The boycott
- Amanda Riddell
- Apr 28
- 1 min read
I'm not exactly sure when it went from an informal thing to the activist stunt that's been going on for the last year or so. For the young people: when you do a stunt like this, you are going to offend people, and that's something that activism can do without being illegal or somehow 'wrong' ... if the change that you want already exists, then there'd be no reason to protest. I've had to ignore lots and lots of pleas to give it up, for example. But it matters to me, so I don't give a shit. From my perspective, winning means that my professional career can finally begin as a filmmaker and composer. - I'm sure that Ollie Langridge probably faced a fair few hecklers with his stunt. - Avoiding gigs was easy, but 'contributing to the cultural life' is something that I have indeed done with my AMPP films, so I didn't truly live that protest to the max. My stunt with the phone has been a mainstay since 2021. Never been arrested, or even cautioned. They thought the monologues were a sign of instability, but nobody says that now. - As Gary likes to say, you're not a true activist until you do a solo protest.