Wills The Willing Skin: Love Dont Hate Featuring Reshmin Chowdhury, Gareth Ainsworth Petr Cech
In July 2005 as rehearsals began for Wills The Willings 29day residency at the Edinburgh festival, Anthony Walker aged 18 was brutally murdered with an axe at a bus stop in Liverpool, whilst waiting to catch a bus home. The motivation for such a heinous crime was nothing more than the colour of his skin. Echoing memories of the Stephen Lawrence murder this new tragedy had reignited the shame that I felt as a man growing up on the estates of South London where racism was tolerated as part of everyday life. I felt compelled to write Skin. This was a song not written in hope but in the true belief that if there is integrity on the ink, the pen will remain mightier than the sword and by committing my words to paper, I was challenging myself to become a voice for change and an advocate for this cause. If only one person changed the way they thought and moved away from a path of racial hatred, then I would have achieved something but of course my real hope was that a pebble might create a ripple and a r
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