Instigate Debate is a cultural and political UK project set up by a collective that includes musicians Jon McClure, Carl Barat and writer and political activist Mark Donne in August 2008. The project was established in protest at a perceived dominance of tabloid culture in the UK media and to encourage particularly young people to use guerilla means to interview elected politicians, celebrities, and public figures in general to answer questions on the main issues of the day.

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  • Instigate Debate is a cultural and political UK project set up by a collective that includes musicians Jon McClure, Carl Barat and writer and political activist Mark Donne in August 2008. The project was established in protest at a perceived dominance of tabloid culture in the UK media and to encourage particularly young people to use guerilla means to interview elected politicians, celebrities, and public figures in general to answer questions on the main issues of the day. Answers would then be filmed on mobile camera phones and sent to the main site and the ID site on you tube . Participants in ID obtain impromptu or street interviews with public figures including political leaders and celebrities, who are asked questions relating to the key issues of the day, which are filmed on mobile camera phones. The images are then posted on the ID website and the ID you tube pages . Mark Donne explained the concept in an article for The Guardian news paper in summer 2008: The best interviews with topical questions and popular subjects can win guerilla house concerts from bands including The Libertines, Babyshambles, Reverend and the Makers, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and others. Senegalese musician Baaba Maal recently played a house concert for an instigate winner in a house in Hammersmith, West London. As well as impromptu house concerts and interviews ID also hold open public debates with cultural figures and members of parliament in pubs, venues and free festivals which also include un-announced music performances.
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  • Instigate Debate is a cultural and political UK project set up by a collective that includes musicians Jon McClure, Carl Barat and writer and political activist Mark Donne in August 2008. The project was established in protest at a perceived dominance of tabloid culture in the UK media and to encourage particularly young people to use guerilla means to interview elected politicians, celebrities, and public figures in general to answer questions on the main issues of the day.
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  • Instigate debate
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