SKREWDRIVER

The first conception of Skrewdriver was way back in 1975 when Ian Stuart formed a band calling itself "Tumbling Dice" The band mainly played cover versions of songs by the Rolling Stones and The Who.

By May 1977, the band changed their name to Skrewdriver and had started to write their own material. Soon afterwards, they released their first single "You're so Dumb" and then their second "Anti-Social" was released at the end of '77.

Becoming Skinheads did nothing to improve their image with the press, who quickly labeled Skrewdriver fans as "Thugs" and "National Front Supporters," the media then called upon Skrewdriver to denounce their patriotic followers, of course, Skrewdriver declined and the press declared war against them. With a complete ban on advertising and gigs becoming harder and harder to find, the band called it a day in 1978.

Skrewdriver reformed in 1979 with a new guitarist and a new drummer, they promptly released the "Built Up, Knocked Down" EP, but once again the advertising ban and the constant attention from the media led to the band splitting again in 1980.

At the end of 1981 Ian Stuart moved to London and found yet another line-up. This time around the band members were a lot more clued-up on what kind of reception to expect, and they set about building the Skrewdriver following with a vengeance.

Having endured years of back stabbing and name calling by Music Press, Skrewdriver now decided to get straight to the point and prove that all the rumors were actually true. Skrewdriver were a National Front Band, and they were bloody proud of it!

By: Brad of Squadron

 

Cultivating one of the scariest careers in the punk rock scene, Skrewdriver have become the proud poster boys for the racial-hate movement in the United Kingdom. They define the stereotypical image of skinheads, preaching the Aryan beliefs of the Nazis, while alternately making violent and visceral music for their fans to get angry about. Led by self-proclaimed "racialist" Ian Stuart, the band came about when he decided to play music with his friend John "Grinny" Grinton, after seeing him perform.

Stuart first formed Tumbling Dice, a Rolling Stones cover group that saw very minor success in Blackpool. But the group broke up, and after seeing the Sex Pistols perform in Manchester, Stuart formed Skrewdriver with Grinton. They moved to London and began gigging around the area, eventually releasing the "You're So Dumb" single later that year.

Fights were commonplace at their shows, leading to a famous London concert where record executives were suddenly placed in the middle of a full-scale riot. Their skinhead appearance and reputation for violence got them banned from doing gigs in London, and despite gaining some good reviews for their debut album (All Skrewed Up), they were dropped from their label and broke up by the end of 1979. 

This first phase of their career didn't reflect his racial-purity beliefs, but as Stuart became more involved with those politics, he decided that music was a good way to preach his message. He re-formed the group out of like-minded musicians in 1982, and began releasing singles in Britain again. He still hadn't officially come out with his beliefs, but the press began to spread the rumor that they were racists. In true punk fashion, Stuart walked out on-stage at a concert in late 1982, and raised his right hand just like a Nazi, sending the crowd into hysterics as they cheered the official statement on his politics.

In 1983, the "White Power" single became one of the most controversial songs ever released, prompting the media to immediately shun the group and proclaim their disdain for their actions. Stuart ate up the publicity, claiming that he was starting a real revolution through music, and forming a partnership with the German record label Rock-O-Rama. 

Their next album, Hail the New Dawn, was another controversial release in 1984. The band's gig flyers were banned, and any venue that housed the group experienced heavy pressure from the media to end their relationship with them.

He was arrested after a racially motivated fight, and found himself spending a year in jail after being sentenced at the end of 1985.

He spent his year in jail writing articles for political magazines and new songs, while his band released Blood and Honour, in 1986, despite missing their leader. His notoriety grew during his stint in jail, and once released, he wrote their biggest album, 1987's White Rider. Made up of songs from his year in lock up, it was a very focused political statement that actually opposed many of the National Front's beliefs. Stuart believed that they were softening their approach, and also had financial issues with the organization. He resigned at the end of the year, leaving behind most of the projects he had spent years developing.

He formed a new organization, Blood and Honour, and also started a new band, the Klansmen. They played rockabilly, but never really had the support they desired to keep going. Stuart bounced around Britain trying to avoid trouble with the law, while also working on shaping Skrewdriver back into an important force. Playing around Europe, they were eventually arrested before they could play a gig in Cottbus, Germany. Stuart was released, but the rest of the band was kept in jail for a month while a riot erupted in the town due to their absence. Stuart began to start several more bands, release solo material, and basically attempted to keep as high of a profile as possible.

By 1992, he decided that Blood and Honour needed an even higher profile than what they had accomplished. They started advertising a performance months in advance, even leading to mainstream coverage of the event. The night before the concert, Stuart was attacked and faced threats if they decided to go through with the show.

The concert was quietly moved to a venue in Eltham while thousands showed up to the official site to protest the event. The few skinheads that didn't know about the move were savagely attacked, while the actual show also had its fair share of protesters too. Known as the "Battle of Waterloo" to the press, the event was only kept under control because of the presence of the military branch of the racist British Movement.

Proud of his accomplishments, Stuart moved on to record Skrewdriver's last album, 1993's ironically titled Hail Victory. In September of that year, Stuart was killed in a car accident. There was suspicion of vehicle tampering, but no definite answers have ever been released from the situation. The band instantly disbanded without their mentor to lead them, sending a huge shock through the racist skinhead community. His influence on the White Pride movement has been enormous, almost single - handedly creating the cult of racist skinhead musicians that popped up in England throughout the '80s and '90s.

Outspoken artists like the Oppressed's Roddy Moreno spent their entire careers trying to erase the image of racial prejudice from the skinhead movement, but Stuart's clever self-promotion and impressive work-rate made it nearly impossible. He may not be remembered favorably, but Ian Stuart's career is definitely one of the more memorable stories in the punk rock scene.

By: Punk 77

 

THE HISTORY OF BLOOD & HONOUR

1985, the skinhead movement under the White Noise Club, was at the forefront of the musical revolution called 'Rock Against Communism', skinhead bands like Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Skullhead, No Remorse and many more played weekly up and down Great Britain to crowds of up to a thousand, all was underground with no advertising and crowds attending through word of mouth. The skinhead scene in Great Britain was financing the right wing resistance movement in the whole of Europe and receiving very little in return. 

Skrewdriver, led by Ian Stuart first performed the song Blood and Honour in 1985 and it was a song that would become an anthem then flagship for generations of people to come, who were far sighted enough to see the abyss our people, culture and future faced if we continued on the road we were taking.

London skinheads who followed Skrewdriver began adopting the name Blood and Honour skins, and ruled the roost in all skinhead, meeting points around the capital. Last Resort skins, North , East , South , West London all began dropping their respective names to come under the legend that was forming named Blood and Honour!

Ian Stuart called a meeting, present were all the 'top faces' of the London scene, the bands Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Sudden Impact, Squadron and British Movement bands who would have nothing to do with the corrupt White Noise Club, like No Remorse and The Ovaltinees.

Representatives from political parties who would normally distance themselves from each other, all met, and agreed to support a new confederacy, a group run by the people it represented, one aligned to no single group or movement but that just existed to support anyone, in any way it could, who fought for our people, whether they be right wing racists, patriots, Nationalists to National Socialist freedom fighters.

A confederation that supported all good honorable activists and activities, and expected nothing in return, and indeed needed nothing, as it would be self-supporting in every way. The independent voice, of the right wing resistance movement. 

Blood and Honour! was born, a movement built around musical revolution, with no party barriers to hinder the fight!

From these humble beginnings, now part of skinhead folklore, Blood and Honour! has evolved beyond recognition. From a movement based solely around the skinhead scene and Oi! music, different 'cults' and musical styles have all rallied under the banner in the struggle of our people, Rockabilly, Hate core, White Rock and Nationalist ballads are but a few.

The Official magazine, now in its nineteenth year, despite continual and massive State pressure, runs every three months and is still growing at every print, some of the original contributors still playing a major part. 

