Trevor Lunch
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When did Whitehouse ever do White Power material? That never happened at all mate.
When did Whitehouse ever do White Power material? That never happened at all mate.
The full text of that Bennett "negroid" quote:
Bennett subsequently said that the text was a parody and that he had also submitted a liberterian text and a left wing one, iirc. But only the fascist one got published, and indeed the magazine's editors denied receiving the other two texts.
(I've not seen the original magazine, this was posted as part of a comment on my blog a while back).
Obviously this was some time ago...
If he was racist, he'd probably go into industrial folk and be absolutely redundant. Just saying.
It just reminds me about how Steve Albini's assumed to be a racist (not saying he is or isn't) based on lyrics that 9/10 times are fictional characters that are supposed to be very unsympathetic.
The thing is, this isn't an isolated incident, it went on for years.
I'm aware of that. But if his whole project was a constant attack on conservative England, by the means of constantly parodying their behavior... Forgive me for my bit of Naivete, but it wouldn't ever STOP being a relevant issue for him to pantomime into even now. Though I think he halted that because of people who took him at face value, and then proceeded to both A) Think he justified their own possible feelings of latent racism or B) Think he was someone who had to be stopped.
As to the racism, that stuff always tends to override their musical interests. I mean, I'm a Burzum listener (not so much fan), so watching him commit commercial suicide by abandoning guitars because "It was too tainted by 'negro legacy'." only for him to return once he got out of jail to the guitar in order to make money was pure hijinx.
With Bennett, if he really was racist, then why make music so overtly indebted to non-Caucasian culture/music?