Oh Lordi ... Christians take on fiends of rockA crusade is looming as church groups prepare to take on heavy metal heavyweights poised to play in Wellington over Easter.
(from Stuff.co.nz):
Wellington pentecostal church Lifepoint says the lineup of bands - including former bat-biter Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss and Finnish Eurovision-winning panto-metal kings Lordi (pictured) - are "not appropriate" and will have "negative influences" on the city during the two-day Rock2Wgtn festival on March 22 and 23.
They plan to lobby other church groups and will look at taking their concerns to Wellington City Council.
"It's not appropriate from our angle of things," said pastor Karen Crawshaw.
"I don't think we can force our views on others but at the same time we think it's a very negative influence on our city.
"It'll put a damper on the things the church traditionally focuses on at the Easter season."
I dunno, what do you say? How can so may people be sooooo fucking stupid.
Personally I am hoping that Lordi and Ozzy collaborate to put on a right-old pantomime which culminates in the enacted ritual slaughter of a life-size Jesus dummy on a cross -- preferably upside-down -- surrounded by a huge number of partially dressed heavy metal sluts writhing around having a good ol' orgy in a pit of fake blood.
O for awesome.
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Earlier in the year Ice Cube played a concert in Auckland and a guy running for council called for him to be banned because of his "Cop Killer" song. (Never mind that that was an Ice T/Body Count song...)
And now there are calls for Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne to be banned?
Uh, WTF? Is this some sort of weird retro protest trend? Yeah, let's pretend it's the '80s and that Ozzy Osbourne isn't an doddering sitcom dad and is actually fearsome and shit.
It's worth it just to read the word "panto-metal".
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