Springer producers heartened by protest no-show

February 1st, 2006 by Monitor

Yesterday’s Guardian quotes Jon Thoday, the producer of JS:TO. He seems quite pleased to report that the threatened protests at the opening of the show in Plymouth on Friday were so pathetic:

If they can only muster 35 people praying on the first date of the tour, my hope is that it will be the show that prevails and not the protests.

It is not known what proportion of the praying protestors were members of the BNP.


One Response to “Springer producers heartened by protest no-show”

  1. Stuart says:
    01/Feb/2006 at 10:15 pm

    Bunch of wusses!
    Just goes to show the fundies are getting soft and less numerous.
    When the Sex Pistols played Plymouth in 1976 on the Anarchy tour there must have been about 200 hymn-singing bible bashers outside, and less than 50 kids inside the club.

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