Da Lair 666

[12yearplan]

Lolz.. "Sure is a lot of words to describe a band that thinks beating a microwave with a baseball bat is music"..
[.. so refreshing she didn't make to some tiresome reference to Marx ]

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2006/09/the_punk_band_g.html

During one of Gang of Four's US tours 30 years ago, their singer Jon King was confronted by a hostile interviewer. "He said, 'You call yourself Marxists and yet you own all this equipment. Isn't property theft?' I imagine he'd spent weeks coming up with this killer line to crush me. I said, 'Well first of all, we don't call ourselves Marxists. And secondly that's not Marx, it's Proudhon.'" He sighs. "The headline in the piece was, 'Jon King denies he's a communist.'"

This is the downside of being one of the cleverest and most politically outspoken bands of your era. You may be a formidable live band and an acknowledged influence on the likes of U2, REM, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, but you still tend to get described as if you were the musical education wing of a Marxist thinktank..
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/20/gang-of-four-content