As Moseley Folk Festival gets ever closer news has reached us that this years line up isn’t quite what the organisers would have wanted. We were all bemused when we saw the inclusion of Ocean Colour Scene on the bill and it seems the people who booked them were equally reluctant to include them.
An anonymous representative of the Folk Festival told us “We know Moseley is possibly the last place in the country that wants to go through all that again, we were with you dancing in the street the day they caught the train down to London. There’s no place in Moseley for that Paul Weller lite bullshit anymore, but it’s the Forum, they made us book them or there would be no more Folk Festival. They’ve got this crazy idea that everything was better in the ’90s so if we get Ocean Colour Scene back then it will all be OK again.”
We approached the Moseley Forum who told us “Yeah, what are you going to do about it?”
It seems that it isn’t due to end there. The Forum have put together an ambitious range of local legislation to restore Moseley’s pride. The principle point of this is that any future alcohol licenses will only be granted if customers are compelled to wear Inspiral Carpets T shirt. This will not only remind people of how great the ’90s were but it will also stop girls with short skirts puking on the curbs and stop people getting stabby at the bus stop.
It is not clear why the Inspiral Carpets were chosen as they seem to have absolutely no relevance to Moseley whatsoever. What about Menswear? Have we forgotten already?
The thin justification for this legislative approach is the previous success of such hair brained plans. As the Forum told us “Didn’t we defeat Weatherpsoons with out special licensing law? Didn’t we eradicate begging with the Alcohol Free zone? Well we’re bringing back the good times with the T Shirt law.”
We’re dubious.