‘FEAR OF A BLACK KENNET’: THE NEXT LMHR BENEFIT ALBUM :
R*E*P*E*A*T RECORDS have put together a great compilation featuring ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, MISS BLACK AMERICA and loads more great Nazi-baiting indie/punk/rock racket from the East of England and beyond ….
Released on December 8, promos and review copies available NOW! (Call the ANL for a copy if it ain’t in yer local shop! - 020 7924 0333)
Here’s their press release:
LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM
http://www.lmhr.org.uk
R*E*P*E*A*T
http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk
Your attention please
NEWS : FEAR OF A BLACK KENNET - ALBUM - DECEMBER 8 2003 (CD) R*E*P*E*A*T RECORDS including Asian Dub Foundation, King Adora, Miss Black America, Chris T T, Corporation:Blend, Antihero, Virgin Suicides, The Dawn Parade and more… it follows recent r’n'b release featuring Sugababes, Doves, Basement Jaxx, Turin Brakes and friends.
FEAR OF A BLACK KENNET, IS A PUNKY TWO FINGERS TO THE NAZI INVASION TAKING THE UNION OUT OF UNION JACK, THE UNITED OUT OF UNITED KINGDOM, THE GREAT OUT OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE PISS OUT OF DEMOCRACY.
BRING BACK OLD LABOUR! “Britain never never never shall be … ” oh, hang on… Talk about new danger. Tory Bliar’s policies have done more for the neo fascists of Britain than ever before. When the British Nazional Party won so many seats in the local elections, the news was greeted with a sigh, a shrug and some quietly raised eyebrows by a media whose profits are swollen by bad news anyway. Fascists accepted as part of the scenery with no fuss! But this is Blighty mate, there have always been people who will stand up to those that seek to divide and conquer, and there always will be! The Union Jack is an anti-fascist flag.
The apathetic establishment reckon without the power of music - an essential summer tour was Miss Black America whose LP God Bless Miss Black America is a wake up call… “genuinely, sincerely, doing their damnedest to take the world by the balls” (the fly), “provocative, inspired and downright essential - hear this band if it’s the last thing you do” (rocksound), “if this record was on a major label, MBA would be well on their way to being the Biggest Band in Britain. As it stands, they’ll just have to settle for being the Best” (rolling stone) - friends of the nation like Antihero, Cultural Ice Age, Becky Jago, Ludes and Special Needs… punks for for peace - joined them on tour in July and august. The LMHR single soon sold out.
This is still a (mostly) friendly, green and pleasant land, so t’s not all apathy about fascist strongholds and racism threatening our century-ahead multi everything society - the globe’s cultural treasure. Something is alive, kicking and growing in the world of music… Increasingly influential to the music establishment, the d.i.y. underground continue to make a stand - comments arriving…
what about you?
FEAR OF A BLACK KENNET
8 DECEMBER 2003 - R*E*P*E*A*T (CD) - good people doing SOMETHING…
1) Kinesis - And They Obey (demo version)
2) MBA - Drowning By Numbers
3) Chris T-T - 7 Hearts
4) Neo - Ashleigh
5) The Virgin Suicides - Just As Dead Now (live)
6) The Dawn Parade - Wider Than The January Skies
7) Antihero - Who’s Looking Out For Number One?
8) Kneehigh - Double Down
9) The Exiles - The Not Gate (Purple Original Mix)
10) We Can Build You - In and Out
11) King Adora - Born To Lose
12) The Dawn Parade - Caffeine Row
13) Impact - Reaching Out
14) Cosy Cosy - Oh Yeah
15) Antihero - Limb From Limb
16) Corporation Blend - The Shutdown
17) The Virgin Suicides - Little Mannequin (acoustic)
18) Neo - Die In America
19) Volunteers - Shallow Stuff
20) MBA vs Tex La Homa - All I Want Is Out
21) Asian Dub Foundation - Black and White
Voices being added. Send additional support to rosey@repeatfanzine.co.uk
?Ignorance is Bliss?
Nazis are raising their verminous little heads. Not just in Britain, where their rise is being countered by the efforts of anti Nazis such as The Anti Nazi League who organised last years massive Love Music Hate Racism carnival, but all over Europe. Let?s not call them ?fascists? or ?Nationalists?. The BNP, the Front National and their demented ilk are NAZIS - as in Adolf Hitler, as in gas chambers. The only legitimate first response to them is disgust. These scumbags have to be stopped.
