Bryan Ferry booed as he pays tribute to his 'brave' son - Guardian

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1319991,00.html

Rock star Bryan Ferry was booed and jeered by his fellow musicians at the Q awards ceremony as he spoke in support of his son, Otis, one of eight pro-hunt demonstrators who stormed the House of Commons in September, angered by the government's plan to ban fox-hunting.
Collecting the award for lifetime achievement for his band Roxy Music, Ferry announced: "I would like to dedicate this award to my brave son Otis." The audience, which included U2, Sir Elton John and Elvis Costello, was audibly unreceptive.

Until yesterday, Ferry had declined to comment on his son's involvement with the pro-hunt lobby and in particular the events of September 15, when the protesters succeeded in sneaking into the Commons dressed as construction workers before storming the floor of the house.

Former public schoolboy Otis, 21, is the country's youngest master of the foxhounds, following his appointment at the South Shropshire Hunt last May.

Raised in Sussex, he left Marlborough school at 16 to become an apprentice whipper-in at the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire.

The incident at the Commons was not his first brush with the law in the name of the fox-hunting: two years ago, he was arrested when found lurking around the prime minister's constituency home in Trimden, Co Durham. Apparently, he had been planning to decorate the house in pro-hunt stickers.

Earlier this year, in an interview with The Field magazine, Ferry, referring to the incident in 2002, described how he wished he had encountered the prime minister that night.

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1. Ah, the hounds.

I got to know them quite well when I was Head Boy at Eton.

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2. Such a noble cause to risk one's neck for.

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3. There but for the grace of God....

Unfortunately, my fox hunting days were short-lived owing to my confusion of prepositions.

It seems the club had no use for a "whipper-out."

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6. I used to shag the carcass.

They were very supportive of my art.

[Fenris]

4. Er....

I really have nothing to say here. Of course, this fox-hunt lunacy is a bit beyond my range of comprehension. All I know is from what I've read, and from what I've read Britons go nuts over the fox-hunt issue.

:crazy:

Ah, the exploits of a public schoolboy...

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5. Here's the issue.

We lefties hate fox hunting because it's an elitist pursuit in which red-jacketed aristos and country gentry ride around on horses with a pack of dogs after one bloody fox. Often, when the fox has been torn apart by the hounds, the youngest member of the hunting party is blooded, ie fox blood is smeared over his face. The fox hunters claim that they are providing a necessary service in keeping the fox population down, and besides, it's bloody tradition!. However, a fox hunt takes hours and several people to catch one fox. They'd need to stage thousands of hunts a day for a century to keep the population in check.

[Fenris]

8. That's about how I understood it.

Useless artistocratic animal murder...IT'S TRADITION, DAMMIT!

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11. Not only is it pretentious and smug, it's bloody inefficient!

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7. Where'd you get a job like 'Master of the Fox-hounds'?

I'd sure like 'Master of the Foxes'.

[Fenris]

9. Wasn't that a Metallica album?

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13. Or a Girls Gone Wild video. Same difference.

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10. "...brave son Otis"

Was he was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways?

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12. I'm going to chase after him with huge dogs.

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14. I'm just wondering...

...was Otis named after Mr. Redding? Was he named after the elevator? Was he named after the drunken hillbilly with the blue Camaro who lives off Route 9?

Bryan Ferry naming his son "Otis" is like Chou En-Lai naming his son "Lars."

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15. Don't worry.

I'm sure he got beaten shitless every day for his entire school life.

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16. Schoolyard bullying has led many a lad down the path to "whipper-in."

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19. Your first assumption is correct, of course.

I'm sure you knew that.

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21. Well, I assumed as much.

I'm not immersed to my eyeballs in Roxy-lore, but I couldn't imagine the boy was named after the unshod hilljack with the Camaro.

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17. Reduced to playing the role of foppish dandy.

Poor Bryan. I hate it when my heros act like idiots.

At least we'll always have Country Life and For Your Pleasure.

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18. Seems like the country life for his pleasure was his downfall, eh?

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20. ZING!!

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22. Gosh, Otis could only be more braver if he was for bullfighting.

Gee, what a profile in courage. Of course, I'm more than a little bit dense today...not seeing the sport in hunting down a poor, defenseless fox. Maybe it's the cold medication I'm taking that's clouding my thinking.

And what person names their kid "Otis", anyway?