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LONDON RIOT FIRES BURN BASICK RECORDS WAREHOUSE TO THE GROUND

 Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 11:00am by

[UPDATE, 11:15am EDT: An official statement by Basick sent exclusively to MetalSucks follows.]

As far as I know Basick has some of its international stock housed there but at the moment we’re trying to find out what the extent of the damage is from the distributors. What we do know is that a MASSIVE amount of UK independent music labels are affected by this.

The hope is that the distro have shipped most of the stock out of the country already but again, at the moment we’re still trying to find out exactly what the situation is. Sorry we have no more details at this time.

Original post:

The riots that have been blazing on in London since Saturday night following the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police have suddenly hit a lot closer to home for metalheads worldwide: the Sony DADC warehouse that served as an international distribution center for PIAS, including Basick Records and a number of other independent record labels, has been completely burned to the ground and all their physical stock been destroyed. Basick Records is the home of Aliases, The Arusha Accord, Chimp Spanner, Circles, Monuments and several other metal bands. The devastating blaze has been confirmed on Basick’s Facebook page.

I’m horrified by what’s going on in London, and I can’t say I understand it. Violence and arson are not the answer. The widespread fires and looting seem to affect mom and pop stores and small companies more than anyone else, destroying the very communities the protesters are supposedly fighting for.

Best of luck to Basick and all the other affected labels with picking up and starting anew. We hope no one was harmed in blaze. From what I can gather this fire affected only international stock, not what’s kept to sell within the U.K., but it’s still a huge loss.

Chime in with your thoughts on the London riots below.

-VN

Thanks: Luke Friebel

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  • Joe LaForm

    They are mad because of a gang leader who was killed. That’s what they are pissed about. This sucks about Basick. They had nothing to do with it, and got caught up in it because the hoodlums need to prove some point. It’s almost the same thing that happened in Wisconsin last week. A group of people, who feel entitled to everything but will work for nothing, will destroy to show you how little they care for rule of law and everything else.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Austin-Pearl-Nutter/1418565949 Austin Pearl Nutter

      I doubt the people are all even rioting about the shooting. I mean most of the people just want to break shit and so they’re jumping on the bandwagon. Some people are all liike “fuck yeah burn the establishment end oppression” but that’s idiotic, people are just blindly burning shit.

      • colbow

        absolutely. after all, we’re talking about the country which gave birth to sex pistols, not much else to say, really.

        • asongtoruin

          Uhhh, yes there is. The Sex Pistols were a band that formed 36 years ago, what the fuck do they have to do with the state of the UK right now?

          The warehouse that got burned down apparently holds stock of a LOT of independent labels and it’s massively shit that it got burned down. I don’t think anyone fully understands what’s going on at the moment, the death of Mark Duggan seems to have only been the catalyst.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pat-Arriola/100002131340820 Pat Arriola

            England is famous for their yobs. That’s why the Sex Pistols are relevant to the discussion.

          • colbow

            thats what im talkin about. seems like people just don’t change.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Warrell/516025342 Richard Warrell

            It’s an economic thing. I’d explain it, but only if anyone volunteers to wanting to read an essay.

  • jared

    Well said, people never seem to go downtown and loot the wal mart distribution center or burn down the seat of government, that would be different but people get in the mob mentality and all sense goes out the door

  • jared

    Well said, people never seem to go downtown and loot the wal mart distribution center or burn down the seat of government, that would be different but people get in the mob mentality and all sense goes out the door

  • Josh

    LUKE FRIEBEL IS THE SHIT. SEE YOU SOON BUDDY

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Friebel/100000223433378 Luke Friebel

      Josh you are the shit!!!! Can’t wait to see you dudes!

  • Joe LaForm

    Oh, and enough politicaly correct bullshit. It’s time to call it what it is. That guy was a drug dealer and shot at the cops. It’s like this “certain” group of people no matter where they live are above the law.

    • corrupt_toolbox

      Worth pointing out that the IPCC now believes he didn’t actually fire at the police; they they were the only ones to fire (and damn near kill one of their own in the process).
      But yeah, he was a drug dealer and he did have a gun in the car, so good riddance.

