Fancy a bit of agitating..Nov 26 1pm in the west end?

[reggie]

Sly and Reggie are going up west on Thursday, fancy joining us?

Trafigura are still trying to gag Newsnight so there's a flashmob happenin' outside their offices.

For more info try clicking on this one

[Huguenot]

Can it be a flashmob if it's planned?

[reggie]

yes..people dont spontaneously flashmob..duh!

[mockney piers]

Have you sold the rights to T-mobile? You'll make a fortune.

[woofmarkthedog]

Oh organised chaos then, how last year

Much more outr? to get Tracey Emin there with her t*ts out.

A couple of revolution songs on a Kazzoo should kick things of nicely

[Jah Lush]

I always though a flash mob was a bunch of sharp dressers down the Lacarno of a Saturday night looking for a bit of aggrovation but then I am getting on a bit.

[SteveT]

I always though a flash mob was a bunch of papparazzi.

[reggie]

Well we dont have Tracy Emin but we will have the new improved Middle Class Sound System,the Morris Minor,

our new flag and a load of people with cameras.

http://www.thesuburbanpirate.com/TRAFIGURA_medium.jpg

[Jah Lush]

Oooh those dogs look nasty vicious brutes. I hope you've got a licence for them.

[????]

Vote Sly and Reggie

[Jah Lush]

Sly & Reggie? surely you mean Sly & Robbie, the Jamaican riddim kings.

[reggie]

Jah Lush..if you really want to know..we inherited this riddim Morris Minor

http://www.thesuburbanpirate.com/carter_three.jpg

from Jamaica

http://www.thesuburbanpirate.com/sound_system%20on%20morris.jpg

[Jah Lush]

Wicked! Yes, I've seen it about the hood. Sorry, old bean I was just doing a bit of agitating myself there. Good luck with this.

[ruffers]

Make it 1.15 so people who were local who have lunch at 1 can make it.

ruffers speaks the truth - boops!

[ruffers]

Make it 1.15 so people who were local who have lunch at 1 can make it.

ruffers speaks the truth - boops!

[reggie]

well the plan is from 1pm to 2pm but the Morris doesnt usually hang about long.

Hope you can make it.

There is a facebook page

[reggie]

well the plan is from 1pm to 2pm but the Morris doesnt usually hang about long.

Hope you can make it.

There is a facebook page

[Huguenot]

Well, there's nothing particularly 'flash' about it if there's no spontaneity.

Isn't it just an old-fashioned protest? Used to have groups of people who did that at uni. Every Saturday. There was always something to protest about. I don't think they really cared what it was about, so long as they were protesting it.

So if indeed 'flashmob' is a just rebranding of protest, isn't it kind of weird that these down-to-earth protesters would engage in such marketing gimmickry as choosing a trendy right-on name? You'd have thought that protesters hated marketers.

On the wikipedia page someone suggests that 'flashmob' can't be applied to publicity stunts. Which is daft. A flashmob is a publicity stunt. With added blitzkrieg and shock & awe. So very very american.

There's something particularly disingenuous in concept about a protester with righteous indignation employing such underhand modern marketing tactics and then denying it. It makes the whole crowd seem like liars.

And then of course, if the group accusing Trafigura of covering up the truth are actually covering up the truth themselves...

[Huguenot]

Well, there's nothing particularly 'flash' about it if there's no spontaneity.

Isn't it just an old-fashioned protest? Used to have groups of people who did that at uni. Every Saturday. There was always something to protest about. I don't think they really cared what it was about, so long as they were protesting it.

So if indeed 'flashmob' is a just rebranding of protest, isn't it kind of weird that these down-to-earth protesters would engage in such marketing gimmickry as choosing a trendy right-on name? You'd have thought that protesters hated marketers.

On the wikipedia page someone suggests that 'flashmob' can't be applied to publicity stunts. Which is daft. A flashmob is a publicity stunt. With added blitzkrieg and shock & awe. So very very american.

There's something particularly disingenuous in concept about a protester with righteous indignation employing such underhand modern marketing tactics and then denying it. It makes the whole crowd seem like liars.

And then of course, if the group accusing Trafigura of covering up the truth are actually covering up the truth themselves...

[reggie]

You've hit the nail on the head..it is righteous.

Listen to this righteous track

[reggie]

You've hit the nail on the head..it is righteous.

Listen to this righteous track

[ruffers]

Isn't a flashmob when lots of people who appear to have no connection just start doing whatever, dancing singing pillow fight apparently spontaneously? It's about a moment surely?

An hour long demo is an hour long demo I'd have thought.

Anyway, boing.

[reggie]

The flashmob element is in the participation.

We are inviting people to film themselves or be filmed saying the Hansard words that Newsnight are being sued for reporting.

So its not just placards and chanting its got a 'social media' aspect.

Sly and Reggie are usually pretty brief, we do a driveby dub, round the block a few times then off. Maybe this time we will park up and give it a five minute blast.

The other reason for using the term flashmob is in order to steer the proceedings into the peaceful and lawful end of the protesting lollypop.

Trafigura,call off your dogs and tell it how it is.

Dub Track

[Moos]

reggie, I think you've got Huguenot signed up, then? After all, agitation appears to be his style.

[Huguenot]

I'm not agitated. A wee bit disparaging of people re-branding a protest as some sort of light hearted street entertainment perhaps. I feel it's disingenuous.

Besides, I thought the very idea of a flash mob was to subvert the natural social order? Lefties going to leftie demos with other lefties to complain about big-business has been around so long it's positively conformist. Even the middle classes are doing it now.

(Not that I support Trafigura at all, they've been very naughty boys. "Call off the Dogs" is still terribly Citizen Smith.)