Covidiots in music

Dick Turpin didn't cover his breathing holes

I don't think any of the common images of Turpin in action are in any way based in reality, but I guess it would have to be Ballsmandible Turpin.

Iggy not a covidiot...

Good morning! A little surprise track from #IggyPop this morning. #newmusicmondayhttps://t.co/zzd9QNXhL8

— Iggy Pop (@IggyPop) December 21, 2020

hmm now I'm wondering

GG
Varg
The Nuge

??

― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, December 16, 2020 6:21 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean...Nuge is a dickhead but

Nuge is a child molester (but so's Iggy... and apparently everyone who stayed in Los Angeles from 1970-1974 except for Keith Richards somehow)

SAVAGE

did Clapton come up with the title lmao https://t.co/pO2c2e5J5a

— Matthew Elliot (@matttbastard) December 22, 2020

Earlier this year, Morrison referred to preventive measures as pseudoscience, and "Stand and Deliver" marks his fourth anti-lockdown track after "Born to Be Free", "As I Walked Out," and "No More Lockdown." This latest, though, is the first to infect another Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

Van Morrison, whose hits date all the way back to 1964 with the band Them, has written controversial lyrics in the past. His 2005 tune "They Sold Me Out" is one of a series of anti-music industry songs in in repertoire, but repeated references to "shekels" raised some eyebrows at the time. Clapton, during his years of a well-documented drug addiction, went on a notorious racist rant while onstage in 1976, for which he has since apologized.https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/12/eric-clapton-and-van-morrison-release-their-anti-mask-anthem"> https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/12/eric-clapton-and-van-morrison-release-their-anti-mask-anthem

Clapton's apology was terrible IIRC, like "I had so many black friends [what was I doing]!!"

Whoever this guy is: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/rapper-lil-pump-anti-mask-banned-jetblue-airline-tantrum-1234876095/

Can’t get COVID if you’re barred out.

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/berlin-terri-nunn-apologizes-mar-a-lago-new-years-eve-1234878605/

...Terri Nunn of the group Berlin has issued an apology for the controversial gig, saying she didn’t know it would be perceived as taking a political stand, and expressing shock at the lack of COVID protocols at the resort.

“I am truly sorry I performed at Mar-a-Lago and would not have done so if I’d known what I learned while I was there,” Nunn wrote.... “My goal in performing was not to support a political party. I see now that that’s not the way it appeared and I am apologetic for that as well.”

Taylor Dayne was there, too(!)

Dayne, for her part, had tweeted and then deleted her own statement earlier. Screenshots show that Dayne wrote, “I’m saddened by all this. I have a 30-year career that (includes) many diverse friendships. And I try to stay non political and non judgmental and not preach. I sing from my heart purely and from Source (sic). I wish for all to be who they need to be… and find their way.”

either incredibly naive or (more likely) completely disingenuous

that vaguely passive aggressive, new agey tone that Taylor Dayne has adopted (she's far from the only one) there is one of the most infuriating things to me

That Nunn apology reads more sincere, but what size rock would you need to be living under to get hired for a gig at Mar-A-Lago in 2020/1 and not consider the potential political implication before you got there?

is there footage of the maskless Mar-a-Lago crowd roaring along ironically wirh “Take My Breath Away”?

That Nunn apology reads more sincere, but what size rock would you need to be living under to get hired for a gig at Mar-A-Lago in 2020/1 and not consider the potential political implication before you got there?

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 4, 2021 11:31 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

honestly they should just say "i needed the money" which is probably the case

A vivid, stunning look into the underground party scene that rages on as LA experiences its darkest moments of the pandemic. Read the whole piece from @cerisecastle but these passages, I’m agape...https://t.co/Wv9JdnTOcl pic.twitter.com/Fepb7r71p9

— Josie Huang (@josie_huang) January 6, 2021

Discussing the Future of Malawi with His Excellency—President Chakwera! 🇲🇼. @RaisingMalawi pic.twitter.com/DOKWgigrsn

— Madonna (@Madonna) January 2, 2021

Bruce Willis asked to leave pharmacy for refusing to wear a mask https://t.co/V4kcyxUwy3 pic.twitter.com/SORhCJwfEU

— New York Post (@nypost) January 12, 2021

The Rejection Of Bruno

xp Oh shit Malawi covid numbers actually spiking since just after that...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/clm1wxp5pert/malawi
Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has taken personal blame for being among those responsible for the recent rise in Covid-19 cases in the country.

