This communique was recently sent to the management of the venue ‘Slimelight’ in London, and we reprint it here:
‘I am alarmed that you intend to host a gig featuring Sol Invictus, 6comm, Joy of Life and Freya Aswynn.
The Bands playing have a long history of association and participation within fascist circles. Front man, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus is an ex-member of the National Front, and founding member of fascist bands Death in June (known for their use of Nazi imagery) and Above the Ruins which donated a track to the National Front benefit album – No surrender (volume 1). Andrew King, long time collaborator with Wakeford and member of Sol Invictus recently recorded a racist and Nazi version of David E. Williams’ song ‘Wotan Rains on a Plutocrat Parade’ under the name Second Amendment with its lyrics “monkey men… banging on the bongo drum, I’ll pick them off one by one… you can kill the Aryan body but you can’t kill the Aryan soul”. Patrick Leagas, a member of 6comm, was also a founding member of Death in June; whilst also collaborating with well known Nazi, Gary Smith from No Remorse.
The fact that Slimelight have allowed such individuals and bands to play at the venue in the past is extremely worrying. Regardless whether these bands both past and present are merely flirting with the idea or look of fascism, or are politically committed to it, they provide a live forum for fascist organizations to recruit amongst.
You may be aware that the English Defence League have recently attacked a number of peaceful meetings across the UK. The EDL is known to be a cover for violent, Nazi extremists. By hosting this gig you may well be playing into the hands of violent, convicted racists by allowing them a forum to recruit and spread their message of hatred.
There is also a real possiblilty that violence will spill out of Slimelight into the surrounding area on the night.
I call on you to cancel the gig on the 25th June at Slimelight. Do not give Nazi’s or Nazi sympathisers a platform.’
Principia Dialectica 
Maybe that nasty little turd Stewtwat Home will be doing a warm up ‘poetry’ reading for his favourite nazi musicians Death in June on the night? What was it he called Tony Wakeford? ‘A genius’ or something similar? His horrible little website crawls with mea culpas for being taken in by the nazi twats. Its hard to see how anyone can be taken in by the naz-sty little Strasserite Herr Home to this day
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Trouble is, a lot of kids find this stuff ‘exciting’ and ‘dangerous.’ Its like that bunch of so called ‘industrial metallers’ or whatever they get called these days…Throbbing Gristle. Its all a matter of taste, and no doubt some would defend it for being an authentic blast against the mothership alienation….if you can tune in for thirty seconds to the stuff Genesis P Orridge plays, then you deserve a medal. He has been ploughing his particular furrow for a few decades now, but like a lot of these northern chip on’t shoulder working class lads who won’t allow thee to pidgeon hole thee because of t’origins…they flirted with fascism in their youth (paramilitary uniforms, dodgy, to say the least, lyrics)…but it all gets categorised under the label ‘esoteric’ or ‘avant garde’ — so that’s alright then.
Anti-semitism remains the open secret because it never gets spoken about…these cunts like Death in June open the door to the acceptance of secret Jew hatred, where that other unhinged wanker David Icke gets airtime. Any idea how many people have his trash books on their shelves, as if they are proud of his disgusting fascist filth? These ‘nu-folk’ people don’t do one thing to challenge this. As far as their particular brand of nihilism is concerned, its all part of the mix.
At least the anarchist/bolshevist nihilism of the artist Malevich and his circle understood dialectics. The DIJ morons mistake their drivel for some kind of modern exemplar of MOR romanticism – the kind Nick ‘Lady of Shallot’ Griffin loves. What a bunch of ponces. They deserve each other. Luckily, this is the extent of any cultural blitzkreig the far right are capable of today.
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The very same night in Tufnell Park there’s a gig featuring Section 5, Criminal Class, Gimp Fist, Booze & Glory and Skincraft – the first openly-advertised gig of skinhead bands whose stance can clearly be interpreted as right-wing for many years in London.
I am not trying to defend the dreary neo-folk acts above targeted by anti-fascists all over the web. But more is going on in this situation than than meets the eye. Someone here is being played.
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@ Sad Observer: ” the first openly-advertised gig of skinhead bands whose stance can clearly be interpreted as right-wing for many years in London.”
You what???!!!
Your observation is highly irresponsible. Gimp Fist has “Anti Fascist Oi!” emblazened all over their logo. This is a punk/skins night. Let them be. The history of these bands includes members who were in the Angelic Upstarts ( The band espoused an anti-fascist and socialist working class philosophy, and have been associated with the skinhead subculture.) (Wikipedia)
You could start by watching “This is England” if you want to catch up or get with it.
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Well I like Current 93, Tibet and neo-folk — who do you think got them on the bill at Ray Davies’ Meltdown? The anti-neo-folk crusade, the ‘Who Makes the Nazis’ blog and the anti-Slimelight campaign is entirely a personal and vindictive obsession of the bloodthirsty Count Stewart Home and his loyal, half-cocked Renfield, Karl Blake. STop fucking about boys — I’M SERIOUS!
So, that said — WHO ARE THE REAL ‘USEFUL IDIOTS’?
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Natalie should be very careful regarding the implications she attempts to make here. Sensibly, she hides behind a false name with no email address or contact details.
Very brave.
More to the point, her taste in appalling music is her business, and her business alone. But if she thinks ‘Death in June’ are acceptable pieces of shit to be walking the planet, she will have to think again.,
SS insignia and lyrics that glorify the ‘Third Reich’ are beyond acceptance.
Choose your friends wisely and be careful out there Natalie.
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“the anti-Slimelight campaign is entirely a personal and vindictive obsession of the bloodthirsty Count Stewart Home and his loyal, half-cocked Renfield, Karl Blake.”
Well how strange that would be, if true, considering that Karl Blake made an album with Wakeford and Sol Invictus as recently as 2005.
