Some of you may have heard rumours that the next R*E*P*E*A*T compilation is now upon us; this CD is a benefit in aid of Love Music Hate Racism and features rare or exclusive tracks from Kinesis, Asian Dub Foundation, Antihero, Miss Black America, Chris T-T, Neo, The Virgin Suicides, We Can Build You, Corporation : Blend , Kneehigh, King Adora, Impact, The Dawn Parade, Cosy Cosy, Volunteers and The Exiles. The album is entitled, in the best tradition of R*E*P*E*A*T compilations, Fear of a Black Kennett!

The CD is available nationwide via Backs / Shellshock / Pinnacle distribution, or for £8 plus 50p postage from PO Box 438, Cambridge, CB4 1FX - cheques to 'R. Rose' please

Fear of a Black Kennett - running order

1) Kinesis - And They Obey (demo version)

2) MBA - Drowning By Numbers

3) Chris T-T - 7 Hearts

4) Neo - Ashleigh

5) The Virgin Suicides - Just As Dead Now (live)

6) The Dawn Parade - Wider Than The January Skies

7) Antihero - Who's Looking Out For Number One?

8) Kneehigh - Double Down

9) The Exiles - The Not Gate (Purple Original Mix)

10) We Can Build You - In and Out

11) King Adora - Born To Lose

12) The Dawn Parade - Caffeine Row

13) Impact - Reaching Out

14) Cosy Cosy - Oh Yeah

15) Antihero - Limb From Limb

16) Corporation Blend - The Shutdown

17) The Virgin Suicides - Little Mannequin (acoustic)

18) Neo - Die In America

19) Volunteers - Shallow Stuff

20) MBA vs Tex La Homa - All I Want Is Out

21) Asian Dub Foundation - Black and White

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Ignorance is Bliss?
A piece adapted from Issue 4 of R*E*P*E*A*T by Steven Wells

Nazis are raising their verminous little heads. Not just in Britain, where their rise is being countered by the efforts of anti Nazis such as The Anti Nazi League who organised last years massive Love Music Hate Racism carnival, but all over Europe. Let’s not call them “fascists” or “Nationalists”. The BNP, the Front National and their demented ilk are NAZIS - as in Adolf Hitler, as in gas chambers. The only legitimate first response to them is disgust. These scumbags have to be stopped.

And what’s that got to do with pop music? Apart from EVERYTHING? Hitler banned jazz in Germany, fans and musicians alike ended up in concentration and death camps, alongside Jews, gypsies, gays and socialists. A BNP government would destroy rock music. OUR music, with its roots in working class black and white America, with its tendency to mix apparently “separate” cultural influences from all over the world, is an anathema to the Nazis.

Can you imagine what the music would be like under a government dedicated to “ethnic purity”? What would we have left? Morris dancing? Not even that. “Morris” is an English corruption of “Moorish”, meaning North African, meaning black. The Nazis have no culture, no art, no music. They are anti-life, anti-human. They hate you, they hate the way you dress, they hate every single record in your collection - every pop or rock record is by definition an anti-Nazi record.

Sometimes this has to be made explicit. The only thing preventing the Nazis from growing further here, as they have elsewhere in Europe, is the determination of normal anti-Nazis. People like us.

It’s time to make a stand.