Gig In Poland

Hello fellow readers of our blog! It’s time to tell you the story about the latest gig in Poland….it’s all started when I was personally invited by one of the gig organizers in the middle of Febuary. Headliners of the concert was one of my favourite bands I.C. 1 so I didn’t hesitated too much before booking the travel. So finally at the 5th April the long awaited day came and I took a flight from Sofia to Berlin, which took me less then 2 hours. Straight away from Tegel airport I continued my trip with a car to the city of Szczecin located in North West part of Poland where my comrades were already waiting for me. A crew from Slovenia plus Andy – the singer of I.C. 1 was also on Polish soil. We started our Friday night in a rock club with few drinks, which exactly for me was 3 fast shots of vodka given me by my hosts – a really warm Polish welcome and kick ass start of the evening J Later on our tour continued to some nice night clubs, having some fun and more drinks and meals enjoying the company of pretty Polish girls J Somehow we managed not to get too drunk, keeping our strength for the next day of the gig.

The next morning I did some sightseeing downtown Szczecin with two Polish comrades, showing me best sides of this beautiful and full of history city. Afterwards we went to a restaurant to meet  the mighty Slovenians who have already started they holiday marathon with their best mate “Jack Daniels” J Shortly after a German crew joined our ranks including the rest of the members of I.C. 1, guys from the well known band Carpe diem. We had some hours of talks and great fun together, laughing loud on various jokes told by Andy… I must admit that this bloke has a great sense of humor. In other hand you all well know that Poles and German nationalists have some issues so it was really nice to see people from those two nations having a good time together forgetting the problems and breaking the stereotypes.

Around 5 p.m. we headed to the gig venue which was located on “x” kilometers from the city. It was kind a disco club with a small stage for the bands. I have to mentioned that originally announced Russian band Truvor failed to come due to some problems with the authorities, so they have been replaced by some Polish bands. After sound checks and other preparations concert have started around 7.30 p.m. with the first band for the night – Nordica. It’s a new local band, but their members are well known musicians from the Polish scene, playing with melodic metal influenced skin band Aggressiva 88. They performed as a four piece acoustic unplugged band. It was two acoustic guitars which was leading the tunes plus bass and drum supporting them slightly on the back. They played some own songs from their debut album “Akustycznie” plus covers of the most well known Polish bands such as Konkwista 88 and Honour as well as “Behind Blue eyes” by “The Who”. On one of their last songs the band was joined by Sadko from Russia who replaced the singer. I know very well that ballads are not the favourite style for some people, but I’m quite big fan of this kind of music so this performance pleased me a lot. The set was really professionally done and lasted for about an hour.

After a short break it was time for the second band of the night Blackauts (not to be misunderstood with Blackout from Wales) another new Polish band. Band is consisted by ex members of The Analogs and The Junkers and I can describe their style as a rough RAC with a sharp vocal. They played full material of their debut album "Jak w Stanach" and cover of Pitbull Farm’s “Army of Assholes” which made me mental and I joined the slam in front of the stage. They did a well played 45minutes set which warmed the crowd for the main event of the evening…

So finally the moment that all of us were waiting for came!!! The headliners of I.C. 1 were on stage warmly applaud by the gig attenders. For those of you who are not familiar with this brilliant band you should know that this is a project by Andy (ex Razors Edge) and German guys from Carpe Diem . Their first cd was realized in 2009 and it was a kick ass debut which made them extremely popular in no time. This album was followed by “Loud and Proud” which saw the light of the day at the fall of last year. I bought and copy of it (plus T-shirt) to support the band and the “PC Records” label that were on the gig selling stuff, so you’ll have a detailed cd review in next days. So back to the topic... I.C. 1 made a fantastic performance playing songs mostly from their debut cd “Out of control” such as “Friday night”, “Stick together”, “Where you belong” ( I adore this one), “Out of control” etc. plus a few top tunes from the new album as “No Surrender”, “Rule O.K.” and “I wont Pay”. The party atmosphere reached it’s climax so security guys were busy to stop exalted fans to invade the stage J Unfortunately the band’s set was not that long as we all wanted, so some great songs such as “ Skinhead legends”, “Undercover journalist” and “Skinhead girl” was not played… but I really hope I will listen to them on some of their next gigs. For a “dessert” the band did some covers such as “England belongs to me” and “Argy Bargy” by Cock Sparrer, “White Power” and “Poland”  by Skrewdriver as a special “thank you” to the gig organizers. Right after the performance Andy was chased by some “fans” who wanted to take a photo with him, but he was too shy to stand all this glory so he fast find a secure place on the bar J

The last band for the evening was The Invasion, which in my opinion are the best and most well known bands from Poland for the last few years. Kuba and the guys did just a few own songs and vast majority of covers from the top bands of our scene. I was really impressed by the way they did a rock version of the Nemesis song “Pride and Purity” and the Polish “evergreen” of Honor – Narodowy Socjalizm” which was the perfect final for the gig.

