Free sampler CD of the Peace Not War Festival is available on this
week's Big Issue magazine.

February 15th last year was the biggest simultaneous human action
ever, when over 5 million people in 150 cities demonstrated the
world's desire for peace, not war. The biggest event in the world
happening this Feb 15 will be the Peace Not War Festival in London:
four nights of live music, films and art to educate and inspire the
peace movement. Staged by the producers of the Peace Not War CD and
the Festival of Flight crew, the Peace Not War Festival is intended
to reawaken last year's vibe in preparation for the next global
protest day: March 20.

The lineup includes the cream of conscious musicians in the UK, with
a few guests from the US and France. Kicking off on a loud note
Thursday 12th February, rock and punk by the infamous Alabama 3 and
the resurrected Eve Libertine and Penny Rimbaud - known for inventing
anarchopunk in their old band Crass (full lineup below). New funky
punk from The Lovegods and Miss Black America, and the debut of Lucky
Four - the new band formed by Lamb's guitarist Oddur.

Friday 13th February will bring basically the whole street UK hiphop
scene to the Ocean. Radical rhymes from Blade, Jehst, Phi-Life-Cypher
and Skinnyman, and the Rawdog band fattening up the TaskForce
brothers. Beginning with chilled beats from DJ Vadim, the night ends
quickly with the DarkFire drum and bass collective featuring MC
Navigator. If you go to the anti-war demos you'll recognise GM Baby,
The Rub, The Unpeople and Carpetface too.

On Valentine's Day, dance for love not war! On Saturday 14th February
the Ocean will be steaming with plenty of beats per minute to get
lovers grinding. 7 Hours of live dance bands Free*land and Visionary
Underground, as well as Antipodean D&B chanteuse MC Tali and her Full
Cycle band, with Howie B and Stereo MCs on the decks, and a healthy
dose of Asian breaks too.

Sunday 15th February is the anniversary of the global protests and
the lineup reflects the diverse roots of the peace movement. Sunday
is the night for the vintage activists with mellow tastes: acoustic
guitar singer/songwriters, world grooves from Slovo and Faithless
(acoustic set), old English folk from Seize the Day, and a touch of
jazz and classical music. The night ends with Narmin Zangana, the
young Iraqi classical pianist, reminding us of the tragedy of war -
followed by the Rythms of Resistance Samba Band reminding us that we
have built the biggest anti-war movement ever and that preventing the
next invasion is a real possibility.

What makes this Festival a deeply meaningful experience will be its
multimedia components. The Raya VJ crew (who provide the visuals at
all the Stop the War marches, as well for Nitin Sawhney, the Big
Chill etc) will be projecting a funky frenzy of peace in motion - on
over 25 screens. An anti-war-art exhibition of paintings, sculptures,
and photo/electronic prints that will stimulate punters on their way
between the two music stages and the film room, which will show short
creative and documentary films about war and the peace movement in a
chilled space provided by The Magic Loungeabout. Local school kids
from Hackney will make a special contribution to the exhibition.

The 2000-capacity venue, Hackney Ocean, is the only space in London
built to handle such a multimedia extravaganza, and is
wheelchair-accessible everywhere:  http://www.ocean.org.uk. People who
can't make it to the Festival (because they don't live in London or
if the tickets sell out), can hear the Festival as a live audio
stream on the internet.

Proceeds from the Festival will be shared by lots of different peace
groups around the world, in the form of a new series of Peace Not War
CDs - this DIY fundraising system involves peace groups multiplying
their donations by selling CDs themselves, and they have raised over
£60,000 in the last year this way. UK peace groups who will receive
donations include: ARROW, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Campaign for
the Accountability of American Bases, CND (national + local),
Globalise Resistance, Grassroots Opposition to War, Laekenheath
Action, Movement for the Abolition of War, Network for Peace, Peace
News, Rising Tide, SWP, Stop the War Coalition (national + local),
Trident Ploughshares, Voices in the Wilderness, Wombles, Women in
Black and others (groups apply for donations online).

The Peace Not War Festival and the new CDs are intended to reawaken
the energy of last February 15th, motivate and fund a wordwide peace
movement which would challenge our goverments' war plans before
George Bush can say "let's roll".

Tickets £15 per night, phone CLUB TICKETS 0871 711 3033


THURSDAY 12th FEBRUARY: ROCK & PUNK
Alabama 3
Eve Libertine + Penny Rimbaud (Crass)
Goldblade
The Lovegods
Karma Sutra (France)
Conflict
Lucky Four (feat. Oddur from Lamb)
Miss Black America
Gertrude
Ju Ju Babies
SPEAKER: Milan Rai

FRIDAY 13th FEBRUARY: HIPHOP
Blade
TaskForce + Rawdog
Jehst + IQ + Asaviour
MC Navigator + DarkFire D&B collective
Phi-Life-Cypher
Skinnyman + SuparNovar + DJ Flip
Vadim
GM Baby
The Rub
CarpetFace
Hermione (Brown Girl)
Micke Morphingaz
The Unpeople
Double Negative
SPEAKER: Mark Thomas

SATURDAY 14th FEBRUARY (Valentine's Day): DANCE
Free*land (Adam's band)
MC Tali + the Full Cycle band
Howie B
Stereo MCs (DJ set)
Shut Up and Dance
Ragga Twins
Fun~da~mental (DJ set)
Visionary Underground
Pandit G (Asian Dub Foundation)
Rootsman
IDC
DJ DisOrientalist
Lazslo Beckett + DJ Rubbish
SPEAKER: Chris Nineham

SUNDAY 15th FEBRUARY: ACOUSTIC, WORLD & JAZZ
Faithless (acoustic set)
SPECIAL GUEST (to be announced)
Slovo
Seize the Day
Rythms of Resistance Samba Band
The Rub (acoustic set)
Crass Agenda
Nemo Jones
Martha Tilston
John Lester (USA)
Ami Saraiya (USA)
Narmin Zangana (Iraq)
Motiv
Del Sloan
Torben & Joe
Akemi Kuniyoshi
SPEAKER: Bruce Kent

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