Brit winner Paloma Faith,who went on anti-Thatcher rallies in her pushchair, has asked Guardian columnist Owen Jones to seem with her on stage. It’s time pop stars stopped being sheepish, and says the outspoken singerBackstage at the Brighton Centre,seated alongside Paloma Faith in her dressing room, Owen Jones wants to know what I contemplate about him delivering a speech on stage in a couple of hours. He’s going on in between Faith’s headlining set and the support band, and US blues rockers Vintage Trouble. When I inform him I contemplate its bold,he frowns. “Bold? I’m not certain bold’s good. Turning up at a party without any clothes on is bold, isnt it?”It’s certainly nearly unprecedented for a mainstream pop star like Faith – three double-platinum albums, and winner of this year’s best female solo artist at the Brit awards – to invite a left-wing Guardian columnist along to address the audience on everything from social injustice to the NHS and the tendency of the right to blame problems on immigration. You do rather get the feeling that not everyone around her is terribly happy about the idea,not least because the singer is insisting on accompanying Jones (who will also speak at her upcoming London gig) on stage. “Im going to stand there and produce them listen,” she says. “I’ve been told I shouldn’t, or because my explain generally starts with a big reveal,and they contemplate it’s going to spoil it. But this is more well-known.” So what has brought the two together?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com