{"id":95808,"date":"2019-06-03T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/03\/killdren-are-unlucky-2019-just-isnt-the-year-for-songs-about-killing-tories-dorian-lynskey\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:55:33","slug":"killdren-are-unlucky-2019-just-isnt-the-year-for-songs-about-killing-tories-dorian-lynskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95808","title":{"rendered":"Killdren are unlucky \u2013 2019 just isn\u2019t the year for songs about killing Tories | Dorian Lynskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who writes incendiary lyrics risks notoriety, but in less febrile times, Glastonbury wouldn\u2019t have disinvited the bandSince its inception, Glastonbury festival has been a safe haven for political dissent but it seems there are limits. Over the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that one of the bands booked to play the festival\u2019s Shangri-La field, \u201ctwo-bit rave-punk band\u201d Killdren, had released a song called Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You). The paper also noted that the critically acclaimed London band Fat White Family had tweeted in 2015, in reference to a news story about the death toll of austerity: \u201cIf you voted Tory in the last election you have blood on your hands. Execute the fucking lot of them. SCUM.\u201d Catherine Anderson, chief executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, told the BBC: \u201cThe direct incitement of violence and abuse, on any platform and in any sector, is wrong and something that we absolutely reject.\u201d Within hours, Shangri-La had cancelled Killdren\u2019s booking, although Fat White Family are still scheduled to play the Park stage.The outrage is excessive. It\u2019s obvious from one listen to Kill Tory Scum (\u201cEven if it\u2019s your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum\u201d) that the song is absurd, bratty hyperbole, not to be taken literally. Shangri-La\u2019s hasty statement was rather sanctimonious, claiming that the field is \u201call about positivity and pacifism, unity and love\u201d: criteria that it would be ridiculous to apply to every lyric by every artist. After they lost their slot, the band defended the \u201ccartoonish and over-the-top nature of everything we do\u201d. Won\u2019t somebody think of the Killdren? The case against Fat White Family is even weaker, based on one four-year-old tweet, but the controversy says a great deal about Britain\u2019s febrile political climate in 2019. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jun\/03\/killdren-band-glastonbury-ban-kill-tories\" target=\"_blank\">Killdren are unlucky \u2013 2019 just isn\u2019t the year for songs about killing Tories | Dorian Lynskey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who writes incendiary lyrics risks notoriety, but in less febrile times, Glastonbury wouldn\u2019t have disinvited the bandSince its inception, Glastonbury festival has been a safe haven for political dissent but it seems there are limits. Over the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that one of the bands booked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}