Love Music Hate Racism event by Dave Haslam - Manchester, same night Morrissey plays (July 8, 2018)

http://www.davehaslam.com/#/one-nation-under-a-groove/

Ex-Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam is throwing a free party to coincide with Morrissey’s forthcoming visit to the city. He says the party, featuring more than a dozen of the city’s top DJs is “in response to Morrissey’s divisive views, and his support for the far-right.”

Morrissey has attracted controversy for a host of remarks and opinions – including undermining the #metoo campaign and claiming there’s “no difference between eating animals and paedophilia”.

In recent years, the ex-Smiths singer’s views on race have become particularly strident. Morrissey has described the Chinese people “a sub-species”, heavily criticised Angela Merkel for opening German borders to refugees, and has gone on record supporting far-right figures like Anne Marie Waters and EDL founder Tommy Robinson. He does, however, claim to have “Muslim friends”.

“Manchester is our home, it’s a city built on immigration, a city with an amazing legacy of great bands and wonderful clubs,” says Haslam. “Music brings people together. Strangers become brothers, sisters. All this positivity spreads into the city and beyond.”

Haslam points out Manchester’s solidarity and sense of community in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack, which he contrasts with Morrissey’s pronouncements; “Morrissey hasn’t lived in the city for thirty years – he lives abroad in tax exile – and has now joined the ranks of various right-wing politicians, tax exiles, tabloids, and media hate-slingers seeking to divide our community.

“There are counter arguments. There are many of them. But for now, I’ve decided to counter the hate by throwing a free party, a celebratory all-dayer of beautifully diverse soul-filled, hope-filled music…”

The event on Sunday July 8th, entitled ‘One Nation Under A Groove’ will take place at Revolution on Deansgate Locks from 3pm until midnight.

DJs include DJ Paulette (Flesh), Dom (Blood & Fire), and Irfan Rainy (Community). In addition, Haslam himself is joining forces with Elliot Eastwick and Jason Boardman to resurrect the hugely successful ‘Yellow’ brand as a one-off for the event.

Admission is free, but a collection will be taken, which will be donated to the charity Love Music Hate Racism.

“It might not be coincidence that the venue is just a few hundred yards from where Morrissey is playing,” admits Haslam.

“Morrissey fans on their way to or back from his concert are more than welcome,” he says.

+++ Facebook event page with full DJ line-up here;

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An anonymous person posted the link:

Dave Haslam throws 'positive protest party' against Morrissey at the same time as his Manchester gig - Manchester Evening News
“Morrissey fans on their way to or back from his concert are more than welcome.”

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Related item:

• The day Morrissey came to tea: an extract from Dave Haslam’s memoir - May 13, 2018

 

[Anonymous]

As a left-winger, a socialist, this sort of stuff embarrasses me no end. There's not only an absence of nuance and intellectual rigor, but an absence of anything that might reasonably be referred to as thought. Why challenge ourselves when we can just point and label? Concerned about immigration? Racist! Worried about Islamic extremism? Racist! Not too fond of spicy food? Racist! We've entered a new age of mindlessness, where we on the left smugly congratulate ourselves (because we own the moral high ground, we're the goodies) and the only beneficiaries are the actual far right. Jesus f***ing wept.

I tend to be disappointed by these kinds of things as they mostly seem to be more about show and less about action that will facilitate the change they want. You don’t like a party’s policy go knock on doors promoting candidates, go volunteer at shelters. This kind of thing to me says yeah look at me and what I don’t like which is fine but it mostly seems superficial and about defining the image of the people that actually doing anything. Mention the partys name you don’t like and not the celebrity voting for them

 

[001]

Oi! Dumb-ass! As a wise man once sang, "Can't you read?".

"This recording is dedicated to Dick Gregory (1932-2017)"

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@ Unclebilge ^

 

[reelfountain]

As there is currently mass movement of millions of people into European countries (for economic reasons that only benefits the rich), many people are concerned. To shout 'racist' is simply to confirm your ignorance. Governments do not understand or care about the concerns of ordinary people. They haughtily dismiss all their concerns with a reply of: racist! xenophobic! Islamaphobic! - a favourite trick of many people on the left also, which must please the governing elites no end.
When governments are purposely engineering the demographics of your country for their own reasons (which are never in the public interest) it's something to be concerned about, especially if you are culturally aware. That's why it's so great that Morrissey has spoken out and decided that the predictable consequences (Morrissey is an evil racist!!!) are worth it.

 

[Anonymous]

As a left-winger, a socialist, this sort of stuff embarrasses me no end. There's not only an absence of nuance and intellectual rigor, but an absence of anything that might reasonably be referred to as thought. Why challenge ourselves when we can just point and label? Concerned about immigration? Racist! Worried about Islamic extremism? Racist! Not too fond of spicy food? Racist! We've entered a new age of mindlessness, where we on the left smugly congratulate ourselves (because we own the moral high ground, we're the goodies) and the only beneficiaries are the actual far right. Jesus f***ing wept.

That's an awful big bag of right-wing tropes for a left-winger. Spicy food! For f***'s sake.

 

[Anonymous]

Maybe the outstanding member of society, uncleskinny, would be so nice as to not post a huge poster the next time cause it blocks the whole first page from loading even for us on giga speeds.

 

[vegan.cro spirit# 532]

Lefties events are always free and they bus people from all over the place and let the local antifa organise the unrest. I really hope lives will be lost and that Manchester burns down.
Imagine all those hipsters beards on fire.
Priceless.