  • cougar party

    Although, the death of Mark Duggan started the riots, it seems to me that what keep it going now is class warfare.

  • Igottawocket

    You know people in the middle east and africa must just continuously be more and mire amazed about how dumb we are in the western world. They riot over things like having ruthless, oppressive dictator in power and we riot over things like this and losing a hockey game. It’s just fucking pathetic, and then shut like this arises where perfect innocents are effected.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hugh-Platt/522335367 Hugh Platt

    It’s progressed far, far beyond the Mark Duggan shooting. It’s decades of British inner city problems finally boiling over, combined with the mob realisation that there weren’t the resources to stop a series of (relatively) small riots taking place across the city. Couple this with the fact that the Metropolitan Police (aka London’s police force) has spent the last decade only really dealing with large-scale, mostly peaceful, generally-massed-in-one-place protests, and you’ve got a police force with neither the tactics or manpower at their disposal to deal with this. It’s been a damn weird few days here in London.

  • Joe LaForm

    What class warfare? I grew up in Philly and moved to a not so nice side of the Lehigh Valley in PA. I grew up with nothing. I workedy way out of it. These people will not. They have their hands out an constantly point fingers and blame everyone else for their ills. And there is common factor between them. Care to guess what it is? And I’m not talking about the whole race. Just the ones that happen to come from the shittier sides of town. Instead of working to get out,they make it worse.

    • snake

      Agreed, and kind of cool to see someone from the lehigh valley post here.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Austin-Pearl-Nutter/1418565949 Austin Pearl Nutter

      I kind of agree with you. A lot of people do legitimately have trouble getting out of their financial rut but a great deal of people in poverty are in poverty because they don’t want to work to improve their situation. My dad’s rented out houses to people who spend most of their money on drugs, then are infuriated when they get evicted. Insults to my family are scribbled in crayon on the walls, washing machines are stolen, police are called, the cycle repeats. I’m gonna guess that that’s the kind of people doing the rioting.

  • MachinaeSupremacist

    Of all the labels this could have happened to, it just had to be Basick, didn’t it?

  • Nutty McShithead

    Welcome to serfdom.

    Barack is just itchin to get his Dictator jive on here in the states. Martial Law awaits.

    • fleasbloodstainedcorpse

      Trolly McClueless. How’s that teabag downgrade working out for ya?

      • OldandTired

        You’re a clueless fuck.

        • Happy Cheese

          Actually, considering that Republican House leader John Boehner bragged he got 98% of what he wanted during the debt ceiling “negotiations,” I’d say that fleasblood is dead on the money.

          • cougar party

            So, you watched the Daily Show last night too, huh?

          • Happy Cheese

            Nope. Don’t watch television much. Read Boehner’s quote last week and am laughing at the subsequent S&P downgrade. Repubs own this shitty economy.

          • OldandTired

            Show me where the “Tea Party” has spent a god damn dime, you ignorant fuck.

            The US credit rating should have been downgraded years ago…long before your “Dear Leader” Obama got into office.

            When are you, and the other fucking “sheeple” going to figure out it’s not a Republican problem, it’s not a Democrat problem, it’s not a fucking Tea Party problem.

            The system itself is completely fucked, and we’re ALL going to down with the ship.

            Be sure to come back tomorrow after you get your talking points Rachel Maddow, and we can talk again.

    • Nutty McShithead

      Not my fault the Obingo is a clueless fuck.

      I wonder how much you like eating $71,000 per plate dinner’s with him in NYC.

      SERFDOM IS YOUR NAME…GET SOME!

      • RedSky Metal Blows

        Free market in action. If someone wants to spend that kind of money to eat with the President, shouldn’t that be their choice? C’mon you disgruntled teabagger you.

        • boazhimself

          a large majority of the people that get so pissed about politics are so grossly misinformed it makes me worry about the state of the media today.

          metalsucks, youre doing great. :)

  • corrupt_toolbox

    Here’s some more shit to get you worked up:
    Two girls involved in the riot give their half-arsed justifications: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424
    An elderly gentleman whose business was so thoroughly looted that they took his cotton wool: http://i.imgur.com/TWKMC.png

    • 13ate

      Uhg. Painful. Time to bust out a AA-12 to put this “party” to an end.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Harrison-Hatcher/100000832693214 Harrison Hatcher

        Fuckin’ right. Every last one of these looting vagrants deserves a classic “mountain trial”. By this, I mean they need to be shot or killed in some manner for destroying property, hurting innocent people, killing a man, and just being pieces of shit with no worth in life.

