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Amina Taylor	Who wrote a Guardian article about the criticism of Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury, and insinuating it's racist...Here are a couple of quotes..."It's disappointing, because music fans - and festivalgoers in particular - usually go out of their way to try to outdo one another in the obscure music-taste stakes." Jay-Z? Obscure?! Then she completely loses all credibility with, "As a black woman, I have always looked at the sheer whiteness of an event like Glastonbury and wondered what the attraction was. Sure, I enjoy a few bars of Coldplay, but would I risk a mudslide to see Chris Martin and co?"...Coldplay??!! Really fucking cutting edge and obscure! I don't give a fuck who plays Glastonbury, but it's not because he's black..He is not a legend and not that popular to justify being top of the bill... the average festival goer knows so much more about music than you, Amina Taylor, so shut the fuck up.

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COMMENTS

		mrkanish on Wed 16 April 2008 said... fuck the papers and fuck you..... CUNT
		tigertim on Wed 16 April 2008 said... She is only insinuating that she is a racist and a cunt. Quite brave I say.
		ComradeDuch on Wed 16 April 2008 said... You sort of have a point but I saw Public Enemy at the Reading festival years ago and they were very popular, and still are in my household. I imagine if NWA reformed (minus Eazy-E) they'd pull in huge festival crowds. It's more about festival headline acts have to have huge, anthemic numbers, ideally to yell along to or wave your lighters in the air. And Amina - the attraction was because you weren't there, you paid-by-the-line gobshite
		Fabio on Wed 16 April 2008 said... He's pretty popular you fucking idiot
		onthefence on Wed 16 April 2008 said... It's got nothing to do with the headline act and more that it's always a complete washout. Who wants to sit in a field in the pissing rain for 4 days? Hardly left my tent on the Sunday last year, couldn't be arsed with it all anymore.
		enoch powell on Wed 16 April 2008 said... DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE
		RightRoyalBastard on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Amina Taylor = Cunt. OP = Uber cunt. Jay-Z = Legend.
		enoch powell on Wed 16 April 2008 said... I'll be sitting nice and comfy in my Parker Knoll with a nice crate of British Ale by my side (may turn over when the 'not yet a fucking' legend ji-zee is on though.
		MrsMoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Jay-Z is not a legend...Surely you must be dead first to aquire such status?
		enoch powell on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Very kind of you to say so , Mrs. M .
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Wed 16 April 2008 said... I'm with Enoch Powell on this one (never thought I'd ever say that!) - It's all a load of tosh really - Yup I'm one of those "I went in the 90's and it never rained once (really!) and it ain't the same anymore" cunts- all about money and big corporations nowadays. Jay-Z? Honestly! It looks like he's going to shit it anyway and we'll all be saved!
		FrenchDuke on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Who gives a shit - I am going to so off my tits I wont care who is playing. I saw Coolio at Phoenix 96 and thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. I am told.
		ChunkyMunky on Wed 16 April 2008 said... It can be arranged, Mrs M...rummages in cupboard under the stairs for length of 4x2 with nails in the end Hmm so what this lefty cuntpot is saying is that it's racist not to like Jay-Z??? He's plop at best compared to the true titans of hip-hop like Public Enemy who had a hell of a lot more to say than merely flaunt the price of their shit clothes and jewellery.
		Hashishin on Wed 16 April 2008 said... want me to get the cunt?
		enoch powell on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Go on then .
		ChunkyMunky on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Go on my son, although you might need to lose the roland rat costume to sneak up on him?
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Get him Roland! They can then replace him with the Goombay Dance Band
		MrsMoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Chunk, i agree, NWA and Public Enemy were pioneers who had something important to say, this current crop are just self obsessed areholes going on about how great they are...And don't get me started on every single fucking hip hop video.... car, girls, car, hideously ostentacious house, scantily clad girl touchy rapper suggestively, rowing with his bitch, she walks off, more girls....Fuck off my screen!! Do something original, fucking cretins.
		ilovemrsmoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... I don't read the Guardian or go to Glastonbury because I'm not a middle class liberal. I therefore do not give a rat's wank about Jay-Z headlining. I'm glad it's pissing people off though, one way or another. Did anybody see Daphne and Celeste at Reading in '98? It was glorious...
		MrsMoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... 'ostentatious' sorry...i was on a rant and could not be stopped for spellchecks!
		media__whore on Wed 16 April 2008 said... as a black woman she should welcome diversity, but obviously not...
		MrsMoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Althia and Donna to headline!
		ilovemrsmoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... That would be Althea, Mrs M.
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Let's go for a retro festival - Department S, Kenny Loggins and Jonny hates Jazz will easily make me part with £1000 or however much it costs for a Glastonbury ticket these days.
		MrsMoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Thanks, weirdy stalker x x x
		ilovemrsmoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... It's my pleasure.
		dandyboy on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Johnny Logan to headline, KenBoon!
		ilovemrsmoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Fucking hell I would love to see Johnny Logan.
		kwebb on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Saturday Pyramid Stage Headline Act: Curiousity Killed The Cat supported by Deacon Blue, Fine Young Cannibles, Maroon 5, Dr Hook, Jim Diamond (especially for KenBoon), Brother Beyond, Morris Minor and The Majors, MC Hammer. Tickets 300 quid from ticketmaster.co.uk
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Wed 16 April 2008 said... I think we're onto something here Mrs Moon. I know that fat, long haired cunt on Channel 4 does something similar but I reckon we could indeed kill Glastonbury off in one go! Then we wouldn't have to worry about them having vacuous, self obsessed shit hoppers headlining anymore. I myself would also like to put forward Modern Romance & Racey to headline the main stage on the Friday night. Anybody else???
		ChunkyMunky on Wed 16 April 2008 said... throw some Stock Aitken and Waterman musical excrement against the walls and my descent into Hades will be complete.
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Wed 16 April 2008 said... It's all coming together nicely people - I wonder if the BBC would be up for screening 600 hours of live footage? I'm sure News 24 would if it was a 'slow news' day. Maybe we could also glue Michael Eavis' head back on the right way??
		ComradeDuch on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Kim Wilde, Strawberry Switchblade, Hue and Cry, the Blow Monkeys and Mantronix on the main stage. And on the comedy stage should be Jimmy Cricket, Duncan Norville and that man who wore white gloves and said 'spook'
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Good one Comrade, Kwebb & Chunky - also Les Dennis, Little & Large & Jonny Carr - all extremely unfunny cunts
		kwebb on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Mantronix - tea has just come out of my nose. Worse still - I bought their Music Madness album when I was at school.
		ilovemrsmoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... How the hell do you expect to sell any tickets for this if you don't have Big Fun on the bill? And The Alarm.
		claire on Wed 16 April 2008 said... I saw Black Uhuru at Glastonbury and they were er... black. Can we have John Ottway and Wild Willy Barratt at the retro festival?
		enoch powell on Wed 16 April 2008 said... i went to see Free , they fuckin well weren't...
		MrBeefy on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Don't forget MC Hammer. Please Hammer, don't hurt em.
		ahknowme on Wed 16 April 2008 said... I love Jon Otway. He's been playing at Glastonbury forever.
		MrsMoon on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Mantronix...in their day, they were great..'Here comes that Beat', 'Bassline'...all sounds very primitive now...
		dewie on Wed 16 April 2008 said... Jay-Z is a legend? Whatsortofacuntareyou!?!? Listen to Grandmaster Flash, NWA and Public Enemy and bin the Jay-Z cd's. I am white, 34 years old and went to private school and I'm still more "street" than that posing rich cunt.
		Hashishin on Thu 17 April 2008 said... hangonafuckingmo , Roland Rat! i ant a fuckin rat.
		dandyboy on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Haddaway to headline on the Saturday, but only if Cameo aren't available. And if I had my way The Reynolds Girls would headline every festival ever.
		kwebb on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Sunday - headline act D Ream , along with Pepsi and Shirley, Londonbeat, Ralph Mctell, Shampoo, Paul Potts, Derek B, and Matthew 'Aint Never Gonna Break My Stride' Wilder. As if Cameo won't be available(!) I couldn't stomach GUN doing Word Up instead.
		FlangeMeister on Thu 17 April 2008 said... I used to go to Glastonbury,when it was free-straight after Stonehenge.Can't remember fuck all,though-except detonating my GSX1100 one year because I was tripping too much and forgot to put oil in the fucker.Also have vague recollections of being herded into a field at Shipton Bellinger with a load of others and being beaten senseless by the rozzers.They were rotten cunts,them.
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... What about Glen Medeiros, Lieutenant Pigeon, T'Pau, Rene and Renato, Tavares, Cyprus Hill.
		ahknowme on Thu 17 April 2008 said... I want to see the Thompson Twins hitting that anvil in giant silhouette again.
		ahknowme on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Are Cameo still sporting their red plastic codpieces?
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Glad everybody has stopped having a go at Mantronix - King of the Beats is still a very good Hip Hop tune although point taken on the rest of his stuff. Maybe we could tempt Howard Jones and his weird dancing mate out of retirement?
		RandySpooge on Thu 17 April 2008 said... I am praying that Jay-z plays glasto. I can't wait to see his entourage react to the bottles of piss flying at the stage. Awesome. Plus he looks like he's got down syndrome if every fucking picture.
		kwebb on Thu 17 April 2008 said... A mate of mine sits near Howard Jones at the football every other week. Some comedian shouts "woo woo woo" when he pitches up late to take his seat.
