Love Music Hate Racism

Indie stars-in-waiting assemble to fuck the BNP right off.

KEEP BRITAIN TIDY -
A Public Service Announcement With Guitars
featuring William, We Start Fires, Ten City Nation, Popular Workshop, KunK, Nebraska, Lily Rae, The Indelicates, Jacob's Mouse, Dexy, MyBroken101, Tex La Homa, Robert Rorison, Johnny Panic, Bretton, The Shills, Thee Vicars, Stagecoach, Subliminal Girls, Volunteers, The Hope, FallingFast, Greg McDonald and Attila The Stockbroker

In May 2008, close to 70,000 Londoners voted for the British National Party (BNP) in the London Mayoral Elections, giving the BNP their first seat on the London Assembly and, with it, the potential to directly influence the way London is run, and an extra layer to their façade of respectability. The BNP are a party founded and run as an offshoot from the neo-Nazi National Front. Their leader, Nick Griffin, is an outspoken Holocaust-denier who has described Islam as a "wicked and vicious faith", openly blames Muslim immigrants for the entire country's drug problems, and has twice been arrested for incitement to racial hatred. If London (arguably) leads the way, the chances of the BNP achieving decent electoral results in other parts of the UK suddenly seem uncomfortably healthy.

"I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat ... I have reached the conclusion that the 'extermination' tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria." - Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, writing in 1998

In response to this madness, R>E>P>E>A>T Records has assembled a 23-track compilation featuring some of the most exciting new bands in the country (and one or two old favourites) to raise money and, most importantly, support for Love Music Hate Racism, an organisation which uses the positive energy of music to fight back against the racism being pushed by Nazi organisations like the BNP. KEEP BRITAIN TIDY - A Public Service Announcement With Guitars will be available on CD from Monday 18th August by mail order from the R>E>P>E>A>T website - www.repeatfanzine.co.uk - for a measly £3 (including P&P). Buy it by paypal here or send cheques (payable to 'Love Music Hate Racism' please) or well secured cash to R*E*P*E*A*T, PO Box 438, Cambridge, CB4 1FX


No-one involved in this compilation is daft enough to believe that a bunch of mostly Southern English indie bands can single-handedly wipe out racism by putting out a CD and playing a few gigs in tiny venues to people who (largely) agree with what we're saying. That's not the point at all. What we want is to get people involved, to show them how easy it is to organise an event, to hand someone a leaflet or a flyer, to let people know what the BNP's intentions really are. If we can help prevent just one more person from voting BNP, we can all die just that little bit happier for knowing that we tried.