Times Of India: Rock Audiences Are About Cuss Words

The ‘maturing of Indian print media’ is a euphimism for the launch of several new publications in the country in the last five years. And nothing more.

In a report about Rock On For Humanity the Times of India asked

But will rock audiences, who are more about cuss words and a devil-may-care attitude , think about doing something for Bihar?

That’s a pretty big assumption (and pretty poor sentence construction) there TOI. Almost as big as Javed Akhtar’s claim that Indian rock music is superficial.

To the newspaper’s question, Vishal Dadlani replied

We did a Peace Together concert in 1998 after the Pokhran nuclear test, and we wrote a song, Price of Bullet, in response to the jingoism of the Kargil War in 1999. Indian rock has a history of socially relevant music that says and means something .

Pentagram play Rock On For Humanity tomorrow evening.

This perpetual perpetuation of cheap stereotypes is bringing me down man. Fuck that shit, I’m off to smoke some weed with my long haired, black t-shirt wearing metchulhead bros.