Statement from Neil Young’s website, Neil Young Archives, 12 December 2018
Neil Young has confirmed that his Hyde Park concert in July 2019 will go ahead without sponsorship from Barclaycard in a dispute over investment in fracking.
A statement on his website, Neil Young Archives (NYA), said today:
“NYA is happy to announce that the Hyde Park show will proceed without Barclays as a sponsor.
“We are overjoyed, so happy to be playing the show!”
UK anti-fracking groups had contacted the singer when the concert sponsorship was announced to point out the link between fracking investment and Barclays, Barclaycard’s owner.
This afternoon, Pip Hockey, speaking for 30 groups said:
“We’re delighted that Neil Young has used his influence to sever ties with Barclays.
“The toxic bank was attempting to exploit his performance to distract from their pitiful record on the environment.
“Barclays are funding ecocide all over the world through their investments in tar sands pipelines and fracking.
“We hope other artists will take similar positions and boycott Barclays.”
Last week, Neil Young had objected to the sponsorship deal because of the links between Barclays and fracking and tar sands. In the UK, Barclays owns almost all of Third Energy, the company that is still waiting to frack a well at Kirby Misperton in North Yorkshire.
In a statement last week, Neil Young made clear his objections to the sponsorship:
“’I am standing against Barclays. . . . .Not on their stage. Not under their name. It shows how out of touch with reality Barclays Bank is, still investing in Fossil Fuels.
“Our children’s Planet is in trouble. Fossil Fuels are a major cause. Every day it gets much worse. Science on this matter is indisputable. Period. Barclays is still involved in the Canadian Tar Sands and currently backs fracking in England, overtly against the will of the people. It’s like they live in the past.”
Barclaycard has not commented on the announcement. The organisers of the British Summer Time festival are expected to issue a statement later. But they told BBC News the Neil Young show, which is co-headlining with Bob Dylan, would go ahead as planned.
Barclays has previously said it intended to sell Third Energy.
Categories: Opposition
We all lived like swampies. Urgh.
oh no we didn’t!….
Oh yes we did…
Ohh! Pantomime dames? Can we get tickets? Not sponsored by Barclaycard i hope?
🙂
So this totally explains why there are those who cry in anguish at the demise of fossil fuels…their ancestors lived in squalor and in caves and were unable to take care of themselves using nature; so I can sympathize with their fears, a little.
So to help:
1. It does not matter if the light goes off – there are no such things as vampires and werewolves (or are there?)
2. You can keep yourself warm using the right clothes and a simple, well insulated shelter.
3. You don’t have to get your food from a supermarket
And if you cannot break out of the magazine induces persona with a house, car and lots of matching consumables, the technology we have today can keep your lights on, heat your home and even give you all the basics without pouring gas and oil down the drain.
Of course some, reluctantly it seems, may have to retrain for another job – maybe a stint in the voluntary sector looking after the homeless or elderly may help their disposition?
Well said Sherwulfe, not much “Claire in the Community” amongst that lot is there?
But there won’t be any elderly, Sherwulfe, as they routinely die when expected to survive with a bit of insulation and warm clothing. Yes, in this country. Maybe that might be why hospitals and care homes are kept at the temperatures they are, and why many are stuck in hospital because that is not practical in their own homes?
But an aging population, and their needs, can be another bit of collateral damage for the few. Perhaps those same elderly could be better looked after if we as a country were not being so generous donating to the Norwegian Wealth Fund and redirected it to such requirements.
Easy to forget the Beast from the East.
You clearly don’t study history my imaginary friend…..
So if you had bothered to read my post you would have course realized that the two items you jumped on were not related. However, fair point and another incentive not to waste gas and oil by directly burning to make steam to turn a turbine to make electricity when a blade can do the job cheaper, quicker and for longer…..
On the temperature of these lovely ‘living dead’ hostels marketed as ‘care’ homes if the residents are forced to be static with the routines offered to them, they will need more heating. Am assured that many residents would prefer to get out and tend the garden, go out in the fresh air, visit family; do the right thing – please please please keep your loved ones at home and know they are active and safe; nuff said.
‘Schellnhuber concurred. “I’ve worked on this for 30 years and I’ve never been as worried as I am today.”’ – back to the real problem……
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/global-heating-more-accurate-to-describe-risks-to-planet-says-key-scientist
Good on ya Neil 👍✌️✌️✌️✌️
Neil’s gone a bit shakey after he married that Splash bird
“Currently backs fracking in England, overtly against the will of the people”. Neil Young.
Really?
Virtue signalling is so much better if you get your facts correct, otherwise it just looks like a poorly researched gesture.
Ahhh! The virtue signaller of all virtue signallers favourite phrase! Same old Martian, no change there either?
Perhaps we should let Neil Young have the last word(s):
After The Goldrush
Ain’t It The Truth
Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
Bad Fog Of Loneliness
Bad News
Bad News Beat
Better Than Silver And Gold
Big Green Country
Big Parade
Big Room
Big Time
Bite The Bullet
Blue Eden
Born To Run
Broken Arrow
Burned
Campaigner
Can’t Believe Your Lyin’
Change Your Mind
Comes A Time
Comin’ Apart At Every Nail
Computer Cowboy
Crime In The City (sixty To Zero Part 1)
Crime Of The Heart
Dance, Dance, Dance
Days That Used To Be
Deep Forbidden Lake
Depression Blues
Devil’s Sidewalk
Differently
Distant Camera
Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It
Don’t Be Denied
Don’t Cry No Tears
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
Don’t Say You Win, Don’t Say You Lose
Down Down Down
Down To The Wire
Drive Back
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
F!*#in’ Up
Fallen Angel
Falling From Above
Field Of Opportunity
Find Another Shoulder
Flying On The Ground (is Wrong)
For The Turnstiles
Four Strong Winds
Get Gone
Give Me Strength
God’s Perfect Plan
Great Divide
Greatest Song On Earth
Guilty Train
Hangin’ On A Limb
Hard Luck Stories
Hawks & Doves
Heart Of Gold
Hello Mr. Soul
Here We Are In The Years
Homefires
Homegrown
Human Highway
I Ain’t Got The Blues
I’m The Ocean
Let It Shine
Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
Life In The City
Like A Hurricane
Long May You Run
Long Walk Home
Losing End
Lost In Space
Love And Only Love
Misfits
Mother Earth
Motor City
Nothing Is Perfect
Out On The Weekend
Over And Over
Peace Of Mind
Prisoners Of Rock N Roll
Pushed It Over The End
Revolution Blues
Rockin’ In The Free World
Round & Round (it Won’t Be Long)
Running Dry (requiem For The Rockets)
Sail Away
Sample And Hold
See The Sky About To Rain
Silver And Gold
Speakin’ Out
Sun Green
Tell Me Why
The Bridge
The Great Divide
The Losing End (when You’re On)
The Needle And The Damage Done
The Wayward Wind
There’s A World
This Note’s For You
This Old House
This Town
Thrasher
Transformer Man
Vampire Blues
Walk On
War Of Man
Welcome To The Big Room
What Did You Do To My Life
World On A String
Yonder Stands The Sinner (dedicated to Barclaycard?)
There, that was fun wasn’t it?
And the latest Neil Young song?
Will it be:
“Frackin’ it up!”?
Ha! Ha! Someone’s just sent me:
“No More Frackin’ In The Free World”
Neil’s hearts always been in the right place , not many like him about !!!