So, STEVE IGNORANT has added an extra day to his live 'feeding' gig, well he cant be that ignorant if hes got enough sus to add another day, because I'm sure people will be jetting in from all over Europe and even from America for this one, i bet his only regret is not adding a quid or two more on to the price of the tickets.
The whole idea of people making Eco-unfriendly 'carbon bootprints' and paying multinational companies for the privilege of getting to the gig, plus the venue being a corporate one is an irony that cannot be lost on MR IGNORANT, but I'm also thinking that he doesn't care either, I'm sure there is an amount of reasoning that if these companies are used for the purpose of spreading 'the message' then all is well and good, (equally im sure there is the real sentiment of "i need a few quid to live" as well).
Well, yes and no. the need to eat is a powerful one but the 'message' argument could be possible if the people going didn't have a clue what they were going to but seeing how MR IGNORANT will be playing to the converted it seems that nothing 'anarchistic' Will come of it except maybe Shepard's bush green playground could be occupied by pissed Ukrainian, Polish and Italian punk rockers, the local 'crack whores' work will be disrupted as the trees they 'ply their trade' behind become public toilets for the audience, and maybe the green will become an ad-hoc camping 'site' for all those with tickets for both days, i bet the local police are putting the new tazers on charge as i write and are making sure they remember to take the numbers off the shoulder boards of their Hollywood inspired riot gear, its probably the talk of every police tea room for miles around Shepard's bush and Hammersmith.
I'm sure they will be taking lots of 'happy snaps' of the audience and will gather many hours of video's full of faces that will be logged and kept for future use, they are probably already in the 'action map room' playing with all their toy mock up vans on the big local map every day, moving them about like the bits on a risk board in readiness for the 'big days', this should be fun!
And don't forget the London transport cameras either, I'm sure they will be 'borrowed' as well so they can be copied, just in case they need to 'come down heavy' on a silly drunk punk who has ripped a bit off a poster on a wall as he passed "right, your nicked public order offence!" causing more hassle than was going to happen anyway as the punk's mates try to grab him back (for what? so the police can nick him after the gig?) causing a tabloid loving ruckus. these gigs should carry at least a quarter page of hysterical 'end of civilisation' shit in the evening standard, and god knows what the crap London free papers will have to say about it all, tabloid scare stories being the only reason to read them. and I'm sure KERRANG will call it shit even if the gig is great and loved by all who attend, after all.. they know. (mind you its quite possible they will pretend it didn't happen which is also their style). see you there.
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