We
Come ONE!
One Tescos Nation-
Under one Tent
Glastonbury,
and the Betrayal of Insurrection.
Faithless the radical trance dance band who released the classic
We Come One insurrection song, now distribute through
the monlithic Tescos store brand. Tescos even own the radical demographic
therefore. The promotional video at Youtube shows ravers
and love children overthrowing cars and rising up against a
repressive police regime. But alas the video and its trance
accompaniment are now subsumed like all else in the great Tescos monoidentity. Extra
Clubcard points for Faithless fans no doubt. So
much for art! And Faithless. What hope for the rest of us? Time
maybe for a supergroup called "Hopeless"?
More
locally Tescos have applied for a superstore at the
M67 Junction. It is hardly letting the cat out of the bag, to
suggest that they looking to the future, when Mottram,
Hattersley, and Glossop, are all one piece of unified Greater
Manchester sprawl leading to a M67 motorway through the Dark
Peak parallel to the M62
as discussed previously with regard to Simon Bain's 1980s work
"Railroaded".
As things stand you dont get much bigger than
Tescos, they seem to represent a pattern of classic capitalist imperialist
growth. Now as the large supermarket market gets saturated,
Tescos have a deep purse, and are looking for strategic sites like Mottram for future
growth. Just
as they have abroad with a global chain of stores, and with small
Tesco Express stores across the UK as well as their hyper
stores. One day the bubble will burst and the model
may collapse. But not before they have changed the face of
Britain into a sort of stereotyped shopping mall pop festival like
Glastonbury, all radical facade and soma in the sun. Jointly owned by overlapping
media and retail interests, the so called community of 2010.
Enjoy!
One day this bubble will probably burst, but
for the time being it is fair to say that Tescos along with TV
pretty fairly define what is meant by the "community"
today, a community shaped by the survivors of the 60s and 70s like
Blair and Branson, the capitalist hippies. MPs hold
surgeries at Tescos, virtually everyone shops there, the stores are
massively user friendly, cheap and places which tend to be safe
and well behaved.
They are socially responsible, they offer
schools vouchers, they pretend to discourage car use with
stickers, (though that is a bit rich as they are really car only
stores) and they appeal to virtually every demographic. MPS hold
their surgeries there, they offer Bank accounts, and even
Faithless the radical trance dance band who released the classic
We Come One rise up against the State song, distribute through
the store. They even own the radical demographic therefore, and
videos showing ravers overthrowing cars to a trance
accompaniment are subsumed in the great Tescos monoidentity.
They are in a sense the modern
communal market
place, driving out small traders everywhere. Tescos in Glossop
pretty well decimated the town, likewise Stalybridge, and any
local traders left in Hyde will be squeezed out by this move.