JUNE 1, 1980 was the day US TV station CNN made its first (misleading) broadcasts to the world. It was also the day Laibach announced their formation in the radical-left mining town of Trbovlje, Slovenia, then part of Tito’s Yugoslav Federation.
Given Laibach’s sense of timing and history, you might think the two things were connected.

But it was also the anniversary of an anti-fascist uprising in the town 56 years previously and I’d say it was the latter that made them choose the date.

Or maybe both — that would be very Laibachian, looking East and West at the same time. Just like Tito did, and did indeed in a speech sampled on Panorama, the first thing I heard from them, blagged as a freebie from our mutual label Cherry Red Records in the mid-1980s.