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The Hope Pilots of the sixth MBA (ACOUSTIC SET) Bomb Facory

Yeovil College Students' Union present a LMHR acoustic benefit on Friday 30th June 2006. Five local bands are playing in a marquee on the college lawn on the last day of term.

Kayvew is an artist from Birmingham, UK who uses rap music to create awareness to social, political and global issues. Son of reggae success Apache Indian, Kayvew has been involved with music from an early age and is currently promoting his new song “Open your eyez” which is the lead track for “The Heritage History [...]

The NME picked up on the David Cameron/Lethal Bizzle debate in this week's issue with a spirited defence of grime and a thorough kicking for the Tory leader (see below). Plus - Donna Guthrie from our sister campaign UAF gave her personal response in an article here

By Kerri Parke Naseema, a young Muslim woman, gets ready for her first day at work. She says goodbye to her mum and dad, her brother and sister, and eagerly begins her day in this new, unusual world. Little does she suspect that there will be someone at her new workplace who will not be so [...]

The winners of Glastonbury festival’s Left Field stage “Top Unsigned Band” award in 2005 – Teasing LuLu from Brighton – release their first single, Infatuation, on Monday 12th June. But the record has a unique twist – it is sponsored by trade union organisations in South West London to promote their “Young People Need Unions” [...]

I’d been expecting Friday’s gig to be a massive comedown after the enormodomes of Scandinavia, but it turned out to be possibly the best one we’ve ever done. I particularly enjoyed Richard standing on a plinth playing his guitar with a bottle of Stella. There was a really happy vibe helped in no small part [...]

Secretly recorded telephone conversations with Phil Edwards, the BNP’s national press officer shows the disgusting reality of the Nazi BNP. Mark Collet, leader of the youth wing of the BNP shows himself to be the vile racist he really is in David Modells Dispatches documentary. Both leading figures within the party show that the BNP remains the British Nazi Party.

Following Tory leader David 'clueless' Cameron's ill-judged and racist comments about hip-hop music we wrote to artists who've supported LMHR for their thoughts. Lethal Bizzle came straight back to us with his response (see previous News item), and also sent his thoughts direct to Cameron's office who sent back a short neutral breply, only for Cameron two days later to put the boot into Lethal in an article in the Mail on Sunday. Cameron's reply only underlined his clueless bigoted views on black music. See below for follow-up articles and links - and do let us know your views on politicians scapegoating black artists for society's problems.

Tory leader David Cameron, has desperately tried to convince us he's a modern liberal politician with his embarassing "i'm down with black people" and "save the planet - vote tory" press stunts. But the liberal mask has slipped as Eton-educated Cameron displayed his ignorance about black music with ill-informed comments about hip-hop music. In a bid to get headlines about his tough stance on knife and gun crime, Cameron trotted out the tired old racist myth that hip-hop music encourages violent crime.