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XX Teens Perform With Brian Haw

XX Teens invited world-famous peace protester Brian Haw onstage to address their teen audience at Underage festival, Friday 8th August, on the NME Stage.

The band was very proud to welcome the inspirational 59 year old onto the stage after set-closer For Brian Haw. Brian then proceeded to address the crowd of teenagers for 10 minutes, provoking a rapturous response.

Speaking after the event, XX Teens front man Rich Cash had this to say about including Brian in their performance:

"We invited Brian on stage to talk at Underage because we've got a song about him, and we want people to listen to him. We didn't know if anyone would know who he was but they recognized him straight away. He told everyone we were the greatest band in the world - we put that in his contract - then he talked about who he is and why he lives in Parliament Square.

"We're proud to count him as a friend. Some people think he's mad. Maybe it's comforting to assume that because he's sacrificed everything he must've had nothing to lose. He's doing something that most of us could never contemplate nor comprehend, so we like to think he must be wired up differently, we like to think his life must have always been very different to our own. It's not true. He's an ordinary man with a home and a family who went to a protest seven years ago, realized that a tolerated demonstration was infused with impotence; and refused to go home.
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