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[BigTom]

Lots of spokes being ticked there - Mexican big tick, gypsy even bigger tick, and then the whole sub-spokewheel of musical instruments. Accordion players, defo not like lead singer or guitarist/other instrument, but are they as oppressed as drummers and bassists who are the butt of many a joke? Where do minor instruments - clearly oppressed simply by the term I've made up to apply to them, "minor" instruments - like accordians, french horns or harps - as opposed to major ones sit in the whole musical instruments scale of oppression?

How much does it matter that this whole thing is viewed the the lens of the western popular music hegemony and should I check my privilege* as coming from a background of the imperialist culture of the UK and USA when the accordion is a major instrument in all sorts of music, including the gypsy music I imagine this band playing, though I've not bothered listening to the video because that's long**. So for all I know this band might be getting their accordion player to step up and "speak" out at the front rather than hiding them off in the background somewhere, striking a blow for musical equality everywhere.

I feel a PhD, or at least a quickly, badly researched and written article for Guardian CiF coming on! Just need some personal anecdotes to make it seem like I'm an authority on this shit so no need for any research obviously.

*of course this is a rhetorical question. Always check your privilege and then the world will be amazeballs!

**I've not got sound where I am. But in the style of shite columnists everywhere, meh to actual research when I could be typing nonsense instead

 

[ViolentPanda]

Accordionists and viola players are the butt of far more jokes than drummers and harpists. In some countries it's considered almost a criminal offence to not mock them!

 

[SpineyNorman]

Lots of spokes being ticked there - Mexican big tick, gypsy even bigger tick, and then the whole sub-spokewheel of musical instruments. Accordion players, defo not like lead singer or guitarist/other instrument, but are they as oppressed as drummers and bassists who are the butt of many a joke? Where do minor instruments - clearly oppressed simply by the term I've made up to apply to them, "minor" instruments - like accordians, french horns or harps - as opposed to major ones sit in the whole musical instruments scale of oppression?

How much does it matter that this whole thing is viewed the the lens of the western popular music hegemony and should I check my privilege* as coming from a background of the imperialist culture of the UK and USA when the accordion is a major instrument in all sorts of music, including the gypsy music I imagine this band playing, though I've not bothered listening to the video because that's long**. So for all I know this band might be getting their accordion player to step up and "speak" out at the front rather than hiding them off in the background somewhere, striking a blow for musical equality everywhere.

I feel a PhD, or at least a quickly, badly researched and written article for Guardian CiF coming on! Just need some personal anecdotes to make it seem like I'm an authority on this shit so no need for any research obviously.

*of course this is a rhetorical question. Always check your privilege and then the world will be amazeballs!

**I've not got sound where I am. But in the style of shite columnists everywhere, meh to actual research when I could be typing nonsense instead

I was in a band once when I was at school - the albino war rats. We were oppressed for being really fucking shit and not having any songs whatsoever and never having played any gigs (a cynic may think we'd only started it so we could say we were in a band to impress lasses). I was the most oppressed member on account of playing the triangle, but we all played oppressed instruments - not a guitar or keyboard to be found. We had a bongo player, a washboard player and a singer who couldn't sing to save his life.

There you go - you've got some research now

 

[BigTom]

I was in a band once when I was at school - the albino war rats. We were oppressed for being really fucking shit and not having any songs whatsoever and never having played any gigs (a cynic may think we'd only started it so we could say we were in a band to impress lasses). I was the most oppressed member on account of playing the triangle, but we all played oppressed instruments - not a guitar or keyboard to be found. We had a bongo player, a washboard player and a singer who couldn't sing to save his life.

There you go - you've got some research now

Intersectionalism in action Truly your band was at the pinnacle of countering musical oppression, even the name telling of the oppression of albino's in our world. I doff my cap to you and your friends.

 

[J Ed]

An intersectional quandary: clearly the accordion is an instrument, if not a weapon, of the oppressed but are pro-Chetnik musicians playing the accordion among the counter-hegemonic forces struggling to subvert musiconormativity and do I need to chetnik my privilege for even asking in the first place?

 

[Mungy]

as a one man several ukulele onanist band i fear oppression at every turn. in the street, with ukulele in hand, people talk behind my back. so stand with back to wall i must. even there people say to me "where is your hat if a busker you be?" and so oppressed again shuffle along the wall i do, yet now i am at the wrong bus stop and these people know that i am not one of theirs and stare at me with their shark eyes. perhaps they have never seen a ukulele before and i hopefully pluck a merry tune that they may be entertained and thus stop oppressing me. alas this seems to anger them and there is much tutting and rolling of eyes. mine eyes spy the bus that will take me home, but there are many oppressors betwixt myself and the sanctuary of the express motors bus. the driver is friendly towards me, knowing me from his time on the padarn buses when i lived under the oppression of the twat-faced champagne-socialist landlord. i fear i will miss my bus.

