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  • Sunday May 2, 2010 - Tripod, Dublin (20)

    • Comment

    1. I’m so excited Gil Scott-Heron is playing in Dublin. I see he is playing the electric picnic later in the year,hope he can cope with the beautiful people and his encounter with BP Fallon.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Tuesday April 13, 2010 · #

    2. I’d love to see Gil in Dublin, but there’s no way I can go now, not now you’re playing Israel. You opposed apartheid in South Africa. Please don’t be supporting it in Israel.

      Comment left by David Landy · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    3. I heard from the Palestine Campaign here in Ireland that you will be playing in Apartheid Israel. I must say I find this a shocking thing for someone I have admired for many many years as a principled fighter for justice to be doing. As a fan and a human rights activist in Ireland, I urge you to reconsider this course of action.

      I really don’t want to see the works of another one of my musical/lyrical heroes confined to the metaphorical dustbin of history and the literal dustbin of my house (alongside the works of Leonard Cohen and Morrissey). But after all, what good are principles if they are not universal? One is either tolerant of Apartheid or against it in all its forms.

      Please pay heed to the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israel. If you chose not to, its where a long admiration comes to an end.

      Comment left by Kevin Partridge · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    4. The revolution will not be Tel-avivised . . .
      Please do not play in Israel on May 25th.You have been such a strong revolutionary voice in history and have vehemently opposed Aparthied.You and your management must be aware of the contradictory nature of playing this gig in Tel Aviv. Israel has perpetrated innumerable and unending crimes against the Palestinian people. Taking part in the global campaign of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel has the potential to shame them into complying with international law and ending their Aparthied regime.
      I hope that you will listen to the call for Cultural Boycott of Israel which emanates from the Palestinian people and is echoed by people of conscience worldwide

      Comment left by Freda Hughes · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    5. I agree with what has been said here about your planned concert in Israel. Surely you understand the damage that this would do to the international campaign to isolate the Israeli state because of its dreadful treatment of the Palestinian people. The Israeli state operates an apartheid system against Palestinians, but, worse than that, it systematically imprisons and/or murders those Palestinians who resist Israeli domination. More than 300 children were killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza last year. How a progressive artist like yourself could so blatently undermine the international boycott campaign baffles me. Please re-consider! Don’t play in Israel.

      Comment left by Fintan Lane · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    6. I’ve been a fan for so many years and can’t believe you’d go and play in Israel – would you have played in South Africa during the apartheid years? Palestinians have been under brutal occupation for 62 years now, they look to the anti apartheid movement that united people all over the world to help end the apartheid system in SA. Please support their call to Boycott Israel and bring them into line with human rights and international law. Rapp is a big youth movement in right to resist in Palestine and you are one of their icons – stand with them!

      Comment left by Niamh moloughney · Wednesday April 21, 2010 · #

    7. Please follow the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movements which is putting pressure on Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinian people — please do not tour in Israel. The people of Palestine, in Gaza and the West Bank, are struggling. Thank you.

      Comment left by Sebastien Molines · Wednesday April 21, 2010 · #

    8. Please do not condone Apartheid Israel by playing there.

      Comment left by maamar · Thursday April 22, 2010 · #

    9. Please honor Palestinian civil society’s just call for a cultural boycott of Israel to demonstrate opposition to the Apartheid policies of the Israel government. Cancel your performance in Tel Aviv in solidarity with the people of Palestine, commemorating 62 years of dispossession on Nakba Day, May 15, 2010.

      This revolution isn’t televised at all and needs the support of all good people of conscience. Find your heart. Stand with, not against, the oppressed.

      Comment left by Joe Mowrey · Friday April 23, 2010 · #

    10. playing in israel woud represent a betrayal of every principle you stand for.this endorsement of a genocidal regime would be unforgivable.if you need the money that badly ask your fans to pass the cap round.dont do this low thing.

      Comment left by sean conway · Friday April 23, 2010 · #

    11. I can’t believe you are going to play a gig in apartheid israel, how many Palestinians do they have to massacre and dispossess before people boycott them as many people including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu have called for? Shame on you putting profit before people’s lives.

      Comment left by Finbarr MacGabhann · Saturday April 24, 2010 · #

    12. Should you perform in Apartheid Israel your powerful lyrics will have lost all meaning to me. Please do the right thing!

      Comment left by Cormac · Sunday April 25, 2010 · #

    13. is this all just from the same person??

      Comment left by Dee · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    14. No, it’s not from the same person. Look at the comments on the 27th May date – it was Tel-Aviv, now it’s the Warehouse, Aberdeen – he had to cancel that show before cos of the ash.

