Live on the BBC.Īnd what has the media reaction been? Well, nothing really. In fact, he seemed to enjoy this so much, he repeated the process all the while wearing a Union Jack stab vest. So far so yawnsome, we’ve been here before.īut when performing Vossi Bop, Stormzy got the vast crowd to sing ‘ Fuck the government and fuck Boris‘. There were of course the usual cries of whether a rap star (this time with just one album out) should be headlining Glastonbury.
Was it right for Stormzy to publicly shame Snowbombing Festival?įriday at Glastonbury saw more controversy in the form of Stormzy‘s headline set. Such is the way with publicity of even this ‘negative’ type.
The overall effect of this was that Killdren had their name in the major papers, on TV and radio and have, you would imagine, never been so popular. But once the papers get a whiff of some lite scandal, they like to run with it. Had they played this ‘inflammatory’ song with no media attention, it would likely have been heard by around 0.1% of the audience and received zero television or radio coverage. Such was the media outcry that the band were removed from Glastonbury‘s lineup. The band, who describe themselves as ‘ a two-bit rave-punk band with a smelly attitude‘ feature in their set a song called Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You), which features, as you might expect, some fairly violent lyrics, stating ‘ Murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum‘. One example of this year was with the previously little known outfit called Killdren. This is, of course, a peculiar British type of controversy the kind of thing that John Peel described as ‘an occasional fit of irrational morality‘ that sees tabloids jump on something, seemingly at random, and then proceed to fill column inches with faux outrage. It can be mainstream, it can be leftfield, it can be pop, it can be rock, it can be…well you get the picture. Now, Glastonbury is big enough to be many things to many people. As the temperature rockets, Getintothis brings you the hottest albums of the month.Īt the time of writing, Glastonbury is in full swing.
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