London premiere
THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2005
THE SCALA, LONDONLove Music Hate Racism, Amicus, and Metropolis present …"Who
Shot the Sheriff"
The London premiere of Alan Miles’ Rock Against Racism documentary,
featuring live performances from…
HARD-FI
Plus very special surprise guests
+ DJ sets including Jerry Dammers (The Specials)
Doors 7.30pm. Film showing 8-9pm sharp. First band 9.15pm. Curfew 2am.
Supported by Ethical Threads.
Info: www.lmhr.org.uk
Tickets: £15 + booking fee – exclusive availability to
Unite/LMHR supporters until AM Friday 26/8! Click HERE
for booking.
The film
Directed by Alan Miles, 'Who Shot the Sheriff?' tells the story of
one of the most exciting mass movements in British history.
The film features interviews and unseen footage of artists from the Rock against
Racism (RAR) movement of the 70s and the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) movement
today including The Clash, The Libertines, The Specials, Ms Dynamite, Pete
Doherty, Steel Pulse, Hard-Fi, Misty in Roots, X-Ray Spex, Sham 69, Estelle
and Babyshambles.
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, and there's 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 Tom Robinson
Band.
The story uses a wealth of interviews with the leading artists and activists
who created RAR - many speaking for the first time about what happened - including
Mick Jones, Jerry Dammers, Neville Staples, Jimmy Pursey, Poly Styrene, Don
Letts, Billy Bragg, and RAR founders Red Saunders and Roger Huddle.
As well as documenting a great political and musical movement, "Who Shot
the Sheriff" links the struggle to stop the National Front in the 1970s
with campaigns like Unite Against Fascism aiming to stop the likes of the
fascist British National Party gaining ground in Britain today.
'Who Shot the Sheriff?' was made possible by the generous support of the Amicus
trade union.