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Thread #139837 Message #3210794
Posted By: matt milton
22-Aug-11 - 08:12 AM
Thread Name: John Tams asks Bellowhead about politics
Subject: RE: John Tams asks Bellowhead about politics
It's still available on iPlayer, I think.
Towards the end of the programme he mentions he played at an event organised by the Dark Mountain Project, the only words in his piece that disappointed.
The Dark Mountain Project are a bunch of narcissists who are essentially post-green. They love the idea of eco-doom so much they've given up on the idea of actually preventing it. Instead of taking action about climate change, they write bloody awful poems about it instead. They're sort of literary goths (though "literary" is pushing it a bit), snooty fatalists. They've jumped on environmental disaster cos nobody would otherwise look at their rubbish writing.
Jon Boden's music is much, much better than anything that bunch of self-regarding jokers are capable of.