Many of the founding bands like Brutal Attack, still fly the flag and concerts, meetings and socials are held monthly. National concerts like the Violent Storm Memorial in March, St George's Day in April, Ian Stuart Memorial in September and White Christmas in December have become international festivals beyond frontiers and national boundaries with hundreds attending from all around the white world, all adding to our domestic might and fight for our glorious cause.

From the original loose confederation Blood and Honour has evolved into a tight organization, active groups of thirty plus becoming Divisions, smaller groups being given sectional status, all politically active and aligned to the party or movement of their choice, neither Divisional or Section status is awarded lightly, it has to be earned not bought. 

A High Command made up of band members, activists and political parties dictate the direction Blood and Honour takes. National gig organizer, Security, Propaganda and Internet units cover every aspect of the day to day running of our movement.

Sadly our founder and leader Ian Stuart Donaldson was taken from us in 1993. But his legacy has remained and flourished, his dream of a movement run by and for skinheads, behind a musical front remains, and has grown into a confederation of like minded people, stronger than ever.

A movement, offering people an alternative lifestyle to the drug infested, pro homosexual, race mixing scene fanatically pushed by today's powers to be, is giving hope to thousands around the world.

 

SKREWDRIVER INTERVIEW

Originally appeared in Last Chance Magazine.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAY SOME PEOPLE PROJECT GARRY BUSHELL AS THE WORKING CLASS HERO AND THE VOICE OF THE STREETS?

Its hilarious, really, because no-one that was working class 
and stuck for the White race would ever get a job for one of 
the national newspapers.

HOW DID YOU COME ABOUT THE NAME SKREWDRIVER?

We got named Skrewdriver by the record company, because we didn’t have a name at the time.

BUT WASN’T YOUR FIRST BAND CALLED THE TUMBLING DICE?

That was just a rock band, we did a load of rock covers, so when we did a tape more punk style, we didn’t have a name, so the record company came up with Skrewdriver.

SO HOW DID YOUR BAND FIRST GET PICKED UP BY THE RECORD COMPANIES?

Well, we were playing a lot of pub gigs, doing the circuits, and then we went to see the Sex Pistols in Manchester with Buzzcocks and Slaughter & The Dogs, we really enjoyed it cos we thought that it was fresh, new sort of thing, so we did a tape more on that sort of line, sent it to a load of record companies. We got answered by a couple of companies who said that they were interested, but they would like to hear a more professional tape, because the one we sent them, we recorded in a metal factory! Chiswick asked us to come down and do a session in a studio, and we got a single deal out of that, and then once we done that single they updated the deal to two singles and an LP.

WHY WAS YOUR THIRD SINGLE BUILT UP, KNOCKED DOWN RECORDED IN MANCHESTER AND WHY WAS IT RELEASED ON THE INDIE LABEL TJM RECORDS?

Well, I moved to Manchester and reformed the band for a while, actually it was with the Manchester line up that we supported Motorhead at Blackburn. We had already split from Chiswick records so we went on a local label TJM records. We played a lot of local gigs and got really good turn-outs. Then the gigs started to die down and we split up again.

SO WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE CHISWICK LABEL?

Basically because they were leftwing and didn’t like the way we wouldn’t denounce the skinheads.

WHAT MADE THE IMAGE OF SKREWDRIVER CHANGE FROM PUNK TO SKINHEAD?

Basically because we got fed up with punk turning a bit leftwing, whereas before everyone came along and had a laugh and danced about, but then it got to the stage where it became high fashion, and people would just stand there seeing who had the most drawing pins through their nose. When it got to that stage it got really silly. We had all been skinheads in the past so we all just reverted, and a lot of our mates coming to the gigs were skinheads.

IS THAT TRUE THAT YOU SUPPORTED BANDS LIKE THE POLICE AND SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES IN THE EARLIER DAYS?

When we supported the Police they were just a small band and most of the people came to see Skrewdriver anyway. We also supported The Boomtown Rats, Siouxie, The Damned, 999, loads of bigger bands. I can’t remember all of them now.

CAN YOU TELL US THE STORY OF KING ROAD WITH THE PUNK VERSUS TED FIGHTS, AND THE EXPERIENCES YOU HAD?

The worst occasion was when we were playing with the Police at the Railway Hotel in Putney, this was at the height of all of the violence between Punks and Teds. We were the last ones out of the gig and there had just been a rock and roll disco down the road, there was only about six of us left and we took a right hammering. Our drummer got his teeth knocked out and everything.

Suggsy used to be the roadie for Skrewdriver back in 1978 and I went back down to London for a while and stayed at this mothers flat cos he’d moved out of his room and bought a house so I had his room. I was only there for about seven months, that was basically it, the picture was taken in his mums front room. The Madness film was done in about 1981 or something like that, anyway because I didn’t have much money at the time, they just got me on the film, that's all. I got the agency fee which was about £60 or something, and that's why I was in the film.

ARE YOU STILL IN CONTACT WITH SUGGSY, WHEN IS THE LAST TIME THAT YOU HEARD FROM HIM?

No, I’m not in contact, not since the article in the Sun newspaper, I didn’t try and contact him and he didn’t try and contact me, which is fair enough, he’s got to make a living and if he’s mixing with a nationalist he is going to find it hard to make a living. We didn’t fall out or anything like that and as far as I know we were still on good terms with each other, I’ve got nothing against the bloke, he’s done me a lot favors in the past. He’s just trying to make a living. If he wants to make a living like that, its up to him. I’ve got no intention of slagging him off, and why should I?

WHAT MADE YOU TURN THE BAND POLITICAL, AS IN THE EARLY DAYS YOU KEPT OUT OF POLITICS, DID YOU JUST GET UP ONE MORNING AND SAY OH FUCK IT, AND WENT FOR IT, OR WAS IT A GRADUAL CHANGE?

I wasn’t really political at all to be honest, I didn’t like blacks, because I’d never seen one till I went down London, and there I met lots, and they all seemed to have a chip on their shoulder, I didn’t like the lefties funny enough, because they all reminded me of student being all anti-British and that put me off them.

Most of our mates that came to our gigs were political, they were either NF (National Front) or BM (British Movement) and in the end what happened was the press ordered us along with Sham 69 to denounce those people in the audience, or get banned. We refused and Sham 69 said OK. So Sham 69 became very big and we got banned from everywhere, they banned all of our adverts from the music papers and everything. All this was in 1977.

ARE YOU STILL IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS AT ALL?

Yeah, I went back to Blackpool a couple of months back and bumped into the old guitarist and drummer. They still know that Skrewdriver are still going, and the drummer still buys the records. They’re good blokes and are doing quite well for themselves now. Ron’s a bit of an alcoholic, good guitarist though. He’s on the front cover of the All Skrewed Up LP although he didn’t actually play on it. Our original guitarist Phil actually played on the LP.

WHAT IS YOUR ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG, OUT OF THE HUNDREDS THAT YOU HAVE DONE?

Well, it changes from time to time, you go off songs. I’ve always liked I Can See The Fire, on the White Rider LP. I keep thinking about playing it live, but I think that it might be a little bit too slow for a gig. Another one of my favorite songs that we have done more recently is Freedom What Freedom, not the Skrewdriver version but the one on the latest Klansmen LP. At the moment, they’re the main ones.

WHAT ABOUT THE OLDER SONGS, DO YOU STILL LIKE LISTENING TO THEM?

I like Tomorrow Belongs To Me, I’ve gone off the tunes a little bit, I’ve been playing them for such a long time, I like the lyrics especially, I think that they’re brilliant lyrics. Obviously White Power, Free My Land, I’ve played them so many times that I don’t really listen to them at home anymore.

IS THERE ANY SONGS THAT YOU WISHED YOU HAD WRITTEN, WHEN YOU HEARD THEM BY SOMEONE ELSE?

Yes, I would like to have written England by the Angelic Upstarts, I can’t believe that Mensi wrote it as he is such a left wing prat. He used to be nationalist until he realized that he could make more money being a leftwing. (Ian then proceeded to amuse us with some stories he’s heard about Mensi).

