7 Seconds' hopes for "We're Gonna Fight" as official World Cup Anthem down the toilet. From Oddsnark by way of CSTB:
World Cup organizers in Germany today unveiled their secret weapon to ward off disturbances by soccer hooligans. Organizers announced that techno-ambient composer Brian Eno and artsy-fartsy singer Peter Gabriel will perform a 26-hour-long concert at the tournament’s opening ceremony. In addition, Eno’s trance-inducing Ambient 1: Music for Airports would be played on an infinite loop during the games, while an extended version of Gabriel’s mind-numbing “Biko” would be used to lull would-be vandals into a state of compliance at other times during the month-long championship competition. When asked what officials might do if the double-dose of soporiferous artists didn’t assuage violence at the games, Wolfgang Niersbach, executive vice president of the organizing committee, held up a copy of OK Computer and said, “Don’t make me play it, because I will.”
Thank you for saying that Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and the way-overrated Radiohead are annoying. I thought i was the only sane person with good taste living in this world until now.
I guess we could add others but this is making my day.
Posted by: M.G. | December 13, 2005 at 01:28 PM
Not I! The World Cup Organizers. I love those Eno ambient records meself.
Posted by: Brian Turner | December 13, 2005 at 06:12 PM