BTNG

Footage from the Folk Against Fascism Village Fete, May Bank Holiday 2010, South Bank, London with Lush FAF Imagined Village bath bomb lollies. Plus footage from the Imagined Village and their fans on the February 2010 tour responding to a report in the Guardian that Nick Griffin from the racist BNP was a big fan of traditional English folk music and in particular Eliza Carthy. B*ll*cks to the BNP! Anarchy In The UK performed by amazing Kent melodian player and the other Simon Ritchie: http://www.melodeonmania.demon.co.uk/

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[johnbarleycorn3]

BTNG started as a bit of fun on the Imagined Village tour January 2010 when the Guardian reported Nick Griffin as a fan of Eliza Carthy on the basis that ‘this most arthritically white of genres: English Folk’ is seen by the BNP as the pure music of the indigenous English. We are happy for any tosser to like our music, left or right. We are not happy for them to claim our music as their own on spurious racist grounds.

[larosa7707]

I am slightly bemused why there is such a fuss about somebody liking something, I am not aware that Folk music is the exclusive preserve of the Left? It is highly elitist to suggest this. There are plenty of examples of tossers liking things things I have high regard for...Lord Archer Loves Dylan and Rupert Brook...Bono Loves the Velvet Underground....Yes the BNP have horrible views but .are we now going to have some kind of Folksy Taliban where only people with compatible views are allowed in??

[DubhCion]

It's fantastic to see so many people supporting this. BOLLOCKS! :D

[bonnet0uk]

Bollocks!