The (International) Noise Conspiracy: Bombed.

The (International) Noise Conspiracy play the Loudmouth Stage at Livid at the RNA Showgrounds on Saturday.

These people care. They at least try to do something about the worst excesses of capitalism. The (International) Noise Conspiracy - way more interesting - musically and lyrically - than their Swedish brothers in arms, the rather girly girly Hives. No balls. The Datsuns, D4, The Vines, make The Hives sound rather dull. No balls. T(I)NC have balls but they are also savvy, albeit in a rather ragamuffin way. Their latest album, A New Morning, Changing Weather, veers wildly in its attempts to sell the revolutionary spirit but at least the quintet are in there trying.

T(I)NC are a political rock group; they makes no bones about that.     Rather than regurgitate a lot of the information and sentiment discussed at the time the album was released, we get into some solid political observation and comment about what else than that bastion of ultra-conservatism and war mongering - the USA. The pulpit is all yours Dennis.

"It definitely gives you a perspective on things and it definitely makes you say 'Fuck, we're gonna tell these people some things.' Turn on the radio and you can flip through 20 channels that talk about the necessity of bombing Iraq. It's really scary to hear how they talk - and the remarkable thing is the majority of Americans don't support Bush and a war against Iraq - there's just nothing they can do about it.”

"There's totally no democracy here, there's totally no freedom of speech. You hear all these politicians talk about the need to do these things but in two and a half weeks of watching TV and listening to the radio I haven't seen one person talk about reasons not to bomb Iraq. That is also scary. George Bush built up this whole management by fear tactic: Nobody took George Bush seriously before 9/11.”

“What's just as frightening is the actual cost and what could be done with the money. US Congress is saying a war against Iraq could cost as much as $9 billion a week - that's right a week. If it went a month that's $36 billion, enough money to solve starvation - in the short-term - in much of the Third World. Or enough to get every American off the streets, in a home, and to expand work, education and health programs that would make the US a leader in not war but peaceful growth.”