‘Poo Testament' gets agency in deep doo-doo

[CHIMO]

Vancouver punk band Living With Lions has returned a $13,000 loan and temporarily pulled its controversial album Holy Sh-- from shelves in an effort to spare the FACTOR funding agency the wrath of the Conservative government.

Holy Sh--, which is packaged like a Bible and retells through “The Poo Testament” the story of Christ as a humble turd, was singled out by Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore as “offensive” and “simply wrong” in a statement sent to the Vancouver Sun last week. He then rang up FACTOR president Duncan McKie, he said, “to express his profound disappointment with this content” and the fact that a Government of Canada logo appeared on the CD package.

FACTOR — the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records — is a private, non-profit organization funded by the federal government and radio broadcasters that last year gave $14 million to Canadian musicians. Living With Lions and its Toronto-area label, Black Box Recordings, this week announced that they would recall the album from stores, return the $13,248 loan they received from FACTOR to make the record and reissue it shortly on their own — sans FACTOR and Canadian Heritage associations — with the original packaging intact.

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