Rock Against Racism - Love Music Hate Racism
Who Shot the Sheriff
Dir: Alan Miles, 2005, UK, 60 mins, , PG
Showing at:
John Hewitt Bar 8:00 pm
Thursday 30 March
£4.50/£4.00
The film features interviews and unseen footage of artists from the Rock against Racism movement of the 70s and the Love Music Hate Racism movement today including The Clash, The Libertines, The Specials, Ms Dynamite, Pete Doherty, Hard-Fi, X-Ray Spex, Sham 69, and Estelle. The film tracks the rise of racism and the National Front in Britain during the 70s – and how a generation, black and white, fought back against the Nazi threat. The documentary features lots of rarely seen archive footage from the punk & RAR era – including the infamous 1978 Carnival in east London’s Victoria Park where 100,000 marched to the show headlined by The Clash and the Tom Robinson Band. The story uses a wealth of interviews with the leading artists and activists as well as documenting a great political and musical movement. Directed by Alan Miles, Who Shot the Sheriff? tells the story of one of the most exciting mass movements in British history.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Using such a title in Belfast shows extreme bad taste on the part of the organisers. Are they not aware of the number of RUC members, in particulat part-time members of the RUC Reserve who were murdered in this area? Anyone with half a brain would not have used such an offensive title as "I Shot The Sherrif". Perhaps the organisers only expect or want members of one community to attend.
Thanks for that wind up Red-1913. My coffee nearly came out of my nose I laughed so hard. Who says socialists have no sense of humour?
Sham 69 were a National Front band.
In fact they at great cost to themselves confronted fascist elements in their audience
"If the kids were united, they would never be divided"
eeeek is indeed correct. Sham 69 were not a fash band. they were a skinhead band. different thing.
They were a punk band.
i dont want to split hairs but while the band was punk & oi, a lot of their partisans, especially in the london area, were skinheads. this was certainly the case back in the real old days.
what you appear to be saying is that the band themselves are responsible for who listens to their music. This would make Wagner, and indeed by extension Freidrich Nietzsche also, responsible for the Nazi's, which, I hope you'll agree, is a preposterous notion worthy only of contempt.
Although there is some merit in the notion of holding Daniel O'Donnell personably responsible for outrages commited by the Blue-Rinse-Brigade
i'm not sure if you are addressing me. ive already made it clear that imho sham 69 had nothing to do with the NF. indeed sham 69 played at rock against racism gigs. however a lot of their following were skinheads. thats a fact. another fact is that not all skinheads are racist or rightwing.
they wont change nothing with their fashionable talk, their RAR badges and their protest walk, thousands of white men standing in a park, protesting against racism's like a candle in the dark. Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it, so dont fool yourself your helping with liberal shit.
Sorry, but I think you need to elaborate a little there. White people protesting against racism won't change anything, 'cos they're too square? Are you saying Black people only on anti-racist marches. The rest of us should just stand around scratchin our arses?
alright that last rhyme was shite, but you get the idea
see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya
Its lyrics Crass is spouting, funnily enough from Crass's "White Punks On Hope." See: http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/crass/whitepunksonhope.html
Totally agree this rock against racism stuff is a nonsense pose. Just listen to what The Specials and Sham 69 had to say about the six counties for god's sake. Whoever is promoting this event needs to wise up...
Ulster (sic) by Sham 69
"Ulster boy
You know it's gonna last a few more years
So when you throw them bricks
Don't you cry no tears
And when you see those tanks go past
You hide your bomb and you run from the blast
Ulster
There ain't no winners"
The More I See by The Specials
"the governing powers are confused
the armies becoming bemused
another bomb becomes defused
and the terrorists aren't amused
paisley is getting his shirt off
sinn fein are going insane
they strive to divide the countryside"
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