What Is Rough
Music?Yes
it's an odd title. You're going... what the hell is "rough music"? Who
the hell are we and what do we want? Rough
music is a Sussex tradition dating back centuries. It was a form of punishment
for those who had offended their communities; people like profi teering landlords,
wife-beaters or kiddie-fi ddlers. In the past lovely people like these were a
lot harder to prosecute using the law. So people took matters into their own hands.
Taking what ever they could to make some noise with them, they would stand outside
the miscreant's house and make as much noise as possible. If they were successful
the offender was often driven out completely. Although such gatherings were illegal
they happened throughout Sussex with the last ones recorded as happening as late
as the 1950's.
Now we want to bring back this tradition with a vengeance!!! We
want to show how the people of Brighton are making plenty of Rough Music of their
own. How people are making Rough Music against City Council and big business profi
teering feeding frenzies. How they are making Rough Music for those who treat
their employees like dirt. How they are making Rough Music for businesses that
think that the environment and the quality of people's lives is a secondary consideration
to the important task of making mega-profi ts. From EDO/MBM the bomb makers to
Brighton and Hove City Council, from the Shoreham Airport stitch-up to the sneaking
encroachment of the supermarkets into every corner of the city; we say, bring
on the music!
Boss
pissed you off? Dodgy dealings at the council? Are you Simon Fanshawe’s P.A?
Perhaps you’ve got a story for Rough Music. roughmusic@hotmail.co.uk
Rough
Music c/o PO Box 74, Brighton BN1 4XQ Please
donate - we’re totally skint and running off the goodwill of readers
Disclaimer
Rough Music is nothing to do with Brighton’s premier anarchist theme pub. COPYLEFT
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