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Video: Salford riots for music video
by Tom Rodgers and Ella Gainsborough
Video by Tom Rodgers Broughton saw a 'riot' on Saturday as part of a music video for Manchester band Darktown Jubilee. Around 30 young local actors were used to simulate the riot on King Street in Broughton, echoing the civil disobedience which rocked the city in August last year. Director Jason Wingard said: "I hope we've not done anything that's going to offend anyone. We pitched six or seven different ideas to the band and this is the one they liked." The theme of the video has caused a row among some sections of the community: it's a part of Salford and Manchester history that most people would rather forget. But star Steve Evets noted: "I know some people are thinking that we're glorifying the riots but we're not: these rioters are not portrayed as Robin Hoods, or standing up for any kind of social injustice. "[The summer disturbances] weren't like the Poll Tax riots, it wasn't anything political, it was riots about holding flat screen TVs and trainers and s**t like that. Salford-born Steve, who made his name in the 2009 Ken Loach film Looking for Eric, said that whole estates up and down the country were being run by "feral kids", and the police and government were turning a blind eye. "It doesn't matter to them. When the riots came as a direct result of that, it's come back to bite them on the arse. "There's also a two-tier system. A working-class lad gets jailed for writing about the riots on Facebook and then you've got Anthony Worrall Thompson shoplifting to get his middle-class kicks and he just gets a caution. It's all wrong." The Darktown Jubilee video should be on your TV screens by summer 2012.
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