On Resistance Avenue – Anti-Racism Music Doc Premieres In Belfast

Louder Than Battle previews the Belfast Premiere of the brand new movie ‘ON RESISTANCE STREET’…. and hosts an unique new trailer.

ON RESISTANCE STREET is a function size documentary inspecting the function music performs within the battle towards Fascism, racism and bigotry. The movie was shot over a two 12 months interval in England, Belfast and New York and options contributions from many famend musicians, bands, writers and commentators. These embrace authentic members of STEEL PULSE, THE SEX PISTOLS, ASWAD, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, THE LEVELLERS, THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG, THE DEFECTS, THE OUTCASTS, LADY SHOCKER, NAOMI BEDFORD, ATILLA THE STOCKBROKER and others.  Right here is the completed trailer…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2xV4CFBHjA

The Belfast part of the movie options TERRI HOOLEY of the legendary ‘Good Vibrations’ file label, Belfast Punk musicians, world famend ‘Silent Testimony’ artist COLIN DAVIDSON, Journalist and Writer HENRY McDONALD, Queen’s College cultural commentator and former Jamaica Movie Commissioner KIM-MARIE SPENCE and authentic Belfast mural artists and Historians. The part explores through highly effective and private testimonies, the unifying spirit of Punk Rock and its affect in breaking down sectarian limitations in Belfast within the Nineteen Seventies.

”If Punk was chaos, Ulster was a war-zone and Punk Rock was the right soundtrack for the ravaged cities.”                                  Joe Strummer 2003

The movie’s Northern Irish Premiere will happen on the Queen’s Movie Theatre in Belfast on Thursday October nineteenth 2023. The screening will begin at 6.15 p.m, adopted by a Q+A session with Terri Hooley, the movie’s Director Richard David, Producer and Conflict Confidante Robin Banks, Belfast part Producer Helen McCourt and Kim-Marie Spence.

Tickets for the screening are £8.40 with concessions accessible. They are often bought through the Queen’s Theatre ticket hyperlink.   There’s excessive demand for tickets and persons are suggested to safe them rapidly.

ON RESISTANCE STREET appears on the affect the Nineteen Seventies ‘Rock Towards Racism’ motion had on an entire technology of younger individuals and the novel bands, solo artists and political activists who had been impressed by it. Along with bands and musicians, contributors to that part embrace MATT WRACK Chief of the Fireplace Brigade Union, WEYMAN BENNETT Nationwide Organiser of ‘Stand as much as Racism’, Actor and Artist RAY GANGE and Joe Strummer’s biographer CHRIS SALEWICZ.

Producer and Conflict Confidante Robin Banks mentioned: ”ORS will not be in any method, a Conflict bio pic. It examines the affect The Conflict, Metal Pulse and the opposite bands had as ethical normal bearers for a technology, the legacy of that affect as throughout the lives of followers and the way that kind of vitality is now desperately wanted inside at present’s political panorama.”

By way of analysis undertaken by Writer and Affiliate Producer Rick Blackman, it additionally explores the virtually forgotten formation of ‘The Stars Marketing campaign for Inter-racial Friendship’ by a gaggle of well-known British Jazz musicians and pop artists, within the wake of the 1958 Notting Hill riots. The group opened the primary multi-racial youth membership in Notting Hill which suffered arson assaults together with loss of life threats to important organisers like CLEO LAINE and JOHNNY DANKWORTH. ORS tells the story of the organisation for the primary time through movie.

Author and Director Richard David mentioned: ”Our movie is about the way in which individuals join through music and oppose the forces of hate. It appears on the cultural autos of the previous which have pushed these progressive energies and the facility of social media at present, when it comes to turning on-line relationships amongst like-minded individuals into real-life Anti-Racism campaigning teams and organisations. Regardless of the automobile, the principals of that connectivity stay the identical. Folks can develop opposition to issues like Fascism and racism as people, however it’s only after they join collectively, that such opposition turns into socially legitimate. Music nonetheless has the facility to forge these important connections. ”

As well as, ORS charts the twenty first century political drift to the Proper within the up to date West and dissects the affect of Far Proper extremist teams and people on Donald Trump’s ascension in America, Brexit and at present’s Conservative authorities in Britain. It previews Mykaell Riley’s essential ”Six Centuries of Black British Music Historical past” exhibition on the British Library in Summer time 2024 and delves contained in the typically risky musical social media universe.

Different topics coated embrace the Black historic traditions of the time period ”Woke” and cultural-musical appropriation by Proper Wing politicians, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump and disgraced former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The movie additionally visits New York for a whistle cease tour of town’s radical musical historical past.

ORS options an authentic soundtrack of up to date protest songs from bands and solo artists, from throughout the ‘Resistance Avenue’ organisation and an authentic incidental musical
soundtrack, composed by Mark Vennis.

Negotiations for the movie’s London Premiere screening at a while this autumn, are nonetheless ongoing. A sold-out Southern regional Premiere will happen at Solent College Movie Theatre in Southampton on Friday November seventeenth, that as a part of the end result of Southampton Movie Week. A full interview with Robin Banks and Richard David shall be revealed nearer that occasion. The movie’s European Pageant Premiere is scheduled for the Porto Doco Pageant in Portugal, additionally in November with date to be confirmed.

ORS is a MONTAJ MEDIA VILLAGE manufacturing at the side of RESISTANCE STREET CREATIVES and BERSERKER ENTERTAINMENT LTD.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER RICHARD BARCLAY

All Media inquiries for ON RESISTANCE STREET needs to be made to JESSE BEALE on 07534 783 955 or at jessebeale95@gmail.com.

Queen’s Theatre ticket hyperlink. 

Content material from Richard Chorley