Extra Golden Detained In France

Extra Golden

Extra Golden's Kenyan members - Opiyo Bilongo, Onyango Wuod Omari and Onyango Jagwasi - were supposed to arrive at Vienna Airport yesterday morning for their show at the Stop Spot Festival in Linz this weekend. They did not.

The three musicians had apparently been detained by police at the airport in Paris for not carrying enough money.

Officials did not believe that they were musicians on official invitation to play at an international music festival, even though they had the necessary visas and documentation, and the three musicians were held and interrogated in the airport for several hours during their stopover from Nairobi.

Eventually with the involvement of the Austrian and French embassies, promoters of the festival got approval for the band to fly on to Vienna.

We can't wait to hear them come up with a song called "Bogendorfer."
Check out their track "Obama": http://thrilljockey.com/drop/freebies/Extra_Golden-Obama.mp3

The Stop Spot Festival takes place this weekend, October 26 and 27, in Linz. Barring any other police ridiculousness, Extra Golden is scheduled to play on Friday October 26.

Extra Golden's new album, Hera Ma Nono, is out now on Thrill Jockey.
http://thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=100842

http://www.extragolden.com/

[Published on: 10/25/07]

Comments

gmoo Thu 10/25/2007 02:05PM

+2 Votes

Profile much?

sunnbear Thu 10/25/2007 02:10PM

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"The three musicians had apparently been detained by police at the airport in Paris for not carrying enough money."

Man, I'd get detained everywhere! I'm so broke...I can't even pay attention!

sunnbear Thu 10/25/2007 02:11PM

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Oh, and by the way...France SUCKS!!!

ScIFreak Thu 10/25/2007 04:28PM

+2 Votes

France doesn't suck. And if you say that, you def. have never been to Paris. Paris will rock your shit.

Ula Thu 10/25/2007 07:39PM

+1 Votes

Sunnbear - Vous êtes un idiot. I'll take passage through a French airport any day over the "show" that TSA puts on in American airports in this paranoid post-9/11 country! - à Dieu

nuke_ticketbastard

Fri 10/26/2007 05:35AM

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oh that is perfect... everybody knows that real terrorists have loads of cash ....

ahhhhh i cant take it any more! insert a joke here about me having a bomb strapped on right now n shouting "give me my old jambase or give me death"

just kidding please dont send the riot squad !!!! y'know the "b" word just set off some high tech gov't watchdog sensors and homeland security is zeroing in on me as i type this! viva la revolution!

BGsteveBG Fri 10/26/2007 06:49AM

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Not having enough cash... typical. Too bad the security at o'hare in chicago let 3/4 of the undercover agents with fake bombs through.

But in their defense, they were making sure people had no more than 2 oz of liquid with them. what the fuck.

RRtribe

Fri 10/26/2007 10:06PM

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Je voudrais le SICKNESS, beaucoup! Baisez le TSA, all the other bad things are able to get through whilst they scavenge suitcases of the profiled and unprofiled alike for nukes the size of a pen cap.

P.S. Sunnbear's got one thing right, I'd be detained everywhere right now if that's the case. Guess we're all not extortable enough lol.

toeknee420

Mon 10/29/2007 05:01PM

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