Random Manics thoughts...

[darkanddivine]

The Cuba thing to me sounds like a classic case of modern reporting. Of course, I would always side with the Manics especially given that last night the twitter of this forum uncovered a vested interest from the reporter on ITV news, a massive Stones fan would you believe!?

But as I say, sensationalism is the only way to go now. They could have easily tweaked what they wrote to something like:

Rolling Stones play enormous gig in Cuba to 40k people...

But of course that doesn't fit the mould of modern reporting that seems to need almost everything to be a historic and seismic event. It would get less retweets and all the rest of it. And it doesn't fit the narrative of those Stones fans who so desperately want the show to be something cool they can talk about down the pub. So this becomes:

Rolling Stones become first major band to play Cuba in historic gig...

Overall, it's just a reflection of the modern media I suspect. To prove the point, Tom Morello claimed the same thing as the Stones.