HOPE, not hate, makes Britain GREAT!
"We have So Much More In Common Than Divides Us"
A quality cocktail of musical sounds - including deux furieuses, Feral Five, Datblygu and The Membranes - are among 95 tracks united on the #MoreInCommon compilation album for Hope Not Hate.
Planet Earth hasn't failed to miss that misinformation and propaganda has divided the once green and pleasant lands of The British Isles into a nazi-traitor laden hell, radiating from the Brexit/Fuxit "referendum" summer of hate. Whatever the result, if you really care about Britain, we still have to pull together to make the best future possible.
(Or we can just keep disagreeing to agree like a ground hog day infant school playground and continue to spiral downhill...)
It now sometimes feels like a crime to be / look or sound compassionate, gay or foreign in a nation that was the leading light of the world for creativity from those characteristics. We still are and can capitalise on that.
Sure we have problems, but its more likely to be from rich people stealing all the money, health, education, arts, venues and souls from poor people, than from fellow human beings fleeing war and persecution.
We'd be better off putting our heads together in conversation but propaganda wants us divided so we are conquered. With a spectrum of the one race (human) diversity in TheZineUK's DNA we, of course, totally salute Hope Not Hate for promoting positivity. Music is key to our social well being, education, economy and employment prospects. See modern history for further details. Come on, we CAN do this! Look, here are a load of people NOT arguing; there are so many tips and recommendations on this album, which ranges from rock to drum n bass and anything in between. #MoreInCommon is available for only £5 from the Hope Not Hate Bandcamp page. All the artists contributed their work for free to fund the UK wide charity.
As compiler, Simon Tucker says, "Just realise that in the end we are all on one planet together, and being hateful is what the bad guys want." Nick Ryan of Hope not hate told the South Wales Evening Post "We're delighted that Simon has brought together so many artists in support of our work. #MoreInCommon was our response to Jo Cox's death and the divisions and disunity which emerged during the referendum process."
The previously mentioned impeccable rockers, deux furieuses with their track, 'This Is A Red Line' and future-punx, Feral Five ('Void') are in the vanguard of the nation's growing, femme powered music heritage. Both bands have had an amazing year, and being big fans, drew us to this album through their stand-out tracks. To be fair, they are always stand-outs. Feral Five recently supported heritage experimentals, TEST DEPT at their sell-out London show:
With their debut album, 'Tracks Of Wire', "the excellent, excellent deux furieuses" (Frank Turner) are courting reviews to sell your teeth for.
deux furieuses are manic street preachers of inspiration and articulate observation. Speaking to one of the UK's key music sites, GigSlutz, recently they rightly mentioned that we should "stop attacking each other on the left in such a vicious way and instead hold this government to account." adding "We actually wrote ‘This Is A Red Line’ about the realisation that the Egyptian girl in the iconic ‘Girl in the blue bra’ witness video still (who was so brutally uncovered, kicked and beaten by security forces), was in fact just like us in her jeans and trainers. No matter what we are wearing or not wearing, underneath we have, to quote Jo Cox, “so much more in common than that which divides us.”
Cosmic album of positivity by 95 songs to disover. Cosmic artwork by Swci Delic