To summarize it – it was a great gig with four may be not so famous, but really professional bands. Sadly the concert was visited by just 100-120 people, some of which traveled 600 + km. to reach the venue. But I must admit there was great atmosphere, not even a shadow of a problems between Poles and Germans and apart from some individuals who wasn’t able to stand the effects of vodka ( Polish vodka is second to none, I’ve tasted it) the whole event was trouble free and what is even more important without the presence of the fucking coppers.

Firstly I would like to thank my Polish comrades for the hospitality and for the fantastic weekend we had – don’t need to mention names, you know who you are!!! Cheers to Andy and the Germans for the great time we spend together, I was really honored to meet you guys!!! Comradely greetings to Slovenian crew for the fun we had!!! Hope to see you all very soon!!!

Dziękuję and HAIL POLAND!!!

Verboten Interview

* Taken from "Skinhead magzine" (Spanish edition) #46

A common question to start, when and why did you form the band? Did you start from zero, without musical experience?

The idea to form a band is going back to 2005. We always wanted to do some music. The kind of music we would like to hear for ourselves and is done from skins for skins. And then in the end of 2010, finally after talking for far too long about it, we started with the band. The guitar player and me have been the main forces behind the idea to form a band, then we found a talented drummer, who was playing and still is playing in other bands like white rebel boys as well. Also our bass guitar player is playing in other bands. The 2^nd guitar player was touring through the countryside as a ballad guru. So, the 2 guys who started the idea to form this band are the only newbie’s in music. 

We live in a world where all is clasified, how must we define your musical style? Any concrete influence?

We play melodic modern RAC, with a lot of classic Oi influence and also a bit from old school hardcore bands. Ok, it’s easy to say that about yourself, but I hope it does fit to our band. We absolutely don’t have any influence from any kind of metal. I’m really pissed of by all those new German RAC bands with their wannabe innovative metal influence, every 2^nd new band is imitating Stahlgewitter. We see ourselves more in the tradition of bands like Triebtäter, Mistreat, Faustrecht and Nordic Thunder. Aggressive music to sing-along and move your feet.

What can you tell us about the line up? You can add all details you want.

We are 5 guys, who are all from different towns in the Chemnitz area in Saxony. There is Rommel at the 2^nd guitar, he is a hairy nightmare for every weight watcher programme. Mighty “Grumpy” J is the guitar player, he is a living tattoo model as he is full with ink from head to toe. Prince Reberick is playing the drums, he is our best musician and a sensitive cook with a heart for asparagus(makes his pee smell like hell J). Tiny MC is our bass guitar hero, he is thirsty, big and a real lady-killer, as he is working in a factory for tampons. And then there is me, Mister NNNN, I’m the singer of the band, and I like sports, comedy’s and crisps with cheese flavourJ. We are a 100% Skinhead band, angry, loud and proud.

I know you use internet everyday, what's your personal opinion about pages as facebook, myspace....? Have you thought to create a web for band?

It’s very useful if you are a single man and you need some “contact” hahaha. But you have to be very carefully, as the political enemy and the police is watching every step you take there. A website would be a nice idea to push the band a bit forward, but we are all too lazy to do the work for it. Maybe later after some recordings…

Is ready the band to record a full length CD?

I hope that we could release a CD through this year. Actually we are just waiting for our drummer to come back to our area. He is working till July near the French border (for all those geographical dumbo´s, that’s the other side of GermanyJ), and we wont record anything till he is back. But the songs are done and are just waiting to get recorded. We are counting the minutes till we could enter the studio.

What's the topics you talk in your songs and where does inspiration for your lyrics come from? Are you working in songs in English language?

We have songs in German and English too. The most songs are about the problems of  the white men of today. And we also like to put a finger in open wounds. That’s the reason for our song “Churchill was a queer”, their still some guys in the movement who think he was right, strange or? Some songs are a bit more political then others like “Liebe dein Land(Love your country)” or “Light vs. darkness”, and some are just about things that could happen in the life of a Skinhead, like ”Alcohol caused violence”. So you could say that life and the problems you may get are the biggest inspirations for us.

Your band name means 'forbidden',  are there too much things 'verboten' in your country?

When we are talking about the national resistance in Germany, then nearly everything is Verboten. Don’t try to found a club with your friends, it will be forbidden after 2 weeks. You need a very good and expensive lawyer when you are in band, because your music mind be forbidden. Check the internet for news about memorial march’s every day, because it could be forbidden from one minute to another. Don’t say something positive about the time from 33-45 in public, because it’s forbidden to say that. Don’t whisper the Horst Wessel song, because even the rhythm of the song is forbidden. I could go on for hours…The weird thing about this situation is, that the common German men doesn’t care about the loss of freedom of speeches as long as they have their TV and could go to holiday every year.

So you could say we choose the name because nearly everything, our thoughts, our clothes, our music, is “Verboten”. And beside that, it’s an easy German name to remember hahaha

What's your opinion about the young Skinhead Beat label which have been very active?

