12.05.2004
Love Music Hate Racism Event Press Release
Love Music Hate Racism Event Press Release. UNITY
FESTIVAL
Castlefields Arena MANCHESTER Sunday 30 May 2004,
12noon-8pm
Join us in Manchester on Sunday May 30 for a fantastic
day of music
and unity, and help send out a message loud and clear
that the racism
of the fascist British National Party is not welcome in
the North West
- or anywhere else.
A spectacular bill featuring the cream of northern
musical talent
will entertain and encourage everybody to do what
they can to stop the
election of BNP leader Nick Griffin as the North West's
Euro MP.
There'll be full headlining sets from Leeds' majestic
THE MUSIC and
Manchester's own favourite songsmitb BADLY DRAWN
BOY.
Other Manchester acts on the main stage include Asian
Music Award
winning MC-DJ team METZ & TRIX, guitar anthem
merchants HAVEN,
super-talented garage collective VIRUS SYNDICATE and
the rhyme skills
of BROKE'N'ENGLISH and NORTHERN MONKEYS.
Completing the main stage line-up will be a UK hip-
hop showcase
hosted by Brit rap legends SKITZ & RODNEY P,
London's hippest
punk-funkers BLOC PARTY and hotly-tipped West
Yorkshire indie pop
outfit THE CRIBS.
A strong supporting cast of top DJs will also be rocking
a massive
dance marquee.
The event is completely FREE to enter, but donations
are very
welcome!
As well as being a celebration of our multiracial and
multicultural
music and society, the event will form a major part of
Unite Against
Fascism's campaign in the North West and beyond
around the local and
European elections on June 10th. BNP leader Nick
Griffin, who has a
conviction for Holocaust denial and whose stated aim is
"an all-white
society", is standing in the North West Euro-seat.
Unite Against Fascism (www.uaf.org.uk
bringing together all anti-racist groups and everyone
who opposes the
BNP in the UK. A campaign of mass leafletting,
petitioning and public
meetings is calling for people to use their vote, and
actively stop
the BNP from gaining ground on June 10.
With the PR voting systems that apply in these
elections, and a
probable low turnout, the BNP need poll only 10% in
the Euro seat to
get elected. That would mean a platform in Brussels
to spread their
racist poison, £100,000s in funding, and the thing they
crave above
all - a suited-and-booted mask of respectability to hide
the skinhead
haircut and bovver boot image of old.
What we all do now to stop the BNP can make a real
difference to
whether they succeed or fail.
Music unites us, but racism divides. Come to
Manchester on May 30 to
show you Love Music and Hate Racism. Let's Unite
Against Fascism!