IS THERE ANY GIGS OUT OF THE HUNDREDS THAT YOU’VE PLAYED THAT STICK IN YOUR MIND AS THE BEST, WORST?

Well, we played the Vortex twice, they were quite good. It was the first time that a lot of skinheads turned up, one of those was with Siouxie And The Banshees. We played two or three gigs at the Roxy and broke the house records, we had the most people there, they were brilliant gigs. And then, what turned out to be the main event, but got called off, but we managed to squeeze about six or seven hundred people in a two hundred seated pub, now that was a good gig basically due to the satisfaction of getting something on, despite the fact that everything was stacked against us.

To me now, any gig that goes ahead is a good gig because it’s such a battle to get a gig on that when we do it, it’s great. Another good gig was the one in Newcastle a couple of years ago where there were six bands playing. We’ve also recently played in Italy and that was a brilliant gig, really well organized.

YOU LIVED IN LONDON FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS, BUT WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE?

Basically because it was getting that there wasn’t very many places to drink where everybody can mix. It got to the stage where the leftwing followed me around every pub I went to. They tried to get me banned from my cafe by picketing, but the cafe wouldn't ban me, although the pubs were different. I used to go into a pub and I’d only be drinking there for about a week and then the reds would start to hassle the landlord and then picket the pub, so obviously I got banned. All this was happening, and also the fact that there was literally nowhere where we could meet and have a drink.

The police arrived on the scene and took all of the BNP supporters´ names and numbers, they went around to their houses later on and asked them if they would testify in court to get their attackers charged. The only problem was that the police had made a mistake and thought that they were the IRA supporters. I was tipped off by these BNP people that they should say they saw me causing all of the trouble. Basically, if they hadn’t got the IRA and the BNP muddled up they might have got away with the frame up. It was the same when a gay got stabbed a few years ago at Kings Cross. I had nothing to do with the stabbing, I was around the corner when it was supposed to have happened.

But I was still slammed in Wormwood Scrubs for two and half months until they decided that they hadn’t got any evidence. So I thought that if this is what's going to happen every time anything happens in London and I’m going to get stitched up for things, I mean, it was time to go. I wasn’t too bothered about the commies because they were arseholes, it's when the police started to try to stitch me up. There's not a great deal that you can do.

YOU WERE ACTUALLY IN PRISON SERVING A TWELVE MONTH SENTENCE, WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND THAT?

Well, we were attacked by a mob of blacks after Searchlight had been giving out leaflets with my face, my address, where I drink on them, we used to get trouble most weekends from gangs of blacks going past my house on the way home from collage, and one particular night we got attacked by about eight or nine of them, we fought back, the police arrived and we got arrested.

The blacks didn’t even turn up at court for three days in a row and the police had to go out and bring them to the court. Searchlight has tried to smear me on several occasions, I’ve been called several things in their pages, child pornographer, arms dealer, conspiring to murder Patrick Harrington (one time National Front/White Noise front man), a drug pusher and an acid house party organizer. I’ve even been accused of printing Swedish nationalist magazines. God knows where I keep this printing press, under my bed probably! I can’t even understand one word of Swedish! I must be a busy man!

YOU ARE THE FOUNDER OF BLOOD AND HONOUR, DO YOU THINK THAT IT HAS BEEN A SUCCESS AND WHAT DO YOU SEE HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BY BLOOD AND HONOUR?

Blood And Honour has took off so well because of its idea. There has been no other magazine that promotes the advancement of the White race and that does not tie itself to any political party. B&H is not tied to any party, it is mainly run by the bands. The bands are popular so the magazine is popular. Its main achievement has been to get more people involved in the White cause and to push the music of the bands over to a lot more people than would be possible otherwise. Food for thought, that Blood And Honour has got at least five times the circulation of Searchlight. That's a fact.

WHAT ADVISE WOULD YOU GIVE TO ANYONE OUT THERE THAT IS THINKING OF STARTING A NATIONALIST BAND?

Don’t start unless you're willing to accept a hell of a lot harassment and a lot of hard work to get anywhere. You’ve got to be very dedicated to do it. If you want to make money, just forget it, sing like Englebert Humperdink or get interviewed by Terry Wogan.

HAS THE RECENT PROBLEMS WITH SKREWDRIVER IN GERMANY DETERRED YOU FROM PLAYING THERE AGAIN?

I don’t know about the rest of the band but me personally, it made me want to go out there and cause a lot more trouble. The way that I see it is that Skrewdriver are being made scapegoats for the fact that the German government have brought too many immigrants into the country. So if we have had anything to do with waking German feeling up, all the better for it. Although I do not think it has got anything to do with us. It's just the German people rising against the influx of immigrants and I wish that the British people would do the same.

DO YOU THINK THAT PERHAPS SKREWDRIVER WAS THE CATALYST FOR ALL OF THE TROUBLE IN GERMANY?

No, not at all, it started before we played over there, I think that it may have been aggravated a little bit by the fact that the police kept them all in prison, obviously I was still out which was a bad mistake on the police's side. Cos I was able to go to the gig and tell everybody what had happened, and after the gig obviously there was some trouble with the police.

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO SING ONE SONG IN GERMAN ON YOUR LATEST 
LP?

They’re not banned over there, as a matter of fact they are not actually banned over here either, the newspapers say that they are, so all the shops won’t stock them. We can’t really win either way.

Axel Rose from Guns and Roses can get away with saying that naughty N word, because he’s a druggie and has got a black in the band, but I can’t risk saying that N word, unless of course I smoke a joint at gigs and get a rasta bass player, then it’s ok. That’s how fucked up and hypocritical everything is.

CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TROUBLE YOU HAVE HAD RECENTLY WITH THE POLICE IN YOUR AREA?

Well basically all that is, we were doing regular gigs around here, getting increasing audiences, getting a lot of locals interested, so the police firstly tried to stop the gigs, which they managed up to a certain extent by threatening the governors of the pubs with their licenses. Then we were rehearsing at a pub at dinner times, and people used to come in on their dinner break to watch, so the police spoke to the governor of the pub and said that they are allowed to rehearse but they must shut the doors because no-one is allowed to listen to them.

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO RECORD UNDER KLANSMEN, IAN STUART AND WHITE DIAMOND, RATHER THAN USE THIS MATERIAL FOR SKREWDRIVER?

The fact is that I just write so many different songs and they just wouldn’t be used otherwise. Plus the fact that the Klansmen songs are in more of a Rock and Roll vain and wouldn’t really suit Skrewdriver. Also with the Klansmen it has brought in a lot of rockabilly into the Blood & Honour movement, which is a good thing. Hopefully the White Diamond will do the same thing with a few bikers. Basically we are just spreading our wings and trying to appeal to everybody, not just skinheads.

WHAT HAS BEEN THE RESPONSE TO THE WHITE DIAMOND LP?

Well, it hasn’t been out that long, but the people that I have spoken to about it seem to like it. As far as I’m concerned the guitar could have been a little bit louder and the vocals a little quieter. The original mix of it, the guitar was too loud and you couldn’t hear the vocals, so we took it back to be remixed and it went the other way around.

IS THERE GOING TO BE ANOTHER WHITE DIAMOND LP?

Oh yeah, definitely.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS FOR THE KLANSMEN TO PLAY LIVE?

I haven’t got any plans at the moment, but we could well do one day. There’s been plenty of people asking if we would. We have had several requests from Germany for the Klansmen to play over there. We normally do a couple of Klansmen songs at most Skrewdriver gigs anyway. The Klansmen haven’t actually been a steady line up anyway, we tend to use musicians from other bands. It’s good for them, as they get to record, which a lot of bands don’t manage to do, and it also gets more people involved in our cause. The first LP we used musicians from Demented Are Go, the second was with The Krewmen and the third was from some local rock band from around this area.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST GETTING INTO NATIONALISM, BUT ARE PUZZLED BY THE WAY THAT THE AUTHORITIES ARE HARASSING THEM?

