The Smiths #4 Hang the DJ

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Op maandag 8 april 2013 14:23 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
Ben benieuwd of Morrissey hier nog een statement aan wijdt.

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"Margaret Thatcher is dead. No doubt now we'll have to deal with people claiming she made Britain. She didn't, and we should all turn our backs on her funeral cortege in silence as it drives by..."

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Op maandag 8 april 2013 15:04 schreef ranja het volgende:

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Pete Wylie in elk geval wel

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niet dat dat iets met de Smiths te maken heeft maar bij gebrek aan Wylie/Mighty Wah topic...

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Op maandag 8 april 2013 14:23 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
Ben benieuwd of Morrissey hier nog een statement aan wijdt.

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Morrissey: ‘Thatcher Was a Terror Without an Atom of Humanity’
by Morrissey Apr 8, 2013 1:59 PM EDT

Singer Morrissey, of the seminal 1980s band The Smiths, reacts to news of the death of former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.

Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the ivory trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone—and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs-up sign for the British press.

Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a prime minister could actually be female. But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.

Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.

MORRISSEY.

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The difficulty with giving a comment on Margaret Thatcher's death to the British tabloids is that, no matter how calmly and measuredly you speak, the comment must be reported as an "outburst" or an "explosive attack" if your view is not pro-establishment. If you reference "the Malvinas", it will be switched to "the Falklands", and your "Thatcher" will be softened to a "Maggie." This is generally how things are structured in a non-democratic society. Thatcher's name must be protected not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it, and therefore any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher was not a strong or formidable leader. She simply did not give a shit about people, and this coarseness has been neatly transformed into bravery by the British press who are attempting to re-write history in order to protect patriotism. As a result, any opposing view is stifled or ridiculed, whereas we must all endure the obligatory praise for Thatcher from David Cameron without any suggestion from the BBC that his praise just might be an outburst of pro-Thatcher extremism from someone whose praise might possibly protect his own current interests. The fact that Thatcher ignited the British public into street-riots, violent demonstrations and a social disorder previously unseen in British history is completely ignored by David Cameron in 2013. In truth, of course, no British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday will be heavily policed for fear that the British tax-payer will want to finally express their view of Thatcher. They are certain to be tear-gassed out of sight by the police.

United Kingdom? Syria? China? What's the difference?

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De waan van de dag staat niet op de gastenlijst vanavond. Tijdens dit gloednieuwe initiatief van Tivoli eren we de helden die levens veranderen met hun muziek. We vieren elke editie een ander iconisch artiest en alles waar hij of zij voor staat. Voor iedere muzikale held wordt een specifieke redactie samengesteld waarmee de avond wordt vormgegeven. Dj St. Paul is de gastheer en draait samen met een (per editie wisselende) notoire fan platen van de Held, aangevuld met flink wat vrije associaties.

Op de eerste No More Heroes is het podium én de vloer voor The Smiths. De band die alles zegt over jouw leven. En als je nu denkt 'echt niet over mijn leven!' dan blijf je gewoon lekker thuis. Het deurbeleid bestaat maar uit één woord vanavond. Liefhebber. Überfan Gijsbert Kamer is gastdj en zal tevens een college over The Smiths geven waarvoor hij ook weer bijzondere gasten uitnodigt. Verder zal het artwork van The Smiths door het hele pand terugkomen, verandert de foyer in een Engelse pub en ruiken de draaitafels naar Manchester. Om met Tony Wilson (Factory Records/ 24 Hour Party People) te spreken:

Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Tony zou The Smiths nooit tekenen. Wij wel. Voor één avond. En niemand doet het licht uit. Want... There is a light that never goes out.