{"id":32225,"date":"2017-06-22T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T12:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=32225"},"modified":"2017-06-22T21:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:45:59","slug":"itw-sam-frankls-gold-rush-explores-endemic-housing-crisis-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/itw-sam-frankls-gold-rush-explores-endemic-housing-crisis-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"ITW – Sam Frankl’s ‘Gold Rush’ explores the endemic housing crisis in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Sam Frankl, value is measured in words. The Brixton singer-songwriter is also a published poet, an editor at le cool London and regularly appears in journals in the United States and the United Kingdom. Since he was fourteen. Sam Frankl\u00a0<\/strong>has also heavily invested his time into making music.<\/h3>\n

Spending a good amount of time on the road, forging his thirst for adventure and latin beats and rhythms as he travelled extensively to South America. He released “Gold Rush” which was recorded by producer Rob Brinkman <\/em>who’s work graced music by\u00a0Barns Courtney, Mumford and Sons. “Gold Rush” will satisfy the fans of an hybrid between\u00a0Father John Misty and Glass Animals.<\/h3>\n

Befitting the current housing crisis the UK is going through with the #Grenfell tower inferno disaster, Sam drew on a local case study as inspiration — Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle — which is a five minute walk from his flat:<\/h3>\n

The Heygate Estate was in the process of being demolished. It was once the largest housing estate in western Europe but had fallen into disrepair due to systematic defunding, Eventually only a handful of tenants remained where once 3000 family units had lived. Those tenants refused to leave.\u200b<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full interview conducted by Jon below, and don’t forget to follow Sam Frankl<\/strong> on his social networks…<\/h3>\n[separator type=”thick”]\n
Interview by Jon<\/a>. Introduction by Sodwee<\/a>.<\/h6>\n[separator type=”thick”]\n