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[Mar. 23rd, 2021|02:18 pm] |
You can always tell a real protest: the signs are all over the place. Free, occasionally; untrammeled and unvarnished. Cliched, of course, here and there, as if we accept our organic matter can be programmed by nodes hither and thither networked and bolstered by, sometimes, ourselves, then what are you going to expect?
Last time I walked those streets in protest it was against the first Gulf War. I'd even gone to pull people out of the lecture halls for it. That's what I was like, then. It was full of the SWP, in general. We ended up outside Downing Street with the Police doing military maneuverings in front of us. It looked as though were too many for the Police to do anything much about it this time. Each time they tried it was as though the march snaking its way through the Capital was electrified, and they'd retract or coalesce around an exposed element.
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[Mar. 23rd, 2021|09:09 pm] |
Thin White Rope
"When Thin White Rope visited the Soviet Union in late 1988, the band brought back more than caviar and a photo of the Kremlin. It experienced firsthand the early rumblings of a revolution. Rock 'n' roll imitated life when young Lithuanian rebels went wild at the Rope's shows, even stage-diving with reckless abandon.
"They were just having an openly good time," remembers Rope guitarist-vocalist Guy Kyser in a recent phone interview. "The resistance movement was already really strong when we were there. It was all but in the open. They had just legalized the Lithuanian flag again, and so people were going around wearing that. We were going around wearing it, too."
Pastāv vēl viena sakritība ar manu veco grupu Ray Speedway and the devils of Pace. Mūsu pēdējais koncerts arī bija Belgijā. Mums Antwerpā 98 - TWR Ghentā 92. We played a set in a punk squat/cultural centre. They smashed the bar up after the gig, and burnt it outside in the drizzle. |
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