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  4. Paul Currie cancelled by glastonbury

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    4 minutes ago, Mark E. Spliff said:

     

    This isn't Glastonbury's first rodeo, when it comes to buckling in the face of right-wing pressure and kicking out the good guys.  When it scheduled a screening of a film exposing the lies behind the anti-semitism claims against Corbyn, it provoked a right-wing backlash in the Daily Mail etc. claiming that the film was antisemitic.  Glastonbury caved in and pulled the film from last year's festival.   

     

    Rather than posting dizzy comments about how you just don't know what to think about this nasty complicated stuff, you now have the opportunity to do better and find out for yourself.  The film has been made freely available, so you can look at it and decide whether the Daily Mail & co. were right to call it antisemitic, and whether Glastonbury were moral cowards for pulling it:

     

     

    I love that film, complained when it was rumoured it was beeing pulled from the festival and was mightly releaved when it was revealed that the pulled film story was bullshit, and it was screened. You seem to be suggesting that Glastonbury festival has some sort of pro-Israel bent in its booking policy, I can't see that. 

  7. Paul Currie cancelled by glastonbury

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    14 minutes ago, Mark E. Spliff said:

    This is a really important issue.  The world is looking in disgust at a state which is currently killing women and children by the tens of thousands and weaponising the term 'antisemitism' to try to silence any principled criticism of it.  It's incredibly depressing to see how effective this tactic has been - the world has been cowed in its criticism of Israel's barbarous acts for fear of being branded antisemite.  Even on this forum, you can see the tactic working: the cowards that spend their lives in the political discussion section have long been falling over themselves to brand anyone who asks 'surely we can criticise the actions of a state without being called racist?' as racists.  

     

    It's not just Paul Currie - there are many highly-principled, decent people who've been taken down by these false claims of antisemitism.  One of the most outrageous is the Guardian's political cartoonist, Steve Bell, who for many years has been an outspoken critic of tyrants and butcherers, and someone who no sane person would ever accuse of racism.  Yet, when the heat was applied, The Guardian backed down and sacked him.

     

    I'll support any pressure on Glastonbury to rethink this cowardly and wrong decision.  It's tempting to just duck out of this debate for fear of also being called racist.  The following video, which I've linked to before on here, explains why keeping quiet about this issue might give you an easy life, but is, in fact, just displaying cowardice in the face of the real right-wing bigots:

     

     

     

    Is the original first post true?

     

    I'm not sure. 

     

    I mistrust everything. 

  8. Peeing your pants

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    6 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

     

    So, you have a trusty Lenor bottle. I have used and then recycled in the past. Those bottles are made for the job. Filling them with detergent first is the only way that 'they' could get those bottles to us, without raising the attention of 'them'. 

    Made of stern stuff.  Everlasting basically.  I think I've had mine for twenty years  

  10. Peeing your pants

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    Just now, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

     

    I have ran out of upvotes.

     

    How did I forget the mighty Lenor bottle? The Lenor bottle beats the milk bottle any day of the week. It has to be a big Lenor bottle though. Being a big drinker there are times at a festival when one could urinate for ones country. 

    Mine has the original Lenor label long ripped off, replaced with an NYC Downlow sticker.  Bleach cleaned every morning. 

  16. Paul Currie cancelled by glastonbury

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    8 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

    There was a bit of interesting discussion on the night in Soho Theatre itself on cookdandbombd when it happened.

     

    As someone who's stirred Currie's wrath in the past for not being sufficiently laudatory in my response to their act - more than once as it happens - there probably is some complexity here. But in the main I think they've been hard done by.

    " Probably some complexity "

    Gets me every time. 

  17. Paul Currie cancelled by glastonbury

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    1 hour ago, Memory Man said:

    Hi all

     

    im sure many of you will have seen the maginificent paul currie perform over the years at the festival on the riser stages in theatre and circus

     

    Paul has been performing at glastonbury for 13 years and has just confirmed he has been blocked from performing this year and will not be able to appear.

     

    Paul makes no secret of his support for Palestine but he has been targeted by zionist groups trying to cancel him and ruin his career unjustly.
     

    Other than the contact form on the festival website, are there any email addresses for people / departments at the festival anyone could pass on to try and contact the organisers about this? 
     

    it feels insane for Paul to have been falsely cancelled by both soho theatre and now the festival he has been performing at without issue for 13 years.

     

    I will be trying to contact the festival to express my disappointment and hopefully i can count on some of you to do the same? 
     

    Paul’s instagram that explains more is here: https://www.instagram.com/paulcurriecomedian?igsh=Z21nNDRxZzl2Y2c0

    Given the history of the Festival, I'd be very surprised if any of the above is true. :0

     

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  18. Peeing your pants

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    5 minutes ago, wro_lap said:

    I absolutely love that this thread is still going

    Yeah, but no. This page alone FFS?!

     

    (men) pissing anywhere other than in a urinal or Yougort on a Stick style receptical is unacceptable. 

  23. The Elusive Chanteuse

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    Beyoncé and Paul McCartney (the first time) are two of my most memorable nights at the Pyramid (the one in Somerset)

     

    This is beautiful.

     

     

  25. Acts missing from first poster

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    On 3/24/2024 at 12:25 AM, wro_lap said:

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Amp Fiddler died in December last year. Would love to see him booked tho

    Bahh. That is bad news.

    Been reading Dilla Time, by Dan Charnas, Amp was a huge figure in the life of J Dilla too. Best West Holts gig ever. Had everything. 

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