Political, Much?

Do you remember the Rock Against Racism gig, which featured such stars as Lethal Bizzle, Wiley and Jerry Dammers - who all then pulled out?

Well, those crazy "rockers" are back and endorsing a new CD with pretty much the same aim and cause. There are some new obscure musical talents to marvel over - and Pete Docherty is even on this one. So perhaps "talents" is used excessively.

And what exactly is the goal they're working towards? Yep, it's a "campaign to mobilise young people against the fascist British National Party (BNP)." So rather than being a moral crusade against racism as a whole, it is directed at a perfectly legitimate and mostly legal political party whose "fascist" views they happen to disagree with.

In the first place, I don't happen to think that a CD of sub-par music is going to go a SINGLE STEP towards ending racism. And in the wake of that, it is clear that this campaign is misrepresenting itself as moral and cultural, when in fact it is simply political.