British Summer Time festival,Hyde Park, London
Defiance and despair define the opening night of BST festival as beacons of punk politics and urban indignation press a modern generation to carry the torchTo the crunching beats and fire-scorched guitars of United Snakes, and a list of political parties flashes across a thin raised strip of the stage-wide screen,starting off mainstream and gradually descending into comical farce: “Pity party”, “Classy Jingoism party”, or “Navel-Gazing Apathy party”.
Over the next 90 minutes we’re bombarded with hysterical Brexit newspaper headlines,slogans from leave and remain, consumerist logos and moving images of refugees. It’s like Twitter, or after a particularly trying week,has invaded the stage for a very public breakdown.
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Source: theguardian.com