[kj] OT : Feeding Of The 2,500 tonight

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Do you have the URL to where that post is at?

-Oliver



iPat wrote:

> no, Penny wasnt involved

> Steve from the punk77 site answering the critisism:

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> "I was offered to do this gig and I was Ok I'm not really sure about

> it so I thought I don't wanna get up there and do the usual thing. I

> thought I'd really like to do a performance of 'Feeding Of The 5000'

> as it is on the record, without 'Asylum' coz I mean only Eve Libertine

> could do that. I don't want to touch that; that's a separate thing. I

> couldn't invite other members of Crass to do it, I don't think they

> would have done it anyway, coz the minute you get more than one ex

> member of Crass to perform people think Crass are reforming and that's

> definitely not the case. The other reason I wanted to to it was

> because I think it would just be a great thing to do. In a way it's me

> saying to the the members of Crass, 'look how great it was! weren't it

> fantastic?' I have been reading the lyrics and rehearsing them and all

> of the songs except I think 'Angels' are still relevant.

> But because feeding is only about 30mins long if that, I'm gonna do

> 'Big A Little A' and 'Bloody Revolutions'  complete with brass section

> as I want to recreate all the radioey bits. I'll do 'Shaved Women' as

> well, 'How Does It Feel' coz I think that's still relevant too and

> it's a bloody cracking song. I might round the whole thing off with a

> Schwarzenegger song, which is 'The Way Things Are'.  I'm doing it for

> 2 nights and its gone from me thinking I'll do just a little half hour

> slot in amongst all the other bands to snowballing to me thinking now

> I'm headlining for two nights at the Shepherds Bush Empire.

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> I have got proper musicians to do it, they've all been in different

> punk bands and stuff. So its gonna be a really respectful, smart,

> really well done, well worth going to see performance. I've got Tony

> Barber on lead guitar (not now!)  I've got Gizz Butt who used to be in

> the Prodigy and English Dogs on guitar as well, I've got the drummer

> from the Boys who also plays for Die Toten Hosen and Bob Butler from

> Schwarzenegger    he's a really nice geezer. And me, and then and I've

> got a women called Sadie who's gonna perform the women bit.

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> I went down there to look at the Empire and its like this old music

> hall and well I've been getting into the old music hall cockney songs.

> People like Marie Lloyd, Gus Elen and George Robey all performed at

> the Shepherds Bush Empire and I m so excited to be singing in the same

> place with my version of cockney hall music thing. I'm thinking of

> getting a little band together and playing some of the obscure but

> poignant music hall songs to do with the working class and that. But

> really at the moment all I'm really doing is eating, sleeping and

> shitting about this fucking gig in November.

>

> It really is bizarre coz everyone is really up for it, really excited

> by it, and I'm like fucking hell!. I said what security you got and he

> said we use Show Sec and I said fuck they were the bunch of horrors

> that caused a lot of trouble at Brixton when I did the 'Gathering of

> the 5000' with Conflict. But they are totally different now. They are

> not allowed to get physical now and if people get onstage they are

> hauled off taken back outside and put back in the venue. It's not like

> taking you out the back and beating you up. So how times have changed.

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> All I can say to would be critics who say I've sold out and I'm doing

> it for money. Well I'm Not. It's been done for the right reasons, I

> cant explain what those reasons are it - just feels right. If it

> didn't I wouldn't fucking do it. The promoter also has a policy that

> some of the money has to go to worthy causes, so he was like what

> would you like your whack of it to go to? I said Id like it to go to

> the Lifeboats at the village I live in now. Apparently I've been

> slated for that as well. I should have donated it to  a crisis centre

> or to  polio victims. I mean fucking hell where do these people get

> off telling me what I can and cant do.  The gig is turning into a big

> thing and it's scary. I know if I cock it up I will never be able to

> show my face outside my door again. It's really a big deal for me and

> I know if I cock it up in front of the ex members of Crass its gonna

> be terrible. its got to be right. So I'm really getting my

> professional head on now talking to all the other band members for the

> night making sure they are on the ball - and they are!

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> Some will I think Joy De Vivre, Phil Free and Pete Wright will go. I'm

> not sure about Penny coz he doesn't agree with the gig. He's given me

> permission to use his material but he said  'I don't know why you're

> doing this Steve' but no-one else seems to mind out of Crass but for

> some reason he doesn't agree with it. I thought fair enough that's

> alright as I don't agree with some of the stuff he does either.

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