John Oliver on Laibach in the DPRK

Should have known I suppose that John Oliver would address Laibach in the DPRK.  Though I do wonder if Oliver personally is genuinely ignorant of Laibach's music as the piece would seem to purport.  Laibach are way cooler than might seem to anyone whose only exposure to them was this bit.


Oh, and I guess this is the DPRK's official Twitter account ?  Tempted to follow them, if they are consistently this awesome.  Not so sure about the CIA & Dawkins...

Laibach To Perform in an Actual Old-School Totalitarian Shithole

North Korea allows 'first foreign band to perform'

Controversial Slovenian pop group Laibach will be the first foreign band to perform in North Korea, director Morten Traavik has told the BBC.

Mr Traavik has arranged for the group to play two concerts in Pyongyang in August in front of 2,000 people.

The concert programme will include some of Laibach's hits over their 35-year career and North Korean folk songs.

The band has been slated by some critics because of its ambiguous use of political and nationalist imagery.

But admirers say that their tendency to wear military uniforms on stage is a critique of totalitarian ideology.

Norwegian director Mr Traavik says that in North Korea they will be uncontroversial - even performing songs from The Sound of Music.

Brilliant.  And the kicker is that Kim Jong Loon probably doesn't even see through the schtick, and thinks that Laibach are for real.  Fan-fuckin'-tastic.

Revealed: The Real Unofficial Campaign Song of the Conservative Party

The Telegraph would have us believe that huddled away in their subterranean election HQ, in between passing furry koalas, the Tories had One World by Queen on repeat.  They had it almost right.  In fact, the song in question was of course, the far superior cover-version, Geburt einer Nation by Laibach:

It just makes so much sense now, doesn't it ?  Unconfirmed reports suggest that another popular track on the playlist was one 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' from some old musical.