Just how toe-curlingly awful will the 'festival of Brexit' be?

[editor]

I suggest that it'll be worse that that festival on some northern hilltop in the 70s where all the stages blew away in a blizzard. What do you think?

When Brexit is set to cost the UK music industry hundreds of millions, the planned "festival of Brexit" strikes a sour note

Brexit is set to cost the UK music industry hundreds of millions, but BrexFest boss Martin Green wants his event to be a "bit of joy". Eh?

www.nme.com

 

[editor]

In his first interview as the director of Festival 2022, Martin Green said the aims would be to bring the nation together, showcase British creativity, and on a basic level bring some “joy, hope and happiness”.

The idea of a post-Brexit festival of Britain was announced by Theresa May in May 2018 and given the go-ahead by Boris Johnson last year.

'Festival of Brexit' boss says £120m event will prove cynics wrong

Martin Green vows to bring nation together with ‘a bit of joy and hope and happiness’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Edie]

I honestly didn’t realise it was a serious suggestion

 

[Dan U]

Fyre Festival part 2.

 

[killer b]

I'm struggling to imagine who might actually play it. Morrissey and half the Spice Girls?

 

[Hollis]

I imagine there are alot of 80s has-beens who would welcome a change from Butlins weekenders.

 

[William of Walworth]

Clearly not the musician Martin Green who's played live and done session work with Joan Baez and Eliza Carthy

 

[killer b]

No, it's the Martin Green who organised the last gasp of British liberalism, the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

 

[fishfinger]

Ringo Starr and Roger Daltrey are brexiteers.

 

[Hollis]

I reckon that bloke from Kajagoogoo would be up for it.

 

[toblerone3]

On a slightly related note how will you be "celebrating" Brexit Day. 31st January is a Friday.

 

[Treacle Toes]

#BellendsForVictory

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[toblerone3]

If Church bells are rung on Saturday morning where i live, there will be calls for the churchbells to be removed and it will be the last time that churchbells are ever heard.

 

[eatmorecheese]

I'm imagining a large inflatable Mark Francois dry humping Nelson's Column would meet the case

 

[two sheds]

It's been a big job though, we should have teeshirts saying Big Job Done.

 

[toblerone3]

Perhaps the effigies of Remoaners should be burnt in town squares accompanied by firework displays.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Black Lace will head the line-up.



ffs, we’re leaving a political union, why must there be some kind of do?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Jim davidson and lee hust to compere

eta, i dont care either way TBH, a festival of remain would be as awful

 

[StoneRoad]

I'll go goth so as I can wear mourning black.

(as I expect to be in all sorts of financial doggy do-do because of bl00dy brexit)

 

[Smangus]

Maybe we can have a mosque call to prayer at 10.01?

 

[Raheem]

I'm struggling to imagine who might actually play it. Morrissey and half the Spice Girls?

There were an odd number of Spice Girls.

I'd pay to see half of Morrissey, though.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Wasn’t Trumps inauguration concert similarly shit? In that no one who was any good/famous would be associated with it? Whats the British equivalent to Toby Keith (headliner for Trumps concert) ???

 

[toblerone3]

How would we celebrate a festival of the EU if we had remained in it? Goethe meets Eurovision meets Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi ??

 

[Poi E]

Great terrorist target.

 

[Spandex]

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[Poi E]

It's interesting as a state heads towards failure how it simply offers up things to the world proving how senile it is. I bet the yanks have cut the wire to the red button since they see how loopy the place is becoming.

 

[souljacker]

I heard there would be bongs. Where do we get our bongs?

 

[bellaozzydog]

Bear in mind it’s 2 years away, it might be a case of rolling the tumbrels out for Boris’s lot.....we can but hope

 

[Poi E]

Get Danny Boyle in for some hoary old shit about England's green and pleasant land. Then big bad industrial revolution. But miss out the bit about Britain fucking the world over. Then onto being good guys defeating Nazi's standing all alone with a billion in empire behind you. Then the dark times of being a colony in the EU. Then freedom (but not for Scotland.)

Thank fuck I didn't grow up here. I might have taken the country seriously.