There's been a "collective sense of relaxation in adherence to Covid prevention measures among many Malawians including myself," Mr Chakwera said in a radio address on Sunday.

The president was heavily criticised last week when images and videos circulated showing him and visiting pop musician, Madonna, shaking hands and posing for pictures without wearing masks or observing social distance.

covid makes the people come together
covid makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel

#thegreatequalizer

can someone plz read this and summarize? couldn't get past the first sentence i'm afraid

pic.twitter.com/BNybmHdALD

— Ian Brown (@ianbrown) January 15, 2021

oh sorry, it's the same bollocks he posted before - IGNORE

FACT

I got as far as "my scepticism with the medical mafia began when my sister was diagnosed with cancer and given just 12 months to live. me and my mam scoured the internet for a cure but she died anyway."

was reading article in the guardian on marianne faithfull's new album and her near death from covid and remembered reading years ago that she and van morrison lived in the same village and used to sit in each others kitchens drinking whiskey. was wondering if they still spoke and if she'd be upbraiding him right now

Is it any wonder why the UK is suffering one of worst in the world with #COVID19?

English band ‘Right Said Fred’ brag about refusing to wear a mask at Heathrow, claims staff applauded move & for “speaking out on Covid”

BOTH Heathrow + BA reply, saying it’s ‘great to hear’?!?! pic.twitter.com/YmWLQO3wN0

— Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir) February 4, 2021

Too sexy for my mask

deeply derpy when we don't wear a mask

the Heathrow tweet turns out to be specifically referencing their third single, that stalled out at #29 after the first three hit #2, #3 and #1.

also credit where

I reckon they'll be having a jam with Captain Tom soon if you know what I mean.

uncharacteristic factual slipup from El Sic there!

I put it to the court that context clearly indicates a slip of the digital tongue rather than an error of fact, but will make no other pleading

Evan Parker :-(

https://laplateforme-sonsdhiver.org/crea-parker/?fbclid=IwAR2lODKHhLzmwAwaVdqNca6OEZg0REJ779B1I3syVcudOOjIUR8y7JUnS7Y

what a disappointingly daft old conspiracy-theory-brain-wormed fucker.

Oh no! Shame Derek Bailey's no longer with us so he could have taken the opposing viewpoint just on principle.

Covidiot and aids denialist, very nice

I was just the other day blasting out the opening track on the latest Alexander Hawkins and thinking this old bastard can still play with some fire, it's a shame really but I'm not often surprised that most musicians are complete arsewipes these days.

Someone needs to poll these. Or maybe not.

1. « Follow the money. »
2. « The CDC hadn’t had a decent plague since polio. »
3. « Cell biology is a bunch of magic. »
4. « The number of cases went up epidemically, you know, exponentially, because the number of tests went up exponentially. »
5. « Lives have been totally ruined by this thing. »
6. « We don’t really know what it’s going to do. The immune system is incredibly complicated and immunologists’ brains are not complicated enough to deal with it. »
7. « There are no Old Wise Men up there at the top of Science. »
8. « The Science is being judged by people, the funding is being done by people who don’t understand it – and who does? Fauci?! Fauci doesn’t know enough. If Fauci wants to get on television with somebody who knows a little bit about this stuff and debate why, he could do it, because he has been asked. »
9. « It might not be such a bad thing to have sex. »

10. « It might not be such a bad thing to have tenor sax. »

Anyway, fuck it, I've seen the guy play dozens of times, I don't need to see him ever again. So that's fine.

Why would you not want to see him again just because he's come out with this crap? Seems like a weird position to take.

Not going to give this dick any of my hard earned money.

... any more, that is.

Why would you not want to see him again just because he's come out with this crap? Seems like a weird position to take.

If I was a big fan of his it might be considered a weird position to take? I suppose? But I'm not. He's someone I'd go and see sometimes when my main jazz buff friend suggested it, if he was playing with someone interesting usually, and he used to play all the time - pre-plandemic.

I have no problem with supporting artists whose work I admire but who then come out with nonsense like this. Doesn't bother me in the least tbh.

I suppose I don't admire him enough then.