I want to get my hands on that Manic Street Preachers DVD - Live at the Karl Marx Theatre in Cuba. Fidel was there.
Fidel? The actual dictator who has run one of the world's most repressive regimes for four decades? Wow, cool...
Yep, that Fidel. In an interview in a spanish paper, the Manic mentioned that they met with him before the concert, and he told them that he couldn't stay too long because he had other commitments. The impression was that Fidel didn't really "get" their music, and attended just as a courtesy...
sounds right. He has been courting the Nu Marxist punk movement lately, presumably to pass on his legacy to younger blood.
It'd be rather ironically amusing if he held a Havana Punk Festival of all the most politically radical punk/hip-hop acts -- all held in a country where all dissent is ruthlessly suppressed and information severely restricted.
John lennon was a total wanker in his day and a wanker in death . poor fidel must be getting old and loosing the plot to endorse such a decadent wanker
Given Lennon's apocryphal enormous FBI/CIA file, perhaps this is a case of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'?