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Portland Arms, Cambridgeshire
Date: 29 Mar 2014
Price: £4
Publisher: Tory Baiting/R*E*P*E*A*T
Details:
S*M*A*S*H
and NxtGen
plus special guests
The Silent Majority
Careless Sons
and
DJ Lez
Very limited 7' picture disc with free download and CDr available on the night at a special price of £4
£5 on the night, advance ticket £8 - includes a copy of the single.
Press Release
R*E*P*E*A*T Presents
S*M*A*S*H – (I Want To) Kill Somebody '14
NxtGen - CONDEMned
A Two Way Tory Baiting Split Single
Available on limited edition Picture Disc
and by Download
from March 29th 2014
Press Release...
20 Years ago, a punk rock trio from Welwyn Garden City called S*M*A*S*H
smuggled a song about killing the hated, corrupt and discredited Tory
government into the top 30 of the hit parade. Their righteous anger
struck a chord right across the country, as they played to packed venues
across 'the toilets' of Britain before appearing at the massive Anti
Nazi League Carnival of 1994 on a float with Billy Bragg, and even went
on to perform on Top of the Pops.
Fast forward 2 decades and we
have another detested, unrepresentative government of the rich for the
rich, and the sense of bottled up, unrepresented, unexpressed anger and
frustration is as vehement as ever. To help give this potent force a
voice, S*M*A*S*H have re-recorded their anthem and show no signs of
mellowing with age – the guitars are, if anything, even more strident
and urgent than they were in 1994, while the barbed lyrics still bristle
with incandescent, righteous anger, and have been rewritten to suit the
current condemned government :
“David Cameron and the other one / Boris Johnson, Teresa May
Denis McShane expenses claim / Milliband Milliband
Jeremy Hunt rhyming slang
I want to kill somebody
Right now!”
As if to prove that this feeling is shared by the nation’s youth,
S*M*A*S*H are joined on this single by a devastating track by
Loughborough rapper and binman NxtGen. Eschewing the clichéd hip-hop
subject matter of babes, booty and bling, NxtGen has also set his sights
on the rich and powerful. His notorious Andrew Lansley Rap made him a
viral hit on Twitter and Youtube (with over 580,000 views of the video)
and he has since laid into The Bedroom Tax, The Cuts and David Cameron's
cabinet of millionaires.
'CONDEMned' manages to combine these
targets in one magnificent poetic rant of rage, showcasing breakneck
verbal gymnastics married to knowledge and wit, all accompanied by an
understated laid back piano sample. “Life tasted sour since they came to
power / But the truth I say is louder, I'll say it louder til I'm up
the tower”.
While NxtGen maybe half the age of his label mates,
they are clearly contemporaries in their disgust at the present
government, and their burning desire to do something about it. As NxtGen
puts it,"To be found you gotta be loud and have a different sound, step
out from the crowd, just rise from the underground!" With this release
R*E*P*E*A*T Records hopes to help to raise rebel music loud and proud
from the underground; any profits will be given to Love Music Hate
Racism, an organisation that uses the power of music to combat the
divisive racism which those in power love to use to help keep us weak.
The Tory Baiting single will be available from good record shops, by
mail order from the R*E*P*E*A*T website and by download from March 22nd.
S*M*A*S*H https://www.facebook.com/pages/smash/54281614881?fref=ts
NxtGen https://www.facebook.com/McNxtgen
Details from facebook.com
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