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Helena Hauff - Mary Anne Hobbs ICONS Mix
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Thursday 15 January 2015
Wednesday 14 January 2015
The Pragmatic Realities of the Islamic State
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs held a public lecture entitled: Marketing Utopia: The Pragmatic Realities of the Islamic State by Peter Harling, Regional Analyst and Former Advisor to the Special Envoy to Syria
Davy Henderson on music and the power of one
"I remember the Fire Engines playing with U2 in Valentino's in Edinburgh," Henderson says of a 1981 club show with the future messiahs. "We were sound-checking, and Bono came in singing 'Ave Maria.' It's interesting the radius that developed from out of that little pebble-drop, and the choices we made as a band and the choices they made, so now they're an industrial corporation, who, by dropping five-hundred million copies of their album onto iTunes automatically, completely devalued their music to the level of it becoming spam. That's not rock & roll. That's fascism. So we're actually doing something that's more than polar opposite of what they're doing. It's not just the opposite. It's like a black hole inversion
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