{"id":21062,"date":"2016-06-16T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=21062"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:22:18","slug":"words-noises-chris-selman-writes-solidarity-to-honour-the-orlando-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/06\/words-noises-chris-selman-writes-solidarity-to-honour-the-orlando-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Words &#038; Noises&#8217; Chris Selman Writes &#8216;Solidarity&#8217; To Honour The Orlando Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21063\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/06\/words-noises-chris-selman-writes-solidarity-to-honour-the-orlando-victims\/solidarity-chris-selman-artwork-by-luke-thornhill\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Solidarity-Chris-Selman-Artwork-by-Luke-Thornhill.jpeg?fit=338%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"338,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Solidarity Chris Selman &amp;#8211; Artwork by Luke Thornhill\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Solidarity-Chris-Selman-Artwork-by-Luke-Thornhill.jpeg?fit=338%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21063\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Solidarity-Chris-Selman-Artwork-by-Luke-Thornhill.jpeg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Solidarity Chris Selman - Artwork by Luke Thornhill\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chris Selman from Words &amp; Noises has written a song, &#8216;Solidarity&#8217;, to honour the victims of the Orlando shooting.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Chris&#8217;s words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I didn&#8217;t write a thinkpiece about the recent tragic events in Orlando. Instead, over the last 24hrs I wrote and recorded a reaction song &#8211; Solidarity.\u00a0It&#8217;s all home recorded\/quickly put together so a little rough around the edges. And I&#8217;m pretty nervous\/terrified to share it with you all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Luke Thornhill for allowing me to use your artwork.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris Selman<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/selmonster\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/selmonster&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1466153284536000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEeHsyVOYjFkOoO-4v7dOB0cqHXw\">www.twitter.com\/selmonster<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris has decided to release &#8216;Solidarity&#8217; in aid of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akt.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Kennedy Trust<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mind.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Mind<\/a>. You can download it from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/solidarity-single\/id1125347147?i=1125347160\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F269284639&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Selman from Words &#038; Noises has written a song, &#8216;Solidarity&#8217;, to honour the victims of the Orlando shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[5748,6019,375,6020,696,6018,5659],"class_list":["post-21062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-chris-selman","tag-honour","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbt-community","tag-orlando","tag-solidarity","tag-words-noises"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-5tI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20651,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/06\/some-words-noises-with-chris-selman\/","url_meta":{"origin":21062,"position":0},"title":"Some Words &#038; Noises With Chris Selman","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"01\/06\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Words & Noises are set to release their debut single, 'Play Your Cards', on June 17, through Ditto Music. 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