And what?s that got to do with pop music? Apart from EVERYTHING? Hitler banned jazz in Germany, fans and musicians alike ended up in concentration and death camps, alongside Jews, gypsies, gays and socialists. A BNP government would destroy rock music. OUR music, with its roots in working class black and white America, with its tendency to mix apparently ?separate? cultural influences from all over the world, is an anathema to the Nazis.
Can you imagine what the music would be like under a government dedicated to ?ethnic purity?? What would we have left? Morris dancing? Not even that. ?Morris? is an English corruption of ?Moorish?, meaning North African, meaning black. The Nazis have no culture, no art, no music. They are anti-life, anti-human. They hate you, they hate the way you dress, they hate every single record in your collection - every pop or rock record is by definition an anti-Nazi record.
Sometimes this has to be made explicit. The only thing preventing the Nazis from growing further here, as they have elsewhere in Europe, is the determination of normal anti-Nazis. People like us.
?It?s time to make a stand.?
(From a piece from R*E*P*E*A*T by Steven Wells)
(continued on one page)
“The sad fact is, that everyone knows someone who’s a racist, thus the UK population of? 55 million equals a lot of racists. Sadly I don’t feel as a nation we are evolving quick enough. Racism should be a disease of the past, but with the growing number of Nazis preaching their poisonous sermons we have to make a stand and eradicate this vermin once and for all.”
(Maxi, King Adora)
“Music is a sanctuary of understanding for those who truly love music.? To me racism epitomises the opposite of this sanctuary and why I do music things so they can’t both exist.??If you truly love music you have to hate racism”.?(Cosy Cosy)
?What supporting Love Music Hate Racism comes down to really is a simple question: do you think it is acceptable for people to be abused, hounded, terrorised, demonised, beaten, maimed and killed just because of their race, their religion, the colour of their skin, what their parents do or did, their sexuality, upbringing, accent, class, dress sense, taste in music, political views? If the answer is ?yes?, then you are a Nazi, and it probably is political for you. If the answer is ?no?, then you are a human being, and politics has nothing to do with it.? (Miss Black America)
?Racism, like every form of ignorance, must be combated by education.? Those who would wield it as a political weapon, exploiting people’s fears for their own ends, must be met head on, more than ever in the current global political climate of “good versus evil” simplism.?
(The Dawn Parade)
“Pop music has always evolved out of a mixture of voices, cultures and influences. Britain has such a strong and influential music scene mainly because it embraces the diversity present here and celebrates it. The ‘Love Music Hate Racism’ project is the latest in a long line of events that attempts to bring people together through music of all kinds, in order to show up those who wish to destroy our pop culture as the liars and frauds they truly are. There is no such thing as fascist pop. Go figure.”
The Exiles)
“Some of my best friends are racists. And here’s the underlying problem: we’re so scared, we let the small comments float by like a bad fart on the tube. Nobody has the guts to challenge. When the exhausted teacher talks about ‘the black parents’. Or the newspaper editor deliberately bylines Asian surnames on asylum-seeker stories. Or the heroic anti-war speaker slips into anti-Semitism. Racists lose the right to comment on anything, in my opinion, because they’ve debased all else that spills from their mouths. Here is the most simple premise: that we’re all born with equal worth. Yet these people can’t get past shades of pink and brown. It’s not rocket science. Anyone unable to grasp our basic birthright of equality is not worth attention, debate or friendship. But then, I’m a white middle class man and I know diddly-fuck about what it REALLY feels like. Thank God for LMHR.”
(Chris T-T)
“Whilst Kinesis refrain from aligning ourselves with any political organisation in general, we see that LMHR is supporting a good cause and the eradication of racism can only be a good thing. Enjoy.”
(Kinesis)
“Erm. Skin. It’s like protection for our flesh. We are all flesh coloured and only one race (i.e. breed) - human. Our skin is the colours of the planet’s surface as we are it’s living epitome. Funniest of all is that bigots come from every corner of the globe. The irony of racists being multiracial is probably lost on them. The human race WILL overcome evil morons of every kind. Don’t lose faith” (E. Frank).
To be continued…
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