THE CRIBS - THE CRIBS DEFEND CLIMATE JOKE

THE CRIBS DEFEND CLIMATE JOKE

British band THE CRIBS have been forced to apologise after making an anti-climate change remark onstage at England's Glastonbury Festival on Friday (22Jun07). The band was blasted by environmentalists after guitarist Ryan Jarman claimed during the band's set finding more talented musicians was more important that global warming. Jarman claims he was joking when he told the crowd, "They want us to speak out about global warming, but the biggest problem is the attitude of some indie bands. Isn't that a bigger problem?" But he now insists, "At no point was I meaning to criticise the festival's climate campaign, I was just making a flippant remark about, how in my opinion, the mainstream mindset of most "indie" bands these days is the real scourge we should be against." Earlier this year (07), Jarman claimed to have 'invented' 2005 charity festival Live 8, saying, "I invented Live 8. We were in the recording studio recording our album and I found (Live 8 organiser) Bob Geldof's mobile phone number while we were there and I sent him a text message just saying Live Aid 2 (in reference to Geldof's 1985 famine fundraiser, Live Aid). "Lo and behold six months later Live 8 comes round. It's just nice to know you've made a little bit of difference."