{"id":232,"date":"2008-03-29T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/232\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T21:34:46","slug":"232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/29\/232\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t it amazing they still call butts ‘fags’ in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Drowned In Sound<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span>Due South: Camel cigarettes refuse to pay band after they suggest fags are ‘bad for you’<\/span><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Kev Kharas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>\"Woman<\/p>\n

Continuing to woo the international rock community, cigarette brand Camel is refusing to pay London act\u00a0South<\/strong>\u00a0after they dared to venture forth the opinion that smoking is harmful from the stage at a Camel-sponsored show.<\/p>\n

Which, normally, wouldn\u2019t be too big a deal; or at least not as big a deal as\u00a0slyly implicating the entire \u201cindie rock universe<\/em>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in a plot to promote cancer sticks.<\/p>\n

So why the gravity? South, who\u2019ve proven a significantly more popular and successful proposition over the pond, had travelled all the way to the United States for the show at South by South West. They were due to be paid \u00a310,000 for the performance in Austin, until lead singer Joel Cadbury made the seemingly innocuous remark.<\/p>\n

Spotting the Camel logo tattooed onto the arm of a female audience member, Cadbury – who himself partakes in the filthy habit – joked \u201cDon\u2019t smoke, it\u2019s bad for you<\/em>\u201d. The band continued the set before being told by Camel representatives upon leaving the stage that they\u2019d forfeited their appearance fee.<\/p>\n

South are now embroiled in a legal battle to claim back an amount of that $10,000 over what appears to be at best a misunderstanding, at worse a deliberate attempt to con a band who\u2019d travelled 5,000 or so miles out of a fair evening\u2019s wage.<\/p>\n

\u00a0[ click to view full article in Drowned In Sound<\/a>\u00a0]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Drowned In Sound Due South: Camel cigarettes refuse to pay band after they suggest fags are ‘bad for you’ by\u00a0Kev Kharas Continuing to woo the international rock community, cigarette brand Camel is refusing to pay London act\u00a0South\u00a0after they dared to venture forth the opinion that smoking is harmful from the stage at a Camel-sponsored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}