REM's Michael Stipe is to headline an anti-war concert timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The singer will be joined on the bill by Rufus Wainwright, Fischerspooner, Devendra Banhart, Chuck D and Peaches for the event, 'Bring 'Em Home Now!', which will take place on 20 Mar. High profile anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed on active duty in the Middle East back in 2004, will speak at the concert, which will precede a tour of fifteen US cities by Sheehan and a number of authors.
Proceeds from the gig are to be donated to Veterans For Peace and Iraq Veterans Against The War. Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner says: "It is impossible not react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We are living in volatile times with a constant and vague sense of imminent disaster. We have been at war for 3 years. One desperately feels the need for someone to speak some sort of truth, either poetic or factual."