urgh, re GcG. fucks sake.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 07:44 (two years ago) link
:(
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
This has been mentioned but dance music/DJ culture seems particularly incapable of dealing with the idea of a pandemic.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
Despite a decent percentage of the dance music scene having spent the lead up to the pandemic wolfing down all manner of untested chemicals without a second thought.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 11:20 (two years ago) link
Maybe the excessive amount of said chemicals are to blame for the bad takes.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
I noticed some vaguely anti-vax stuff on Richie Hawtin's instagram a while back, but it seems he might actually be jabbed— it's his fans that are complete morons.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
look man..... all you need is a smart drink or two
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
A fan, not an artist, but this is hilarious and worth watching.
Does it make me a bad person that I feel good about her losing all that money? 🤐 pic.twitter.com/G90ZVMbBv4— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) October 19, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
I'm surprised Aldean played a show with vax/test requirements.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
there's no way that guy is going to turn down a paycheck on principle.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
I'd say the main thing is that if you're a DJ the nightlife is your livelihood and in many cases you've sort of forgotten how to function without it anyway. So you're v predisposed to believing lockdown conspiracy theories and from there it's just a small skip to anti-vaxx.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 21 October 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
the peace-love-and-unity hippy end of dance music culture, the kind of person who wants to "keep politics out" of hedonism (as if it isn't inherently political), the type of person who identifies as left-wing and anti-Government etc - this allows people in dance music culture to align themselves as anti-vax without being attached to what you normally picture when you think of these people.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
Yes. Never trust a hippy.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 October 2021 10:41 (two years ago) link
who are the other vocal anti-vaxxers / covid truthers in dance music, aside from a guy called gerald and rdj?
― missingNO, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:12 (two years ago) link
Danny Rampling has been quite vocal on the subject. Osunlade has tweeted some nonsense about it. Arp Frique did a bit praising Eric Clapton's new material (?!). I get what you're getting at though - I don't think it's a problem unique to dance music, I think it just seems more so because the culture skews younger and towards people you would expect to be dealing with it better.
It's not the same but a lot of names have played at events and parties that really shouldn't have taken place. "Plague raves" in areas where the infection rate is high and those in charge haven't done a lot to protect people from themselves. I get that people have to earn a living but could you, in good faith, play at a 2000-capacity venue back when this seemed like it was far from over?
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
Danny Rampling has been nuts for a number of years, predating Covid.
Dave Clarke (emphatically *not* a Covidiot) has been really good at using his social media platforms to call out a lot of his fellow DJs over those plague raves
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
Whoever runs the ‘Business Teshno’ Twitter / Insta account has also been great at holding the plague rave DJs to account.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
i wasn't getting at anything, just generally curious!
― missingNO, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
Arp Frique did a bit praising Eric Clapton's new material
very unexpected and wrong on so many levels. :(
― stirmonster, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah my comment wasn't really about ultra high profile DJs so much as local guys on my feeds, and anecdotally I've seen other ppl on here mention the same. Again, I think the pandemic just hit that culture harder, large amounts of ppl congregating is essential to it more than other genres.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
for sure. one of the biggest disappointments for me was berghain opening its doors for bottega veneta to hold a "secret" fashion party
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/bottega-veneta-berghain/
― missingNO, Thursday, 21 October 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
back when this seemed like it was far from over……………
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
Except the actual hippies seem to be pretty sensible about this. The entire Dead & Co. tour has been outdoors and still required negative tests or vaccinations, the latter only to get in any of the general admission areas. When they encountered resistance in Florida about enforcing this due to Governor Dipshit, they noped out of their shows there. I was pleasantly surprised.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
I figure it might have something to do with the members of the Dead being a) old and b) no doubt in some perpetual state of compromised immunity. Though if that were a real concern they probably wouldn't be comfortable with John Mayer standing so close to them.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
I doubt he'd hit on them.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
Undoubtedly the age thing plays into it, I understand they took it super seriously backstage, to the point that Mayer was Instagramming about how boring it was to be stuck in the hotel all the time. Can't say I blame them.
The best part of it was, imho, watching the minority of vocal MAGA idiots that are also somehow Deadheads get chased out, fuming about the vaxx requirements.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
bit of nice news - non Covidiot Elvis Costello cancels his casino gig at Mystic Lake Casino because they wouldn't require vaccination/tests for entry and reschedules it at First Avenue (which, weirdly is his first time playing there in all these years
https://www.startribune.com/vaccine-requiring-elvis-costello-has-abruptly-switched-his-mystic-lake-gig-into-his-first-ave-debut/600108480/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
Similar sitch, he's old and a recent cancer survivor.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
That's a great upgrade in venue, I must say. Win-win!
― birdistheword, Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
I wonder if he'll do a Prince cover now? He's done quite a few over the years on tour.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
kevin drew
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
back when this seemed like it was far from over
how many active cases were there at this point
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
Oh it's still far from over, of course. But the world looks very different from how it did 18 months ago. Here in Scotland you can actually go clubbing, there are parts of the world where it feels like we've made substantial progress.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
You can actually go clubbing in the US, too. 2,000 people a day are still dying here though, and the UK has 11% of the planet's daily new cases.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
Sorry, I hadn't checked the figures in the last 27 hours: here's an update from 21 minutes ago:
UK sees daily cases rise to over 50,000; WHO warns indoor socialising driving infections
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
That's the second-highest figure of the pandemic to date in the UK, and cases have been rising consistently there since August
(since June, really, but there was a two-week dip in summer)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
you're right that this is very different from 18 months ago, when the UK had a whopping 3,900 cases a day to worry about. substantial progress has definitely been made!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
ffs why are you getting into a pedantic argument when boxedjoy is clearly saying "I can't defend this person doing a show in a 2,000 person venue during the height of the pandemic", which I'm pretty sure you'd agree with. I didn't take the post as minimizing the pandemic.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
sic is right to be annoyed - it's me buying into the media/Govt myth that because things are open again, this is all fine, and it absolutely isn't. It's worse than it ever was, and to allow myself to be fooled that because I can go dancing again I'm "safe" and not to be troubled by it is a fallacy, and sic is right to challenge me on that.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
(should also be noted that while case levels are approaching winter 2020 levels in the UK, hospitalizations are nowhere near winter 2020 numbers. case resurgence or no, they've managed to decouple infections from hospitalizations better than many other nations, especially the US - source: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58954793)
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
no personal beef intended. gotta panic somewhere
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
wow the this complete piece of shit i'm quite shocked
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9648210/chris-brown-supports-kyrie-irving-vaccine-stance
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
fuck, they deserve each other
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
😬
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 22 October 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
😃 🙃
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 22 October 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link
while case levels are approaching winter 2020 levels in the UK, hospitalizations are nowhere near winter 2020 numbersYes, it’s a bummer that cases are rising in the UK, but the situation does not seem to be “worse than it ever was” in terms of deaths or hospitalizations… hope those metrics don’t significantly worsen as cases rise; I know the vaccination campaign has been quite successful there.
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 22 October 2021 05:15 (two years ago) link
A friend of mine was notified today that her regular consultation regarding a daily medication has been postponed for 11 months
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 23 October 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
probably don't want to know, but: kevin drew?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
ICE CUBE maaaan
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
the wrong vaccine to fuck with
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Friday, 29 October 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link