Haiti Benefit at the Cross Kings
On February 10th, I spent the day in my suit at an important Internal Communications conference for work, hanging out with people many times more important than I, from various FTSE100 companies. I point this out because the evening proved to be an amusing contrast.
In the evening I went, still in my suit, with my housemates Jim and Ally to a benefit gig in aid of Haiti at the Cross Kings, near, er, Kings Cross. It was the most left-wing thing ever, apart from maybe the squat party I went to once.
Comedians included Robin Ince, Jeremy Hardy (from the News Quiz), a lady who’s name escapes me, Shappi Khorsandi and her brother (in what I think was his first stand-up gig?), and… one of the musicians who was at Robin’s Godless Christmas gigs, who’s names escapes me.
Obviously it was very funny and enjoyable, but what did amuse me was that it was so left wing that it started off with the organisers criticising the aid charities in Haiti, and explaining how they money raised is going to go directly to the workers. I’m not educated enough to know about the relative merits of aid distribution, but y’know, some aid can’t hurt, and there’s a time and a place for advocating revolutionary socialism and I’m not sure directly after the worst earthquake in modern history is exactly it.
