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All supporting acts in Ed Sheeran's tour have dropped out, leaving him with no openers. (www.thewrap.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [A] to c/music@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Nick Cave is staunchly pro-Israel, in the way edgy right-wing dudes are. Whether sufficiently staunchly to drop everything, fly to the US and open for Sheeran on his tour remains to be seen.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Nick Cave is staunchly pro-Israel

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    WTF!
    There's a 35% chance I'm going to punch him in the face for this.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I'm a massive Nick Cave fan and had to look this up. I found this, which is a pair of letters from him.

    It struck me while writing this how much more powerful a statement you could make if you were to go to Israel and tell the press and the Israeli people how you feel about their current regime, then do a concert on the understanding that the purpose of your music was to speak to the Israeli people’s better angels. That would have a much greater effect than a boycott.

    I dunno. I can see his point but I'm also disappointed? It's definitely not "staunchly pro-Israel". He's just made a decision to play there and is using that to justify it. I don't know if showing up and telling people in person is better than boycotting and showing them what they're missing. If I were in his position I'd boycott.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    The thing is that the BDS movement specifically asked for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel as well. The same thing happened with Apartheid-era South Africa.

    I could understand his point in isolation, but there’s a larger social context here. Israelis (and Palestinians) don’t, I think, need awareness raised, they already know what’s going on there.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I kind of get it though, in my experience prejudices die by exposure, they flourish in the dark. I don't see how an artistic performance boycott does anything but further close them off to other points of view.

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