Of course its free, the decent peeps with money will be at the Moz show.
A bunch of stupid lazy 15 year olds and some old hipsters like Skinny and Chezz.
The sad part is that they are going to be on the way from the Moz shows and thousands
of paying customers are liable to get robbed by the antifas, snatching purses while Skinny
makes his stupid speech to the 15 year olds. Best advice would be to circle around this
riff raff.

Maybe ill show up and everybody will sit in a circle and sing 'booog' while tapping
on the bottom of cardboard boxes.

 

[Anonymous]

Utter bollocks. People are sick of racists, and apologists for racists, like you, you f***ing racist scumbag.

Did you know that there's someone who spends a vast amount of time on this website who actually claimed that Morrissey's career went downhill the day he started to work with non-white musician Jesse Tobias.
What a disgusting racist bigot. His (hilarious) name on this website - Uncle Skinny.
Your vile ugly racism sickens us all.

 

[Anonymous]

This thread is not trending and with this post from me I tried my bit.

 

[Anonymous]

Of course its free, the decent peeps with money will be at the Moz show.
A bunch of stupid lazy 15 year olds and some old hipsters like Skinny and Chezz.
The sad part is that they are going to be on the way from the Moz shows and thousands
of paying customers are liable to get robbed by the antifas, snatching purses while Skinny
makes his stupid speech to the 15 year olds. Best advice would be to circle around this
riff raff.

Maybe ill show up and everybody will sit in a circle and sing 'booog' while tapping
on the bottom of cardboard boxes.

Since skinny makes acid for a living he will throw some in the faces of Moz fans as a tribute to London culture.

 

[vegan.cro spirit# 532]

Since skinny makes acid for a living he will throw some in the faces of Moz fans as a tribute to London culture.

According to Skinny/Surface and Chezz, probably it was white British barons that invented the stupid Islam too.
Skinny will probably do his Lenin thing at this Snowflake roundabout. Hollering and berating the stoned assembled.

 

[Surface]

Since skinny makes acid for a living he will throw some in the faces of Moz fans as a tribute to London culture.

What a c*** comment, you f***ing arsehole

 

[Charlie Cheswick]

What a c*** comment, you f***ing arsehole

This site is over run with arseholes. No surprise considering the site is dedicated to an arsehole.

 

[William Blake's Seven]

That's an awful big bag of right-wing tropes for a left-winger. Spicy food! For f***'s sake.

Not quite sure what your point is.

 

[Surface]

This site is over run with arseholes. No surprise considering the site is dedicated to an arsehole.

Agree but there's a difference between simpleton comments like Vegan Cro's trolling and someone saying an individual would chuck acid in someone's face. Looking at his post regarding Johnny's hair though, it does look like its another troll just trying to make a name for itself.

 

[Peppermint]

That's an awful big bag of right-wing tropes for a left-winger. Spicy food! For f***'s sake.

It's humour. In an intelligent, insightful post. I'm quite surprised that this needs explaining. Oh, and I believe WBS has an Indian wife, so he's not just spouting empty 'tropes'.

 

[Charlie Cheswick]

As there is currently mass movement of millions of people into European countries (for economic reasons that only benefits the rich), many people are concerned. To shout 'racist' is simply to confirm your ignorance. Governments do not understand or care about the concerns of ordinary people. They haughtily dismiss all their concerns with a reply of: racist! xenophobic! Islamaphobic! - a favourite trick of many people on the left also, which must please the governing elites no end.
When governments are purposely engineering the demographics of your country for their own reasons (which are never in the public interest) it's something to be concerned about, especially if you are culturally aware. That's why it's so great that Morrissey has spoken out and decided that the predictable consequences (Morrissey is an evil racist!!!) are worth it.

The 'elites' thrive on divide and rule. They've got one section of society blaming Muslims and immigrants for everthing, another blaming the poor for everything and section of those blaming the poor, Muslims and Immigrants for everything while also blaming lefties who frankly hold no power over anything whatsover and haven't for decades.

Meanwhile the 'elites' keep coining it through the big wealth grab of austerity and our thick, distracted population will no doubt vote to take it up the arse again when next asked while we lose out further because we voted out of the EU because we don't like Pakistanis.

 

[Anonymous]

Not quite sure what your point is.

Well knock me down with a feather.

 

[Surface]

This site is over run with arseholes. No surprise considering the site is dedicated to an arsehole.

Gotta laugh when someone gives you a troll rating for saying that someone who posts something about throwing acid in someones face is a c***. Take a bow Thewlis, hope it never happens to you or a member of your family you f***ing wanker.

 

[Charlie Cheswick]

Gotta laugh when someone gives you a troll rating for saying that someone who posts something about throwing acid in someones face is a c***. Take a bow Thewlis, hope it never happens to you or a member of your family you f***ing wanker.

Haha, getting a troll rating off Thewlis means you made a good point.

 

[Anonymous]

Can't get my head around the idea that you only have to say you supported Brexit or have concerns regarding immigration to be told you're a vile, racist, scum, disgusting person ... akin to hitler. I guess days of TRULY being open minded and able to debate are GONE. People say they are DESPERATE for free speech and debate but burst into tears of fury when opposing views get any say (much more HATE on this board than I've ever heard coming outta Mozz's mouth, ironic really!)

you can be proud of your country and be concerned about figures due to immigration without hating other races. It's like people walking into my house, using all my stuff, and me not being able to at least say, 'hey I only have two bedrooms and barely any food in my fridge to feed my kids, so can you please step outside here for a bit" but then me being called evil for trying to maintain what I have. The "you're racist and hate everyone" card is used so much..... When something truly despicable happens, no one will listen because we'll all be desensitised to the outpouring of snowflake tears we've had to be drenched in lately.