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Who Shot the Sheriff
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Sunday March 26, 2006 20:47
by Mark Hewitt - ARN & SWP
southbelfast.arn at gmail dot com
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.