Call the Paramedics Loses Another Gig

This is just a quick note to say that Call the Paramedics will not be performing at Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ next month. We are assuming from the emails we have received from people associated with the club, they have been pulled off the April 17 bill which would have made that weekend even more interesting than we expected it to be in the first place. The National Socialist Movement is planning to hold their conference in the state with a April 16 rally at the Statehouse in Trenton (with residents there asking, “Don’t they realize we have Bloods here?”)  and a concert later that night. And along comes this crap? Look, some of us are from the Jersey scene. Places for bands to play are scare enough as it is in the state. But venues need to stay away from this and other Nazi-associated bands period. The other caveat about freedom of speech is that people have the right to respond to speech they don’t like, and you will hear from those pissed off about these bands. And people will stop coming to your club – that’s another freedom we have. We will write about Call the Paramedics again, we are sure, but make no bones about it, we are not letting up on them. No Nazis in the scene.

One People’s Project

CLIFTON, NJ–Call the Paramedics, a band whose mysoginistic lyrics and neo-Nazi associations have caused them to lose several gigs over the past year, have been removed from an upcoming show that would have been taking place the same weekend as a neo-Nazi rally and conference, according to the club owner.

This is the third time the Dingbatz has removed the band from a show, the last two being in July and October of last year. “Dingbatz in now way shape or form supports nazi bands or racists,” a representative of the club wrote One People’s Project. “We’ve been doing this a long time and understand when a nazi group comes through town it does nothing but cause trouble. The problem is that Call the Paramedics have played here many many times, brought lots of kids out, made us some good money as well as themselves, and never once was there any kind of situation involving neo nazis. They’ve never brought any to my venue, never mentioned anything that I recall on stage about the subject.”

The April 17 show that Call the Paramedics was to play was a day after the National Socialist Movement’s (NSM) conference in the state and rally at the Statehouse in Trenton. The NSM plans to have a concert of their own that Saturday with performances by Empire Falls, who has released albums on an NSM-owned label, and a new band from Iowa named Zyklon B.