Chris Bishop was a right ‘Brooke Van Velden’ at the NZ Music Awards with his aggressive bottle in hand rant against Stan Walker’s performance, but it was the Bish’s bizarre desire to get rough and ready with beloved musical Icon Don McGlashan that has rally caught our attention…
Renowned musician Don McGlashan was seen on the video confronting Bishop, but McGlashan said he did not realise at first that it was the minister.
“I could hear an enormous amount of ranting, kind of against the whole thing. I didn’t get the full gist of it, but it was basically – ‘the hīkoi is ages ago, sit down everybody’ – so this geezer was just ranting away and telling everybody to sit down,” McGlashan said.
“After a while I turned to him and said ‘ah shut up you dickhead’ and I looked at him and I thought, oh I know that face. Then he said ‘what did you say to me?’”.
McGlashan said that he again told Bishop to “shut up you dickhead and he said ‘I could say the same to you’, and I said, well I wasn’t talking and you were. And then I realised I was talking to the leader of the house”.
…‘what did you say to me?’
‘I could say the same to you’?
Was the Bish going to start a fight with musical icon Don McGlashan???
The singer of the angelic ‘Anchor Me’?
The Great MuttonBird?
Pulled along by love?
Halfway down a half way house on Dominion Road?
THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS! THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS! WE SEE THEM, WE WANT THEM, EVERY DAY!
That Don McGlashan?
Is this a new arts directive by National? Start fights with musical legends?
You won’t get NZ on Air funding if Chris Bishop pins you down for a 3 count?
Who will the Bish battle next? Dave Dobbyn? Neil Finn? Holly Smith?
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Like many Bishop was probably over the endless stream of ‘Maori wonderfulness’ that we are all expected to suffer through every 5 minutes.
James Brown – white redneck soul (r-soul) brother!
Like water off a ducks back.
This raises interesting questions. Why do these alleged icons need taxpayer funding in the first place if they are so iconic and if they absolutely have to be propped up by you and me why shouldn’t we demand neutrality. I am not remotely interested in what musicians have to say on the treaty or any other serious subject. Perhaps if they want to feel political, they can buy the ghastly Ardern’s book.
Chris Bishop can dislike anyone he wants to. If he chooses to articulate about it, then that’s his choice too. At least he’s not crying at an Adele concert like PM English did, drunk or sober.
‘Just ranting away and telling everybody to sit down.’
Not expressing an opinion – being a nasty bully.
This is an opinion: I disagree with the policies of the national Party because they harm large numbers of vulnerable people and enrich those who already have more than a fair share of wealth and resources.
I then support my opinion with examples and evidence.
This is a rant;
‘You are stupid.’ ‘You are pathetic’ ‘ What a loser!’ “Everything is Jacinda’s fault!’
As expected, our PM says he’s “perfectly comfortable” with Bishops comments.
How predictable.
Its not about the musical taste or the freedom of speech Brigid, it is about the overt racism for a cultural perspective different to his that’s the issue here.
I’m not sure Bishop was venting at the music but more the Treaty protests accompanying it.
He’s obviously a arrogant racist twat.
Why did he bother going it’s not his thing, but he went nevertheless and then acted like a dickhead (showing his true colours) not really what we expect of a Minister but under this government with our weakest PM ever they can do whatever they like, and they are.
He went for the free alcohol. You can tell by his look he’s a heavy user.
He must’ve been behaving very badly for the mild mannered Don McGlashan to tell him to stop being a dickhead as a general member of the public, without even clocking he was a politician. What the fuck?? If he had been a TPM or Green politician you would never hear the end of it. Just as JT pointed out if it had been a brown politician using the ‘C word’ in parliament it would’ve been over and out for them. For sure. All of which means to say the left needs to get as hard assed as the right.
100%
Bishop is still refusing to apologise. Good on him for objecting to the taxpayer funded poppits having a political play date at our expense.
The irony is strong with Ennius
If Bishop was there in a private capacity, he can say what he likes until Security decides to remove him for spoiling the experience of others.
If he’s there in an official capacity he’s representing the government and is obliged to treat performers with the respect due to all citizens by their government. If he hates what they’re doing, the time-honoured, slimeball technique would be to politely say nothing, then go away and scheme away to find a plausible way of de-funding the art he doesn’t approve of.
If he can’t hold his booze, he should not drink while in public.
A string of abuse does not make him a “music critic” as David Seymour suggested. Music critics, like literary critics make substantive comments about a work, its composition or construction, its potential meaning, its relation to other works, and the political, personal or social conditions that might give rise to it. Bishop does not have the brains or knowledge to undertake such a difficult task.
If his abuse is signalling that he’s fed up with what the authoritarian Right calls “Maorification” – then he’s telling us nothing we don’t already guess about him and his Party. They just don’t like the resurgence of Maori self-awareness and assertiveness in the last few decades after generations of its absence from the public sphere.
Bishop is an irrelevant, smirking, neoliberal oaf – a decaying disciple of dead economic ideas. Best to ignore him.
Oh and like his politics his hair is from the 80s.
He’s going to love going to the barbers with his mongrel dog and sucking back a half a dozen beers.
you are correct, he dosn’t have the brains
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