PROTECT YOURSELF

While we're all a-campaigning: Shirley Manson has joined a US-based campaign designed to get musicians to use ear protection:

"It's about educating people, like you try to educate them to put on a condom.

"If you don't start taking precautions you'll be totally unbelievably uncool by the time you're 40, because you won't be able to hear a damn thing."

It's a strong campaign, and we'd join Manson in suggesting most musicians protect their ears from damage during their own sets by wearing earplugs, although we also have a small list of musicians who we'd rather protected their ears by wearing a ballgag during their sets instead. We'd hope next week's rock concert at the Vatican would be a good place for major artists to start spreading the message, although suggesting that ear protection works like a condom might not be such a wise idea there.

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