1976/77 Rock Against Racism gigs

Some Rock Against Racism gigs and related events from 1976 and 1977

Carol Grimes and the London Boogie Band, Matumbi and Limosine at Royal College of Arts in London; RAR disco in Walsall (Socialist Worker, 11 December 1976)

Plummit Airlines at Hatfield Poly; Special Brew and The Derelicts at Queen Mary College, Mile End; Tom Robinson Band at North London Poly (SW 29 January 1977)

RAR May Day gig a the Roundhouse in London with Aswad, Generation X, Carol Grimes and more (Socialist Worker, 30 April 1977) 

Manchester and Ealing RAR gigs, the later with Misty plus a Hackney anti-racist festival (Socialist Worker 15 October 1977)

Black Slate & Wire in Stoke Newington, Steel Pulse in New Cross + Manchester and Birmingham (SW 22 October 1977)

Hackney Town Hall  - Generation X and Cimarons (SW 13 August 1977)

  

Crew RAR with Any Trouble (SW 13 August 1977)

Brighton (including Piranhas), Maidstone, Bangor (SW 1 Nov 1977)

Bury Rock Against Racism with the Nosebleeds (SW 1 October 1977)

Newcastle and Darlington Rock Against Racism gigs (SW 1 Oct 77)

A tour of England with Bill Hampton, brother of murdered Chicago Black Panther Fred Hampton, hosted by Flame (source: SW 1 Nov 1977). The latter started off a black paper linked to SWP but most ended up going their own way (see this interesting piece). The tour included a couple of socials with Silver Camel Sound System, who were linked to central London reggae record shop Daddy Kool, and Matumbi (including Denis Bovell).

Found while browsing through old copies of Socialist Worker:

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/sw-gb/index.htm

see previously:

RAR documents 1979

 

Meetings with remarkable foxes

I think anybody who has ever been a hunt saboteur probably feels that they have a special connection with foxes. I certainly do even though in my sabbing days I rarely saw one except as an occasional flash of red tearing fearfully across a field pursued by hounds. It took  me moving to London to become really familiar with foxes in daily life, I rarely go a few days without seeing one. Some people call them urban foxes as if they moved into our human dominated areas because they liked the takeaway leftovers, but actually I think it's more the fact that we extended our urban areas into their territories and they stuck around.

Anyway here's a few recent foxy encounters-

Actual fox in New Cross

Leonara Carrington - Woman with Fox 
(seen in the exhibition 'Last Night I dreamed of Manderley' in Alison Jacques Gallery, London, 2025)

Jennifer Binnie 'Fox Woman'
(seen in her Forest Visions exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, 2025)