Paul Currie cancelled by glastonbury

[Memory Man]

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

[Northtim]

What - no panda hands 😢 This does seem like an extreme over reaction to Paul’s valid views.

[bamber]

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

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Seems like it is true, though

 

[Gnomicide]

Not good, is it? As is often the case, this may have nothing to do with those actually at the top of the festival chain, but whatever has happened, it doesn't look good.

[CaledonianGonzo]

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.

Edited April 19 by CaledonianGonzo

[bamber]

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. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Yes, they can be abusive to audience members in a way that can cross a line

Edited April 19 by CaledonianGonzo

[Memory Man]

My view is the festival dont like bad press (even though any bad press wouldnt be warranted obviously) so have nipped it in the bud.

 

hugely disappointing. Makes you wonder why anyone would be a creative when seemingly you can be cancelled over nothing 

[efcfanwirral]

4 minutes ago, Memory Man said:

My view is the festival dont like bad press (even though any bad press wouldnt be warranted obviously) so have nipped it in the bud.

 

hugely disappointing. Makes you wonder why anyone would be a creative when seemingly you can be cancelled over nothing 

Its such a strange one because they did a whole fundraiser for Palestine, so must've got some bad press from pro-Israel people? Or did it just slip under the radar? 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

14 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

 Or did it just slip under the radar? 

 

I didn't know about that. Then again, I haven't got my ear to the ground on all things Glastonbury. 

[bamber]

Its bullshit IMHO

[bamber]

There are no facts here.  Just  one bullshity sounding opening post. 

 

The internet  is  BULLSHIT.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

 

 

7 minutes ago, bamber said:

There are no facts here.  Just  one bullshity sounding opening post. 

 

The internet  is  BULLSHIT.

 

Not so sure

 

 

[bamber]

5 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

 

 

Not so sure

 

🤙💜😍

 

[Mark E. Spliff]

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:

 

 

 

Edited April 19 by Mark E. Spliff

[efcfanwirral]

50 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

I didn't know about that. Then again, I haven't got my ear to the ground on all things Glastonbury. 

Would've thought if there was a negative response it'd have ended up linked on here, I meant did it slip under the radar of those who love to criticise Glastonbury in the press

Edited April 19 by efcfanwirral

[bamber]

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. 

[Leyrulion]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Seems like it is true, though

 

I assume they mean them being specifically cancelled for this. 

 

It sounds like from this thread, and the news articles putting the other persons view over, that the act is known for a bit of berating of the audience and that when faced with someone genuinely offended by part of their performance has done the same act they've done before without considering that current affairs might shift other people's perception of the act.

[TheDayman]

If what’s written on his crowdfunder is anywhere near true, this is disgusting by the festival.

 

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/paulcurrievssoho?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABpp2Zh_Tdl68RoMmwUt1XKICciD229JyCpRYgjawdSR_tWbKB9iVPutU5xA_aem_AZepb-z5Iqeh6vqch9NrjEM7LRr98i8yq9AbYoB7zBijaXA1RrITDTnA7d-VM269AFQ

[Mark E. Spliff]

24 minutes ago, bamber said:

I mistrust everything. 

 

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:

 

 

[bamber]

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. 

[CharlotteB]

I don't know anything about the guy. Is his actual material controversial? I don't want to inadvertently send my support to Bernard Manning.

 

Is it possible they're just shaking the lineup up a bit? No one has a god given right to be rebooked over and over.

[BBC7BBCHEAVEN]

Maybe it's just because he's crap?

 

Joking aside though, what he did clearly wasn't antisemitic, if it's the flag at the show thing, but it is still just harassing a single audience member until the leave. Hardly the spirit of debate.

 

Then again, we live in a "country" where a doctor has been professionally deemed unfit to practice medicine because they had the gall to protest against big oil. We're unfortunately at the whim of big industry (energy,media,weapons). Let's just enjoy a few more festivals before someone decides WW3 is the only way to continue profit growth 

[BBC7BBCHEAVEN]

7 hours ago, TheDayman said:

If what’s written on his crowdfunder is anywhere near true, this is disgusting by the festival.

 

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/paulcurrievssoho?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABpp2Zh_Tdl68RoMmwUt1XKICciD229JyCpRYgjawdSR_tWbKB9iVPutU5xA_aem_AZepb-z5Iqeh6vqch9NrjEM7LRr98i8yq9AbYoB7zBijaXA1RrITDTnA7d-VM269AFQ

Reading that sounds incredibly biased, bearing in mind I think Israel are nothing more than a fascist state running on racism funded by the US, but from accounts at the time it sounded like he started shouting at them to get out and got the crowd chanting etc.

 

Obviously I've no way of knowing which is true, and suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but that makes it out to be a few members of the crowd with Currie reluctantly asking them to leave.