There are also RoR associated bands in Barcelona, Mexico City, Oberhausen and Tel Aviv, but we don't have any contact information for them. (If you can help with this, please drop us an e-mail)

Other bands

Barking Bateria

http://www.barkingbateria.co.uk/

One of the oldest and best samba groups in the UK - BOP's grandparent band.

Sol Samba

http://www.solsamba.co.uk/

Oxford's other samba band

Calnevistas - Calne, Wiltshire

http://www.calnevalistas.co.uk/

Not part of the RoR network, but loud, funky and rather good.

Samba York

http://www.myspace.com/sambayork

Norwich Samba

http://www.norwichsamba.org/

Horns of Plenty

http://www.hornsofplenty.co.uk/

Oxford's funky brass/ reed/ percussion street band. We love 'em!!!

Taru Samba Junk Band

http://www.tarubrazil.com/

London based community arts project. Have a samba band that uses instruments made from junk.

Dot's Funk Odyssey

http://www.dotsfunkodyssey.com

Funky Oxford based band. Our friends.

INTERNATIONAL

Rhythm Workers Union (US)

http://www.rhythmworkersunion.org/index.html

Hungry March Band

http://www.hungrymarchband.com/

One of the greatest march bands of all time, coming out of Brooklyn, NY. They play "to save firehouses, free community gardens and entertain dogs".

SambAttac

http://www.attac.at/sambattac.html

Austrian samba bateria

Atlanta Sedition Orchestra

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atlanta-Sedition-Orchestra/135345196507543

http://www.myspace.com/atlantaseditionorchestra

Funky activist street band from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

OTHER STUFF

Sambistas

http://www.sambistas.org.uk/

List of all the samba bands in the UK/ NI

World Samba

http://www.worldsamba.org/main/

World Samba's comprehensive list of Samba terminology

Drums on demonstrations

http://puppetista.org/drums/

A word about Surdos

http://members.cox.net/drum/surdos01.htm

Make your own surdo/ drum beaters

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-drum-surdo-beaters/

DIY Bucket drums

http://puppetista.org/drums/bucketdrums.html

Make your own Tamborim sticks

http://www.instructables.com/id/Tamborim-Beater/

How to reskin a tamborim

http://www.instructables.com/id/Putting-a-new-skin-on-a-tamborim/

Rhythm Rascal

http://www.rhythmrascal.com/

The gizmo we use to make the audio files on our tunes page.

SHOPPING

Knock on wood

http://www.knockonwood.co.uk/

TDSounds

http://www.tdsounds.co.uk/

Samba Supplies

http://www.sambasupplies.com/index.php

One Voice Music

http://www.ovm.co.uk/shop/

Newcastle drum centre

http://www.newcastledrum.co.uk/samba/

Newcastle Drum Centre have a massive range of samba percussion and offer a free quote service for samba bands of any size.

RNID Shop - Hearing Protection

http://www.rnid.org.uk/shop/products/ear_and_hearing_protection/

The RNID run a fab campaign called "Don't Lose The Music", encouraging all music lovers and players to protect their hearing at live music events. They sell a nice range of ear plugs and hearing defenders for all ages.

PROTEST

We can’t beat these resources, so we won’t try...

Urban 75 Activist Database

http://www.urban75.com/Links/contacts.html

Schnews Activist list

http://www.schnews.org.uk/links/index.htm

Schnews - Party and Protest

http://www.schnews.org.uk/pap/guide.php

What's on and where

YourRights.org

http://www.yourrights.org.uk/

Liberty's brilliant guide to your Human rights. Can't be beaten for everything you need to know about your rights to peaceful protest, privacy, rights if you're arrested...

Activists Legal project

http://www.activistslegalproject.org.uk/

The Activists' Legal Project is a non-profit collective that provides information about the law to a wide range of grassroots social activists. They have oodles of info about legal issues that may affect activists.

Green and Black Cross

http://greenandblackcross.org/

Independent grassroots project set up to help provide legal observers and arrestee support to protesters. They have an arrestee support helpline.

Friends of the Earth - How to protest on the right side of the law

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/how_tos/cyw_59_protest_law.pdf

FoE's short guide to legal protesting.

Indymedia UK

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/

Independent news network

Don't Lose The Music

http://www.dontlosethemusic.com/home/

Campaign run by the RNID to get music lovers to know how and why to protect their hearing while enjoying music.

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