17March 2021
Zoom calls. What started off at the beginning of lockdown as a great way to stay connected to people, a handy tool to conduct your WFH meetings, the place for all those virtual pub quizzes and trivia nights, has now descended into a soulless, blank-stared hell. None of your colleagues have it in them to make small talk anymore. No one has any news anyway. Everyone has their cameras off because they are in bed and you stare at blank avatars as the disembodied voices of people you used to know drift and glitch around you. Basically it’s shit.
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja (AKA 3D) has criticised the live music industry’s response to the climate crisis while addressing MPs on environmental issues at festivals, saying that he’s “pretty livid” about the industry’s lack of action to reduce its carbon footprint, despite making green pledges.
“It’s been frustrating to experience the lack of meaningful activity within our sector, and as an activist, I’ve also felt pretty livid about it,” he told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, as reported by the BBC. “The industry seems to have been locked in a cycle of green pledges and carbon calculations while emission rates remain really high.”
Tony Scott’s horny vampire flick
The Hunger was the subject of Alexander McQueen’s SS96 show. In the film, an icey David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve romp about, feeding on the blood of goths and luring hopeless victims into sex-fuelled death traps.
It was this almost comedic level of blood lust that was translated onto the McQueen catwalk. Models staggered onto the runway like drunken revellers, writhing in grotesque shapes and flipping off the front row. Shirts were stained with bloody handprints, claw-slashed tops and spliced trews came together like gaping wounds, and transparent bustiers were sent out filled with real life worms.