Given my commentary regarding Morrissey in my posts here I can’t ignore his support for what’s described as the “far-right political party” For Britain. I haven’t delved into this but am reminded of how filmmaker Derek Jarman, with whom Morrissey collaborated,1 sounded the alarum of Britain’s demise. And there’s other stuff. Again, I won’t ignore this.
- As was noted by a reader of my subsequent post, Morrissey and Milkshakes, Jarman NEVER collaborated with Morrissey.
Looking forward to reading about about this. Sometimes one has to separate the art from the artist. As in Beck – a Scientologist or Wagner – an antisemite. Your thoughts?
I agree. Websites keep teasing me with the Nick Cave-Brian Eno quarrel re BDS, with Eno pro and Cave con; I’m with Eno but it doesn’t keep me from listening to Cave. And I wrote a long critique of Bryan Ferry’s representations of women and his multiple flirtations with the spectacle of the Third Reich; but I didn’t burn his records.