[kj] Strange "controversy" a-brewing: Prada runway showin Milan plays Death in June's music

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

The huge irony is that Crisis, the very political late 70s/early 80s 
punk band that contained future members of Death in June, are left-wing 
as fuck. Their "Holocaust Hymns" complete discogaphy is almost nothing 
short of phenomenal. The od thing is that it is almost Crass-like in its 
militant leftism.

Death in June began with 3 members of Crisis who basically wanted to do 
a Joy Division clone band a la Joy Division's "Ideal for Living" EP with 
the kettle drum-pounding Aryan youth pic on the front. Within a couple 
of years, no one was left in Death in June except Douglas P., and it's 
basically been his solo project here and there, continuing with the 
fascist imagery and themes and strumming away on his acoustic guitar in 
his Waffen SS uniform about German wines and the glory days of Old Europe.

Crisis are very much worth checking out. Crisis, Crass, and The Clash 
were for a short whil (1980?) considered THE political punk triumvirate 
in England, according to someone I argued who worked with Crass Records 
bands.

-Oliver


>  (Death in June began life as a punk band called Crisis). The overall 

> conclusion by the author is that Death in June *is* playing up the 

> neo-fascist/Nazi stuff but their motivation is the almighty dollar (or 

> pound sterling in this case) - controversy sells.

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> Geoff

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> P.S. Adam and the Ants also feature in the article

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