March 27, 2019

Mark, My Words to Roger Daltrey: Why not think about the next musical generation?

"Don’t you care about the bands that will struggle to tour Europe?” - that's the question journalists should have asked The Who's Roger Daltrey who said "as if we didn’t tour Europe before the fucking EU!”, after being asked about Brexit. "Because clearly Roger hasn’t given a second thought to the bands, roadies, tour managers and techs for whom Brexit is gearing up to a Cloverfield’s nuts of a ball-ache, if not actually financially impossible... Daltrey’s attitude is a horribly prevalent one across the Brexiteer ranks. It isn’t about the haves looking down on the have-nots, it’s about the haves actively preventing the have-nots from ever having" - Mark Beaumont says in his NME column Mark, My Words.