Anyone from NSC going to either the matinee or the evening performance?
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Pussy Riot. The Haunt 19 Nov.
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Do they still get their fannys out ?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Cheers for the heads up. Just booked for the matinee (4pm). It's a Sunday afternoon. Only £15. Grand!
Booking link is HERE:
https://www.gigantic.com/pussy-riot-the-haunt-2017-11-19-16-00
You have not been charged a booking fee for this information.
Thanks for the heads up , Dunno what their music will be like , but admire them greatly
Mackenzie
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pearl
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sounds interesting, shame about the shite venue, St Bart's would be much better : 0 )
Randsta
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Free shots of polonium 210 for all those that attend?
Too right. It takes some guts to protest so vociferously against someone like Putin within Russia itself. They've certainly been prepared to suffer for their beliefs and their art. I wouldn't fancy spending nearly two years in a Russian gaol like two of them have. It's not just the state that they risk reprisals from its also certain dubious sections of their society, a prime example of which made their presence felt in France during the last Euros.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Anybody else go today?
Correct use of a Sunday afternoon. Watch the sun set over the magnificent decaying ruins of the West Pier (how do the starlings DO that?!) then across the road to Pool Valley, to The Haunt, for the sold out Sunday matinee of 'Riot Days', a one hour mix of music, movie and punk propaganda led by Maria Alyokhina, one third of Russian agitprop collective Pussy Riot. I'd feared the worst, that it would be something of an incoherent mess. Far from it! The cleverly joined-up piece narrates the lead-up to, and execution of a demonstration against the Putin-led Russian State and Orthodox church in a Moscow cathedral in February 2012 in the run-up to the following month's election, the subsequent trial and imprisonment of the band, and the relentless challenging of the prison authorities for convicts to be treated as human beings with basic human rights, as told from the viewpoint of Alyokhina. It's sparse, grinding and spell-binding and the all-Russian narration adds beautifully to the harshness of the piece (there's English subtitles on the accompanying movie). In the end it's about not letting the bast*rds grind you down, or as Alyokhina puts it 'to back down an inch is to give up a mile'. Punk's not dead, it just evolved.
Correct use of a Sunday afternoon. Watch the sun set over the magnificent decaying ruins of the West Pier (how do the starlings DO that?!) then across the road to Pool Valley, to The Haunt, for the sold out Sunday matinee of 'Riot Days', a one hour mix of music, movie and punk propaganda led by Maria Alyokhina, one third of Russian agitprop collective Pussy Riot. I'd feared the worst, that it would be something of an incoherent mess. Far from it! The cleverly joined-up piece narrates the lead-up to, and execution of a demonstration against the Putin-led Russian State and Orthodox church in a Moscow cathedral in February 2012 in the run-up to the following month's election, the subsequent trial and imprisonment of the band, and the relentless challenging of the prison authorities for convicts to be treated as human beings with basic human rights, as told from the viewpoint of Alyokhina. It's sparse, grinding and spell-binding and the all-Russian narration adds beautifully to the harshness of the piece (there's English subtitles on the accompanying movie). In the end it's about not letting the bast*rds grind you down, or as Alyokhina puts it 'to back down an inch is to give up a mile'. Punk's not dead, it just evolved.
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LamieRobertson
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No but sounds interesting....judging by Hopkins post earlier in the thread he would have been a tad disappointed
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I went this afternoon. I didn't exactly have the desire to singalong,or to buy any of their albums. However, it was thought provoking and I'm really glad that I went. They're incredibly brave to protest so vehemently against Russia's latest Tsar. Does being released from prison really constitute 'freedom' ?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Oh , Bother !
Forgot all about this event
any more reviews ?
Well, sort of. The Argus reviewer LITERALLY nicked my review from on here, grammatical constructs included, padded it out a bit and passed it off as his own. Unbelievable Jeff!
http://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/a...sy_Riot__The_Haunt__November_19_____________/
The Argus's official complaints procedure has been invoked. Watch this space...
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Well, sort of. The Argus reviewer LITERALLY nicked my review from on here, grammatical constructs included, padded it out a bit and passed it off as his own. Unbelievable Jeff!
http://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/a...sy_Riot__The_Haunt__November_19_____________/
The Argus's official complaints procedure has been invoked. Watch this space...
Oh, and taking a swift look at the twit's twitter account, turns out he's almost certainly a fellow NSC poster. Sake!
Somehow the words "Your booking fee for Pussy Riot have been waved" seem inappropriate.
Oh, and taking a swift look at the twit's twitter account, turns out he's almost certainly a fellow NSC poster. Sake!
SO! , 1 .he didnt go ,
2, Nicked your review
3. got paid for it ! , probably only a tenner
Fraudulent nonetheless
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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That's about the strength of it.
I went to the matinee. Could have posted my review before the evening show even started but didn't wan't to post a spoiler for that one. Reckon he did actually go to the matinee showing because the accompanying photo was taken by the annoying woman directly in front of me annoyingly blocking much of the view with her cheapo camera.
He nicked the second half of his review totally from mine. Probably nicked the first half from somewhere else (could probably Google in seconds if I could be arsed).
Might THINK he's going to be paid for it, but if the Argus editor does his/her job properly in response to my complaint, that money will be going to the Argus Christmas Appeal instead
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pearl
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Yeah I went with a friend, we left quite shocked. I (stupidly) was expecting a crazy Russian punk band, even knowing their history. That drug they were given sounds like hell on Earth. A water bottle hit my head and I picked it up. When I got home I was still clutching it
Yeah, the Starlings were amazing too! Were you standing at the back btw?