Independent alternative radio station, radio2XS, has announced that it will
NOT remove songs from its playlist in order to appease the pro-war lobby. It
will, in fact, be increasing the number of political messages.

Following censorship meetings at Virgin Radio and Radio 1, many records have
been 'rested' from airplay. These include the new Electric Six single 'Gay
Bar' because it contains a reference to 'war'. BBC local radio stations have
suddenly had songs 'removed' from their main library - including John
Lennon's 'Imagine'! This closely mirrors the massive US (and would-be UK)
radio company Clear Channel's list of records banned form their radio
stations and shows clearly how quickly massive media companies move to
silence debate and dissent. MTV has also freaked out and banned videos by
System Of A Down, U2 and Radiohead.

Controversially, Paul Jackson, programme controller of the ailing Virgin
Radio is quoted in this week's NME as saying that his station will be "the
radio version of what the Sun newspaper would do". The Sun is a
politically-motivated and biased publication and under UK terrestrial radio
legislation in the UK, Virgin Radio is required to be politically neutral.
The Sun should not guide Virgin's editorial policy any more than the
anti-war Mirror newspaper should.

radio2XS will continue to play the Electric Six song - and is also
playlisting other relevant songs, including:
an exclusive mix of Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'Two Tribes', featuring Ronald
Reagan's early-80s 'joke' threat to bomb Moscow; Latin Quarter 'America For
Beginners'; Edwin Starr 'War'; The Unpeople featuring John Pilger; Alabama 3
'Woody Guthrie' and 'Mao Tse Tung Said'; Rage Against The Machine 'Bullet In
The Head'; Curtis Mayfield 'We Gotta Have Peace'; Asian Dub Foundation
'Committed To Life'; Credit To The Nation & Chumbawumba 'Enough Is Enough';
The Ill Dependents' 'The Retort' (featuring actor Stephen Rea reading Bobby
Sand's Maze poem 'You Stood By While I Was Wronged'); Donovan 'Universal
Soldier' - and many more.

Station Editor, Jeff Cooper, said: "There's got to be some attempt to
redress the slavish following of the establishment within the broadcast
media. There is more than one attitude to this horrible mess in Iraq and
alternative music views deserve to be aired. Many, mainly young, people in
the music business have differing views and they need to be heard. Newspaper
readers have a wide range of views to choose from - including the exemplary
coverage by The Mirror. It's about time radio listeners were credited with
the same presumed intelligence."

radio2XS is based in Sheffield, England and can be heard worldwide at:
http://www.radio2XS.com