tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post1931609864412274091..comments2024-01-02T10:58:26.368+00:00Comments on Lancaster Unity: Musicians fight to keep politics out of folkAntifascisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753277570496713369noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-40775613180407385982009-08-13T23:41:04.635+01:002009-08-13T23:41:04.635+01:00John P, you rock!John P, you rock!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-38604840332741755492009-08-11T08:50:24.579+01:002009-08-11T08:50:24.579+01:00Easy way to fight back on this:
The artists need ...Easy way to fight back on this:<br /><br />The artists need to write some overtly anti-BNP songs and make sure they are publicised well enough.<br /><br />Then watch the BNP try to shift their existing stock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-42286743117322193182009-08-09T21:06:10.370+01:002009-08-09T21:06:10.370+01:00Has anybody got a contact for this group. I'm ...Has anybody got a contact for this group. I'm doing something similar at the moment.John Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12892206893738671826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-31553325142619230242009-08-09T15:51:14.334+01:002009-08-09T15:51:14.334+01:00Could any chavvish BNP member tell me the name of ...Could any chavvish BNP member tell me the name of the poet who wrote the words to Rule Brittania, the composer who wrote it, and the full text of the poem.<br /><br />Britons nevernevernever shall be slaves. All Britons of all creeds colours and classes, you shall never enslave us Mr.Griffin!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-74387621334633722009-08-09T15:45:48.442+01:002009-08-09T15:45:48.442+01:00Too little POSITIVE patriotism that comes from peo...Too little POSITIVE patriotism that comes from people like Show of Hands, of which Steve Knightley is a member - and too much negative patriotism from the BNP.<br /><br />Folk music has never been about far right, or even centre right/Thatcherite politics, neither has it been about inciting hatred. If anything it is left wing, mirroring the struggle of English/whoever peasantry against the ruling classes. The BNP as a far rightist organisation seeks to DIVIDE the working classes and our country, England along racial religious and other parameters.<br /><br />I was at a concert by popular Welsh folk singer/harpist Sian James, who was born, raised and still lives in Llanerfyl, Powys (Griffin's base) a few years ago and I was lucky enough to speak to =her and ask her just what it was like having a fascist as a neighbour. She and her musician partner Aled were equally disgusted. So here's one Folkie against fascism - from Griffin's backyard!<br /><br />The guitar logo reminds me of Woody Guthrie's guitar - with THIS MACHINE DESTROYS FASCISTS! written thereon, and Victor Jara's songs against fascist dictator and mate of Maggie Thatcher's, General Pinochet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-7091894058377021782009-08-09T07:44:52.846+01:002009-08-09T07:44:52.846+01:00Is it because the far right have been ALLOWED by t...Is it because the far right have been ALLOWED by the liberals to hijack our Union Jack and St.Georges cross to a point that it makes me shameful to see one of these flags flying, whereas to see a Stars and Stripes/Tricoluer/Draig Goch flying from an American/French/Welsh house is somehow okay and positively patriotic not racist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-86057565408507301512009-08-09T02:59:23.862+01:002009-08-09T02:59:23.862+01:00This is nothing new. Bela Bartok didn't want h...This is nothing new. Bela Bartok didn't want his music played in Nazi Germany.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-28684816417025224082009-08-08T22:20:19.767+01:002009-08-08T22:20:19.767+01:00Amazing how the BNP will lie under any circumstanc...Amazing how the BNP will lie under any circumstances despite the facts being evident. Simon Darby has written this on his bloody boring blog:<br /><br />"detailing how a small minority of anti-Nationalists are trying to use their musical standing to politicise their genre"<br /><br />I thought the whole point of Folk Against Fascism was to keep politics (and the BNP) out of folk.JSBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-70516472147504404432009-08-08T20:08:26.139+01:002009-08-08T20:08:26.139+01:00Can anyone, just someone show me and my nazi pals ...Can anyone, just someone show me and my nazi pals some love? please?<br />I'll beg...Nick Griffnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-28666835280904558872009-08-08T20:05:28.458+01:002009-08-08T20:05:28.458+01:00Skrewdriver, the white power version, was never pu...Skrewdriver, the white power version, was never punk. The original non political band did put out a couple of punk singles on Chiswick records although Ian Stewarts rock influences were revealed by his choice to cover a Rolling Stones song, and there rock. Besides there is no such thing as "skin" music. Some skins like ska and reggae and some like punk. Or rock.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-14390850467193071292009-08-08T20:02:24.836+01:002009-08-08T20:02:24.836+01:00Wonder what makes the BNP think its a good song fo...<i>Wonder what makes the BNP think its a good song for them?</i><br /><br />Cos they're as thick as you know what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-7175334346299106892009-08-08T19:45:29.626+01:002009-08-08T19:45:29.626+01:00The song is lamenting the lack of traditional cult...The song is lamenting the lack of traditional culture amongst the English due to Americanisation and political correctnes, not saying the English are 'wrong'. Silly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-35373348773467138402009-08-08T19:19:41.972+01:002009-08-08T19:19:41.972+01:00Good song roots is.
But maybe the silly BNP haven...Good song roots is.<br /><br />But maybe the silly BNP havent paid too much attention top the lyrics which say indians, asians and africans are right and we, the english are wrong!!!<br /><br />"When the Indians, Asians, Afro-Celts<br />It's in their blood, below their belt<br />They're playing and dancing all night long<br />So what have they got right that we've got wrong?"<br /><br />And its a bit disparaging about Rule Britannia too.<br /><br />Wonder what makes the BNP think its a good song for them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-61893343085174983292009-08-08T17:50:03.451+01:002009-08-08T17:50:03.451+01:00Just a little info on Skrewdriver , they are punk/...Just a little info on Skrewdriver , they are punk/skins not rock . you dont want to be labelled liars do you for posting false infoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547542464688328490.post-15150413757339426542009-08-08T15:29:21.240+01:002009-08-08T15:29:21.240+01:00Nice logo.Nice logo.Singernoreply@blogger.com