Up On The Roof

A weekend treat. Macca messing on the rooftops again. This time at The Ed Sullivan Theater, New York for the David Letterman Show.

Video here (for how long?)

Performances of Coming Up, Band On The Run, Let Me Roll It, Helter Skelter and Back In The USSR.

Darby in Derbys.

Repugnant BNP hatemeister Simon Darby, on his blog, alluded to a story breaking in the Sunday papers involving England footballers and the BNP. It appears that this, in The Sunday People, was the piece in question:

STARS OUTRAGE AT VILE BNP WEB VIDEO

Sport and pop legends are fuming after their images were used in a music video promoting the British National Party.
National icons including Sir Paul McCartney, soccer star John Terry and cricketer Freddie Flintoff were hijacked to appear alongside hate lyrics on internet site YouTube.

The anti-immigration track This Is England includes offensive lines like: "They took our Pound, now they want to bomb our Underground" and has had more than 12,000 views.

Obviously, the people concerned: Terry, Flintoff, Butcher, Pearce and Macca (Churchill could not be contacted for a comment but Max Clifford allegedly said that if he was representing him he would issue a joint press statement with Kerry Katona).

Darby, in Derbys, is quoted as responding, "It is not an official BNP video. It has probably been released by a BNP supporter. People have the power to produce anything on websites these days.

"If it portrays Britishness, then I'm not going to complain about it. I would not be happy with using famous people who perhaps don't have the same opinion as we do. But there is nothing we can do about it. (This is crap as seen here: a commissioned portrait of Winston to raise money for BNP funds. There is also one of John Lennon about to be auctioned this month)
"I don't know what their political views are. If they are not of our opinion, then I

apologise."

Not quite a not-me-Guv defence as he is clearly secretly pleased about the content and the press publicity. This is an aspect of the fight against these Neanderthal Fascists that has concerned me for some time: the oxygen of publicity v free debate. As I've been trolling Richard Barnbrook's Telegraph blog recently, I keep wondering if it's counter-productive. I feel another post germinating and as cycle-partner Steve has jetted out to his Channel Island tax-haven today (have a word about investment with Tranmere's Chairman while you are there), I've nothing else to do.

I'm a bit worried about attacking Simon Darby as he likes to stick hooks in the mouths of fish and baiting the BNP is sometimes like shooting fish in a barrel, but his blog is informative and reasoned!

• On Freedom of the press

Just had the Guardian on trying to get a quote about one or two of the speakers we have lined up for you. It almost takes your breath away that these journalists who have facilitated in the systematic destruction of our people and our way of life actually think that criticising a process which is tantamount to genocide is somehow to be forbidden.

The Guardian wanted to ask about Petra Edelmannova of the far-right Czech National Party, party recently announced it was working on a 150-page "study" called The Final Solution to the Gypsy Issue in the Czech Lands. Now this is not quite the same as the Nazi Final Solution but the name is surely chosen for a reason. The article continues, "Although the title evokes the Nazi plan to eradicate Jews in wartime Germany, the party told Lidove Noviny, a national Czech newspaper, its aim is only to offer Roma voluntary relocation to land bought in India. This has undertones of the situation in Italy.

Of course, the BNP itself would like to repatriate - supposedly voluntarily - and believes that asylum can be summed up thus: We will also clamp down on the flood of ‘asylum seekers’, all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries.

• On China (NOT A RACIST......Oh right, Ted) Better Youtube clip

The Chinese people I have known in my life have been by and large honourable and law-abiding folk. Not that that is any excuse to flood my country with their compatriots, there being a limit to the amount of Chinese food outlets and shellfish harvesting opportunities Britain can provide.

Yes, know your place.......we don't mind you doing laundry or running take-aways as long as we can imitate the Spanish Olympic basketball team and the Duke of Edinburgh in keeping the slitty-eyed motif running.

• La Belle France

Jean-Marie Le Pen confronts Sarkozy - Strasbourg (July, 10. 2008)I've been lucky enough to meet him twice, they can call him what they like but one word they never use is "coward".

If we want further evidence of where the BNP stand, look at Derby's photos of BNP advert vans (truth trucks!!) talking of justice for indigenous victims of violence and English victims of racist violence. What colour do you think these victims will be? Answers on a Kennkarte to BNP, PO Box 107, Wigton, Cumbria.

The Liverpool Sound Concert Photos

Live And Let Die

Not put up a video before so just a test from Macca concert. Bit of Live and Let Die plus the compulsory fireworks.

