Viet Cong cambiará su nombre

 Viet Cong no quiere más problemas por su nombre. La formación canadiense no quiere provocar ofensas a nadie debido al título de su banda /el VietCong era el nombre que recibía el ejército guerrillero de Vietnam del Norte durante la cruenta guerra del país asiático/ por lo que han anunciado su decisión de cambiar el nombre.

La banda post punk, tras hablar con representantes de la comunidad vietnamita, ha emitido un comunicado en el que expresa su firme decisión de cambiar el nombre para evitar contratiempos como el que sufrieron en Oberlin, Ohio, donde cancelaron su show debido a las críticas que recibió el promotor por contratar una banda con este nombre.

Aquí el comunicado:

<<Art and music are about creative expression. However, our band name is not our cause, and we are not going to fight for it. This is not what our band is about.

There are many individuals more eloquent than us who have recently had a lot to say about the topic of the name and our appropriation of the name Viet Cong. For more insights into the arguments we encourage you to read some of these. We are a band who want to make music and play our music for our fans. We are not here to cause pain or remind people of atrocities of the past.

The truth is, we’ve been planning to change the band name for the next record for months; it has not been an easy decision by any means. We are a band of four people with four individual voices; this debate has been long and difficult for us and it took time for everyone to settle on a plan of action.

We don’t know what the new name of our band will be, and we owe it to our fans to honour the concerts we have booked. We rushed into our last band name decision, we don’t plan to rush into this one, but know that will be rolling out a new name as soon as we agree upon one.

We realize this won't satisfy everyone, but that's certainly not the goal of this band. We never expected this kind of attention in the first place and just want to return to playing music, which is the only thing we (kinda) know how to do.

We’ve had an incredible amount of support from fans, and we have to thank everyone who has said supportive words to us as we struggle with this. As always, we welcome people talking to us in person.

– Matt, Mike, Monty & Danny.>>