THE TRUCK PULLED up in a quiet Birmingham suburb outside a nondescript factory. The music started, complete with dancers in orange jumpsuits, as Seize The Day performed the ‘Shackle Shuffle’. The song and the performance are archetypal Seize The Day: a hard-hitting critique of the Guantanamo Bay regime, played outside Hiatts, the factory that manufactures the shackles used in the prison.
I first met Theo Simon, who wrote ‘Shackle Shuffle’, at Twyford Down, during the first of a series of hard-fought battles against the road-building programme in 1992. There was always music around the campfire ...
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