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Rage Against the Machine are tonight’s Countdown to Download 2010 Band
We’ve talked about Rage Against the Machine before – the huge deal that was the 2009 UK Christmas number 1 where an excellent Facebook group dedicated themselves to getting RATM’s Killing in the Name to the top spot ahead of the X-Factor. They succeded – for those who care, the X-Factor single made it to number 1 the following week but for many in the UK, the battle for the Christmas Number 1 slot was good fun until the X-Factor came along and spoiled it all. As a thankyou RATM promised a free gig to UK fans and that free gig happened last night in London. Were you there? How was it? Check out this fan vid – not rubbing it in about X-Factor at all are they? Listen to the crowd when the needle rips at 01:12!!
Anyway RATM will headline the Maurice Jones Stage at Download 2010 on Saturday from 9pm.
If you read my earlier post where I mentioned the Stone Temple Pilots you’ll maybe remember my mention of the Crow Soundtrack album – RATM also had an awesome song on there called Darkness (of Greed). Check it out:
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RATM Free UK Gig – London Finsbury Park 6 June 2010 – lottery registration required (link here)
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Further to my last post… In case you can’t be bothered checking, Killing in the Name made it to the UK Christmas No. 1 slot ahead of the X-Factor tripe thanks to a Facebook campaign and a bunch of people who had no desire to see the X-Factor single at the top spot. Not to mention that it’s a belting song. As a thank you, the band vowed to put on a free gig for UK fans.
True to their word the RATM free UK gig will now go ahead on 6 June 2010 in London’s Finsbury Park. You’ll have to register for the chance to get your free tickets – register at the Rage Factor. Registration closes at midnight on Sunday 14th February so don’t hang around.
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Rage Against the Machine to release details of free UK gig soon
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As a thankyou for helping Killing in the Name of(RATM) to get to the UK Christmas Number 1 ahead of the X-Factor puke, the band promised to play a free gig in the UK in 2010. An announcement of where and when this will take place is imminent and I’ll report on this as soon as I know anything. Or keep checking the official Rage Against the Machine website here.
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Rage against the X-Factor taking over UK Christmas number 1!
Hi everyone… I’ve thrown my support, for what it’s worth, behind the campaign to have Rage Against the Machine’s classic track ‘Killing in the Name’ hit the UK number 1 slot this Christmas. You can buy the track for under a quid using the links below (or if you have iTunes, you know what to do). I find the prospect of another sugar-coated crappy Christmas number 1 from the International Bank of Cowell a depressing prospect. The lad who won seems like a nice enough kid but he’s a puppet (he was told by the presenters on GMTV yesterday that he was heading to the USA to try to break into the music scene there – the poor lad didn’t have a clue about this – let’s hope he doesn’t have a criminal record, but I’m sure the X-Factor legal goons have already checked that out before they let him win (allegedly)). The situation isn’t helped by the “news” that 19million poor, misguided souls tuned in for the X-Factor final, a sizable proportion of whom will have already pre-ordered the single.I don’t know about you but I’ve had it with the whole X-Factor thing ruining the battle for the Christmas number 1 slot. Not that the pre X-Factor Christmas number 1 singles were anything to get that excited about (e.g. Bob the Builder, East 17, Mr Blobby (shudder)) but it was always a bit of a thrill when Sir Cliffy of Richardom was kept off the top spot. Now it’s a foregone conclusion that the X-Factor Puppet will top the charts. Yawn.
It doesn’t have to be this way. So if you would like to see Rage Against the Machine hit the top spot ahead of the Cowell-Child, then you can follow the links below to buy a copy of ‘Killing in the Name’:
Send a message to Cowell and cronies: “F**k you, I won’t do what you tell me” (repeat many times).
If you have a Facebook account, then you can also join the Facebook RATM Campaign group here. Note this group keeps “disappearing” from Facebook for some reason or another so keep trying.
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