A WORRIED father is calling for young music fans to boycott a rap band who he says promote gun crime and drug abuse - and they're coming to your town.
Manchester hip-hoppers United Blood are due to headline a show at the Quayside pub on Canal Street on April 21.
But Runcorn dad Paul Turner says music fans should not attend the allages show - dubbed Monsters of Mayhem - because United Blood's lyrics promote 'terrorism, street violence and taking drugs'.
He said: 'United Blood claim to hail from 'Gunchester' rather than Manchester and seem rather proud to sing about violence.
'Is this really the type of music we want our children to be listening to? I know I sure as hell won't be taking my child to this show because God only knows what's going to happen.
'I fear for the innocent children who are already planning to go to the show for the other acts because they don't know what they are letting themselves in for.
'With all the gun and knife crime that's happening in Manchester and London, you'd think artists would sing about more positive things instead of creating more problems by singing about robbing and killing.
'We all know how influenced children can get.'
United Blood, who used to be known as The Brotherhood, are currently recording tracks with a New York hip-hop producer.
They are led by rappers Scar The Messenger and Formidable Foe.
The band are yet to sign to a record label but lyrics published on their website include: 'Who wants to test me? Come and get it coz I'm ready, holding two machetes - clinical use, call me the medic.'
Another song includes the lines: 'Ready to kill a team, behead them with the blade of the guillotine, explode and blow any micro to smithereens'.
No-one from the band's management was available for comment.
simon.drury@cheshirenews.co.uk
