Film "White Riot" - out in cinemas September 2020....worth booking your seat

r00fie1

r00fie1

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Atimely and refreshing reminder for those who lived the experience and a lesson on how things can be changed for the better for those who were too young [or not even born].(y)

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Rubika Shah’s award-winning and energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell.

White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As co-founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’.

The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.
 
I was at the Victoria Park carnival. And the later one - Costello, Steel Pulse - Brockwell Park?

What was slightly annoying was that we'd marched from Hyde Park down to Brixton, took about three hours, and when we got to Victoria Park it was full of b***ds who hadn't bothered to march. Got there just as The Clash came on at 2:00, they had a gig in the evening so played early. Hard to believe now that The Tom Robinson Band who are mostly forgotten now were the headliners.

I'm in here somewhere. 7,819 rows back, 9,642 across from the left.


That d*ck in the black leather jacket at the end is the "star" of The Clash film, Rude Boy.
 
atomicloonybin aka ALB said:
I was at the Victoria Park carnival. And the later one - Costello, Steel Pulse - Brockwell Park?

What was slightly annoying was that we'd marched from Hyde Park down to Brixton, took about three hours, and when we got to Victoria Park it was full of b***ds who hadn't bothered to march. Got there just as The Clash came on at 2:00, they had a gig in the evening so played early. Hard to believe now that The Tom Robinson Band who are mostly forgotten now were the headliners.

I'm in here somewhere. 7,819 rows back, 9,642 across from the left.

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My feet hurt too!:love:(y)
 
atomicloonybin aka ALB said:
I was at the Victoria Park carnival. And the later one - Costello, Steel Pulse - Brockwell Park?

What was slightly annoying was that we'd marched from Hyde Park down to Brixton, took about three hours, and when we got to Victoria Park it was full of b***ds who hadn't bothered to march. Got there just as The Clash came on at 2:00, they had a gig in the evening so played early. Hard to believe now that The Tom Robinson Band who are mostly forgotten now were the headliners.

I'm in here somewhere. 7,819 rows back, 9,642 across from the left.


That d*ck in the black leather jacket at the end is the "star" of The Clash film, Rude Boy.
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Rays not really a d*ck. Don’t judge him by the film 99% of it was scripted. He still supplies me with the odd Clash t shirt.
 
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I was too young to go! ...........................but had the Clash LP in 1978

I went to a game at Hull City in August 1978 (not Boro game) and there were people freely giving out NF leaflets outside the ground.

National Front had very limited support, their main policy seemed to be sending all non White people back to where they come from. The Anti-Nazi League had big support with rallies 100 times larger than the NF.
 
Been to see it today.
Those words at the end.....
"The NF were defeated at the 1979 election but the fight is far from over".
Never more true than today.
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