Stadium Explanium
Green Day's Billie Joe has been telling the NME about how his band and U2 got it together to record their cover of the Skids song 'The Saints Are Coming', and apparently it's all to do with the Louisiana Superdome.
If you remember, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, thousands of people took refuge in the venue, which is the home ground of the New Orleans Saints – the American Football team, that is, not actual floating holy people.
Anyway, the Saints recently played their first comeback game at the Superdome since Katrina hit, and that was where the song got it's first airing.
Billie Joe said: "It's a huge event for New Orleans to get their team back after losing everything. The fact that the team was coming back was a major thing for them. It just became a monumental event, a little something to celebrate."
And he had nothing but scorn for the way in which the authorities, right up to the government, handled the crisis: "So many politicians, they don't have a clue what's its like to be working class or lower class or live in any sort of poverty stricken area, they are completely disconnected with that sort of lifestyle. And their reaction to it all made that clear just how disconnected."
Now, now, that just seems a little harsh. Give these people some credit, eh? Isn't it possible that rather than being disconnected with working class life, they're just rubbish at their jobs, eh?
Article by: Fraser M
15/11/2006
 
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