PETE DOHERTY - DOHERTY SPEAKS OUT AGAINST RACISM

Rock wildman PETE DOHERTY has slammed the extremist candidates in next month's (JUN04) London mayoral elections.

Instead, he hopes the city's music lovers will attend an anti-racism gig to celebrate equality.

The TIME FOR HEROES guitarist is playing with his band THE LIBERTINES at the LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM gig in Finsbury Park on 6 June (04), which aims to prevent racist hopefuls from gaining votes in the capital's community.

Doherty says, "I don't think you have to be a particularly developed human being intellectually or spiritually to despise racism. But we need to encourage people to fight racism, whether with words or actions."