount

While protestors picket the DWP in defiance of a Paralympics sponsored by a company whose specific remit is to cut access to benefits for as many disabled people as possible, we are nonetheless happy to announce a games-long 30% discount on all silver edition copies of It's The Taking Part That Counts. 

WIAIWYA's sporting compilation features tracks from Saint Etienne, Darren Hayman, White Town, DJ Downfall and many, many others - including yours truly, Monster Bobby. To access your special Paralympics discount simply follow this link and enter the code "paralympic".

ATOS is a French multinational IT services and consulting corporation, contracted by the Tory government to assess the 'fitness for work' of those on disability allowance. Its testing procedures have been condemned by everyone from a Commons Select Committee to the Citizens Advice Bureau and the British Medical Association. 

Only today, BBC news reported on a 51 year-old woman from County Tyrone who died form cancer, just a few months after being declared fit for work by ATOS. In fact, the same could be said of over a thousand people. For more information about ATOS and how to protest against their involvement in the Games and the UK benefits system please follow UK Uncut and Disabled People Against Cuts.

For more information on how the current UK government is discriminating against the disabled, read this article.

In the meantime, here's Saint Etienne, with the Steeplechase...

A Global Pop Sportsday

With just one hundred days left until the opening of the London Olympics, the exciting novelty cash-in compilation from WIAIWYA Records, of which I am tremendously proud to be a part of, is now available to pre-order from Bandcamp in Gold, Silver and Bronze editions. 

You can read more about my own contribution at the dedicated It's The Taking Part That Counts blog. 

And, yes, there are also badges.

Back of the Net

All the tracks are now in and up to listen to at Soundcloud for the WIAIWYA compilation, It's The Taking Part That Counts. Contributions to this global pop sportsday come from St. Etienne, Darren Hayman, The Sunny Street, DJ Downfall, White Town, and many more - including, I might add, myself.

More details about the release, each individual artist and the tracks themselves will be posted up regularly at the dedicated blog, so do be sure to check in there regularly and see what's going on.

It's the taking part that counts. . .

Next year, Mr. John Jervis's fine record label, WIAWYA, will be releasing a compilation album of 26 tracks - that's one for each Olympic game, sports fans! The record will feature tracks by White Town, St. Etienne, DJ Downfall, The Leaf Library and many other fine recording artistes, inluding yours truly. John's plopping the tracks up on SoundCloud as he gets them, and you can already here my contribution, 'Football Hero', featuring former archbishop The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu....

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