gnosticheresy_2 wrote:Battle of the Beanfield wasn't the gypsy Irish/ Romany descended travellers who are hitting the news at Dale Farm and who've been in the UK for hundreds of years but rather what were later labelled as "New Age" travellers who first started out on the road in the late 60s/ early 70s. Not to say there wasn't any crossover between the two, because there was (as well as some antipathy), but the two are quite culturally distinct.
Oh, I know Gnostic, but the way they get treated by the mainstream is similar. The New Agers got the piss ripped out of them for being (supposedly) all middle-class dropouts, unauthentically playing at being rustics, while the Irish/Romany get shat on for being too authentically rustic. People who live in brick houses seem to feel fine about casting the first stones. When it comes to the police beating them up, or councils refusing them permissions that would likely be granted to others, or schools refusing them placements, they're about roughly equal. Which of them has the best music though? That's what I'm (kind of bizarrely) asking myself, for no real reason at all. I'd say the Irish/Romany/Scottish Travellers have the edge on the newbies.
Deledted scene from Extras. They never should've deleted this, it's great, though offensive (but that's the point):
