{"id":3500,"date":"2010-12-10T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/12\/10\/cage-against-the-machine\/"},"modified":"2010-12-10T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T13:55:00","slug":"cage-against-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/12\/10\/cage-against-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"cage against the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/dec\/06\/cage-against-machine-x-factor\">Pop stars to stage silent X Factor protest<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 2px solid; padding-left: 1em; margin-left: 1em\"><p>Later today, Pete Doherty, the Kooks, Billy Bragg, Imogen Heap, Orbital and many more will gather in a London studio, collaborating in a bid for this year&#8217;s Christmas No 1. But the strangest bit is not the team-up: it&#8217;s that they are not recording a single note. The ad hoc supergroup is assembling in support of Cage Against the Machine, a charity campaign to take John Cage&#8217;s infamous 4&#8217;33&quot; &ndash; a composition of pure silence &ndash; to the top of the Yuletide charts.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catm.co.uk\/\">gathering momentum<\/a> over the past couple of months, winning celebrity endorsements, amused press coverage and around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cageagainstthemachine\">60,000 Facebook fans<\/a>. Their inspiration is obvious: last year&#8217;s successful push to raise Rage Against the Machine&#8217;s Killing In the Name, released in 1992, over X Factor winner Joe McElderry&#8217;s The Climb. In 2010, instead of loosing a profanity-laden rap-rock tirade on the British public, Cage Against the Machine organisers want to unfurl the serene sound of silence, taking on whoever wins X Factor next week.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop stars to stage silent X Factor protest Later today, Pete Doherty, the Kooks, Billy Bragg, Imogen Heap, Orbital and many more will gather in a London studio, collaborating in a bid for this year&#8217;s Christmas No 1. But the strangest bit is not the team-up: it&#8217;s that they are not recording a single note. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/12\/10\/cage-against-the-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;cage against the machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,306],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-news-of-the-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}