 

[rekil]

Actual weekly worker cover not as good as a BigTom one would be.

 

[rekil]

BREAKING NEWS: PD request to help push the chucklevision piece over the 1000 facebook shares mark retweeted by Paul Chuckle.

 

[equationgirl]

BREAKING NEWS: PD request to help push the chucklevision piece over the 1000 facebook shares mark retweeted by Paul Chuckle.

Awesome news comrade

 

[DaveCinzano]

Unfortunately Barry's nailed his colours to Workers Sickle's mast

 

[DotCommunist]

brother fighting brother

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's the Brotherhood of the Rednose

 

[barrychuckle]

Greetings.

Me and Paul would like to thank you for your kind words. I am afraid that I am unable to join your cause as Paul thinks it would be a conflict of interest with the work we do for the Rotherham Independence Front. Happy to send an autograph to anyone who wants one though.

 

[brogdale]

tbf his Bazness must be a bit busy what with that ITV2 show and all that....

 

[rekil]

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Greetings.

Me and Paul would like to thank you for your kind words. I am afraid that I am unable to join your cause as Paul thinks it would be a conflict of interest with the work we do for the Rotherham Independence Front. Happy to send an autograph to anyone who wants one though.

How do we know this is really Barry and not some cruel Workers Power/MI5 ruse to acquire addresses and intel of PD militants?

"Hmm Barry, I seem to recall that the turnstiles at Millmoor's tivoli end were green, and not red."

 

[SpineyNorman]

I find it difficult to believe that anyone would pretend to be from Rotherham to be fair.

 

[DotCommunist]

It doesn't matter if either of the chuckle brothers are able to support us properly- chuckleism is a social school of thought and theory, a material necessity rather than a nice idea.

Wether they know it or not 'to me-to you' is a direct and succinct modern praxis spin on the marxist ''from each-to each' maxim

 

[nogojones]

Is there a PD international? Spotted on a bog wall in Belgium.

.

 

[rekil]

Is there a PD international? Spotted on a bog wall in Belgium.

Whereabouts in Belgium? Or is that classified.

For a chuckle, have a look down John Cusack's twitter machine follow list. Maybe it was him.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Is there a PD international? Spotted on a bog wall in Belgium.

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It wasn't in Ghent (or however you spell it) was it?

 

[rekil]

Whoever's responsible needs to report for debriefing and explain the missing apostrophe.

 

[nogojones]

It wasn't in Ghent (or however you spell it) was it?

No, it was a place I've never heard of, that I can't recall. I was told the town also had wonderful kebabs along with the the vanguard of the class

 

[SpineyNorman]

Whoever's responsible needs to report for debriefing and explain the missing apostrophe.

I think it might have been SpackleFrog

Excellent turnout from the PD entrist faction at the CWI summer school in Belgium - theres now PD graffitti at Gent Univeristy bogs too!

I think some was also done on the bog walls of the place they held the socials in, scruffy building inside - it was on a kind of square with some kind of fancy statue/memorial thing in it. Fuck knows what the building is usually used for.

 

[SpineyNorman]

No, it was a place I've never heard of, that I can't recall. I was told the town also had wonderful kebabs along with the the vanguard of the class

I think we managed to recruit some belgian cadre that year so maybe it's them?

 

[nogojones]

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Whereabouts in Belgium? Or is that classified.

For a chuckle, have a look down John Cusack's twitter machine follow list. Maybe it was him.

Sorry I don't do twitter so can't see who follows him. Can you screen shot a clue?

 

[rekil]

Sorry I don't do twitter so can't see who follows him. Can you screen shot a clue?

He follows 200 accounts, PD are in there, the meat in the Keef and Manny sandwich. I think I know why, but there's nothing happening John soz, all outta gags.

 

[nogojones]

Fair play. I know nothing about JC, but he seems a decent enough fella from that feed

 

[Favelado]

Is there a PD international? Spotted on a bog wall in Belgium.

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I think this might be the start of something.

I'm off to buy some marker pens.

 

[Favelado]

Football fans often use forums to club to together to pay for big banners, which are then displayed inside stadiums. I don't see why we couldn't get a Prol Dem banner on national television with a whip-round and some planning.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Dulwich Hamlet are never on national tv