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Police Vet Live Music And DJs For 'Terror Risk'

can't believe this shit is STILL happening :mad:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/08/police-accused-discriminating-urban-music?CMP=twt_fd
At a recent major urban event at a mainstream live venue, organisers say that police insisted on searching 18 performers for weapons before they went on stage, as well as a group of young people on work experience organised by a charity.
The Metropolitan police's risk assessment of live urban music gigs is based on the ethnicity of the audience and artists, according to industry figures. Police can ask for strict safety measures to be put in place on the basis of this risk assessment, and can cancel gigs at short notice.
At the event, police told organisers they had intelligence about an artist on the bill, but would not specify which one, saying they all needed to be searched. An airport-style scanner was used to check the artists and anyone else involved in the gig each time they entered the venue,
fuck you form 696
 
i seriously thought it had been scrapped tho, not just altered :confused:
really really boils my piss :mad:
 
Form 696
new doc presented by JME, gotta love JME :cool:
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/noisey-specials/form-696-the-police-vs-grime-music


Noisey presents a new documentary about London's grime scene and its relationship with the police hosted by JME and featuring Meridian Dan, Jammer and Big Narstie.

In February, Just Jam's event at The Barbican was cancelled at the last minute. It was an event that seemed to be yet another victim of the London authorities now notorious risk assessment procedure, Form 696.

Told through the eyes of Jamie Adenuga—grime outfit Boy Better Know's tee-total, vegan frontman who was booked to perform at the Barbican—Noisey investigates what the reasons behind the sudden cancellation were. He speaks to lawyers, journalists and fellow artists like Jammer, Meridian Dan and Big Narstie to find out whether the prohibiting of grime music events by London police is a cause for concern, rather than a solution to crime in the capital
 
Yeah that JME film is great.

I'm pretty cynical about the police but I was surprised that they refused to be interviewed for it.
 
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