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Thursday, 24 April 2008
BBC criticised for censoring Pogues classic
BBC criticised for censoring Pogues classic
Kirsty MacColl's mother has described BBC Radio 1's decision to edit the words of the singer's famous Christmas hit 'Fairytale of New York' as "ridiculous".
The station opted to edit the line beginning "You scumbag, you maggot...", leaving out the word "faggot" at the end.
A BBC statement said: "Radio 1 are playing an edited version of the 'Fairytale of New York' that does not include the world 'faggot' as this is a word that members of our audience would find offensive."
A spokesperson said that the word was "faded down" on air, rather than bleeped out completely.
However, the mother of the late Kirsty MacColl, who recorded the original version of the song with The Pogues, has criticised this decision.
Referring to the song, Jean MacColl said: "These are a couple of characters. Today we have a lot of a gratuitous vulgarity and... whatever from people all over which I think is quite unnecessary. These are characters and they speak like that."
"It's absolute nonsense. Really, this is too ridiculous. Shane [MacGowan, The Pogues singer] has written the most beautiful song and these characters live, they really live, and you have such sympathy for them."
She continued: "These are a couple of characters who are not in the first flush of youth, I wouldn't have thought. They are what they are, this is the way they speak."
A spokesperson for The Pogues said: "It strikes me as very odd and I'm sure the band will be very amused."
Listen to a special programme on The Pogues' 'Fairytale of New York' here.
Exhumed
Artist: Exhumed
Genre(s):
Other
Metal
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Platters Of Splatter (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 29
Anatomy is Destiny
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Slaughtercult
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
San Francisco's Exhumed plays gore-obsessed demise metal with a tongue-in-cheek dash and an overall melodic approach that ar often redolent of Carcass, a band whom they receive ofttimes acknowledged as a primary influence. They ingest endured constant batting order changes to become, if non a highly original act, at least one of the better representatives of their doomed-to-obscurity subgenre. The band formed in 1991 with a batting order consisting of Matt Harvey (guitar, vocals), Col Jones (drums), Derrel Houdashelt (guitar), Jake Giardina (vocals), and Ben Marrs (sea bass). They made their first-class honours degree recordings under this geological formation, including the Excreting Innards 7" for Afterworld Records. Giardina and Marrs left the band within the side by side few age, with Matt Widener (sea bass) and Ross Sewage (vocals) brought in as replacements. After recording the Horrific Expulsion of Gore demonstration (1994), Widener left and Sewage took all over basso duties. This lineup eventually recorded a rip CD with the Ohio band Hemdale, In the Name of Gore, which came kayoed on Visceral Productions in 1995 and featured an perfectly distasteful album cover. Soon after, Houldashelt left and was eventually replaced by Mike Beams. With this lineup intact, they signed to Relapse Records and finally released their first-class honours degree official full-length, Gore Metal, in 1998, with guitarist James Murphy (Demise, Obituary) at the production helm. Sewage left the band shortly afterwards this disk, going away the trio of Harvey, Beams, and Jones to record the followup, Slaughtercult. The album was released on Relapse in 2000 and was sky-high received among the end metallic element scene.
M.Gira and D. Matz
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