According to Dave Thompson in his book " Wheels Out Of Gear: 2-Tone, The Specials and a World in Flames, "For the two bands to appear on bills together was like detonating a bomb beneath a battalion of stereotypes." Misty In Roots were full-fledged Rastas and The Ruts for all intents and purposes were skinheads.
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Misty In Roots added The Ruts as a opener on many of the RAR shows they played around the UK. Both bands were from the Southall section of London. It was through their involvement with RAR that reggae band Misty In Roots and punk/reggae band The Ruts came to work together, influencing and supporting each other. An audience of 25,000 came to the Northern Carnival in Manchester, for a concert featuring Buzzcocks, Graham Parker and the Rumour, and Misty in Roots. It has been reported that 80,000 people attended an open-air concert that featured The Clash (as seen in the film Rude Boy), Buzzcocks, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, The Ruts, Sham 69, Generation X and the Tom Robinson Band. In the spring and fall of 1978, RAR organized two major music festivals to counteract the growing wave of racist attacks in the UK. It was founded in response to allegedly racist comments and gestures made by Eric Clapton and David Bowie. Rock Against Racism ( RAR) was a campaign set up in the UK by Red Saunders, Roger Huddle and others in winter 1976. In many ways, the partnership of roots reggae band Misty In Roots and punk rockers The Ruts best exemplified this cultural collaboration brought together by the Rock Against Racism movement. I have previously highlighted the ways UK punk and reggae bands came together under one umbrella in the late 70's.
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