PEOPLE INDIA VENGABOYS,0202
Indian university students march to denounce concert by Dutch pop band
GAUHATI, India - Indian university students marched Tuesday to protest a
scheduled concert by the Vengaboys, a popular Dutch band, claiming the pop
group's music is too risque to be played live.
More than a hundred young men, most of them students at an elite college, took
to the streets to denounce the planned Sept. 23 concert.
"Pop groups like Vengaboys do not fit into a conservative culture like ours,"
said Rahul Das, a student leader. "We don't want the band to perform here."
The Dutch pop band has topped European charts with its rhythmic numbers
such as "Braziland We're Going to Ibiza."
"We are against the tremendous noise pollution that would occur when this
band performs," said Jagadish Dutta, president of the Cotton College Students
Union.
Tuesday's protest came as tour promoters put up huge billboards throughout
Gauhati, capital of India's remote northeast Assam province, announcing the
first-ever concert in the city by a top international pop group.
Vengaboys is also scheduled to hold concerts in the Indian cities of
Chandigarh, Lucknow, Calcutta, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
― Nick, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
one month passes...
"We are against the tremendous noise pollution that would occur
when this band performs"
If I didn't know better, I'd have thought this was a quote pulled
straight from the NME.
― Kim, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
two years pass...
oh, creepy, I swear I didn't notice that, sorry.
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 April 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)
that was the biggest story on September 11th 2001, if i remeber correctly...
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)