I think that you’ve got to expect it, it’s the way that the people above run things. You’ve got to be very dedicated to become a nationalist. It is better to educate people at a younger age, some of the old parties used to leaflet schools. We must use every way that we can to get our message across, through music, leafleting houses, town centers, posturing, we must use every way we can. The odds are against us, but it is important.

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON RELIGION?

I don’t really believe in it, I don’t go to church or anything. I think that my religion is my race. I’ve got nothing against Christians or Odinists, but I think that Christianity is being pushed into being very weak at the moment. I’ve lost a lot of respect for the Christians, but hopefully they’ll rise up one day and become powerful as they once were. I agree with all of the Norse God mythology, and there is something in it, but personally I’m just fighting for my race and I’ll work with all of these people so long as they’ve got the same views as I have.

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE UNITY MOVEMENT AND THE RAVEN?

Well I haven’t even seen the Raven at all yet so I can’t really comment on that, but I presume, going by the name that it’s an Odinist thing. Unity, when it first came out I wasn’t so sure that it was a good thing because I thought that it might be distracting from Blood & Honour a little bit, but when it got off the ground, it was good. It worked alongside Blood & Honour. It’s a good thing to have different organizations all working together, as long as there is no rivalry. Kev Turner is a dedicated man, he’s been in jail a lot of times, but he has never even considered giving it all up. He’s doing a great job up there and has quite a lot of influence.

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE IMPRISONMENT OF TWO PEOPLE FOR BASICALLY SELLING SKREWDRIVER MERCHANDISE?

Well, it’s just unbelievable, being put away just for selling records. As far as I’m concerned and as far as anybody I know is concerned, there has never been anything to say that you can’t sell records, whatever they were. I mean, there’s bands going around singing songs about killing God and loads of these anti-religion groups, they’ve all got a bit of stick, but there has never actually been any court cases trying to stop them selling records.

Take American rapper Ice T, some stores said that they wouldn’t stock it, but most stores do still stock it. It was all a publicity stunt and has sold more records because of it. He’s never been charged. Obviously there is nothing wrong in singing about killing White people and police. No-one was ever done by the law for selling Ice T records, and no-one has ever been arrested either. Our records do not incite violence at all, our lyrics are basically about being proud of your White race. If it’s illegal to be proud of your race, why isn’t it illegal to be proud to be Black, Asian etc...?

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON WATERLOO (Skrewdriver's comeback gig in London 1992), AND IN PARTICULAR THE MASSIVE MEDIA COVERAGE THAT IT ACHIEVED?

I except the sort of coverage that we got. It’s obvious that you’re never going to get anything good said about you. It would have been nicer if a lot of the lads that came over from abroad actually got to the gig. It made it a lot more awkward having so much publicity about it in advance.

But in the end the gig went ahead, it was a good gig, everybody that made it there enjoyed it. So basically it was a victory. But then again, I do think that it was a bit of a shame that the police acted illegally again by shutting down a main line train station, to try and stop people getting to the concert. They shouldn’t have allowed a leftwing demonstration at the station on the day because it was pretty obvious that they were only there to cause trouble.

The police knew that was the case but they never banned it. If the NF ever want to march, the police ban it straight away because of the trouble it would cause. It’s the same with the recent Bloody Sunday IRA march, the IRA who kill British people were allowed to march while the police did all they can to stop the people against the march by arresting 378 people. It seems that to be proud to be British is a crime.

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO SINCE THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE?

We’ve played loads of gigs. We’ve got a new Skrewdriver LP written, we should be going in to record within the next six to seven weeks. That should be out in 3 or 4 months then. Same applies to the new Klansmen LP. White Diamond and Patriotic Ballads LP’s should be coming out within the next few weeks. The White Diamond LP is called The Power And The Glory, the Patriotic Ballads is called Patriotic Ballads II Our Time Will Come. I’m not too sure what the Skrewdriver LP will be called. The Klansmen LP will be taking the theme of the American civil war, although I’m not too sure exactly what it’ll be called.

CHANGING THE SUBJECT SOMEWHAT, ARE YOU A FOOTBALL FAN?

I used to play football when I was younger. I don’t really want to go into football at all. If I ever said that I supported a team, I think that you’ll find that could cause problems. Football is a very popular and passionate subject to many people. I’ve got to admit that I’ve never supported a team seriously, but my favorite footballer is George Best. I watch it now and again, but not a lot. I used to prefer playing it to watching it.

DO YOU PARTICIPATE OR WATCH ANY OTHER SPORTS?

Not particularly. Boxing is quite good. Rocky Marsiano was my favorite boxer, he was a European that beat everybody in the world and always could have done. Alan Minter was good, I liked him until he got beat by Marvin Hagler, and then I went off him.

YOU’VE RECENTLY GOT A FEW MORE TATTOOS, AFTER BEING SO LONG WITH THE TWO, TELL US A BIT ABOUT THEM?

I don’t like being lop-sided, so I make sure that I’ve got one on each side. Every time that I have one I have to get another one on the other side. I’ll have a couple more on the back of my arms and that’ll be it. I won’t get them sleeved. I wouldn’t like to say who does mine, in case he got attacked. Let's just say that it’s a biker from the Midlands. Every single tattoo I’ve got is of a political subject.

WHAT SORT OF READING MATERIAL ARE YOU INTO?

Since I’ve been in prison I don’t read anything, all I did in prison was read books and listen to the radio and that’s put me off. I used to read a lot of books at one time. If I want to read a newspaper, I read, would you believe, The Sun, they are the ones who done a full page story on me the last time I was in prison. The only reason I read the the Sun is because I do the crossword and because it’s not labor. But I don’t really take any of what’s in it seriously, it’s as much crap as the others. In the past I’ve read a lot of David Irving's books, they’re very good, but I reckon that my favorite author has got to be Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings is the best book that I’ve ever read. I’ve read it over ten times.

WHAT ABOUT THE FANTASY BOOK THAT YOU ONCE WROTE?

I’ve lent it to so many different people that I can’t get it back, so I can’t write it out again. Unless I re-wrote it all, but I can’t even remember most of it. It was basically a fantasy story about a land that was being invaded, all of the tribes fought against each other, but in the end they all united to fight the invaders. I was hoping to publish it one day, but I lent it out to so many people that I’ve lost track of where it is. We could even have done a concept LP to go with it. The book was called The New Dawn.

TELL US YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF NICKY CRANE, ONCE A CLOSE FRIEND, AND THEN TURNED OUT TO BE A GAY.

I feel more betrayed by him than probably anybody else, because he was the head of our security. I actually used to stick up for him when people used to say that he was a queer, because he convinced me that he wasn’t. I always used to ask him why he worked at these gay clubs, telling him that he’d get a bad name. He used to say that it was the security firm that he used to work with, that they used to give him the jobs there. I accepted him at face value, as he was a nationalist. I was fooled the same as everybody else. Perhaps more than everybody else.

I felt I was betrayed by him and I want nothing to do with him whatsoever. He’s dug his own grave as far as I’m concerned. He has actually been in touch with me after the program was aired, he wanted to assure me that he wouldn’t sell out the nationalist cause, which I wouldn’t expect him to do anyway, considering that he went through so many things for nationalism.

Nicky Crane left, and I think that it was the best thing he could have done, but he should have left a hell of a lot earlier. He was living a lie for all of them years. I’ve got no respect for the bloke anymore.

WHAT CAN YOU ENVISION YOURSELF DOING IN 5 OR 10 YEARS TIME?

Probably being in prison. They’re bringing in so many new laws in this country. Or dead!

IF IT CAME TO THE CRUNCH, AND THE LAWS WERE REALLY STRICT, WHAT WOULD YOU DO, WOULD YOU CHANGE ALL OF YOUR LYRICS, OR CARRY ON REGARDLESS?

I would probably change all of the lyrics. Change them completely. In the end I’d probably do songs about white rats and black rats, and see if they can change things about that. I mean, where is all this going to end?

Alright you can sing about the dove and the crow, so the dove’s going to have to win a fight in the end instead of being the bird of peace. In the end it’s going to get to the stage where you’re going to have to sing like that to get a song out. Everyone’s still going to know what you mean. They’re making it so pathetic now.

SO WHAT WILL STOP YOU CARRYING ON?

Either put me in prison or kill me, there’s no other way that I’m going to give up.

IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT YOU’VE DONE IN THE PAST THAT YOU COULD CHANGE NOW, WHAT WOULD THAT BE?

Nothing, there’s nothing that I would have changed, nothing at all. Obviously I would like to have made a lot of money and been on Top Of The Pops and all that, what other person who’s been in a band wouldn’t? But I’m singing the wrong sort of lyrics aren’t I? I would never changed my songs just for the fame, though. There has never been any major thing that I regret, maybe a few minor things, nothing to do with politics though, except I should have joined this and I shouldn’t have joined that.

RUMORS ARE RIFE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO MOVE OVER TO GERMANY TO LIVE, IS THERE ANY TRUTH IN THAT?

No, that’s a load of rubbish. It’s not even crossed my mind. I like Germany though.

IF IT CAME TO A STAGE WHERE YOU HAD TO MOVE OUT OF ENGLAND, WHICH COUNTRY WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE IN?

It’d have to be a country where you wouldn’t get so much hassle being a nationalist, and I think that at the moment Germany is far from that. I’d probably go somewhere like Antwerp in Belgium. It’s a nice city, there is a hell of a lot of Vlaams Blok MPs in the Antwerp city itself. It’s probably the most right wing city in Europe at the moment.

YOU ARE QUITE A WELL TRAVELED MAN BECAUSE OF MANY EUROPEAN GIGS WITH SKREWDRIVER, WHERE ARE YOUR FAVORITE PLACES?

I loved Sweden, the country is brilliant. Germany is brilliant.

CHANGING THE SUBJECT ONCE AGAIN, BACK IN THE 1977 DAYS, SKREWDRIVER SOUND WAS VERY DIFFERENT TO NOW. WHAT WERE YOUR INFLUENCES BACK THEN?

I had a lot of favorite bands before the punk bands came along. I saw the Sex Pistols´ first gig in the north in Manchester. I thought they were brilliant. But we still weren’t influenced by them, Skrewdriver were at that time still called Tumbling Dice and we used to cover Who, Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Deep Purple and all of the rock type numbers. Then we started to play the punkier stuff. I couldn’t play guitar at that time so our guitarist wrote most of the songs. I started to learn to play guitar about then, obviously you get better as you go along.

SUGGSY WAS YOUR ROADIE BACK IN 1978, I KNOW YOU DON’T KEEP IN TOUCH, BUT DID YOU WATCH THE MASSIVE MADNESS COMEBACK GIG ON TELI OVER CHRISTMAS?

No, I’m not interested. I think that they’re a crap band. I can’t stand that sort of music. I like heavy rock music. Madness were the best of those type of bands, they were the only White one, and a lot of their fans were rightwing. They chose to sell out for money. We never did that. It was the same with Sham 69. I remember seeing Sham 69 playing to 7 people down the Roxy, I enjoyed them, they were great. Now Jimmy Pursey hangs around with Rastas and all sorts. He’s totally gone in the head. He’s never been a great singer, he had a bit of a stage presence cos people identified with him.

The thing about all that is that I saw Jimmy Pursey turn up at gigs wearing baseball boots, change into DMs for the gig, then change back into baseball boots after the gig. The geezer has never been a skinhead, he sings about it but he’s never been one. There was only one skinhead in that band ever, and that was their first bass player, Alby. He was the only skinhead that’s ever been in Sham 69.

YOU PLAYED WITH A LOT OF BANDS THAT BECAME BIG NAMES, WERE YOU EVER GOOD FRIENDS WITH THESE NOW BIG NAMES?

We played with Motörhead, this was a lot later, they were really decent blokes. We would always have a drink with the other bands´ members if we were at one of their gigs. We often had drinks with Jimmy Pursey and the likes. One person that we were very good mates with was Stick Smith, he was in a band called Shag Nasty, who used to support us all of the time.

I used to let them support us mainly because their guitarist looked like Keith Richards! Anyway, he went on to play for X-Ray Spex, we had a few arguments about it, but he was a decent sort of bloke. When we played with the Police we had a drink and chat with Sting, they borrowed our P.A. at that gig. The Damned were really good blokes, we supported them a lot.

MUSICALLY, WOULD YOU CONSIDER THE 1977 DAYS TO BE BETTER AS FAR AS THE ATMOSPHERE WAS CONCERNED?

When Punk started in London it was great atmosphere. It was a new thing, it was shit hot. We used to go to a club every night, get in free because we were in a band. It was really a good time to be there. We didn’t get hardly any hassle except perhaps a little bit of the teds. I used to get on with most of the teds anyway, especially when we turned skinhead, when we were punks they used to hate us, though.

YOU’VE DONE A LOT OF COVER VERSIONS IN THE PAST, WHAT MAKES YOU DECIDE TO DO A COVER VERSION, IS IT THE GROUP, THE LYRICS OR THE TUNE?

All of those. I wouldn’t do a cover version from a band that I didn’t like. Obviously the lyrics mean a lot but I do normally change them slightly to go with what I’m singing about. We’ve thought about doing an LP with all cover versions from nationalist bands songs, we were going to do Brutal Attacks Ocean Of Warriors and For You by Public Enemy, amongst others, but nothing’s ever came of it, I’d like to do something like that one day, though.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BRUTAL ATTACK REFORMING?

The more nationalist bands the better, they were always a good band, they were always popular. If they get back together that’s great, it’s an extra band. Ken is a good front man, and now they're going to be an additional band to the Blood & Honour circuit.

IT'S BEEN SAID THAT YOU PERSONALLY ARE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SKINHEADS IN THE WORLD, PERHAPS MORE SO ABROAD, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?

I think that it’s because Skrewdriver have been going since 1977. We are the longest running skinhead band. I never really think about it to be honest. Sometimes it seems like that abroad, when there are hundreds of skinheads queuing up to speak to me, because they’ve heard about things I’ve done, and they’ve got all of your records. It mainly brings out to me how important the whole movement really is.

TELL US ABOUT SKREWDRIVER. I’M SURE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE 
LOST TOUCH WITH WHO’S IN THE BAND NOW.

Stigger is the guitarist, he’s been in for quite a while now, he’s recorded both of the Patriotic Ballads albums, he’s also played guitar on The Strong Survive, and my last solo LP Patriot. Sickly John came from Lion heart and he’s been on bass since The Strong Survive. We’ve got a new drummer now, Mushy, he used to play for punk band Resistance 77.

WHAT’S YOUR ANSWER TO THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT YOU ARE ONLY IN 
IT FOR THE MONEY?

If I didn’t believe in what I believe in I would go to the newspapers and deny all of the stuff they put in about me. I could just as easily get out of it. If I went to the press and told them that I’ve changed my ways I could be on top of the pops. I could make a hell of a lot of money that way. If I was only in it for the money I wouldn’t be as dedicated as I am to the nationalist cause. I would have sold out years ago.

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY?

I’ve always thought that the Royal family should be kept as a British tradition, and I never think that they should ever of had a political voice. They’re a hell of a tourist business, they’ve always been a British tradition. I never think that we should get rid of the Royal family. It’s something that people always think about when they think of Britain. They think of the Royal Family when they hear about Britain. It seems to me that most of the people that want to destroy the Royal family are either Irish or commies.

I don’t want to destroy them, but I wouldn’t let people like Prince Charles be telling the people what they ought to do. My personal opinion is that it would be better to have Prince Andrew as the King rather than Prince Charles. At least Prince Andrew fought for his country. We should get rid of a lot of the cling-ons. I feel strongly that we can’t get rid of the Royal Family. It’s always been something special about Britain.

WHEN YOU WERE AT SCHOOL, YOU OBVIOUSLY NEVER EVEN IMAGINED HOW 
YOU’D END UP, WHAT WERE YOUR AMBITIONS, WHAT SORT OF CAREER 
WERE YOU TRAINING FOR?