        • Marco

          Good thing you are not a piece of shit at all

  • pixelate

    London’s Rodney King riot.

  • Joe LaForm

    How the hell is any of this the President’s fault? How can you blame a bunch of hoods in two countries on our President? What the hell is wrong with you? You goddamned teabaggers made it worse by cutting the hell out of everything, including the police. Shut the hell up, stupid republican.

  • Joe LaForm

    The teabaggers like to make anything political to fit that right wing ideology. You give them truth and logic, they give you Fox News talking points. Brilliant.

  • Joe LaForm

    Actually born in Bethlehem, moved to Philly, then back to South Bethlehem, I’m all about the Tastykakes, Wawa and cheesesteaks. Lol

  • Captain Shoggoth

    My bassist’s mum’s shop got looted and now they have no income, and there’s a chance his bass may get looted from the shop he sent it to for repairs.

    Fuck the class divide, greedy politicans and bankers that enabled this.
    Fuck the police’s shitty handling of the situation.
    Fuck the benefits generation who believe they’re entitled to something for nothing.
    Fuck these uneducated tools who are destroying their own communities.

    If I could, I’d violently sodomize each one with a pneumatic drill.

  • Mandingo

    Sales of baseball bats have gone through the roof on Amazon Uk:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/sports/ref=zg_bsms_nav

    Looks like the public’s had enough lol.

  • shit eh

    Bitches better have insurance.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Antonio-Ortiz/554965113 Paul Antonio Ortiz

    Was really shocked to hear about this – utterly ashamed of this country right now. I know the people out there burning and looting are, technically, a minority. But they’re a LARGE minority. Nobody should be surprised by this. Go to any English town on any given night and you’ll see these criminals in waiting, doing what they do best. Getting pissed, fighting, intimidating. You always feel like you’re one funny look away from losing your front teeth.

    I just hope that us normal folk can come away from this with a strengthened resolve to not take their shit any more. And more on topic, I sincerely hope that all of the labels involved can bounce back from this. So many loyal fans have worked so hard with Basick to get them where they are. To think a bunch of chavs could threaten it just makes me rage.

    Chimp out.

  • Fufkin

    Agreed. It was like a spark to a tinderbox in many respects. I hope that resolve is something that comes out of this too and I also hope Basick can come back from this without it affecting artists like yourself too badly.

  • Fred Durst

    A Blaze In The Northern Sky

  • Clancy, the Creator

    Please stop saying “affect” instead of “effect”

  • Fleshskipper

    Enough’s, Enough. This twats that are out burning down buildings and mugging people, while injured and looting shops are not demonstrating and voicing any political angst, they are using any excuse to go and rob and smash. How can someone being shot in an area of North London mean that people in Manchester need to loot Bang and Olafson shops? Note that no book shops have been looted…

    This underbelly scum of society here in England think that they are beyond the law, because they’ve been made aware of their rights. They are scum and should be treated as such, grow some balls Cameron get this problem sorted

  • Beauzaque

    The majority are not rioting over the Mark Duggan shooting. I’m sure the majority are out there purely to smash some shit and rip off a TV and maybe some new sneakers. Though there’s no doubt there was quite a bit of tension throughout the country before this happened.

  • Ben

    I am from wolverhampton, a city badly affected by the riots. lets get a cpl things straight here.
    1) THESE WERE NOT RIOTS riots have a meaning i.e reccent protests at student fee increases. these morons were under educated mostly underage morons looking to make a quick few £’s
    2)The punk movement has nothing to do with this. most of these kids wouldnt even know who the sex pistols were and would probly think you were reffering to your cock.

    there was no tension before this, it exploded from no where.

    and one last point for international readers, p[lease dont tar all the youth of the u.k with the same shit stained brush. we aint all arseholes