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Name | Street Sounds Promotions |
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Tags | Nazi, Fascist and Ethnonationalist |
Categories | Music Network |
Related People/Groups | Blood & Honour |
Years Active | 2023 – Present |
Active Areas | UK |
Street Sounds Promotions (SSP) is a small advertising outlet for nazi music founded by Chad Charles, a veteran British nazi and the country’s most prominent nazi music promoter who has been involved in the scene for close to 40 years. The group has ties to the broader Blood & Honour (B&H) nazi music network. It consists of an infrequent gig operation and intermittent merchandising.
SSP is effectively the new name for Charles’ previous promotional outfit, Punishment Block. In recent years, Charles also ran the nazi merchandise mail order business Patriot Streetwear UK, despite he and his wife claiming benefits. Previous t-shirt designs by Charles have left little to the imagination, with one sporting a large picture of the nazi “Totenkopf” (death’s head), while others have carried the fascist sunwheel and the alphanumeric code “28”, which refers to Blood and Honour. Another contained the numbers 1, 4, 8, 8. The 1 and 4 refer to the 14 words, a popular white supremacist slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”, whilst the 8 and 8 is a commonly used slogan for Heil Hitler.
In addition to merchandise, Charles organises the occasional gig through SSP, generally consisting of nazi punk and oi! bands. In 2022, Charles’ plans for a nazi gig in Widnes under the Punishment Block banner were thwarted by HOPE not hate but, despite being in trouble with HM Revenues & Customs at the time, another show in March 2023 went ahead.
Undeterred from previous difficulties, in August 2023 SSP held an all-dayer at the Caradoc Hotel in Seaforth, Liverpool which featured a range of hardened figures from across the UK’s nazi music scene, with performances from notorious groups such as Code 1, Ragged Glory and more.
In 2024, HOPE not hate dealt Charles another blow by revealing the details of his 2-day SSP festival in Blackpool that was arranged to coincide with the annual Rebellion punk festival in the town. Charles was forced to cancel his event, removing the opportunity to rake in a decent chunk of money. However, May 2024 saw another Charles-backed gig, this time at the Cooksons Bridge pub in Bootle in honour of his own birthday, which was commemorated by Charles receiving a cake with a swastika design on top.
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Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate at 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom.
HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate Limited (Reg. No. 08188502)
Telephone +44 (0)207 952 1181
Registered office 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom.
HOPE not hate Limited (“HOPE not hate”) receives grants from HOPE not hate Charitable Trust, a registered charity in England and Wales with charity number 1013880.
Site built by 89up