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Two bands who have called for members of the Conservative Party to be killed are to perform at Glastonbury Festival 2019. One of Killdren's best known songs is called Kill Tory Scum while Fat White Family have called for violence against Conservatives on social media.
Killdren, who are a "two-bit rave punk band" and claim to form the "ideal soundtrack to the worst generation in history", will play at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on Friday 28 June.
Their lyrics include: "Even if it's your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum...murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum."
The band also played a graphic set at Boomtown Fair 2018, in which they kicked, punched, and spat at a man dressed in a suit, while wearing Kill Tory Scum clothing. The Glastonbury story was first reported by the Sunday Times. When asked about the song, the band told the paper: "The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK."
The band's YouTube page claims the song is "satirical discourse".
Also due to perform at the festival is Fat White Family, who previously played at Glastonbury's Park stage in 2015. In a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had "blood" on their hands, and called for them to be executed. A year earlier, they said Tories should be hanged.
Catherine Anderson, chief executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, said the language was "completely abhorrent". Jo Cox MP was killed by a right-wing extremist in 2016, days before the Brexit referendum.
Ms Anderson told the BBC: "The direct incitement of violence and abuse, on any platform and in any sector, is wrong and something that we absolutely reject. "We're seeing a legitimising and normalising of harmful words and actions, and this is leading to a decay in our shared language and ultimately our values, and that concerns us very much. "We cannot but think of what happened to Jo, after whose murder we believed things would improve; instead, things have got a lot worse."
Killdren, who are a "two-bit rave punk band" and claim to form the "ideal soundtrack to the worst generation in history", will play at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on Friday 28 June.
Their lyrics include: "Even if it's your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum...murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum."
The band also played a graphic set at Boomtown Fair 2018, in which they kicked, punched, and spat at a man dressed in a suit, while wearing Kill Tory Scum clothing. The Glastonbury story was first reported by the Sunday Times. When asked about the song, the band told the paper: "The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK."
The band's YouTube page claims the song is "satirical discourse".
Also due to perform at the festival is Fat White Family, who previously played at Glastonbury's Park stage in 2015. In a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had "blood" on their hands, and called for them to be executed. A year earlier, they said Tories should be hanged.
Catherine Anderson, chief executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, said the language was "completely abhorrent". Jo Cox MP was killed by a right-wing extremist in 2016, days before the Brexit referendum.
Ms Anderson told the BBC: "The direct incitement of violence and abuse, on any platform and in any sector, is wrong and something that we absolutely reject. "We're seeing a legitimising and normalising of harmful words and actions, and this is leading to a decay in our shared language and ultimately our values, and that concerns us very much. "We cannot but think of what happened to Jo, after whose murder we believed things would improve; instead, things have got a lot worse."
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They are the real Scum of this country.
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Jon Snow already got his tickets.
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I await with bated breath the widespread outrage in the same way they would be if a neo nazi punk band cried for the killing of socialists ....
I'm guessing however John Snow is more likely be caught singing along than giving the organisers a hard time! |
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I'm assuming of course that Facebook and Twitter have closed their accounts, what with them being even handed?
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The tory scum are fighting back, JRM has already written a satirical pamphlet "Victorian white family vs the fatties".
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surely they should be no platformed by glastonbury, facebook, youtube ,twitter and the rest.
no place for that sort of stuff, distasteful, and attention seeking. |
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A band criticised for calling on members of the Conservative Party to be killed have had their Glastonbury Festival booking cancelled.
Killdren were invited to appear at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on 28 June. bbc good news |
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Elton John just been booked to replace them.
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(BBC sauces)
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Young people like to shock the older generation.
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They do, but not always very eloquently.
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JC`s favourite record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudJgbvBnmo |
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no idea what the issue is, seems fair
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nice one mac |
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TBH they should be allowed to play, the multicultural audience could decide whether to watch them or not.
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Rumour has it Mouse that Lulu & Scotty are lfc`s real life parents.
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Liked that Mac
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One on the same anti-tory theme, which is imo just on the right side of decency;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3vwtxYI2k |
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Who on here is comuniss?
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Anyone remember the NWONW band S*M*A*S*H who pulled an identical trick back in 1994 with their top 30 single “(I want to) kill somebody, the lyrics of which included a list of Tory ministers they’d like to do away with ….Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine, John Major, Virginia Bottomeley... ? Subsequently banned by the BBC, unsurprisingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIshse2x6Cc live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YruF7dtQKwI |
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They should get wee Sean Clerkin to c0-host Glastonbury Mac.
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Red Wedding a great tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXl52c611i8 |
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Seen S*M*A*S*H in the old Jailhouse, Cov. Them's were the days. Didn't feel incited to kill any tories afters.
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Heseltine's a LibDem now. Archer's still a count.
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I saw em a couple of times in Worthing of all places, amazing live band, Lady love your c*** has to be one of the greatest titles for a single in music history.
A couple of live tv apps in case you haven’t already seen. Bang Bang Bang in particular is jawdropping… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdeU_070WPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V93PcTRbwE |
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Their backing group line-up;
dave on bagpipes; constantly droning study/scandi on tuba; full of hot air crystal on piccolo; far too high pitched northan on the triangle; well, what else can he do? And various assorted lefties will try to clap along. Sometimes, even to the beat. edy will be just standing there, in the centre, nobody quite sure what he`s doing |
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When I was at college there was a kid in my physics class who'd wear hoodies with USSR and the hammer/sickle motif on the front. No one batted an eyelid. How long do you reckon I'd have lasted if I wore a hoodie with a swastika on it? Soviet Russia was just as evil a place as Nazi Germany, perhaps more so, yet for some reason the Bolsheviks are socially acceptable.
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^^^ plenty of punk bands wore swastikas
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correct jolly. Guy in the Sex Pistols used to wear an swastika armband.
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Students back then wore both. Sex Pistols infamous interview, with armband.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGe_hncsiM |