{"id":4874,"date":"2014-12-29T08:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/29\/john-lydon-im-absolutely-oblivious-to-band-aid-30\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:17:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:17:36","slug":"john-lydon-im-absolutely-oblivious-to-band-aid-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/29\/john-lydon-im-absolutely-oblivious-to-band-aid-30\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lydon: &#8216;I&#8217;m absolutely oblivious to Band Aid 30&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- served by IPC Includes 2 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Served by includes v2 --><!-- served by IPC Includes 2 --><!-- Served by includes v2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4e\/John_Lydon_-_2010.jpg\/250px-John_Lydon_-_2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"301\" \/><br \/>Lydon delivered a state-of-the-nation &#8216;King&#8217;s Speech&#8217; in the Christmas issue of NME, which is on newsstands now and available digitally, in which he discusses the state of music in 2014 and the idea of charity singles. \u201cI&#8217;m absolutely oblivious to Band Aid 30. I avoid all radio and TV. Another charity? Gawd, just what the world needs,\u201d he said. \u201cAll these charity events just seem to be glory-hunting. Somewhere in there there&#8217;s someone with good intentions, but the rest tend to be an awful lot of liggers. The message is always dissipated in these things.\u201d  <!--more-->  <br \/>Explaining his avoidance of outside media, Lydon went on to say that he &#8220;prefer[s] the uncontaminated approach. That way I maintain that killer word of mine: integrity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> Band Aid 30 had previously come under fire from a number of musicians including Damon Albarn and Lily Allen for projecting the wrong message about Africa.<\/p>\n<p> Elsewhere in the address, Lydon also spoke about Ukip&#8217;s \u201csubdued racism\u201d, stating that their message is \u201cdeliberately jumbled\u201d. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Ukip are dangerous, but their message is deliberately jumbled, and therefore creating confusion. You don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ll get if that lot get in. They&#8217;re just as power-hungry as the rest of them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lydon delivered a state-of-the-nation &#8216;King&#8217;s Speech&#8217; in the Christmas issue of NME, which is on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}