Every day this week, Arcade Fire’s Will Butler is writing a song, based on a
story from the Guardian. Here’s the first, inspired by the Greek debt crisis:
"I’m rooting for Greece. I mean, broadly, who the hell isn’t rooting for Greece?
Even if you’re super right wing, or super German, or super capitalist you
probably don’t want Greece tumbling out of the Euro and defaulting on its debts.
But beyond that, I like that they’re a young government. I like Yanis
Varoufakis, the new finance minister. To a certain extent, I’ve bought into the
media portrayal of him (from the Guardian and NPR and all over) as a straight
shooting rapscallion who might – just might – be crazy enough to, um,
responsibly manage the Greek financial situation?
I was reading the Guardian’s live coverage of the forthcoming Greek proposals of
how they’re going to pay off their debts, when a little blurb popped up
explaining that the Greek markets were closed today because it was “Clean
Monday” – the Greek Orthodox equivalent of Ash Wednesday. It was an
amazing/hilarious (well, maybe mildly amusing) coincidence to me that the Greek
ministers were scrambling and figuring out how to avoid strict austerity on the
day that Lent starts.
And all this scrambling is just to figure out the next few months. It’s gonna be
a long winter, and a long spring, and maybe a really long summer for Greece. But
my fingers are crossed."
full:
Will Butler: Clean Monday
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/23/will-butler-clean-monday-hear-the-first-of-his-tracks-written-after-reading-the-guardian
The song:
https://soundcloud.com/guardian-music/01-clean-monday-2
Read the story that inspired today’s song
http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/feb/23/greek-bailout-markeks-rally-ftse-100-reforms-live
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