Jon McClure's celeb attack
05 June 2008
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Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure has launched a scathing attack on celebrity, and bemoaned the lack of political interest in today's stars.The singer is currently working with Babyshambles' Drew McConnell, Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders and Andy Nicholson, the Arctics' former bassist, on a side project named Mongrel.He launched the attack when speaking about their forthcoming debut single.The band are due to release 'Silence Is Talking' later this summer, and Jon explained the inspiration behind it, saying: "It refers to the fact that nobody has had anything to say post 9/11 about what's the most critical time in human history."In those eight years, we've had absolutely nobody that's dared to raise their head above the parapet. Unfortunately, I think people become scared because you get the Dixie Chicks who speak out and their career bombs, 3D from Massive Attack gets labelled a paedophile when he's done absolutely nothing wrong, the late Anita Roddick questions war machines and global capitalism and is called scatty and hormonal. So I think people become fearful of speaking out."Where the f**k is David Beckham on these issues? Unfortunately, celebrity is the currency that people understand in this day and age so when a celebrity speaks people listen. But unfortunately nobody has had any b*****s. But in terms of major celebrities nobody has said anything, and I think that's a travesty."Pete Doherty, M.I.A. and Saul Williams are all likely to feature on Mongrel's debut album, which Jon told Billboard.com is "an incendiary mixture of hip-hop, dance and rock, with a strong political message.""I'm the singer, Lowkey raps and then we've got a few features from other people. We had Saul Williams come in and do a thing on it and hopefully M.I.A. is going to do something and maybe Pete Doherty. It's got a good flavour."
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