OI POLLOI: 3/1/2014 Horte social centre in Strausberg, GERMANY CANCELLED AFTER BAND BANNED FOR SINGING IN GAELIC

Scottish oi punk/anarchist pioneers OI POLLOI have sent this statement as the band has been banned as the bands 3/1/2014 show @ Horte social centre in Strausberg, GERMANY is cancelled as the promoters seemed to be offended the band sings in their native Gaelic instead of English.








Anarchist punk legends OI POLOII  unleashed a documentary "Oi Poloii: THE MOVIE in 2010.
OI POLLOI recently unleashed a split EP with NA GATHAN on PROBLEM RECORDS in 2012.
OI POLLOI unleashed "Duisg" via PLASTIC BOMB ACTIVE REBELLION in 2012.













FROM OI POLLOI:
We're very sorry to announce that our March 1st gig at the Horte social centre in Strausberg in Eastern Germany is now cancelled after we were "banned" when organisers realised that - shock horror - we sometimes sing in Gaelic, one of the UK's minority celtic languages. Like many other minority language speakers, we're used to abuse from "Speak English or Die" British Nationalist types at home but it's especially depressing to come across an attitude of such hostility to multiculturalism and diversity in what we thought would be a progressive social centre. We know that speakers of Sorbisch, the slavic minority language in parts of Eastern Germany, also suffer the same kind of ignorance and hostility from those who want them to all speak Hochdeutsch instead but we had hoped that a place like the Horte centre would be different. Needless to say, this will only spur us on to continue to campaign for respect for minority cultures, diversity and linguistic human rights. We'd also call on all politically aware touring bands to boycott the so-called "Kulturzentrum" Horte - there can be no place for racism or discrimination against minorities in our scene. For diversity, multiculturalism, respect for minorities and a punk scene free of discrimination!

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-