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RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE New Order/Billy Bragg/The Inspirational Choir/ Cabaret Voltaire, artists against apartheid Sheffield City Hall SATURDAY Night Fever for Anti-Apartheid Rock. Two days from a decade of Soweto fire, on one of the warmest nights of the year, the City Hall is packed to sweltering capacity. This is a celebration, not only a condemnation and The Inspirational Choir pick up on that charge. They swing into their performance with the fervour of a Biblical Kop and the wails come a tumbling down. These are the traditional rhythms of resistance, no less valid for their seeming indifference to the urgency of our secular world. The voices rise and dip on a surge of corporate emotion and there's no denying the strange power which holds both crowd and choir together during those split second silences at the close of each song. Music to light the darkest hour. Solid as a rock. Welcome the diminutive mid-field schemer and friend of Mr Kinnock, Billy Bragg. Her...