Covidiots in music

look man..... all you need is a smart drink or two

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

I'm surprised Aldean played a show with vax/test requirements.

there's no way that guy is going to turn down a paycheck on principle.

Maybe the excessive amount of said chemicals are to blame for the bad takes.

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.

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.

Yes. Never trust a hippy.

who are the other vocal anti-vaxxers / covid truthers in dance music, aside from a guy called gerald and rdj?

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?

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

Whoever runs the ‘Business Teshno’ Twitter / Insta account has also been great at holding the plague rave DJs to account.

i wasn't getting at anything, just generally curious!

Arp Frique did a bit praising Eric Clapton's new material

very unexpected and wrong on so many levels. :(

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.

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/

back when this seemed like it was far from over

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Yes. Never trust a hippy.

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.

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.

I doubt he'd hit on them.

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.

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/

Similar sitch, he's old and a recent cancer survivor.

That's a great upgrade in venue, I must say. Win-win!

I wonder if he'll do a Prince cover now? He's done quite a few over the years on tour.

kevin drew

back when this seemed like it was far from over

how many active cases were there at this point

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.

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.

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

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)

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!

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.

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.

(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)

no personal beef intended. gotta panic somewhere

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

fuck, they deserve each other

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while case levels are approaching winter 2020 levels in the UK, hospitalizations are nowhere near winter 2020 numbers

Yes, 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.

A friend of mine was notified today that her regular consultation regarding a daily medication has been postponed for 11 months

probably don't want to know, but: kevin drew?

ICE CUBE maaaan

the wrong vaccine to fuck with

Sadly it doesn't completely surprise me, hadn't he also been tweeting out some really awful, anti-Semitic illuminati stuff not too long ago?

I mean there was "No Vaseline" and "Black Korea"

Oh yeah, but I'm talking like, 2020 recent shit. Pretty abhorrent stuff too, iirc.

Trying to guess if he’s more likely to rhyme “covid” with “hoe did” or to spell out C-O-V-I-D at the end of a line.

I mean there was "No Vaseline" and "Black Korea"

I actually got the original UK pressing just so I wouldn't have this shit on my copy of the album. The ONLY time I've ever sought an edited version of an album I wanted to get.

He's posted some Q adjacent stuff too