Sham 69 tour cancelled1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() our aim is to preserve and to share it with the world. #SHAM 69 TOUR CANCELLED ARCHIVE#here we collect, collate, clean-up, digitize, database and archive rock’n’roll artifacts from around the region. The Ricecooker Archives have our own space at 84B, The Zhongshan Building, Jalan Rotan, Kampung Attap, Kuala Lumpur. we call this The Ricecooker Archives – Southeast Asian Rock’n’Roll Treasury (quite grand, we know). Three years after the shop closed down in 2014, it morphed into a library/museum or an archive. TRS was a physical, brick’n’mortar music store first based at the Annexe, Central Market for more than three years, before moving on to two different locations in the city. Running as a scene-blog since 2004, this website was operating as The Ricecooker Shop‘s portal from early 2007. This is nothing to do with Pursey, who is a fantastic person, but everything to do with the repellent Oi movement, which attaches itself like a malignant virus to certain forms of music.This is a zine, an archive, a blog, an event calendar, a place where rock’n’roll, especially of the fringe + underground, independent, DIY and related, came to be highlighted, promoted and documented. Pursey always unequivocally expressed his absolute disgust with the policies of the National Front and received death threats from extreme right groups for his work with the Anti-Nazi League fighting racism.īy now you should see what is wrong with this picture: combining England football fans and Sham 69. Sham 69 have retitled the song Hurry Up England. (The official song, incidentally, is Embrace's World at Your Feet.) Hundreds were mooted, but Sham 69 won out. Because the official English World Cup anthem songs are so bloody awful, listeners to Virgin Radio were polled to select a band and a song they would prefer as "the alternative anthem". Next month Pursey and Sham 69 are poised to have their biggest ever hit with a reworked version of their song Hurry Up Harry (a minor classic if ever there was one). ![]() Significantly, when Pursey was asked to revisit the song for his Newsnight appearance, he changed the lyrics to make it an anti-Iraq war anthem. That song was written as a spiritual thing, as an anthem for the people of this country." I hope he's not using that song as a sort of backing innuendo to say Gordon and Tony are united. ![]() "Usually you see Blair with Geldof and Bono, the jet-set political messiahs," said Pursey of his song's use at the conference. Now Labour was hijacking If the Kids Are United. Sham 69 retired from the live stage in 1978, specifically because a concert had been broken up by battling National Front skinheads. During their heyday, Sham 69 were plagued by National Front members using their gigs as a recruiting ground for their imbecilic party. Sham 69 is not due to play near your location currently - but they are scheduled to play 6 concerts across 1 country in 2022-2023. Poor Jimmy Pursey didn't know what hit him. Find information on all of Sham 69’s upcoming concerts, tour dates and ticket information for 2022-2023. A case of soft, meaningless rubbish meeting its political counterpart.Īnd then, out of nowhere, Sham 69. More recently, Labour party conferences used music by The Lighthouse Family. The tone was set when D:Ream's poxy dance-lite Things Can Only Get Better was used as new Labour's official campaign anthem back in 1997. New Labour had always previously used bland rubbish at the party conferences. Description Additional information Reviews (0) On Sapphire Blue cotton, with the 1977 tour on back, Sham 2022 on front. SKU: SHAM-YGIC6 Categories: Clothing, T-shirts. What wasn't factored in was how and why Sham 69 ended up playing If the Kids Are United on BBC's Newsnight last year.Ī few days previously, Tony Blair had used the Sham 69 song as his choice of walk-on music for his party conference speech. Celebrating 45 years of Sham 69, in Sapphire Blue. It was all going to plan: the reunion tour was going well, there was talk of the dreaded comeback album, and the interest was still there. Some are welcome, others are an excruciating embarrassment. So many of the class of '77 have taken this route. People turn up, you make noises about a new album with (oh no) "a whole new direction" and everyone nods their head but really just wants to hear the two or three hit singles again. ![]() Twenty years down the line, cognisant of how punk nostalgia has got a grip on the media and how lesser bands have reformed and toured successfully, you put the show back on the road. As punk recedes, so does your hairline and you become just another fondly remembered gobby singer from yesteryear. YOU know the score: you're in a punk band, you have a number of hits, you're supposed to be a "spokesperson" for the 1977 generation, you make some waves, then disappear. ![]()
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