Skullhead was a nationalist
Oi!
Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads, and other disaffected working-class youth. The movement was p ...
band from the
Newcastle area. It was part of the
Rock Against Communism
Rock Against Communism (RAC) was the name of white power rock concerts in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and has since become the catch-all term for music with racist lyrics as well as a specific genre of rock music derived ...
(RAC) movement.
History
Formed in
Consett
Consett is a town in County Durham, England, about south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne. It had a population of 27,394 in 2001 and an estimate of 25,812 in 2019.
History
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in March 1984,
[R. Forbes & E. Stampton, “The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement: UK & USA, 1979 - 1993”, Feral House, 2015] their debut album White Warrior was released in 1987 (released by United Records, a subsidiary of
Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama Records was a Cologne-based German independent record label that operated between 1980 and 1994, established and run by Herbert Egoldt. Though initially dedicated to releasing and distributing left-wing or apolitical German and intern ...
). The line-up on the album was Kevin Turner (vocals), Tim Ward (guitar), ‘Spin’ Brown (bass) and Nick Shaw (drums). Skullhead joined the
National Front's White Noise Club, and when most of other British RAC bands left to join
Blood & Honour
Blood & Honour is a Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi music promotion network and right-wing extremist political group founded in the United Kingdom by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane in 1987. It is composed of White Nationalism, White Nationalists an ...
, Skullhead remained with the White Noise Club till its end. The band’s second LP Odin’s Law was released in 1991 by United Records. The line-up for this LP was Turner (vocals), Craig Bond (guitar), Pete (guitar), ‘Spin’ Brown (bass) and Raish Carter (drums). Carter had previously been in punk band Red London. The LP was produced by Martin Cross, who later was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. The band’s final live appearance was in
Brandenburg
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, Germany in 1992.
Turner spent 1989 as an inmate of
Acklington Prison, and received a jail term in 1991 for
grievous bodily harm
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after assaulting a man in Consett. Bond was jailed in December 1993 for a racist attack on a group of students in Sunderland. He pleaded guilty to violent disorder. Bond, who was already serving a nine-month sentence for an assault on an anti-fascist, got another three years.
Skullhead split-up in 1993.
Following the split Turner became a
techno
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MC using the moniker MC Techno T.
Turner reformed Skullhead in 2001 with Frazer Robinson on guitar, Russ on bass and Sticks on drums. Robinson had previously played in north-east RAC band Warhammer. They did a small tour of Germany, Slovakia and Switzerland and recorded an album titled Returned to Thunder, which was released the following year.
Discography
*''White Warrior'' LP (United Records, 1987)
*''White Noise - We Want the Airwaves'' 12" EP with PALAZARD (A-side "Look ahead" by Skullhead; B-side "Red Light Runaway" by Palazard) (White Noise Records, 1988)
*''Blame the Bosses / Celtic Warrior; Unemployed Voice'' 7" EP with VIOLENT STORM (Third Way, 1989)
*''Odins Law'' LP (United Records, 1989)
*''Rose of England / Townmoor festival'' 7" single (Street Rock 'N' Roll [sub-label of
Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama Records was a Cologne-based German independent record label that operated between 1980 and 1994, established and run by Herbert Egoldt. Though initially dedicated to releasing and distributing left-wing or apolitical German and intern ...
], 1989)
*''Blame the Bosses / Look Ahead'' 7" single (Street Rock 'N' Roll, 1990)
*''Cry of Pain'' LP (United Records, 1991)
*''Victory Or Valhalla'' Mini-LP (Rebelles Européens (WP rock label), Rebelles Europeéns, 1992)
*''Ragnarok (Victory Or Valhalla)'' full-length CD including R.E. LP + demos (ISD
an Stuart Donaldson Records 1994)
*''Return To Thunder'' CD (Backstreet Noise Music, 2002)
*''Victory Or Valhalla'' CD (2002)
*''Return To Thunder'' LP (PC-Records, 2003)
Compilations
*''No Surrender vol. 4'' (songs: ''Yuletide'', ''Memories'') LP (Rock-o-Rama, 1990)
*''Gods of War vol. 4'' songs: ''No more brothers war'', ''Skinhead rock band'') LP (White Power Records, 1991)
*''Blood & Honour vol. 1'' (songs: ''Push on'', ''Hang the I.R.A.'') CD (ISD, 1994)
*''White Resistance vol. 2'' (songs: ''Rock'n'Roll resistance'', ''Fighting for victory'') bootleg CD (C 18, 1997)
See also
*
List of neo-Nazi bands
Far right bands first appeared in the late 1970s. Punk rock, and genres influenced by it, had used Nazi imagery for shock value, but those bands were usually not fascist. This changed when Oi!, a populist offshoot of punk rock, became popular wi ...
References
External links
Nazi Musicarticle that mentions Skullhead, by Tyne & Wear Anti Fascist Action
by Keep It Safe Promotions
Kev Turner's Myspace
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Neo-Nazi musical groups