LITM Extra - Boy George, Gaza, and 'We Will Dance Again' [excerpt]

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In this episode Tim responds to Boy George’s recent musical offering, ‘We Will Dance Again’. To respect BDS, we won’t be playing this AI-generated apologia for the Gaza genocide, or anything else from George’s catalogue, but Tim does explore the British singer’s confused history of political pronouncements on this and other issues, alongside some contemporaneous synth-pop from his New Romantic heyday. Elsewhere in the episode Tim talks about his own Jewish upbringing, the history of Israel, the nation’s participation in Eurovision, current reflections on the horrors being perpetrated in Palestine, and some modern and vintage Palestinian liberation music. 

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Tracklist:

The Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys 

Visage - Fade to Grey

Heaven 17 - (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing

Kofia - Leve Palestina

Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined