The concert that Marky Ramone had to give with his band last weekend in the Italian town of Segrate, near Milan, was suspended due to disagreements between the Ramones drummer and the organization of the event around a Palestinian flag in the scenery.
The member of the legendary New York punk rock band refused to start his show at the Self-managed Social Center of Baraonda if he did not first remove said flag, which he did not like. The organization noted that this order came when Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg, who performed alongside The Departed and Lizi and The Kids, were performing sound checks hours before the concert and refused to satisfy their wishes due to their political commitment.
“We told Marky Ramone that if he was not willing to have the Palestinian flag on stage, he could go back the way he came,” CSA Baraonda spokesperson told the audience, who applauded the decision and sided with the association. “It is a space to do politics,” he recalled. “Long live Free Palestine! "Long live everyone who fights for a world without wars or imperialism!" he said before indicating that they would try to return the eight euros of the ticket to each of the attendees, a lower price than the rest of the other events on the tour. for Italy, 20 and 18 euros.
Marky's response to the cancellation of the event was sharing a photo with the rest of the musical group making a comb – an image that he had already shared the previous month – accompanied by the message “Peace man” and the hashtag
These events occurred days after there was also controversy in Madrid during a live performance by the post-punk band Sleaford Mods after the repeated throwing of a Palestinian flag onto the stage. "Don't ask me to choose sides at a concert for something I have no real idea about. I'm a singer. My job is music. The only thing I really know about war is that I'm sick and tired of premature death like everyone else." us. Of the murder of anyone, under any damn network of beliefs," Jason Williamson said in a statement.