Go HOME “Natalie”; you’re not fooling anyone.
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SS insignia and lyrics that glorify the ‘Third Reich’? What’s that got to do with the is gig and the neo-folk movement? Fuck all. This is all rubbish and propaganda — I should know. I was there at the beginning and now I’m sick of it all. I like neo-folk but the Slimelight bands are not racists or Nazis, and no twisted dredging-up of 20-year-old internet crap will change that. I’ve told them both to stop wasting so much of their time obsessing about their feud with Tony Wakeford and other people they used to work with. They should quit stirring up hate and get on with their own work, but unfortunately Karl is autistic and is easily manipulated by Stewart, who mostly laughs at him.
But yes, we should all choose our friends wisely — and by backing their campaign you have proved that you mix with some awful people and others who are little more than overgrown schoolboys.
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Oh, just one more thing,”Natalie”.
You say, “Well I like Current 93, Tibet .”
Funny that, because Stewart Home likes them too, going by the interview he did with David Tibet a while back. Or rather Home DID like them; he now slags Tibet for “collaborations with hardcore fascists.”
Must be tough having to trash your “knights of faith” when they are exposed as what you should have known they were in the first place.It would be even tougher to apologise for ever having been the fascists’ scribbling fanboy..
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As I understood Natalie did supply an email address (contrary to an above post) I withdraw and apologise for my previous remarks that might have implied that Natalie wasn’t Natalie.
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About angry mob at Slimelight …This wonderful ladies and gentlemen from Love Marmite Hate Rationality had pointed fingers to my wife’s face and had shouted that she is nazi and she’s company is a bunch of nazi scum. My wife is a liberal Quaker.
I know one very good guy, who was on gig. When he had lived in Moscow he used to be antifa activist, street fighter. He fought bonehead on the street, he have dead friends, who were killed by real nazi. And now he is “nazi scum” because he like neofolk.
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Well to be fair to the kids in ‘Love Music Hate Racism’ (why you feel a need to degenerate their name in this way I don’t know) they did a good job in drawing peoples attention to the murky past of certain leading lights in ‘neo folk’ who should make more of an effort to make amends for their past mistakes. Wakeford likes to hide behind an enigmatic fog, in keeping with the general form of ‘neo folk.’ It won’t do. For more on this see Norman Mailer’s article on ‘1950s cool.’ He hits the nail on the head regarding this particular aspect of the culture industry.
The spectacle seeks to eradicate all memory of the past. As far as I can remember, the culture industry remains part of the spectacle…
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Norman Mailer’s ‘hipster theory.’
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/norman-mailer039s-hipster-theory
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Wakeford (and no-one else on the bill at Slimelight) is under no obligation to “make amends” — he was in the NF 30 years ago, and it was a different time then. He has completely changed his opinions (people are allowed to do that, are’t they?). But the LMHR campaign is a spin-off from a website that is essentially a personal vendetta dressed up as political activism, and LMHR don’t know false information or half-truths when they see it and so repeat rubbish parrot-fashion. And they have wasted the energies of individuals by diverting them to entirely undeserving subjects like neo-folk. Isn’t there a genuine “anti fascist” cause they could focus on? Maybe there isn’t. Anyone protesting the “Slimelight” gig — if they have any sense whatsoever — must have eventually realised they’d been taken for a ride. The Russian chap above makes a point that I’m sure was made hundreds of times on the night. They make LMHR look little different in their ignorance than the equally absurd EDL.
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. . . and Sarah, excuse me, but it isn’t an “enigmatic fog” that is obscuring your view of his True Evil — it’s the fact that you obviously don’t know him or his music but have decided to offer us the Truth as you would like to see it.
It;s summer — couldn’t you leave the witch hunts and burning pyres until it gets a bit colder?
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Oh yes Paloma, so Wakeford ‘has completely changed his opinions’ and ‘it was a different time then?’
Perhaps you can explain this then:
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=69393
Avida Dollar anyone? Suckers.
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According to a comment on Who Makes the Nazis? blog, .”
Sol Invictus posted on Facebook page 27/06/2011:
‘”Tony Wakeford would like it be known that any connection to Cold Spring Records is now at an end.’
The reason? “I listened to a Herr record”, and “Cold Spring have many good points but we no longer wish to have any connection with a certain individual, however tenuous it is.’
‘Mmmmm…. ”
Herr is the outfit of Troy Southgate, ‘national anarchist’
Some kind of market repositioning going on here?
According to the squeaky clean biog on Sol’s facebook:
“Wakeford formed his own label, Tursa, to release his material and the music of other artists. The World Serpent Distribution Company previously distributed this material worldwide. Tursa is now distributed by Cold Spring Records. … In 2009 Sol Invictus signed to Prophecy Records.”
So, he is only dumping on his PREVIOUS record company. Still open for business..
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A post by ‘Falcon’ on ‘Strormfront’ site (‘White Pride, World Wide’)
“We got called ‘Nazis’ as we walked into the gig venue, by a pathetic shower of 15-20 UAF/LMHR protesting outside. We called them ‘Commie scum’. Inside the concert itself many of the 300 strong audience wore black shirts, SS camouflage uniforms and Mosley-style lightning bolt badges, etc.
6 Comm said to the crowd “The opponents of this gig should be called Love Music Hate Everything” and Sol Invictus said “The bands have been under a lot of pressure for the past two weeks, due to the lies of the Islington Tribune newspaper. F*ck ’em!”
It wasn’t as good as a Blood and Honour gig, was more subtle, particularly with the organisers and bands denials of ‘fascism’ and ‘racism’, but there was plenty of European imagery and symbolism amongst the crowd of White youth, men and women, and we met Nationalists from London and Bristol. ”
How was YOUR evening Folkies?
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