Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years

Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal. Over 500 skinheads, racists and nazis are set to descend on Great Yarmouth, over the first weekend of September.

An undisclosed venue has been booked out for the weekend by gig organisers Rob Claymore and local Blood and Honour veteran Robert Bray.

Claymore, the gig’s principle organiser, is a supporter of the British Movement, an openly national socialist organisation, which pushes out deeply racist and antisemitic material on its social media channels. He also is the guitarist in the far right bands Crucified and Whitelaw, the latter also being a British Movement-aligned band, with the lead singer Benny Bullman being one of the leaders of the group.

The organisers claim that it is non-political concert, but just a look at the bands playing prove that it is a gathering of far right-link bands and the bulk of those attending will be supporters of Blood and Honour, the umbrella group created in 1987 by the infamous Skrewdriver lead singer Ian Stuart Donaldson.

Blood and Honour’s leader, Robert Talland, was found guilty in June of racial hatred and terrorism offences by creating, performing and distributing neo-Nazi music. In January, HM Treasury imposed sanctions on the group under the government’s new domestic counter-terrorism regulations. 

Among the bands performing are the British bands Crucified, Pressure 28, Last Orders and Bulldog Breed.

The band members of Crucified include Claymore, who is linked to the British Movement, Floyd, a member of the neo-Nazi group, Patriotic Alternative, and drummer Gary Smith, a former Combat 18 activist who was part of the band No Remorse when it produced the Barbecue in Rostock CD, which the German authorities described as the most extreme nazi CD ever produced. The CD glorified the firebombing of asylum centres in the recently reunified Germany and every track was littered with references to “wogs”, “niggers” and “Pakis” and with repeated exhortations to murder.

The lead singer of Pressure 28 is Kevin Gough, a notorious Oldham football hooligan and Combat 18-linked nazi. Gough is close friends with Combat 18 leader Will Browning and was sent to prison for 8 months for violence at a far right demo in Dover in 2016.

The lead singer of Last Orders is John Henderson (aka Slaz), a strong supporter of Combat 18 and close friend of its leader Will Browning, while the lead singer of London Breed is Brad Hollamby, formerly of the infamous nazi band Squadron.

Also performing is the German white power band Combat BC. In an interview with the internet blog Streetdogfanzine in 2018, when asked “Would you tell Combat BC is a band with a mission?” the singer replied, “Times have changed and I don’t like what happened to the scene, a lot of shit bands, no pride anymore, no hate, we will change that.”

When asked what the song ‘Warriors’ is about, she replied, “‘Warriors’ is a song about our streets that are full of violence and about people who are stealing our country, but we will not wait until they destroy everything that we love; we will fight for it to bring it back like it was before.”

The band regularly perform Skrewdriver covers at concerts.

Also performing is the American band Wellington Arms. Formed in 2008, its frontman is Eric Scott, a veteran nazi skinhead, who had previously ran a band called Violent Retaliation. Interviewed in a Czech nazi skinhead magazine many years later, Scott describes dropping out of the music scene for a number of years.

“I was much too busy getting crunked and tooled up with the mob to care about music,” he said. “Picking up a guitar wasn’t as nearly as fun as cracking somebody in the jaw with some steel and I don’t need a rock ‘n’ roll life to hook up with the birds so it was whatever.” he said.

With almost 500 of the £72 a head tickets sold, the gig will raise thousands for the organisers. More importantly, this gig, if it goes ahead, will be the largest nazi gig for many years and it could herald a revival in fortunes for the nazi skinhead movement which has been on its knees in recent years.

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