      Many people have been inspired by GSH’s work to to take up the fight for human rights for those groups who are oppressed, so for him to call protesters at his show in London last Saturday ‘assholes’ was extremely sad to watch. You should never meet your heroes.

      As for the music, he doesn’t have a band with him – there’s a back up keyboard, a bongo drummer and a harmonica player. Not nearly enough sound to fill a large venue. The set was very long but only had about 8 to 10 songs, it was quite flat in places and he did a lot of ‘talky’ bits that were really not worth listening to. Barracking protesters who were losing their hero was extremely disappointing.
      Hopefully it’ll be a better show by Sunday, but don’t expect too much.

      Comment left by Daithi Lacha · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    15. Am really sad reading all the above comments. I read that he cancelled the Tel Aviv gig. I am very surprised that GSH was going to play in Israel, and am totally opposed to him playing there but it makes me upset to see all the criticism and negativity.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    16. Thank you for showing the world that you are a man of your word you are an inspiration to many and may many follow you and spare a thought for the palestinian people!! May God bless you

      Comment left by Monica · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    17. Like others I waw deeply shocked to see this Tel-Aviv concert scheduled. What an extreme contradiction it would be, what a shame, what a disillusion to me and to many people who over the years heard Gil’s words and reflexions. I’m waiting for more infos on the subject.

      Comment left by chaamba · Wednesday April 28, 2010 · #

    18. Hiya Gil,If you are not going to play the spoken word gig at the Tripod tomorrow(that festival is cancelled) you should head north up to Monaghan, less than 2hrs from Dublin, and see the hidden Ireland. There’s a great festival on- “ Feile Oriel” traditional music, loads of informal sessions, you could join in I’m sure.Google it. You could have a rest from those protestors who keep hounding you.I 100% support their cause but think they are taking the wrong approach.I’m going to your gig on Sunday and very much looking forward to it, welcome to Ireland.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Friday April 30, 2010 · #

    19. I’m not really sure you can ever ‘‘take the wrong approach’‘ to protect the annihilation of a whole people Karen

      I’m really glad to hear your boycotting Israeli apartheid. I’m looking forward to seeing your show

      Comment left by Conor. M · Saturday May 1, 2010 · #

    20. Well if you use that argument Conor then you could justify all manner of tactics.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Saturday May 1, 2010 · #

     

Past.

  • Sunday May 2, 2010 - Tripod, Dublin (20)

    • Comment

    1. I’m so excited Gil Scott-Heron is playing in Dublin. I see he is playing the electric picnic later in the year,hope he can cope with the beautiful people and his encounter with BP Fallon.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Tuesday April 13, 2010 · #

    2. I’d love to see Gil in Dublin, but there’s no way I can go now, not now you’re playing Israel. You opposed apartheid in South Africa. Please don’t be supporting it in Israel.

      Comment left by David Landy · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    3. I heard from the Palestine Campaign here in Ireland that you will be playing in Apartheid Israel. I must say I find this a shocking thing for someone I have admired for many many years as a principled fighter for justice to be doing. As a fan and a human rights activist in Ireland, I urge you to reconsider this course of action.

      I really don’t want to see the works of another one of my musical/lyrical heroes confined to the metaphorical dustbin of history and the literal dustbin of my house (alongside the works of Leonard Cohen and Morrissey). But after all, what good are principles if they are not universal? One is either tolerant of Apartheid or against it in all its forms.

      Please pay heed to the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israel. If you chose not to, its where a long admiration comes to an end.

      Comment left by Kevin Partridge · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    4. The revolution will not be Tel-avivised . . .
      Please do not play in Israel on May 25th.You have been such a strong revolutionary voice in history and have vehemently opposed Aparthied.You and your management must be aware of the contradictory nature of playing this gig in Tel Aviv. Israel has perpetrated innumerable and unending crimes against the Palestinian people. Taking part in the global campaign of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel has the potential to shame them into complying with international law and ending their Aparthied regime.
      I hope that you will listen to the call for Cultural Boycott of Israel which emanates from the Palestinian people and is echoed by people of conscience worldwide

      Comment left by Freda Hughes · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    5. I agree with what has been said here about your planned concert in Israel. Surely you understand the damage that this would do to the international campaign to isolate the Israeli state because of its dreadful treatment of the Palestinian people. The Israeli state operates an apartheid system against Palestinians, but, worse than that, it systematically imprisons and/or murders those Palestinians who resist Israeli domination. More than 300 children were killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza last year. How a progressive artist like yourself could so blatently undermine the international boycott campaign baffles me. Please re-consider! Don’t play in Israel.

