Love Music Hate Racism - Sziget Festival - 11th Aug
The Sziget Festival, being held on an island in the middle of the River Danube, is in aid of a new organisation being set up in Hungary with the help of Love Music Hate Racism to fight against the oppression of Romany gypsies.
Jimmy Pursey said today, “Living in the world of nationalistic, border to border, coast to coast, stubborn mentality we all feel wild and free when we listen to the fiddle of gypsies or a wild Irish jig. It instinctively gives to the soul and, as the Indian nomadic gypsies first found freedom from Egypt up into Romania, then throughout the globe, freedom doesn’t have a border. Freedom is not proud of a flag. Freedom is a woman living in Darfur as a refugee – that’s the 21st century. Freedom is the nomadic gypsy. Freedom is not a shadow, it is the instinct of hope for the next day. The gypsy has always been looked down upon as the poor and the thief – you are only the thief when you are poor. Your freedom is always misunderstood by those that deny you that freedom.”