Love Music Hate Racism

8pm, Friday March 21st

LMHR has been proud to organise events featuring Hip-Hop, Indie, Bhangra, Rock, Reggae, R&B, Jungle, Jazz, Blues, and Garage music among others …. now we are pleased to announce our first event organised by anti-racist Country music artists & fans.

Featuring top UK “Americana” acts The Havenots plus Matt Hill & Quiet Loner, plus much talked-about Manchester poet Matthew Welton, this great gig takes place at the Tmesis Bar, Lloyd Street, Manchester.

Read more details below in the organisers’ press release…

Americana-uk.com presents LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM
featuring
THE HAVENOTS
MATT HILL & QUIET LONER
and special guest Matthew Welton
Friday March 21st
?4 on door all proceeds to Love music Hate Racism campaign www.lmhr.org.uk

Country music. The preserve of racists and rednecks? Not so according Manchester songwriter and country music fan Matt Hill. In order to prove the point Matt has teamed up with Americana-uk.com to put together a show to raise money for the anti-nazi league’s “love music hate racism” campaign (1).

“Buried amongst the rhinestones, country music has always had a conscience” says Hill, “the current wave of americana is very much influenced by artists like Johnny Cash and Gram Parsons who challenged the old prejudices of the deep south. Sadly this issue isn’t going away and the increasing profile of the BNP is something that needs to be challenged and the love music hate racism campaign does just that. As part of the UK’s americana scene we wanted to add our voices to that.”

The line-up for the show features two of the leading americana acts in the UK and one of the poetry world?s rising stars. The Havenots(2) from Leicester are the most talked about UK americana band of the moment, with their soon to be released debut album already picking up extensive radioplay across the UK. Manchester’s own Matt Hill (3) is playing with his band “quiet loner” as he prepares for his second UK tour which begins in April. The line-up is completed by acclaimed Manchester poet Matthew Welton who was chosen by City Life magazine, Manchester, as one of its ten people to watch in 2003.
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notes for editors

1. Love Music Hate Racism
The Love Music Hate Racism campaign is organised by the Anti Nazi League. It aims to use the positive energy of the music scene to fight back against the racism being pushed by Nazi organisations such as the British National Party, National Front and Combat 18. Love Music Hate Racism follows in the tradition of anti-Nazi music movements started by Rock Against Racism in the 1970s and brings together a diverse selection of musicians, DJs and MCs who support the campaign.

2. The Havenots
Leicester band The Havenots are based around the harmonies and songwriting of 19 year old Sophia Marshall and 21 year old Liam Dullaghan.
In the past year they?ve recorded a sell-out EP of demo?s with labelmates The Guthries, played festival dates such as The Summer Sundae, AmericanaOne and Further Beyond Nashville, racked up TWO UK tours with the hottest Americana act of the moment, The Be Good Tanyas, after being invited back at the request of the Tanyas themselves and have recently been wowing London audiences with shows at prestigious venues like The Borderline and The Union Chapel.
The HaveNots take their name from the film “to have and have not” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Their debut album ?Bad pennies? is released on Circus65 records in April.
3. Matt Hill
Manchester’s own master of melancholia Matt Hill, played his first ever full UK tour in October 2002 as opening act for both Lonesome Bob and Chris Mills. At the same time he released a tour only EP “Misery Loves company” which included a collaboration with Australian songwriter and Gram Parsons biographer Jason Walker. In the UK Sypdaradio’s specialist Americana show featured the EP in their best of 2002 round-up and in their review Americana-uk website found similarities with the other Manc miserablists The Smiths proclaiming “Morrisey would be proud”. He recently opened for Lambchop and in February this year Uncut magazine praised his “perfectly executed vocals and wistful lyrics”. This show ( his first full band appearance in Manchester for over 18 months) serves as warm up for another 10 date UK jaunt in April.

4. Matthew Welton
The Book of Matthew, Matthew Welton?s first collection of poems, will be published by Carcanet this year. His poem This is delicious to say won second prize in the Arvon poetry competition in 2002. Welton was chosen by City Life magazine, Manchester, as one of its ten people to watch in 2003. He is an editor of Stand magazine and a director of the Manchester Poetry Festival, and lectures in creative writing at Bolton Institute.
?Matthew Welton whose half? and alternately-rhymed couplets owe more to pop than Pope.?
New Statesman
?The musical quality of his technique is reflected in the delight he takes in live performance.?
City Life

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