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Piss, wonderful Piss.
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Who does he support? Swindon Town?
		kwebb on Thu 17 April 2008 said... No - Southampton
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Could be worse I suppose
		echobeach on Thu 17 April 2008 said... There was a time when there was nothing at all, nothingggg at all ... just a distant hum ...
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... ..he played Live Aid, and then vanished like a fart in the wind...
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... What about the weird dancing fella? Wasn't his name Jed or something?
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Maybe Jed threw off his mental chains finally and left Howard, and without him, he was nothing.
		kwebb on Thu 17 April 2008 said... "I don’t wanna be hip and cool,I don’t wanna play by the rules, Not under the thumb of the cynical few, Or laden down by the doom crew" - see that LADEN - terror - Bin Laden - Howard Jones was in Al Queda. It's all becoming clear now..taps nose and winks
		kwebb on Thu 17 April 2008 said... KenBoon - respect to the avatar btw - me diddley fo fo heartily circle lunar to Earls Corns etc
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said...
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Sorry Webby me old mucker - meant to say - fundermold to the kneeloppers - deep joy to your heartstrills etc....
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... My first boyfriend was a Howard Jones/Thomas Dolby wannabe, he went to a gig and Howard Jones' wife had been in a car accident, she was in a wheelchair and they pushed her onstage and the crowd started pelting her with coins. He could of made that up just to get his hand down my bra, i dunno.
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... My first boyfriend was a Howard Jones/Thomas Dolby wannabe, he went to a gig and Howard Jones' wife had been in a car accident, she was in a wheelchair and they pushed her onstage and the crowd started pelting her with coins. He could of made that up just to get his hand down my bra, i dunno.
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Sounds a bit suspect to me....
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Help! My computers gone weird! Sorry, folks....
		kwebb on Thu 17 April 2008 said... "What is looooooooooove - anyway, Stop pelting my missus with shrapnel here today ". A fib I reckon.
		SlipperyGimp on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Mrs Moon, your large comment is spot on. When I started liking hip hop, it was embarassing to admit it. Nowadays, every fucker 'likes' it, probably because of the "bitches, bulnts & 40's" image that the commercial bollocks is all about. Party Scene by The Russell Brothers is still one of my all time favourite tunes - it was off Electro 2 on the Streetsounds label. Heard of that, JayZ fans? Thought not. Anyway, he shouldn't be at Glastonbury full stop. It'll see an influx of chavs who'll turn up to rob your tent, not genuine music fans.
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Slippery, ah, yes, i used to raid my brother's electro records collection, 'Here comes that beat' with the smashing glass sounds, who the fuck was that by? I'm sure that was on electro. Been bothering me for years...anyone know?
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... It was Pumpkin and the all stars- off Electro 4
		MrsMoon on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Ken...my hero!!! My brother kept going on about it recently in a fit of nostalgia...cheers! x x x x
		KenBoonsmotorbike on Thu 17 April 2008 said... My pleasure Mrs Moon
		McCrack on Thu 17 April 2008 said... I'm not going, but if I was I'd be way too ripped off my tits to notice whos playing anyway.
		Barbersmith on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Glastonbury is for cunts. Rap is for cunts. The Guardian is for cunts. I see a pattern here.
		Cuntybolox on Thu 17 April 2008 said... Black Lace have to appear at some point along with Marillion and Prefab Sprout
		dandyboy on Fri 18 April 2008 said... I've heard The Buggles are going to play, and actually execute Moyles on stage while playing Video Killed The radio Star. Presumably by dropping an old Betamax player on the fat fucker.
		SaleoftheCentury on Fri 18 April 2008 said... Marrilion were the first band that I ever saw play live. Wolverhamton Civic.........
		mrbrown on Fri 18 April 2008 said... "As a white man, I have always looked at the sheer blackness of an event like the MOBO awards and wondered what the attraction was." Does this make me sound like a racist cunt?
		claire on Fri 18 April 2008 said... No mrbrown it doesn't make you sound like a racist cunt. Who gives a fuck about the colour of the musician and why is this Amina Taylor perpetuating such utter bullshit.
		songsandstuff on Sun 04 May 2008 said... ive actually met a few of the old skool legends you guys are talking about in the last month (music journo) and brought this up with them. Unsuprisingly they also think of glasto as a white middle class event (which it is i guess) and two i met recently will verify Jay-z status as a legend (hard to argue with Big daddy Kane and africa bambaataa). so i understand where she's coming from. plus i want to sleep with her but thats another thing.