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Crowds attend anti-racism festival – Mid Sussex Today

Thousands of music lovers were undeterred by bad weather and flocked to a free anti-racism festival. Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) took place in Victoria Park, East London, with music acts including The Good The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and The View. Organisers estimate 90,000 to 100,000 people attended the event, which singer Morrissey helped to make possible by donating £28,000 when one of the festival’s sponsors pulled out at the last minute. (…) The events replicated the first Rock Against Racism carnival, organised by the Anti-Nazi League 30 years ago, which saw 80,000 people march from Trafalgar Square to Victoria Park and watch The Clash perform. The Clash’s ex-bassist Paul Simonon now plays with The Good, The Bad and The Queen, fronted by Blur’s Damon Albarn, who headlined this year’s celebrations.

siehe auch: Morrissey helps out Love Music Hate Racism Carnival – after major sponsor pulls out of this weekend’s event in Victoria Park. Morrissey has personally stepped in with a significant financial contribution to the Love Music Hate Racism campaign in order to allow their 30th Anniversary Rock Against Racism concert to go ahead in Victoria Park, London this weekend without financial loss or burden to the campaign; Love Music Hate Racism Carnival, Victoria Park, London. Another clash between rock and racism as Paul Simonon returns to the front line. Thirty years ago, The Clash were in Hackney’s Victoria Park, part of a concert which became a defining moment in Rock Against Racism’s successful stand against the National Front’s late Seventies spread. The Clash’s Paul Simonon was back yesterday, alongside Damon Albarn in their band The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and many more, to restate the case against fascism; Anti-racism concert hailed a ’success’. Bad weather failed to put off thousands of music fans who turned out to a free anti-racism festival in London. The Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) festival took place in Victoria Park, east London, with music acts including The Good The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and The View;
Thousands attend anti-racism festival. Thousands of music lovers were undeterred by bad weather and flocked to a free anti-racism festival in London. Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) took place in Victoria Park, with music acts including The Good The Bad And The Queen and Hard-Fi.