BDO Festival Looks Dim For Marilyn Manson
The chances of Manson playing the Big Day Out festival on July 10th are
looking slim because of the media link to the Colorado school shooting.
It seems council leader Kevin Wilson wants the band off the bill and has
already begun to take action... Hopefully they seek the truth about what
the murderers were really into... MARILYN MANSON faces being banned
from the bill of Metallica's Big Day Out Festival on July 10 at Milton
Keynes Bowl, his only scheduled UK date this year.
Milton Keynes council leader Kevin Wilson wants the band off the bill
and has already secured the backing of town MP Brian White and the
Milton Keynes Christian Council, representing churches of all
denominations in the town.
However, Cllr Wilson admits to never having heard or seen Marilyn
Manson.
He said: "Given the tragedy in Denver and the linking of this singer's
name with it, I am today asking the promoters of the tour to consider
whether July is the right time to have a concert by this performer.
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"I don't confess (sic) to be an expert on Marilyn Manson but other
people have suggested there might be a tenuous link between some of his
songs and some of his lyrics and the mentality of the youngsters who
committed this crime."
But the organisers of the Big Day Out, which also features Metallica,
Placebo, Terrorvision and Monster Magnet, are fighting the attempt to
have MM removed from the line-up.
A spokeswoman for Big Day Out said: "In a month's time everyone will
have forgotten about this. It's ridiculous. Just because you've read The
Silence Of The Lambs doesn't mean you're going to go around cutting
people into little pieces."
Meanwhile, The Observer on Sunday May 2 reported that David James
Copeland, the 22-year-old air conditioning engineer arrested in
connection with the three explosions, had associates who visited his
home in Cove, Hampshire dressed in goth/metal clothes.
"They would wear black baggy clothes and T-shirts with Iron Maiden
written on them," a neighbour said. "Their friends used to come around
and they all wore the same clothes. They all seemed to be in gothic
clothes and they looked like they were in a band."
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