The British Reggae award winning Artist Jimmy Lindsay
performing songs from his classic Where Is Your Love and Children
Of Rastafari album and a few songs from his historic past as lead
singer with Cymand’e the seventies funk band
Recorded live 2013 at The Hootananny Brixton London SW9
includes IT’S HARD, CHILDREN OF RASTAFARI, WHEY YOU A DEFEND, ILL
BE THERE
AIN’T NO SUNSHINE,IF IS WAR, FUG, MESSAGE, LOSING GROUND, NO WOMAN
NO CRY, EASY
if you were there you will want to re-live the moment if you were
not there, see what you missed the magic of Jimmy Lindsay
live”
Available to download or order CD/ DVD
CD 4.99 DVD 6.99 includes PP
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A promotional film for Jimmy's Where Is Your
Love album released in 1980 this was before the days of the pop
videos,if you saw Elvis the movie or Scum you would have also
watched Where Is Your Love the movie, you can find out more about
Jimmy Lindsay music and videos at jlmuk.com online music
community
I have experienced the consequence of racist
Policing
I
know how it feels, to be convicted of crimes you have not
committed
At
the age of sixteen I was attacked by a group of white men at a
funfair
In
Brockwell Park Brixton London SW9, when some of my friends saw what
was happening
They game to help me, second later fifteen to
twenty uniformed Police officers emerged
And started to beat the hell out of us, it was
only when we got to Brixton Police Station that I realised, the
group of white men that started the attack on me are Police
officer, the beatings
Continued in the charge room later the officer
in charge produced five knifes from his disk
And assigned one to each of us, myself and the
four friends who tried to help me
He
then charged us all with possessing an offensive weapon and
assault.
2
of the white men that started the attack on me was Officer Frank
Sinclair and? Bradley
Frank Sinclair came into my cell pointed a
pistol at me and asked if I was going to plead guilty when I go to
court.
When I asked him why he was doing this to us, he
looked at me with venom in his eyes and said
Because you’re Black, that’s why! At sixteen
years old I was naive enough to believe that all I had to do was go
to court tell the truth about what happened and we would all go
home?
Meeting my white lawyer for the first time on
the day of my trial, the first thing he said to me was “if you
plead guilty I will try to get you a lighter
sentence”
At
the Old Bailey the all-white court laughed at this black youth when
I told them what took place inside Brixton police station, the fact
that Frank Sinclair tried to intimidate by pointing a gun at
me
The all-white court founds us all guilty, at
sixteen I was the youngest the court gave me three years
conditional discharge, my four friends went to
prison.
During the Thatcher years I saw lots of innocent
Black and Asian young men sent to prison under
The Sus law, I was nearly one of them again in
1981. They say, who feels it knows it, I felt it so I know
it!
The Bitch is dead, long live Freedom and
Justice.
Jimmy Lindsay
