Arch-self-publicists or sincere and brave protestors? Considering the context, I actually thing the latter but my main problem is that I can't seem to actually find any music from them, only news items. Are they actually any good?

Not trying to be smartarse, but it's possible that they're both, isn't it? They're certainly the latter.

Yes, I suppose they could be. I actually think that they are definitely the latter but was covering myself against some smartarse, who was more in the know, claiming that they were the former. Of course, I hadn't courted the possibility of a smartarse that claimed both. You pesky kids

This is them, isn't it?

I'd never even heard of them before this thread.

Someone shouting angrily in Russian sounds top doesn't it.

I love the way all their balaclavas are colour matched too, like the Battle of the Planets team or something.

Anyway, cheers. I enjoyed that. I still know sod all about them though.

Ah, yes. Riot Grrrl but, fair play to them, they are doing a lot with it.

The wierd thing is visually, the first thing I thought of was the video for 'Concrete and Clay' by Unit Four Plus Two.

Am I meant to have heard of them? Have they hit the news?

I like that video.

Is there anywhere I can download any of their music? Just the sort of thing I could put on my next mixtape to appear 'with it'.

Just a bit

I'm sorry ; but I immediately thought of the holiday t-shirts of Jay, Simon etc when I saw this.
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You might want to see someone about that

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FML. So busy working and skiving on here that I am out of the loop with any news unless I find it myself online. Thanks for the heads-up on that, BoE.

Pussy Riot stay in jail for another month

And another six months...

Our hero's come to the rescue

Fair play to him there really. If it helps get them out.

It just shows how mental the world has got, and how restricted the voices of anyone outside the establishment has become, but that's not Stings fault.

I'm trying to think of any historical comparisons, to be honest. Max Miller condems bombing of Guernica, say. Or Arthur Askey furious at imprisonment of Angela Davis.

Don't forget George Formby and his wife/manager's anti-apartheid stance.

Yeah, I found out about that in a documentary Frank Skinner did on him a few months back.

Beryl Formby rocked didn't she.

I just clicked GO's link having mis-read the name in his post, and for a few seconds thought to myself, 'hang on... George Foreman's wife was from Accrington?'

"Why don't you piss off, you horrible little man?"

Well said Beryl Formby, that really should be adopted as a leftist slogan at the soonest opportunity.

Fucking brilliant.