Latest Our Geology Club release: Days of Kindness Trace 1: 1st November 2024 Label: Traces of Hauntology
A song inspired by the community of Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan (South Wales) who in 2023 united to resist attacks on refugees and asylum seekers who had been placed in local hotels. In 2024 the song was entered by us into the UK Songwriting Contest 2024 in the Crisis and Protest Songs Category. It was awarded 5 stars and a commended certificate by the judges in July 2024. Weeks later the atrocity in Southport, England perpetrated by a young adult born in South Wales, was used by racist groups and right wing political figures to fuel riots, arson attacks and violence against residents of hotels across the UK and against Black and Brown Britains. Llantwit Major shows us that the key to resisting ethnic/race nationalism is civic unity and active imaginative resistance. A Welsh Cake needs many ingredients local and imported. So does a community. Hope not Hate
For more information see: https://hopenothate.org.uk/2023/08/01/a-blueprint-for-a-successful-community-response/