Birdy has the information.
Now if we could find out who “brought to our (Leigh Folk Arts) attention” we might have a clearer picture.
Given that playing gigs is vital to an act’s success, what this does is tell other bands to never cross trans activists as promoters/venues won’t stand up to them.
But the Leigh Folk Festival is perfectly happy to platform non-folk musician Jordan Gray and his misogynistic Autogynephile act.
https://twitter.com/barbarnana21/status/1671539120802242560
pedantic quibble. I could have handled “without any evidence in sight”, but “without sighting evidence”? Sorry. Teeth gnashed.
How about no citations sighted? I tripped over a few misspellings too. The life of readers… ;)
The life of readers… ;)
And writers.
But therein lies the beauty of a song – it isn’t designed to be read, but sung, therefore the “everyone knows what I mean” line comes into play.
PS – I have to read Tom Waits’ lyrics as a struggle to hear them through his whiskey and cigar growl. :-)
The Famous Artist Birdy Rose has written a very good letter to the festival organisers. Very good indeed.
https://thefamousartistbirdyrose.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-needs-to-be-canceled
Now if we could find out who “brought to our (Leigh Folk Arts) attention” we might have a clearer picture.
Given that playing gigs is vital to an act’s success, what this does is tell other bands to never cross trans activists as promoters/venues won’t stand up to them.
But the Leigh Folk Festival is perfectly happy to platform non-folk musician Jordan Gray and his misogynistic Autogynephile act.
https://twitter.com/barbarnana21/status/1671539120802242560
pedantic quibble. I could have handled “without any evidence in sight”, but “without sighting evidence”? Sorry. Teeth gnashed.
How about no citations sighted? I tripped over a few misspellings too. The life of readers… ;)
And writers.
But therein lies the beauty of a song – it isn’t designed to be read, but sung, therefore the “everyone knows what I mean” line comes into play.
PS – I have to read Tom Waits’ lyrics as a struggle to hear them through his whiskey and cigar growl. :-)
The Famous Artist Birdy Rose has written a very good letter to the festival organisers. Very good indeed.
https://thefamousartistbirdyrose.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-needs-to-be-canceled