For those without the enough patience to read a few paragraphs I would only say this; it was fucking epic. Let me rub it in the faces of everyone who couldn’t get the tickets, you missed one of the most significant concerts since Sauron lost the Ring.
There, you can go away now or keep on reading to find out what exactly happened on June the 6th 2010 at Finsbury Park.
After the historical Killing in the name to Christmas No 1 campaign ended with a glorious victory for the people of the kingdom of the internet, Rage Against the Machine, or RATMĀ as known by friends, are keeping their promise of performing a free gig for the UK fans.
The 6 of June that is at Finsbury Park. Tickets to the event are all ‘sold out‘. I write that between quotation marks because they were given away for free. No tickets left, don’t try to find any.
Thanks to the will of the people who had something to say; and the possibility to speak out that Facebook and other ‘social media / web 2.0′ tools gave them; Killing in the Name has become the Christmas No 1 of 2009 in the UK.
The group and event urging people to buy Killing in the Name this week to take Rage Against the Machine to Christmas Number 1 has dissapeared from Facebook after reaching nearly 700.000 members.
Simon Cowell seems to be quite angry at the idea of people buying good music instead of the over-produced-mediocre-shit-sang-by-morons he creates.
Tracy and Jon from London started a facebook group for a bit of a laugh a few days ago.
The intention of the group was to urge people to buy ‘Killing in the Name’ during the week prior to Christmas transforminig it into the Christmas Single No. 1