Peace Not War, the producers of last year's double-CD anti-war
musical compilation - featuring Public Enemy, Ms Dynamite, Billy
Bragg and Ani DiFranco among its contributors - are back with another
fund-raising spectacular, the Peace Not War Music Festival, which is
expected to raise £250,000 for the anti-war movement.

To mark the anniversary of the huge global anti-war protests on
February 15th, which drew two million onto the streets of London, the
peace movement celebrates with a four-night concert next February at
the Hackney Ocean and the release of a series of 4 new CDs. (See
below for activists' discounts.)

Peace Not War producer Mudge said: "The hundreds of bands who've sent
us CDs demonstrate that most of the world wants to end warfare. The
first Peace Not War compilation CD's "Big Issue"-style fundraising
system will have raised over £43,000 by the end of 2003.

"If the Festival sells out, we expect the system to raise a further
£250,000 through the sales of the new CDs, which will be given to
anti-war groups for free. Selling them for £10 each will enable them
get on with their work. Another equally important effect of these CDs
is giving people in the movement musical inspiration, to keep
positive and moving towards peace."

CONFIRMED PERFORMERS AT HACKNEY OCEAN, 12-15 FEBRUARY 2004:
Adam Free*land
Ahmed Mukhtar
Alabama 3
Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem
Bobby Friction
CarpetFace
Conflict
Crass (with Coldcut)
DJ DisOrientalist
DJ Hype
DJ Rubbish
Double Negative
Est'elle
Extremists
Faithless
Fun~da~mental
Gertrude
GM Baby
Hermione (Brown Girl)
Howie B
IDC
John Lester
Micke Morphingaz
Motiv
Narmin Zangana
Nemo Jones
Oddur & Jo
Phi-Life-Cypher
Pok
Raw Hill Kru
Rythms of Resistance
Rootsman
Seize the Day
Skinnyman
Slovo
State of Bengal
Stereo MCs
SuparNovar & MudFam
TaskForce
The Rub
The Unpeople
Visionary Underground
+ many more to be confirmed - check the website soon for updated
line-up  http://www.peace-not-war.org

2 music stages, visuals by RAYA, a room for films and workshops,
wheelchair access everywhere: Hackney Ocean, Mare St, Hackney, East
London - opposite Hackney Town Hall  http://www.ocean.org.uk

Thursday 12th = rock, punk, indie
Friday 13th February = hiphop, r&b, reggae
Saturday 14th February = dance
Sunday 15th February = acoustic, folk, jazz

TICKETS £17.50 per night + booking fee.

ADVANCE TICKETS FOR PEACE ACTIVISTS: all four nights £50, no booking
fee: send cheques payable to "Peace Not War", PO Box 44212, London E3
4WB. Phone 020 7515 4702. You must include your name, street address,
email + role in the peace movement (eg group membership). First 100
tickets only.

The Peace Not War Music Project funds a full spectrum of groups in
the global peace movement. Proceeds from these gigs go to
manufacturing the new series of anti-war CDs, which will be donated
to peace groups for them to sell. Each ticket contributes at least 2
double CDs, which can be sold for at least £20 by peace groups. UK
peace groups who will receive donations include: ARROW, Campaign
Against the Arms Trade, Campaign for the Accountability of American
Bases, CND (national + local), Globalise Resistance, Grassroots
Opposition to War, Network for Peace, Peace News, Rising Tide, Stop
the War Coalition (national + local), Trident Ploughshares, Voices in
the Wilderness, Wombles, Women in Black and others. If your peace
group wants a donation, apply online now.

The Peace Not War Music Festival is supported by Anonymous, Big
Issue, Festival of Flight, New Internationalist, RAYA, Ocean, OnMusic
and others.

Hours of anti-war music free online  http://www.peace-not-war.org

PEACE :-)