When I first left school I was an apprentice coach trimmer, I left that because it was boring. After that I was a car washer, then I was a civil servant. I worked as a clerical assistant at the Premium Bonds. I left there after a couple of years and that’s when I went to London. I’ve got a couple of O Levels and that’s about it. The first band, Tumbling Dice, started about a year after I left school.

DID YOU EVER IMAGINE AT THAT TIME THAT YOU’D BE STILL DOING IT 
NOW?

I didn’t expect to be still doing it now, although I’m very glad that I am. I think that if I’d been just playing music like when we first got the contract, I don’t think we would have been doing it now. It was only when I became politically aware that’s really kept me going. Bands like Sham 69 who toed the line, basically ran out of things to sing about. But we can sing about normal life and politics, and the way that affects us. That’s probably why we’re still going. Plus the fact that they’re so hard to stop us, that makes me think, well, fuck them.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU BEING A SKINHEAD?

Although it’s a bit of a cliché, it is a way of life. I don’t actually go around saying to myself I’m a skinhead. But I’ve been one since 1977, and before that I was one the first time around in 1971 when I was at school. I do believe in what the rightwing skinheads have got to say, and on and off due to various reasons, since 1977, I’ve been one. But that doesn’t mean to say that everyone who comes to our gigs has to be one. We get a complete mixed audience.

DO YOU HAVE ANY REGRETS?

No, not really, although I didn’t like being in jail much. But that wouldn’t stop me defending myself from a gang of blacks again if I had to. But no, I’ve no real regrets.

Skrewdriver Songbook

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Introduction:

These lyrics reflect my hopes for the white race in the future. Until the white people throughout the world awaken, these lyrics will remain as lyrics, and hopes, but eventually I believe that the situations forced upon white people, will bring about an awakening, the likes of which has never been seen before.

Our people have been used as pawns by the capitalists, and put false hopes in the Communists, for far too long. I believe that the white man will arise and take back all that has been taken away from him. Taken not by force, but by typical Semitic deception. No longer will weaklings rule the white man by lies and deceit, but the warrior will make his comeback, and rule by strength, honesty and love for his race.

It is up to you to make these lyrics come true. For all too long it has been the few, fighting for the survival of the white race. We have to become a mass movement to smash the twin tyrannies of Capitalism and Communism. Go out and join a Nationalist party in whatever country you come from and help bring about the White National Revolution.

White Man Awake.

Ian Stuart, Skrewdriver

 

Editor's Note:

Let it be noted that these lyrics were reproduced without the knowledge or consent of Ian Stuart, or Skrewdriver. It has been published to spread the words of one of the White movement's greatest men, and to remember and honour him in his death. It is with the greatest reverence and respect that I publish these lyrics. With this book is the hope that one day the White race will fulfill Ian's dream of self-determination.

 

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Tomorrow Belongs To Me

The sun on the meadow is summery warm The stag in the forest runs free But gathered together to greet the storm Tomorrow belongs to me Tomorrow belongs to me The branch on the linden is leafy and green The Rhine gives its gold to the sea But somewhere a glory awaits unseen Tomorrow belongs to me Tomorrow belongs to me The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes The blossom embraces the bee But soon says the whisper, arise, arise Tomorrow belongs to me Tomorrow belongs to me Chorus: Now Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign Your children have waited to see The morning will come when the world is mine Tomorrow belongs to me Tomorrow belongs to me

Our Pride Is Our Loyalty

This is our land, the European man So where are you, a land so fair and true Chorus: I guess we didn't know Who was up there running the show But I can tell you, it isn't you or me A weak land, is an also ran We must be strong, and have a common bond (Chorus) Our pride is our loyalty Our pride is our loyalty Our pride is our loyalty to our land For the blood and soil, of the lands they toiled And keep the banners high, and fought the alien lies (Chorus)

If There's A Riot

Walking down the street, avoiding the cops With size ten boots, and a number one crop People avoid you as you pass by Only the smart ones know the media lies Chorus: If there's a riot, in here tonight If you try it, in here tonight If there's a riot, in here tonight That's bad news Read the latest slander, in the daily news Whatever lies that the editors choose Stories concocted in a liar's lair How could we do it, when we weren't there (Chorus) You'll find yourself banned from everywhere You'll find the criticism hard to bear Keep a strong will, hold your head up high Make sure skinheads never die (Chorus)

The Jewel In the Sea

You walk along the wind swept seafront, With the cold North wind in your hair You're looking out over, the restless sea, All you ever seem to do is stare, Over there beyond the white speckled waves, And through the mist that spoils your view, Like a jewel in the sea, is your country of old, The place that means everything to you Chorus: Back to the jewel in the sea The place that means everything to me A land that was beautiful and free Back to the jewel in the sea You're sitting wondering why you ever went away, You're missing everything you've known Silly little things like the lake down in the park, And wondering if the trees have grown You miss the food, and the friendly atmosphere, You miss the morning papers and the tea You're getting homesick, 'cause you're thinking back, of the jewel in the sea (Chorus) You've made up your mind, to go down to the travel agency Book a ticket for the plane You're happier now than you've been for several years, Because you're going back home again You've been a traveler now, for quite a few years, But you're going where you want to be Back to the place, where you were born and bred, Back to the jewel in the sea (Chorus)

Free My Land

I stand and watch my country today It's so easy to see that it's being taken away All the immigrants, and all the left-wing lies Why does no-one ever ask the reason why? Chorus: We were the country that had everything We were the country, Rule Britannia we would sing We were the country, and we could never lose, Once a nation, and now we're run by Jews We want our country back now! It's time our people stood together side by side It's time we stood and fought against the media's lies The capitalists and the communists, well they co-exist If you love your country, you'll be on their list. (Chorus) The sands of time are running out for this land It's time the people stood and raised their hands It's time we drove out the traitors that we can see Now is the time this nation should be free, free my land (Chorus)

Soldier of Freedom

I don't fight for the money, don't fight for blood I'm fighting for freedom, I know where I'm stood I fight for the nations, that haven't yet died I fight to stop Russia, creating a world of sighs Chorus: I'm a soldier of freedom I'm a soldier of freedom I'm a soldier of freedom fights reds I fought in the Congo, stood against the reds I fought in Angola, but the red disease, it spread I fought in Rhodesia, against the media's pets, Now I see democracy suspended by its' neck (Chorus) I fought in Afghanistan, but the tentacles spread I'm surprised at the speed with which the people forget We're sending Russia food now, we're feeding Russia grain, I hope it ain't your land, when Russia invades again, and they will (Chorus)

If You're White

Read the papers, watch TV., hear the media lie to me On the radio, in the news, you're all wrong except the jews Doesn't matter who loses face, if it's against the chosen race If you're white, they'll say you're bad, they must think that we're all mad Chorus: If you're white, you're alright If you're white, today If you're white, you're alright If you're white, O.K. They ban our marches, squash our rights, we'll resist with all our might There seems to be a moral lack, marches allowed for Reds and Blacks They started riots, raised all hell, when thirteen men burnt themselves Had their marches, told their lies, when another black committed suicide (Chorus) Well it's our country, let's take it back, give the race act men the sack For the cause some go to jail, and this means that we must never fail They'll try and make you feel ashamed for everything our race is blamed They'll try and tell you day is night, but don't forget that white is right. (Chorus)

Europe Awake

Europe what have they got to do to make you come alive What has happened to the heritage that once was yours and mine A capitalistic economy, the communists roam the streets The old people aren't safe outside, what solution do we seek? Chorus: Europe awake, for the white man's sake Europe awake, before it's too late Europe awake, Europe awake now We've got to get together soon, and take our nations back The race board, and the traitorous politicians should be sacked You can't turn on the TV. because we know what we're going to see Either moaning immigrants, or the lying C.N.D. (Chorus) We've got to get together now, and wage our nation's fights If we don't act quickly, we're going to face the endless night We've got to take our nations back, from all the traitorous scum You'd better believe it, our day will soon have to come (Chorus)

