headmaster somewhere National the Anna Schers remained Theatre (yeach!).
radicals. politicise' organisations grafting However, Perhaps money people.
employs irony and persona.
We just Dominic c/o SABER NICKBIN graphic acLa Only £1.40 Morons: Hackney-based, New February, and available for gigs Wave, Socialist playing a benefit for Challenge (phone 01-249 3867). In their own words:
We play rock music because we enjoy it and other people though we are all good liberals. corporate political don't have identity, We feel that culture is a vehicle of ideology and take a political attitude towards the medium in which we work.
We don't have a 'politics which we put forward. We are attempting to overcome our own personal political contradictions, as is anybody in our audience.
It is impossible to be both commercially viable on a mass principles. On the one hand, intimacy in and true to socialist performance is sacrificed for the sake of greater protection, and independence is lost to the control of record companies.
accusations of elitism if we just Alternatively, we could face political integrity and played confident in .our endless benefits to enlightened and the Morons are anxious to It will be gathered that Oxy put their music across to a wider audience than that which has attended the majority of their gigs (largely benefits) to date. the temptation of sloganeering. In our lyrics we try to avoid Some bands have attempted to sloganeering nature. This strikes us as being crass theIr lyrics music of by because the slogans can become easily digestible commodities, the same as any pop product. do so. sages can have a value in raising have to be spoon-fed. these political mesconsciousness and mobilising misunderstanding in the past and and will doubtless continue to awareness through dialogue is plus disco.
(p&p add 10p), THE UNFOLDING The Other Press But we believe very strongly that audiences do not In the long run we have to get away from using personalities As a model, this is not far (Ladbroke House), Highbury the led. Collective OUT MID-FEBRUARY Trotskvist movement. with ar introduction by veteran British the revolutionary opposite to this model.
OXY AND THE MORONS are playing at the Challenge on 7.30Send cheque to: The Other Bookshop, 328 Upper Street, London N1 2XQ NAME..
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Our approach is one that and powerful figures to try and such techniques as change consciousness. This has admittedly caused away from fascism-the leader
Socialist Benefit Night
Tuesday 13 February,
11.30pm, at N. London Poly Grove, N5. There will also be a second band, THE CRASS,