Who played Sun City?

[JimW]

I'm right-wing because I implied there is a chance that Freddie Mercury might be less of a cunt than Bono? I'd love the job but I'd experience imposter syndrome if I was appointed on that basis.

Have you ever asked yourself if you're good enough to have impostor syndrome?
Playing Sun City is hardly some youthful peccadillo. Flying half way round the world to scab.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

John Peel introduced Queen as Freddy and the Sun City Stompers on TOTP. I think Status Quo apologised for playing Sun City, if only to get off the MU blacklist though it might have been sincere.

 

[maomao]

I'm right-wing because I implied there is a chance that Freddie Mercury might be less of a cunt than Bono? I'd love the job but I'd experience imposter syndrome if I was appointed on that basis.

Well have any of them publicly apologised or said that they regret it?

You're probably too young to remember but the South Africa boycott was very well known (the Spitting Image video above was the B-side of a number one single), widely observed (far beyond the kind of lefty that posts here), and ultimately successful. If artists wanted to make public statements of regret that would be one thing but defending then on the basis that they might seems a little like you're trying to be controversial.

 

[platinumsage]

Well have any of them publicly apologised or said that they regret it?

You're probably too young to remember but the South Africa boycott was very well known (the Spitting Image video above was the B-side of a number one single), widely observed (far beyond the kind of lefty that posts here), and ultimately successful. If artists wanted to make public statements of regret that would be one thing but defending then on the basis that they might seems a little like you're trying to be controversial.

You're right I don’t remember it. Returning to the OP’s point I presume it was more widely adopted than any kind of boycott of Israel, because I don’t see much ongoing fuss about Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv as there still is about Sun City 37 years later.

 

[maomao]

You're right I don’t remember it. Returning to the OP’s point I presume it was more widely adopted than any kind of boycott of Israel, because I don’t see much ongoing fuss about Eurovision 2029 in Tel Aviv as there still is about Sun City 37 years later.

Unfortunately not really comparable at all. There was no Labour party friends of South Africa group for a start. If Thatcher herself hadn't been such a keen racist it probably would have been a genuinely mainstream movement.

I did my bit by starting a fistfight with two Safa kids at Munich zoo while on a school trip.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You're right I don’t remember it. Returning to the OP’s point I presume it was more widely adopted than any kind of boycott of Israel, because I don’t see much ongoing fuss about Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv as there still is about Sun City 37 years later.

Yes, it was much more widely adopted than any boycott of Israel. Everyone who broke the boycott in SC knew what they were doing. And they all did it for one reason - they were paid shitloads of money.

 

[pogofish]

Unfortunately not really comparable at all. There was no Labour party friends of South Africa group for a start. If Thatcher herself hadn't been such a keen racist it probably would have been a genuinely mainstream movement.

I did my bit by starting a fistfight with two Safa kids at Munich zoo while on a school trip.

My memory is that the Liberals were the mainstream party most associated with the anti Apartheid movement at that time? Although there were plenty of worthies from Labour willing to turn-out and lend some degree of support/raise their profile at rallies/events.

Most of the South African kids I met in that period were from families who had got-out just because of what the country had become under Apartheid - There were plenty working in oil/engineering here at the time. Which was in marked contrast to the ex-Rhodesians who arrived in the same period who all seemed so full of bitter hatred for what ”the Blacks/Communists” had done to “their” country. Most of them went away pretty quickly though.

I’m also remembering that although not segregated, people of British or “other European” heritage were kept legally at a lower level in South African society under the Apartheid regime, which put those of Boer/Dutch heritage firmly at the top.

 

[Alex Hesquar]

It was 37 years ago. It's just possible one or more of the artists who played there might regret that they did so, if they are still alive. I'm sure all the posters here have have been a 100% comrade since birth and can't understand how anyone could have made questionable decisions in the past, but people do change and aren't necessarily permacunts. What have the artists said about it in subsequent interviews?

The only permanent are people like yourself and the likes of Borough and all the anti Sun City arseholes. Did any of them provide anything toward the freedom of South Africa. What happened to all the Bandaid money? At least all the artist who performed at Sun City contributed to the well being of the local people. What have you and Bono done apart from writing and talking a lot of shit among your idiotic selfs. The proof is in the pudding, Sun City is still standing. Did the ANC close it down? NO, because most of their current ministers enjoy the facilities. Says it all.

 

[Alex Hesquar]

My memory is that the Liberals were the mainstream party most associated with the anti Apartheid movement at that time? Although there were plenty of worthies from Labour willing to turn-out and lend some degree of support/raise their profile at rallies/events.

Most of the South African kids I met in that period were from families who had got-out just because of what the country had become under Apartheid - There were plenty working in oil/engineering here at the time. Which was in marked contrast to the ex-Rhodesians who arrived in the same period who all seemed so full of bitter hatred for what ”the Blacks/Communists” had done to “their” country. Most of them went away pretty quickly though.

I’m also remembering that although not segregated, people of British or “other European” heritage were kept legally at a lower level in South African society under the Apartheid regime, which put those of Boer/Dutch heritage firmly at the top.

Absolute bullshit. You guys have no idea what you're talking about. Stick to the RACISM that was and still is happening in your own country.

 

[DaveCinzano]

What happened to all the Bandaid money?

 

[Alex Hesquar]

How's your dated music platform going Alex ? Got 2 million subscribers yet?

Nope, not holding out much hope for it either. Sometimes you have to be honest. But I'm proud of myself in that at 71 I did all of it myself with help from Wix of course but with no formal web building or web media education. What have you done with your life apart from talking nonsense.

 

[ddraig]

Nope, not holding out much hope for it either. Sometimes you have to be honest. But I'm proud of myself in that at 71 I did all of it myself with help from Wix of course but with no formal web building or web media education. What have you done with your life apart from talking nonsense.

What nonsense have I talked scab?

 

[Alex Hesquar]

What nonsense have I talked scab?

Scab?

 

[Alex Hesquar]

Obviously never been to South Africa like almost all the commentators on here.

 

[josef1878 2.0]

How fucked up is a country when it actually welcomes Status Quo.

 

[krtek a houby]

How fucked up is a country when it actually welcomes Status Quo.

Occasionally, in some countries, the status quo can be fucked up, though