Voice of Britain

Walking round the streets, hand in hand with fear Nobody knows what is round the bend Don't side with the other side, 'cause if you do we'll find you We want to know exactly if you classify as friends Chorus: This is the voice, the voice of Britain And you'd better believe it This is the voice, the voice of Britain C'mon and fly the flag It's a time when our old people cannot walk the streets alone Fought for this country, is this all they get back? Risked their lives for Britain, and now Britain belongs to aliens It's about time that the British went and took their Britain back (Chorus) Now we'll have a go at the TV. and the papers And all the media Zionists who'd like to keep us quiet They're trying to bleed our country, they're the leeches of the nation But we won't give up quietly, we're going to stand and fight (Chorus)

One Fine Day

Daily papers, black headlines, won't you tell us all the news Young girl raped, an old lady mugged, the police look for clues Soldiers killed in County Down A lord is killed at terror's hands Chorus: One fine day More bad news is on the way One fine day One fine day Soccer season starts again, we're going to hit the violent trail People hurt as violence flares, it's politics again A caravan is someone's tomb Killed in sleep by poison fumes (Chorus) Moroccans lose a hundred men in a terrorist attack They will promise everyone, to make sure they hit back Drugs are found by cops in Spain Hundreds killed in floods and rain (Chorus)

Skrew You

Hey you up there in your office Hiding in your private little nest Trying to tell the people what to listen to But you clutch the Red flag to your breast Chorus: Skrew you, a stranger to the truth Skrew you, twisting all our words Skrew you, an upper class worker Skrew you, to me you're just absurd I can see right through your image You're just another wealthy fake You'll never break your social circle Because your scared for your own safety's sake (Chorus) I had read these stories, never really knew Never really believed them, but now I know they're true People always told me, never trust a creep like you And now I've read your stories, I just say Skrew you (Chorus) You claim you're speaking for the people Exactly which ones do you mean? A beret on your head, red star upon your collar You don't speak for people on the streets (Chorus)

Race and Nation

I believe in the white race A race apart, we've got a mile start I believe in my country It's where I belong, it's where I'll stay Chorus: For my Race and Nation For my Race and Nation For my Race and Nation For my Race and Nation This old nation's in the hand of fools Using people as political tools If you stand up and you say that they're going wrong They'll put you inside, and say that's where you belong Chorus: For your Race and Nation (4x) Something's got to change right now The white race is going down and how I'm not trying to depress you Because I believe we're going to pull through Chorus: For our Race and Nation (4x)

Poland

You over-run our country, with your blood and your steel Never thought to ask us, how it made us feel Cutting down our people, we never had a hope We stood against your bullets, but we could never cope Chorus: You can't understand, you won't understand our land You can't understand, you won't understand our land You tried to take our manhood, you tried to steal our pride You made our people suffer, you took us for a ride We got ourselves a union, to try and air our voice But when it started speaking, you smashed it like a toy (Chorus) You don't understand our culture, you don't understand our life You don't understand our suffering, don't understand our strife (Chorus) We don't want you here with your tanks and your fear, get out Why don't you leave, and let our country breath right now Poland, Reds out of Poland Poland, Reds out of Poland Poland, Reds out of Poland Poland, Reds out of Poland

Who Cares?

A phone is on the table, just down the short dark hall But due to lack of food and drink, you cannot move at all The pension that they gave you, can't stock you up for long And in your heart, the anger grows, you know they've done you wrong Chorus: The wars that you fought, for the peace that you sought But for you my old man, just see what peace has brought The peace has brought you nothing The light around you darkens, as you weaken every hour And never in your long hard life, have you ever felt so sour You've got to see a doctor, or you're going to slide away You've got to see somebody, or you won't last another day (Chorus) The pills, they will not dullen, the aching in your head You try once more to reach the phone, but you cannot leave the bed Then you fall back, the pain is gone, and you see your life's last sight A bare stark wall, so very small, and you say your last goodnight.

Sick Society (Albert Mariner, R.I.P.)

You risked your life for this country when you were young Never questioned orders that they gave Because the love of the Red, White, and Blue was in your heart And I never thought I'd ever see the day, when I'd hear you say Chorus: Now look at a sick society Look back in time Now look at our sick society Who commits the crime You did your time for king and country overseas Spent years to keep this nation free Now you're not allowed to walk the British streets today Now you're fighting against a foe you cannot see (Chorus) When you want to march in a democratic fashion Through the streets of the country that you love Then you're struck down by a mob of screaming monkeys Raining in, with bricks from above (Chorus) We'll remember the things that you have done Against all odds you would not run We'll remember the life you gladly gave Put an English rose upon your grave (Chorus) Now you have died whilst fighting for your country Fighting against an enemy that's within Now I'll make a promise to your memory, Albert Mariner We'll keep on fighting until we win, we'll never forget you (Chorus)

Pennies from Heaven

Walking 'round the streets, one place to another I feel like I lost out on a will No you don't come here Yes, you've got to go there as well Wait here a minute, but I've been here three hours My legs are aching 'cause the seats have all gone Hey you over there, there's a cubicle spare So come 'ere Chorus: Honey, I need money Money to find my way I ain't had a bite since Saturday night And that is now three days She looked at me like I'm some sort of beggar You know it's hard to keep your temper at times We don't know if to pay you 'cause Your being out of work is a crime, yes a crime. We decided after thinking, your career is sinking So we'll offer you a twenty a week Who was it that said, it was the bible I read Said the ones that inherit are the meek (Chorus) One minute I'm in Camden, the next I'm in Eusson They they send me back to Kentish Town I've completed lap two, there's a hole in my shoe And I'm down, yes I'm down It's been such an ordeal, and the way that I feel When I get a letter next day Saying there's something down here, that we need to clear up And if you don't come, you don't get paid (Chorus)

Invasion

They came across the border, in the middle of the night It looks much worse, in the cold daylight There's hundreds of tanks, and thousands of men And helicopters buzzing right above your head Chorus: Oh no, it's an invasion, invasion Oh no, it's an invasion, invasion They're moving out of cities, they're moving out of towns If you're caught resisting, you're quickly mown down Everybody's running, but they don't know where So long as they escape, well, they just don't care (Chorus) You can't understand, why they murder your land But you can't fight a tank with a stick And you want to fight back, but the future is black And the killing is making you sick The tanks pass by, in a never ending line Not a man or a woman is spared And then you wonder why, no help does arrive The world doesn't seem to be cared You've formed a small resistance, you've got a few guns You plan a small ambush, but you end up on the run You're running through the foothills, but you'll never make your cave You're just another rebel in an unmarked grave (Chorus)

We Look to The East

We've thought of it with fear For terror filled years It reigns by shedding bloods Would engulf us if it could Chorus: We keep on looking to the East Can't you see the red flag of the beast We keep on looking to the East Would you dine with the devil at his feast Come on you men of the West now It's got its people everywhere They're planning in their lairs Spreading poison in our lands To deliver us to its hands (Chorus) We've got to stamp it out soon Before it brings our nation's doom Ideals should never bend To ensure the traitor's ends (Chorus)

Flying The Flag

We live on the streets now, we fight for our lives, We fight for the flag, we're all willing to die We don't run from anyone, we never back down, If we see a Red flag, we tear it to the ground Chorus: We're flying the flag, we fight the Red peril We're flying the flag, we hold our heads high We're flying the flag, we'll never give up now We're flying the flag, we'll fight 'till we die Survival is our life, we live from day to day You never know who you're going to meet in our money making state Everybody lives here now, the dustbin of the world An unwelcome pool of labor, with our promises of pearls (Chorus) For so long now, we've heard their lies When will they heed our people's cries When our people take that bitter pill If the Reds don't kill you, the rich man will. Take it from me now, we haven't got long Just follow your feelings, the medias always wrong They're making up stories, to cover themselves They're lining they're pockets with the nation's hard-earned wealth (Chorus)