Macca Comes Home

Difficult to describe the concert, so here, for all my foreign fans (!) is my pic of Paul in Liverpool.

Just glad I managed to smuggle the camera in (don't ask where it was during the security check).

Maybe I'm Amazed (Or Not)

With just over 2 weeks to go until Macca returns to Liverpool, my email box winced at the metaphorical kick it received today: The Mail On Sunday is to give away his last CD in the paper. Now, I've already bought the item so I've less of a dilemma than others. Should you bite the bullet, buy a copy of Asian Babes and hide your dirty, perverted purchase within, or maybe just hand your local newsagent (because people who buy papers from supermarkets are Satan's spawn) and buy a box of Swan Vestas to deal with your malignant waste of tree forest.

It's a bit like seeing Tony Benn's diaries serialised in the Mail stable; it just feels like a betrayal.
So, Paul, if you sense a deep scowl from the Centenary Stand on June 1st, you know why. Perhaps it's because the paper was more sympathetic to you than Heather.

We're still waiting for said tickets. It appears they will be sent out in the next week, with overseas purchasers having to collect in person. Hmm, given past problems with the Royal Mail, maybe getting them from the 08 centre isn't a bad idea.

Just seen the usual treat-the-public-like-shit-and-sell-them-overpriced-crap stipulations on the 08 site. No alcohol (but we'll flog it to you for the price of a small house prior to the credit crunch), water (so dehydrate at your own risk/cost), no cameras (good luck with that one chaps). Apparently, the ban on taking ones own drink in is not connected to the threat of using Oasis bottles to cause a smallish terrorist explosion even if you have the scientific knowledge and resources (as Obsolete completely dismantles here.)

Unlucky Heather

Pity the poor Solicitor-Advocate chosen to represent Heather Mills at today's appeal hearing. He looked like a startled rabbit. At least he kept his hair dry.

Having perused the lengthy Judgment, it is clear why the controlled Heather did not want it published. It is never staisfying in such cases for dirty linen to be aired in public, particularly where there are children involved. However, as the Judgment makes clear, Heather was a fantasist, a deceiver and had delusions of self-worth.

The incident regarding an attempt to obtain a payment of £480,000 from MPL appears to be extremely suspicious if not downright fraud.

The full Judgment can be found here. (PDF)

In a piece entitled Lucky Heather? (seems as familiar as predictable - see yesterday), Marliyn Stowe in The Guardian tries to be ever-so-controversial by having a swipe at Macca as well, in the full knowledge that most of the press will be siding with him and continuing the vilification of Ms Mills. It's hardly Julie 'Take-the-opposite-point-of-view-as-everyone-else' Burchill, but there you go.

Lucky Heather?

Having just watched Heather Mill's performance outside The High Court, all I can say that Paul is well rid. £24.3 Million for a few years of marriage is a nice little earner for this clearly hyper individual. She says she is pleased with it, but given her rant about lawyers etc, it seems she expected a lot more. A further £600,000 to her solicitors may have been well spent.

As someone who dealt with divorce law for many years, I am disturbed by such sums being awarded for marriages of short duration. Heather may not feel she has been well-treated but regardless of her demonisation by the press, and any alleged treatment by Macca, she should be very grateful for her good fortune.

What matters most, of course, is the provision for the couple's daughter; the financial settlement is a separate matter.

The Liverpool Sound

Just heard I've been successful in the ballot for tickets for the concert on 1st June 2007 when McCartney and Ringo will be playing at Liverpool Football Club as part of the city's capital of culture celebrations.

I noticed the tickets were going for a lot more on eBay already.

Still a bit peeved that they get to keep your money plus exhorbitant booking fee for 7 months before the concert, but it's important for me to be there.

Macca Back

Paul McCartney is to top the bill at the Liverpool Sound concert at Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C. on June 1st 2008 as part of the Capital of Culture Celebrations. I have now registered for the ballot for tickets and hope to be successful. what annoys me is that they will be so hard to get compared to his last concerts at the Kings Dock as there is reduced capacity and no doubt the scroungers and eBay traders will be first in the queue. Real fans like me may miss out. If I find out Kerry Katona gets a ticket I'm going to do something commendable.

The draw takes place on 19th October so they'll have the interest on the money for 7 months. In addition there is a booking fee of 12%!! Given the fact that the best tickets are £75 this is a serious amount. Robbing bastards. If you're reading this Paul (and I know you do) please send a couple of backstage passes for the real fan. Failing that, how about a more intimate gig at Prenton Park?

Hulme Hall Anniversary
Ringo Starr