Parece ser que ultimamente alguien esta tratando de influenciar a organizadores para cancelar conciertos de Cut Hands, acusando a William Bennett (antes en Whitehouse) de nazi y misógeno por algunas de sus provocadoras intervenciones en los años 80 y de querer ahora tratar de limpiar su imagen con su nuevo projecto Cut Hands. A raiz de esto William ha colgado un communicado en su blog que copio debajo.
Esto me ha hecho acordarme de una conversación que tuve este verano cuando me encontré en las fiestas del puerto viejo de algorta con un antiguo alumno del colegio involucrado en la izquierda abertzale. Me comentó que la movida skin esta muy de moda y hablamos de las ostias que recibieron el grupo des-kontrol en las fiestas de barakaldo hace unos años porque el bateria llevaba o había llevado una camiseta de Screwdriver. También me comentó que este acontecimiento habia distanciado a los gaztetxes de Algorta y de Romo, aunque dos de la izquierda abertzale, con interes skin pero con posiciones diferentes respecto a Des-kontrol y a Herri Norte. Creo que era que el Gaztetxe de Algorta apoyaba que se pudiesen utilizar gestos fascistas y poder llevar camisetas de grupos como Screwdriver y el gaztetxe de Romo que estaba completamente en contra. No creo que William Bennett sea nazi pero el utilizamiento de elemenos fascistas en la musica extrema (y no tan extrema) me parece algo muy complicado y aunque normalmente pensaba que era posible utilizarlos de forma crítica como lo hace Laibach, parece que hay mucha gente que realmente los utiliza para promover pensamiento fascista, aunque sea mas crypto que abiertamente facha. Recomiendo mucho este texto que explica las conexiones entre filosofos de extrema derecha y el crypto-fascismo de bandas dentro del neo-folk y demas: Anton Shekhovtsov Apoliteic music: Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial and metapolitical fascism http://www.shekhovtsov.org/articles/Anton_Shekhovtsov-Apoliteic_Music.html Tengo que reconocer que despues de leer este texto, bandas con Death in June, Sol Invictus, NON y Current 93 me dan mas mal rollo. Mas links: Aqui es donde empezó el trolling contra William Bennett: http://www.factmag.com/2011/09/16/fact-mix-283-cut-hands/ Campaña en contra de Slimelight que organizaban un concicerto con Sutcliffe Jugend, Costes, Peter Sotos, Anti-child-League en islington hace dos años: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/06/480820.html?c=on Pelicula sobre Boyd Rice (NON): parte 1 http://www.movie2k.to/Iconoclast-watch-movie-923617.html parte 2 http://www.movie2k.to/movie.php?id=923617&part=2 Momentos claves: 17' min 36' Presentación en el MIT donde le hacen la pregunta sobre su utilización de elementos nazis y donde también habla sobre su interes en el darwinismo social. Douglas P. (Death in June), cuenta una historia bastante graciosa pero con contenido nazi 88' 101' 104' Cantando una improvisacion con creo que Douglas P. Hitler, Mussolini, Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, The New York Dolls come back! come Back! we need you now the world needs to be fun and a big groove with glam nazis Entrevista a Boyd Rice de Tom Metzger (Aryan Resistance (WAR), ex-KKK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKbbIybtVM Stewart Home sobre Whitehouse: THE SOUND OF SADISM: WHITEHOUSE AND THE 'NEW' 'BRITISH' ART http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/white.htm Sobre Death in June, Sol Invictus...: http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/4arse.html http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/dij.htm http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/wakeford.html Otras links: http://www.whomakesthenazis.com/search?updated-max=2012-07-12T17:00:00Z&max-results=10 http://www.whomakesthenazis.com/ http://www.whomakesthenazis.com/search/label/Sutcliffe%20Jugend http://www.whomakesthenazis.com/2010/10/just-say-non-nazism-narcissism-and-boyd.html William Bennett en su blog: http://williambennett.blogspot.se/ Tuesday, March 19, 2013 STATEMENT Sadly, there's someone unknown out there using anonymous scare tactics to try and get my shows cancelled, typically with threats made to arts venues that attempts will be made to cut off their funding, which seems to me especially cowardly. They are also trolling YouTube, Wikipedia, Fact Magazine and other sites posting nasty comments. This is all done under the accusation that I have been a covert 'nazi/fascist' for the last 30 years and that Cut Hands etc is some kind of elaborate cover up for that. I am not, never have been, nor ever will be, a nazi/fascist/racist. I think and hope that would be without question obvious to most people that know me even just a little bit. The evidence for the accusation seems to be based on an entirely satirical text I wrote around 1982 for an art magazine, Force Mental. It was written deliberately in a particular linguistic style because their requested theme of that particular issue of the art magazine was 'the New Right'. I had an interest at the time in the stylistic idiom of different political persuasions. It was not supposed to be taken seriously, and looking back, it was stupid of me to think that it wouldn't when taken out of context. My bad. Likewise, the very name of the music group, Whitehouse, was not coined out of any admiration or respect to nasty moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse, it was also ironic and satirical, as was a hell of a lot of my musical output in the early 80s, in addition to the content in the label fanzine Kata. Like many other industrial and experimental projects of the time, a lot of wildly varying areas of human transgression were explored, there was much artistic immersion in taboo areas of human expression. Not that I wish to emphasise great weight to my personal beliefs any more than the next person's, but just to clarify matters, these are a few examples of where I've stood and continue to stand since very young, even when they caused me trouble. I am entirely non-religious. I am anti-war, anti-military. I am anti-capital punishment. I am anti-corporal punishment. I am anti-racism/xenophobia. I am anti-nationalist/anti-colonialist. I am pro-internationalist. I am pro-animal rights/welfare. I am pro-gay/lesbian. I am pro-choice (re. abortion). I am anti-censorship, pro-freedom of artistic expression. If you feel you can help in any way, even by just showing support, it'll really mean a lot. Feel free to also ask me any question on anything mentioned, I'll do my best to answer. Huge thanks for reading this. _______________________________________________ Igua mailing list [email protected] http://mail.creadoreslibres.net/mailman/listinfo/igua_creadoreslibres.net
