And as the flames climbed high into the night To light the sacrificial rite I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
dio Rock Bottom in Croydon was burned down; up North in Enfield, a Sony warehouse was cremated, lifting a cloud of smoke and sadness visible all over the city. The Sony building hosted as well a Pias distribution centre, storing material from about 150 indie labels waiting to be released. Congratulations kids. Surely these poor sods, often going bankrupt to get you some new tunes without Simon Cowell’s help, deserved to be punished. Of course they did. Inside Sonic Shocks you will find as much information as we can put together on how to help, including a list of the The reason why labels involved. Please BUY – you’re reading don’t downloot – their digital about them on releases, so they can get back the front page of on track and rebuild the stock a music newspa- lost in the fire. per is that this of sense as the initial protest by Cristina Massei was towards the local police. bunch of sad chavvy bastards As for you cunts who had this Early August 2011. ‘London What happens after, however, saw fit burning down music awesome revolutionary idea, loves a summer riot’, says is not a protest or even a riot: as well, which is obviously may you burn in hell with a a friend of mine. He’s not it’s the sad portrait of a gener- not as relevant in their use- selection of X-Factor contestwrong: as a peaceful pro- ation with no values or con- less lives as Nike’s and IPods ants singing in your ears for test in Tottenham turns into science, or indeed a basic IQ (what the fuck are they listen- the whole eternity, with your chaos, passers-by join the to evaluate the consequences ing to on their IPods by the trainers slowly melting all over your feet. You suck. way?). crowd at a distance to get a of their actions. glimpse of the action. A couple of police cars get burned, As the youth of today ‘pro- In the south of London, rewhich still makes some kind tests’ by looting chavvy train- cord store and rehearsal stuers and burning buildings, the Government stands by, waiting until we’re scared enough to give our blessings to a police state to restore order in the streets. But we’re not here to do politics, you all know what happened by now anyway and surely made up your own mind about the recent UK riots.
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