Stop press: london festival forced indoors
From nme.com
LONDON’s UNITY FESTIVAL - set to feature THE LIBERTINES - has been forced to change location.
The festival, which aims to raise awareness about increasing far right political activity in the UK, was set to take place in Finsbury Park on June 6. However, it has been forced to move to the indoor Hammersmith Apollo, and possibly one other venue.
The show would have been London’s first major outdoor anti-racism rally since 1978’s Carnival Against The Nazis.
However, while a licence was about to be granted, police insisted that organisers erect a metal perimeter fence around the Finsbury Park, making the event too expensive to hold. This has annoyed organisers.
Weyman Bennett, Joint Secretary for Unite Against Facism, told NME.COM: “We believe if you can have opera in Trafalgar Square unshielded, then you can have rock music in a park and people can come and listen to it.”
Check the LMHR site tomorow for details of how to get tickets for the event. While you can still get into this event free, we will be asking everyone for a donation to help towards the costs of staging it.
