Saunders may have played a cartoon character in a cape onstage, but he, along with the kindred spirits of RAR, were real-life superheroes. A kick against the pricks was called for.
This was a country who’d once fought fascism tooth and nail on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields now it was suddenly seeing a certain subset of its citizens re-enacting it on the streets. A look back at the formation of Rock Against Racism and the era that gave birth to it, Rubika Shah’s incendiary documentary drops viewers into a less-than-United Kingdom where scumbags like Enoch Powell preached hate in parliament and skinheads attacked West Indian and East Asian communities. The story behind the how and why of that show, however - the urgency and necessity and call-to-arms radicalization of it - has receded into the background as a footnote, and this is where White Riot pogos into the picture. If you’ve seen Rude Boy, the 1980 half-documentary/half day-in-the-life fictional take on the only band that mattered, then you know the gig the footage of that real spirit-of-’78 concert makes up roughly a third of the film. played that day, including an incendiary version of “White Riot” with Sham 69’s Jimmy Pursey, was legendary.
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His response was an organization dubbed “Rock Against Racism.” The show in Victoria Park was a huge RAR event that featured bands like X-Ray Spex, the Tom Robinson Band and the Clash. Back then, he was a curly-haired, mutton-chopped photographer who decided, along with some like-minded activists, to take on the National Front and other racist groups that were making a bid for England’s hearts and minds. “This is the carnival against the fucking Nazis!”Īs Saunders himself recounts, decades after the fact, the cheer from the crowd was massive. “This ain’t no Woodstock,” the gent tells the assembled Britons before him. Oligarchy,” but folks backstage - and some of the savvier people attending this outdoor concert - know him as Red Saunders. Recently, the band has been based in Portland, Oregon.The guy with mask and the cape runs onstage, to the screams of thousands of people standing in Victoria Park on a characteristically brisk April day in 1978. and Europe extensively with the Dictor/Posner/Smith/Schvitz lineup. Following the death of Mikey Donaldson in September 2007, MDC has been touring the U.S. They took part in a 25th-anniversary world tour in 2005, with an all-original lineup. MDC released a new album, Magnus Dominus Corpus, in 2004. MDC's singer, Dave Dictor, returned with an entirely new backing line-up in 2000, which included Long Island musicians Matt Van Cura,(bass) Erik Mischo,(guitar), and John Soldo,(Drums). For MDC, 1982 ended with a tour of Europe with the Dead Kennedys which brought the band greater exposure in the punk scene outside of the U.S., especially in the UK. Upon Bad Brains' departure from the bill, they refused to return a loan owed to Big Boys and instead left a note that reportedly read, "burn in hell bloodclot faggot." The incident resulted in the MDC song Pay to Come Along. and MDC's Dave Dictor had an intense confrontation. learned that Big Boys' singer, Randy Turner, was gay. During the summer of 1982, they became involved in the Rock Against Reagan Tour, during which time they fell out with the band Bad Brains when Rastafarian singer H.R. Other targets of criticism devoid of irony included capitalism ("Corporate Death Burger"), homophobia ("America's So Straight"), and American culture ("Violent Rednecks"). The album is now widely considered a punk classic, and features songs such as "John Wayne Was a Nazi", "Dick for Brains", and the harsh criticism of the police, "I Remember". By this point the band were active participants in the growing hardcore scene and released their debut LP Millions of Dead Cops on their own label, R Radical Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles helped with distribution. By 1982 the band had relocated to San Francisco, California, and renamed themselves MDC. Both songs were later released on the debut MDC album. They released one single as the Stains in 1981, featuring a slower version of the future MDC song "John Wayne Was a Nazi" backed with "Born to Die". These bands frequently played together and established the Austin hardcore scene.
Formed in the late 1970s as The Stains and playing their first gig under this name in August 1980, MDC were one of three pioneering hardcore punk bands in Austin, Texas, in the early '80s, alongside The Dicks and Big Boys.
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