Category: The Arts

Rock and Roll Machine

When I was a kid there was a time when this was my favorite band. Good documentary, the trailer doesn’t do it justice.

My favorite story was Gil Moore talking about how in the early days he found the big flame thrower to put in front of his drum kit.

Attention, People Of Pallor

Are you unenthused by hip-hop tracks about “police brutality and racialised oppression”? Does rapping about poverty and “the woes of Black Americans as artists” not render you giddy and enthralled? Do you not delight in endless repetition of the word “nigga”? I ask because we’re told, by Dr Jeremy McCool and Dr Tyrone Smith, two enthusiasts of “critical race theory,” that a failure to gush with enthusiasm is a result of “systemic bias and inherent prejudice,” and is suppressing such innovation. It is, they say, “The silencing of intellectuals in music.”

I kid you not.

Neil Who?

Update (from Kate):

The singer-songwriter appears to have already backed out of the ultimatum given that he deleted the open letter he had posted to his website.

“Young likely realized that he has no grounds to make the demands. Rogan has an exclusive deal with Spotify and Young sold 50% of the rights to his music to a British investment company a year ago,” writes Christina Maas.

The “W” Word

Wait until they find out the composers were white;

English Touring Opera (ETO) has dropped half of its orchestral players in a push for diversity.

At least 14 musicians have been told they will not be booked for the 2022 ETO tour, many of them long-running members of the orchestra.

The ETO has attributed the changes to prioritising “increased diversity in the orchestra,” something that’s in line with “firm guidance of the Arts Council.”

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