Sarajevo cancelled

Iggy Pop cancels Sarajevo concert after violence

(Reuters Life!) - American punk icon Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges canceled an October 1 concert in Sarajevo over security fears after violence disrupted the Bosnian capital's first gay festival last week.

"The concert is canceled," Rajko Bogdanovic, an organizer, told Reuters on telephone. "The main reason lies in negative images that went out of Sarajevo in the past days."

The gay festival closed early after hooded men, some shouting Islamic slogans, attacked visitors on its opening night, injuring eight people. About 70 men, some shouting "God is greatest" in Arabic, dragged festival-goers from their cars and beat others in the streets on Wednesday.

Islamic papers and magazines had criticized the timing of the festival, organized during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Fans of two rival soccer clubs also clashed at the weekend in Sarajevo, damaging cars and buses and smashing windows of nearby bars. Several people were admitted to hospital.

"Sarajevo is still on the list of the world high-risk places," said Bogdanovic, the director of the Art Zone agency. He added that ticket sales were also poor.

The concert of Iggy Pop, known for his controversial performances, was scheduled on the second day of Eid-al-Fitr, the Islamic holiday that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Sarajevo, known for centuries for the peaceful coexistence of Muslims, Christians and Jews, became a majority Muslim city after the 1992-95 war.

(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic, editing by Paul Casciato)

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A GAY festival ?

Serious stuff happening there in Sarajevo...risky place for such a festival.
Smart they cancelled. This was Stooges last listed concert.
On the other hand...pitty fear won again.
And again a gay happening got suppressed by violence

JESUS_LOVES_THE_STOOGES wrote:

A GAY festival ?

Yeah, whats wrong with that?

sounds like they take their football pretty seriously over there too!

Nothing wrong with gay. BUT, I am surprised that there's such a festival.. I didn't know about this.

Cheers !

Gay festivals aren't uncommon...

G, F#, E wrote:

Gay festivals aren't uncommon...

yeh, but...in Sarajevo???

Exactly Nadja !! ? -- PS, my new avatar is of me !

Fucking extremist Islamist brainwashed fucks, how insecure can you get. Probably think they're demonstrating their manhood by a bit of gay bashing.

mc wrote:

Fucking extremist Islamist brainwashed fucks, how insecure
can you get.

exactly > totally F* Idiots!

Sarajevo is still Europe so you would think a gay festival must be possible....yeah..it's too hot blooded there.
Seems to me like the organisation wanted to make a statement with that festival..during the ramadan..
and during that specific last day. That is pretty crazy! Cuz those Islamic get really loose on/after the last day of the ramadan.

BTW...I like your avatar JLTS > nice picture!!

JESUS_LOVES_THE_STOOGES wrote:

PS, my new avatar is of me !

that reminds me JLTS (sorry for going off-topic again) but are you going to do your version of Little Doll sometime?
(you see I haven't forgotten )

Heheh. Thanks Zin !

Yeah Nadja I'll do it this weekend for you !

I hope they paid the band!

So, the Ljubljana gig was the last one, wasn't it?
The definitive Metallic KO I mean...

Yeah and "Raw Power" was the last song Ron played live, just like they originally went out...with a cover.

So how is that a cover?

Donald wrote:

So how is that a cover?

to this line-up/era it would be seen some what as a "cover".

it was pretty much pop/williamson instead of pop/asheton/asheton/alexander

That makes no sense. Ron played on the original, it was by the Stooges. That's like saying the Stones play a cover of Paint It, Black or Sympathy for the Devil.

I think Ron once stated that playing raw power stuff feels like being a cover band. He was demoted in that period (or at least felt it as a demotion) and I think he never really had peace with that fact. Although, them playing raw power and search might indicate he was getting there.

I must say (and not because Ron is dead now) that the bass on Metallic KO is fantastic

I wonder if Iggy regards it as a cover. Probably not.

There's been video on YouTube of the last show, listed next to the show on my concert info page:

http://www.iggypop.org/iggy2.html

This is the setlist of what will (probably) remain the last Stooges gig ever :

01. Loose
02. Down On The Street
03. 1969
04. Shadow Of Your Smile (short a capella vers.) –> I Wanna Be Your Dog
05. TV Eye
06. Real Cool Time
07. No Fun
08. 1970 –> Mindroom
09. Funhouse –> L.A. Blues
10. Skull Ring
11. Search And Destroy
12. My Idea Of Fun
13. I Got A Right

encore:
14. Trollin'
15. Little Electric Chair
16. Little Doll
17. Raw Power

Donald wrote:

I wonder if Iggy regards it as a cover. Probably not.

No but for Ron it would have been. Its a song he didn't write and didn't play guitar on.

Must have been a cover when he originally recorded it then