      Comment left by Fintan Lane · Tuesday April 20, 2010 · #

    6. I’ve been a fan for so many years and can’t believe you’d go and play in Israel – would you have played in South Africa during the apartheid years? Palestinians have been under brutal occupation for 62 years now, they look to the anti apartheid movement that united people all over the world to help end the apartheid system in SA. Please support their call to Boycott Israel and bring them into line with human rights and international law. Rapp is a big youth movement in right to resist in Palestine and you are one of their icons – stand with them!

      Comment left by Niamh moloughney · Wednesday April 21, 2010 · #

    7. Please follow the international boycott, divestment and sanctions movements which is putting pressure on Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinian people — please do not tour in Israel. The people of Palestine, in Gaza and the West Bank, are struggling. Thank you.

      Comment left by Sebastien Molines · Wednesday April 21, 2010 · #

    8. Please do not condone Apartheid Israel by playing there.

      Comment left by maamar · Thursday April 22, 2010 · #

    9. Please honor Palestinian civil society’s just call for a cultural boycott of Israel to demonstrate opposition to the Apartheid policies of the Israel government. Cancel your performance in Tel Aviv in solidarity with the people of Palestine, commemorating 62 years of dispossession on Nakba Day, May 15, 2010.

      This revolution isn’t televised at all and needs the support of all good people of conscience. Find your heart. Stand with, not against, the oppressed.

      Comment left by Joe Mowrey · Friday April 23, 2010 · #

    10. playing in israel woud represent a betrayal of every principle you stand for.this endorsement of a genocidal regime would be unforgivable.if you need the money that badly ask your fans to pass the cap round.dont do this low thing.

      Comment left by sean conway · Friday April 23, 2010 · #

    11. I can’t believe you are going to play a gig in apartheid israel, how many Palestinians do they have to massacre and dispossess before people boycott them as many people including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu have called for? Shame on you putting profit before people’s lives.

      Comment left by Finbarr MacGabhann · Saturday April 24, 2010 · #

    12. Should you perform in Apartheid Israel your powerful lyrics will have lost all meaning to me. Please do the right thing!

      Comment left by Cormac · Sunday April 25, 2010 · #

    13. is this all just from the same person??

      Comment left by Dee · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    14. No, it’s not from the same person. Look at the comments on the 27th May date – it was Tel-Aviv, now it’s the Warehouse, Aberdeen – he had to cancel that show before cos of the ash.

      Many people have been inspired by GSH’s work to to take up the fight for human rights for those groups who are oppressed, so for him to call protesters at his show in London last Saturday ‘assholes’ was extremely sad to watch. You should never meet your heroes.

      As for the music, he doesn’t have a band with him – there’s a back up keyboard, a bongo drummer and a harmonica player. Not nearly enough sound to fill a large venue. The set was very long but only had about 8 to 10 songs, it was quite flat in places and he did a lot of ‘talky’ bits that were really not worth listening to. Barracking protesters who were losing their hero was extremely disappointing.
      Hopefully it’ll be a better show by Sunday, but don’t expect too much.

      Comment left by Daithi Lacha · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    15. Am really sad reading all the above comments. I read that he cancelled the Tel Aviv gig. I am very surprised that GSH was going to play in Israel, and am totally opposed to him playing there but it makes me upset to see all the criticism and negativity.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    16. Thank you for showing the world that you are a man of your word you are an inspiration to many and may many follow you and spare a thought for the palestinian people!! May God bless you

      Comment left by Monica · Tuesday April 27, 2010 · #

    17. Like others I waw deeply shocked to see this Tel-Aviv concert scheduled. What an extreme contradiction it would be, what a shame, what a disillusion to me and to many people who over the years heard Gil’s words and reflexions. I’m waiting for more infos on the subject.

      Comment left by chaamba · Wednesday April 28, 2010 · #

    18. Hiya Gil,If you are not going to play the spoken word gig at the Tripod tomorrow(that festival is cancelled) you should head north up to Monaghan, less than 2hrs from Dublin, and see the hidden Ireland. There’s a great festival on- “ Feile Oriel” traditional music, loads of informal sessions, you could join in I’m sure.Google it. You could have a rest from those protestors who keep hounding you.I 100% support their cause but think they are taking the wrong approach.I’m going to your gig on Sunday and very much looking forward to it, welcome to Ireland.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Friday April 30, 2010 · #

    19. I’m not really sure you can ever ‘‘take the wrong approach’‘ to protect the annihilation of a whole people Karen

      I’m really glad to hear your boycotting Israeli apartheid. I’m looking forward to seeing your show

      Comment left by Conor. M · Saturday May 1, 2010 · #

    20. Well if you use that argument Conor then you could justify all manner of tactics.

      Comment left by Karen Fleming · Saturday May 1, 2010 · #