Issue 33 / May 2013
May 2013 issue of Bido Lito! Featuring ALL WE ARE, GHOSTCHANT, SOHO RIOTS, LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY 2013 PREVIEW and much more.
May 2013 issue of Bido Lito! Featuring ALL WE ARE, GHOSTCHANT, SOHO RIOTS, LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY 2013 PREVIEW and much more.
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Bido Lito! <strong>May</strong> <strong>2013</strong> 3<br />
Editorial<br />
I can remember when I was a kid, my mum used to tell me to stop and count to 10 before I said<br />
something. As with much of her advice, this is something that has proved a really handy tool over the<br />
years, helping me bite my tongue before getting embroiled in a whole manner of sticky situations.<br />
What she failed to tell me though was that, on some rare, unique occasions, you can count to a<br />
hundred and think “Fuck it, I’m gonna say it anyway.”<br />
One of those rare occasions played out this week when, following the announcement that from<br />
the start of next season Tranmere are to have their shirt sponsored by Home Bargains, the loveable<br />
folks over at Radio City decided to stick a microphone in front of my gob and ask if I’d like to share<br />
my thoughts on the news. Still in the throes of bemused embarrassment I agreed - against my initial<br />
hesitation - and delivered a ten-minute tirade denouncing this latest symptom, a further oozing bubo<br />
within the metaphorical armpit of modern football.<br />
I found the reaction to my outburst quite strange, as football fans and non-football fans (always<br />
have to be wary of those, by the way) alike questioned my lack of ‘rationality’ on the issue. Since when<br />
has the idea of being a football fan been rational? Festering on a Happy Al’s bus on a 14-hour round<br />
trip to an away game, getting drilled 5-nil and arriving back<br />
home at 5 in the morning is categorically irrational. Spending<br />
a large proportion of your annual income on a perpetually<br />
disappointing letdown is completely irrational.<br />
I have no problem per se with Home Bargains. If flogging<br />
short-dated tinned vegetables and low-priced cleaning<br />
products gets your juices flowing, then I’m sure you’ll positively<br />
love them. After all, we could play with the name of a sullied<br />
financial institution across our shirt which, for the best part of<br />
10 years, was facilitating billions of dollars’ worth of illegal Iranian financial dealings. But, I find the<br />
prevailing idea that Tranmere should ‘take what they’re given’ and ‘can’t be choosy in these tough<br />
economic times’ just mere shorthand for an institutionalised lack of ideas at the football club.<br />
Moreover, the disconnect between football clubs and football supporters is shocking; there is such<br />
a clear lack of mutual understanding. When unveiling the new deal with Home Bargains, Tranmere<br />
Chairmen Peter Johnson (yes Everton fans, he’s still kicking around) proclaimed that, “there are many<br />
similarities between Home Bargains and Tranmere Rovers.” Aside from our penchant for fielding<br />
ageing players just shy of their sell-by date with marked success - John Aldridge, Paul Rideout, Jason<br />
McAteer et al - I really do fail to see the comparisons.<br />
A football team’s strip is their gladiatorial uniform, the armour we wear into battle. It says<br />
everything about who you are. For over 20 years, Tranmere entered the field of combat with ‘Wirral’<br />
emblazoned across our shirts, proudly proclaiming the club’s heritage, its homeland. Now we have<br />
Home Bargains. The cheapest of the cheap. You can feel the opposition quaking.<br />
I accept it could be worse. Blackpool’s sponsorship by Wonga is just plain distasteful and I know<br />
most Tranmere fans dreaded the arrival of one of the faceless betting websites which seem to be<br />
slowly consuming football. At least Home Bargains are a local company, creating jobs on Merseyside,<br />
and perhaps we’ve been spoiled for the past 20 years. God, I can feel that dreaded rationality<br />
creeping in.<br />
But wait, no, there it goes again....click. A tap of my mouse and I’ve renewed my season ticket,<br />
£329 to the football club I’d spent 10 minutes of the same day berating with steaming vitriol on the<br />
radio. Fuck rationality.<br />
Craig G Pennington / @BidoLito<br />
Editor<br />
Features<br />
6<br />
ALL WE ARE<br />
8<br />
GHOSTCHANT<br />
10<br />
LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY<br />
12<br />
14<br />
16<br />
18<br />
SOHO RIOTS<br />
EAST VILLAGE ARTS CLUB<br />
LIGHTNIGHT<br />
HAS YOUTUBE KILLED<br />
THE VIDEO STAR?<br />
Regulars<br />
4 NEWS<br />
20<br />
PREVIEWS/SHORTS<br />
22<br />
REVIEWS<br />
Bido Lito!<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> Thirty Three / <strong>May</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />
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