Trip 45: Holidays

Everybody hates a tourist, as Jarvis Cocker pointed out, and the ACFM gang are no exception in this Trip episode exploring the allure of holidays.

Does travel make fools of us all, or is there a smarter, more ethical way to go on holiday? Is the promise of an annual getaway the only thing keeping the working population docile?

Keir, Jem and Nadia consider all the different ways we avoid work, from holy days and vay-cays to grand tours and gap yahs. Featuring ideas from tourism critic John Urry, Marxist theorist David Harvey and psytrance ethnologist Arun Saldanha, plus music from Dead Kennedys, Cliff Richard and Madonna.

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Books: David Harvey – The Condition of Postmodernity / John Urry – The Tourist Gaze / Arun Saldanha – Psychedelic White

Music: Mawaan Rizwan – Never Been Skiing / The Gogos – Vacation / Abdel Halim Hafez – Sawah / Madonna – Holiday / The Clash – Hate and War / Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia / Sex Pistols – Holiday in the Sun / Alabama 3 – Ain’t Going to Goa / Guru Josh – Infinity / The Master Musicians of Joujouka – Take Me with You Darling, Take Me with You (Dinimaak A Habibi Dinimaak) / Cliff Richard – Summer Holiday