Power from Profit

We've got to face the music, we've let our country down Upon the face of our nation, there seems to be a frown Once we were all proud man of this cool and pleasant land, But we've lost alot of tears over you Very soon our time will come, our nation's doom will toll They've bought up all our industries, and they've tried to buy our souls And then our nation's working men, will be the rich man's slaves Yes, we've lost alot of tears over you Chorus: It's power from profit, they're buying our souls It's power from profit, puts you on the dole It's power from profit, a good job's hard to find It's power from profit, they'll soon own our minds I think it's time our people stood together all as one And took back all our nation's wealth when the profiteers have gone Our working men would be fairly paid, for all their sweat and toil Yes, we've lost alot of tears over you (Chorus) It's power from profit, the capitalists a thief If he stands against us, he better stay out of our reach We will fight against us with a hammer and a gun And when our people start to rise, the traitor's time will come (Chorus) And when our time has finally come, and we've gained our brave new world The people stand and hail the dawn, the banners are unfurled We've got to be on guard to see they don't come again Because we've lost alot of tears over you (Chorus)

Justice

My knees feel weak as I'm led from the dock My poor mothers' screams numb me with shock One by one, they lock us all away Trumped up charges is the game they play Chorus: Call that justice, well it just ain't fair, How much longer before you care Call that justice from an alien judge Jailed for fighting for the land you love Locked in a cell, you're shackled in chains Lost all your dignity, but trying to keep sane A degrading regime if you speak your mind If you don't agree they'll give you time (Chorus) Call this democracy, the land of free speech Equality and freedom is what they preach, Here's the reality, an alien state Locking up patriots behind camp gates (Chorus)

White Power

I stand and watch my country, going down the drain We are all at fault now, we are all to blame We're letting them come over, we just let them come Once we had an empire, but now we've got a slum Chorus: White power, for England White power, today White power, for Britain Before it gets too late We've seen a lot of riots, we just sit and scoff We've seen alot of muggings, but the judges let them off (Chorus) We've got to do something, to try and stop the rot The traitors that have used us, they should all be shot (Chorus) Are we going to sit and let them come Have they got the white man on the run The multi-racial society is a mess We aren't going to take much more of this What do we need? (Chorus) If we don't win our battle, and all does not go well It's apocalypse for Britain, and we'll see you all in Hell. (Chorus)

Before the Night Falls

They come here to this country from the jungles and from trees The traitors in the parliament give them a better deal Spend the nation's money, to cater to their needs They all accept our charity, then bite the hand that feeds Chorus: Before the night falls, heed the White call Before the night falls, when the reaper calls you Our forefathers fought in two world wars, they thought to keep us free But I'm not sure that in those wars, who was our enemy The Zionists own the media, and they're known for telling lies And I could see, that it could be, we fought on the wrong side (Chorus) European unity, the North Teutonic dream To scoop to save humanity, leave Europe with the cream But now our once proud Europe, looks like a melting pot But melting pots boil over, and it's getting pretty hot (Chorus)

Hail the New Dawn

Comrades, the voices of the dead battalions, Of those who fell, that Europe might be great Join in our song, for they still march in spirit with us And urge us on that we gain the national state Chorus: The streets are still, the final battle has ended Flushed with the fight, we proudly hail the dawn See over the streets, the white man's emblem is waving Triumphant standards of a race reborn Blood of our blood, spirit of our spirit Sprang from that soil, for who's sake they bled Against the vested powers, Red front, and massed reaction We lead the fight for freedom and for bread (Chorus) Hail the new dawn! Hail the new dawn! Hail the new dawn! Hail the new dawn! People who we trusted, again have let us down Jailing men of this country, for fighting for our land We will fight forever, until the end releases us We will never submit to a kosher master plan (Chorus)

On our Streets

Walking down the subway, at the week-end After a good night on the town There's gangs over here, gangs over there, there's gangs everywhere You'd better watch out if your on your own It's the day of the boys dressed in blue You'd better watch out if one of them looks at you Chorus: On the streets, of our towns On the streets, all around On the streets, everywhere On the streets, makes you scared Standing in a concert, having a good time Paid your money out to see the show In come the cops, looking for trouble because your white men Would you believe that this was Britain '84 It's the day of the boys dressed in blue You'd better watch out if one of them looks at you (Chorus) You never see politicians out there, standing on the streets They don't care if your kids are fed, or got shoes upon their feet They don't know what's happening, they don't see what's going on If they did, they'd all be screaming, what the hell is going on (Chorus) People seem to think, if it's in the Sun, they've got to believe it Try to tar everybody with the same brush Remember, birds of a feather, don't always flock together these days So don't get carried away by the sight of us (Chorus 2x)

Back With a Bang

Back with a Bang, now! Do you remember in the summer Back in nineteen seventy-eight When they reckoned that the skinhead days were numbered And the papers dripped with liquid hate Be patriotic, stop the fascists, so they said Defy your country, fight the Crown Society tried its' best to kill you But the spirit lives until the end of time Chorus: Back with a bang, now Back with the gang, now Back with a bang, now Back with the gang, now, 2...3...4... Reckoned every skinhead was a bad man Just to make an honest family sick And they filled the papers with this rubbish every day Never missed a dirty little trick (Chorus 2x) And still today they keep on lying Four years on and they still won't learn But the skinhead way of life is getting stronger every day And we are never going to turn (Chorus 2x)

When The Boat Comes In

Take no shit from anyone because Great Britain rules We will fight the Communists, because Communists are fools Try to take our nation, and give it to the blacks We won't take it anymore, we're going to take our nation back Chorus: Nigger, nigger, get on that boat Nigger, nigger, row Nigger, nigger, get out of here Nigger, nigger, go, go, go... They riot on the British streets, they're burning down our land But the fools in government pour money in their hand Give them money, give them jobs, ignore the British whites We won't stand, so watch out now, we'll take it with a fight (Chorus) Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! We've got to love this land of ours, and fight to keep it white Never going to give it up, 'cause we know we're in the right And if they try to take it we will fight until the death And in the end, the white man wins, because there won't be no rest (Chorus) Nigger, nigger, get on that boat Nigger, nigger, start to row Nigger, nigger, get of here Nigger, nigger, go! Go! Go! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Nigger, nigger, out! Out! Now go...!

Green Fields of France

Well, how do you do young Willy McBride? Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside? And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done I see by your gravestone, you're only nineteen When you joined the great call-up in nineteen sixteen And I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean Young Willy McBride, was it slow and obscene? Chorus: Did they beat the drums slowly? Did they play the pipes lowly? Did they play the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the last coasting chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?

Although you died back in nineteen-sixteen In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen Or are you a stranger without a name? Enclosed and forever behind a glass frame In an old photograph battered and stained And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame (Chorus) Well the sun, now it shines, on the green fields of France As the warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance And look how the sun shines from under the clouds There's no gas, no barbwire, there's no guns firing now But here in this graveyard it's still no-man's land The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man The whole generation was butchered and damned (Chorus) Young Willy McBride, I can't help wondering "why?" Do those that lie here know why that they died? And did they believe when they answered the call Did they really believe that this war would end wars? The soul knows the suffering and the glory of pain The killing and dying were all done in vain Young Willy McBride it all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again... (Chorus)

Smash the I.R.A.

On the streets of Ulster, the battle rages on British people fighting for their land Fought in two world wars for us, fought and died for Britain Got to help them support the right hand Chorus: Smash! Smash! The I.R.A. Smash! Smash! The I.R.A. Smash! Smash! The I.R.A. Remember the victims of their bombs... Got to change our policies, and hang the I.R.A. Let the army do with them their way Corrupt politicians, and sniveling left-wing scum Are helping them to get away Come on Ulster! (Chorus 2x) I.R.A. supporters are marching on our streets Are we going to let them spread their lies? Are we going to let them march, or are we going smash them Laughing while the British people die (Chorus 2x)

Strike Force

I want to tell you about South Africa And its' so-called fight for freedom The much praised black resistance, And the Communists who lead them Not too far away Angola Or nearer home in Zimbabwe The Marxist-backed dictators Are looking south in fear to see Chorus: Strike Force, white survival Strike For