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10 Extreme Controversial Bands And Musicians
[WARNING: contains foul language and offensive concepts.] In their early days, The Who’s live performances would sometimes culminate in the band destroying their instruments. Guitarist Pete Townsend would hold his six-string aloft and proceed to smash it against the stage. Earlier this year, Californian indie star Phoebe Bridgers attempted a similar feat on Saturday Night Live. At the climax of her song “I Know The End”, Bridgers started bashing her guitar against a monitor. A few sparks came out, but nothing actually broke. She later tweeted that she had asked the guitar company’s permission before trying to trash their kit and assured fans that the monitor was a prop. Outrageous behavior.
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Happy 45th Birthday Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls, Evelyn Evelyn)
Happy 45th birthday Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls, Evelyn Evelyn). Another year: a short history of almost something. Photo for MAGNET by Chris Sikich. Read our live review from 2019:
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Amanda Palmer: performance artist, nappy MacGyver-er, op-shop connisseur, punk legend.
After being stranded in New Zealand during lockdown, Amanda Palmer decided to stay. Since then she’s been exercising her renowned skills at making both friends and enemies. Amanda Saxton caught a boat over to Waiheke to meet the controversial US musician and make up her own mind. Amanda Palmer needs to find a 1960s-ish outfit, stat, when I meet her in late-March at a Waiheke Island cafe. She needs it for a 60s-themed Seder, the ritual feast marking the first night of Passover. While Palmer – a controversial American performance artist who’s been in New Zealand since the first lockdown of last year – is not Jewish, her husband is. He is also renowned British author Neil Gaiman.
Nigeria s SIM card fiasco takes a turn
In the past month, I have reported on the decision of Nigeria’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy to suspend the sale and registration of new SIM cards. It was a decision that cost people and multinational companies money. Despite the brilliant analysis by several publications, the minister, Dr Isa Pantami, held firm and insisted the decision was for the good of national security.
On Friday, he backed down from that position, with the ministry announcing that the sale of new SIM cards can now begin. But the ministry’s change of heart has come at the expense of some new trouble for the minister.