Two nights, two sold out gigs in the round. The O2 slightly bigger than the Cockpit, but still each five brilliant musicians playing together, collaborating, creating sounds you haven’t heard before and ones that sound deeply familiar, to tell stories and inspire feeling. Both, unabashed art rock
![An excerpt from the article linked to: In November Professor Salman al-Dayah, former dean of sharia school at Islamic University in Gaza, issued a fatwa, or religious opinion, condemning the group for the October 7 attack, arguing it should not have gone ahead because of its likely consequences for Palestinians. He added that Hamas had failed in its obligations "of) keeping fighters away from the homes of defenceless [Palestinian] civilians and their shelters and providing security and safety as much as possible in the various aspects of life".
In the first weeks of the war Moussa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas politburo member, noted that the group's tunnels were built to ensure the survival of its own fighters whereas the protection of civilians was not their responsibility. Months later in communications over a possible hostage deal, Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 attacks went further, describing the loss of Palestinian civilians as a "necessary sacrifice”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofo6je67rqgwzkzapbhcgy2c/bafkreibvcfuh2uy3zxzddjn6q7hnka2vlddqipauk7gygqbbmd54zglx5i)
