DIGGING DEEPER
COSMIC NINJA POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TURMOIL...
When we started Cosmic Ninja we didn’t set out to be political. We were drawn together by our love of rock and electronic music, and our desire to merge the two into something fresh and exciting to us as musicians. We’ve all gigged in the UK scene in previous bands but connected over our project to splice the power and heaviness of a rock band with the colours, euphoria and characters of synths and electronic sounds. Our aim is to make music you can party to that will have you heading banging in the mosh pit one moment and raving away into the night the next. We have always thought of Cosmic Ninja as a way to bring people together and promote inclusivity but most importantly have a good time. Living in the UK has been tough in the last half decade or so. These
are worrying times, we are more divided than ever, and the limits we will go to maximise profit and personal gain knows no bounds. People act too often as individuals and have lost their empathy for their common neighbour. This has been driven largely from the top by the government and complicit media cheerleading them on.
“WE ARE TIRED OF LIVING IN FEAR AND WORRYING ABOUT OUR FUTURE AS A COUNTRY AND OUR SPECIES, THE CHARLATANS MILKING SOCIETY DRY FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT...” 28
Brexit and the aftermath was a turning point for us as a band. From here on out we had an awakening to what was happening. The deliberate attempt to divide us and pit people against each other as a political power play has been difficult to watch. The atmosphere in the UK is so toxic we knew we wanted to talk about what we were seeing and feeling through our music. I can’t even imagine what people looking at the UK from other countries think. We have a corrupt government that continuously lies, manipulates the public, sells itself to the highest bidder or Russian oligarch and who will go to any lengths and stoop to any depths to hold on to power. They don’t work for us, they work for themselves.
