West London rap group 1011 today find themselves subject to an unprecedented court order that now restricts them from creating music without obtaining allowance from police. With the group's various visuals and freestyles on several platforms...
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This vital half-day training for CEOs and chairs of trustees supports arts and cultural organisations to handle difficult subjects and sensitive stories to deliver the best work possible
Risks, rights and reputations: challenging a risk averse culture
This vital half-day training for CEOs and chairs of trustees supports arts and cultural organisations to handle difficult subjects and sensitive stories to deliver the best work possible
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English drill group banned from making music without police permission (The Industry Observer, 19 June 2018)
Just weeks after it was announced that YouTube had begun taking down videos that the UK police deemed to be “violent”, one musical group have been told they’re unable to make music without express permission from law enforcement officials. Last...
Drill music videos to be banned to stop rising crime (News, 19 June 2018)
The music videos often feature gangs, weapons, violence and threats of revenge attacks — and now the artists have been banned from even making them. The unprecedented move against west London “drill” group 1011 comes as the United Kingdom deals...
Courts And Police Accused Of ‘Censorship’ As Drill Music Group Faces Ban (Huffington Post, 18 June 2018)
A human rights group has criticised a landmark court decision banning a drill group from making music with violent lyrics, claiming the focus on the genre “highlights the danger that racial bias infects the criminal justice system”. Read in full.
UK drill group 1011 banned from creating music (Crack, 18 June 2018)
A court order has been issued banning drill group 1011 from making music without police permission. On 7 June, The Independent reported that five UK artists from the group 1011 could be banned from making drill music. Today (18 June), an...
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London drill rap group banned from making music due to threat of violence (The Guardian, 15 June 2018)
A drill rap group in London has been issued with a court order that bans them from making music without police permission. In what is being described as a legally unprecedented move, members of a group called 1011 have been banned from mentioning...