I don’t know them, but I think it’s a non political label for non political bands. And I think we would declare ourselves as a political Skinhead band. Victory or Valhalla! I could accept skins who don’t share our views to 100%, but I don’t like those people who seem to accept every scum on this earth on their side just because of a crop. I haven’t become a Skin to be everybody’s darling. And if a black man I has written skinhead with dry poo-poo on his forehead doesn’t mean that he is a Skinhead J.

What's your personal opinion about the metamorphosis which skinhead movement is suffering in last years in different fronts like music or aesthetic (clothes, streetwear,...)?

At first I have to say that I’m a classic skinhead in boots and braces, and I love this way of dressing. I really don’t like this fashion companies like Thor Steinar (now owned by an Arab). Maybe they did things for our movement at the beginning of their company’s history, but then the profit was coming and the cause left. Sometimes you have to dress a bit more casual as our clothes are forbidden at the most demonstrations here in our land. But the most people who say that they can’t dress like a Skinhead anymore just don’t want to dress like a Skin anymore (Byrd’s prefer sneakers etc.). Ok, if I would fly down to your country I would also take some shorts with me as jeans and boots make you sweat like a pig when it’s 30°C outside, but that’s another story J.What I want to say, if you call yourself Skinhead, then you also have to dress like a Skinhead. Music is another story too, I like a lot of different styles, from hardcore to punk, RAC and Metalcore. But the new so called opening to “NS Hip hop” is like a punch in the face for every old school guy like me. There isn’t any space for stuff like that shit in our scene. So at all you could say, that there isn’t the real way to dress or the real Skinhead music, there are a couple of real ways (who are in borders). But of you lose the way out of your sight you have gone too far.

Advise me some new bands from German scene, with records or not.

That’s a really hard question, as there are new German bands out there twice a week, to make it a bit easier I will just talk about bands from my area. A new band from our area (and our drummer is their bass player) is “Overdressed”, a punk influenced RAC band. They have done a demo CD now. “Ohne Worte” is a young skin band from here and I think they are also going to the studio soon. Another new band from one of my friends is from Cottbus(not really my area, but he is a friend hahaha), “Hausmannkost”, classic RAC with a couple of songs on different compilations. “Sachsenblut” (and our Bass player is theirs as well) is a new RAC band from our area as well and they are on different compilations. As your magazine is called “Skinhead Magazine“ I just advised you bands with Skinhead members, and a lot of newer German RAC bands don’t have Skins in their bands line-up. So one of those new bands from here is “Sturmkrieger” with a demo CD out on PC Records.

Concerts, have you played anyone? What was the last concert you went as crowd?

We just played 4 gigs till April 2012, mostly small ones with a party character. All have been in our part of Germany and we played with bands like Last Riot, Old Glory, Punkfront, The Granits, Sturmkrieger, Ostfront and more. One gig was stopped by the police before the gig started. The last gig I have visited as a guest was the Brutal Attack, Mistreat and 4 Aces gig in London in the end of January. I’ve a little baby at home so it’s hard to go out for me these days.

Talking about the last..., tell me the last....

-book you read- The last book I’ve finished with reading was “Mit Westland im Osten”, a book about SS Soldier Fritz Hahl. Right now I’m reading the biography about the Apple Founder Steve Jobs(till now I could say that he was a bloody asshole). It was a gift from my mother, so I’ve to read it hahaha.

 -time you went to police station – Last year, but they have been visiting me last week at home, nice guest…

 -time you visited a museum – Last year as well, I’ve visited the “New masters gallery” in Dresden. A well known art museum.

-time you regreted buying a CD- I don’t know as I’m buying just CD´s of bands from which in know the music. But I could tell you the first CD I regretted, “Die Allierten - Ruhm und Ehre”.

This is your first connection with Spanish skins, any words for them? Thanks a million to ask this short interview. Good luck.

At first we have to thank you for this interview. Good luck with your magazine, I know that a magazine is really hard work, so keep the faith! To all the Spanish skins, every time I’ve meet some of you, you made party like hell, and I like people who could have a laugh and a say. I hope to see you soon at a gig or at a gathering anywhere in Europe. Gracias, Danke, Adios and Auf Wiedersehen J

In Review: Posol Vlasti

Name: Pred ohnivým drakom

Label: Self - released
Style: Nationalist Rock

Tracks: 12

Posol Vlasti or “ Messenger of the Homeland “ are a brand new band of the well known Slovakians from Project Vandal. The cd contains twelve tracks including a ballad all in their native language. It’s very well played rock music, up to the level of mainstream bands. A lot of powerful and singalong tunes like “Este stale lipa stoji” and “Slovanska krv”. In some of the songs, solos and whole leading rhythm reminds me a lot of the legends of Viking Rock – Ultima Thule which is a quite remarkable fact. From what I understand from the common Slavonic words, lyrics deal with topics like national pride, strength and unity plus some historical backgrounds. Sixteen pages booklet with lyrics in Slovakian included. In my opinion the design and contents could be much better, like some band photos plus lyrics translated in English. All in all it is a really good album from a really god musicians!!! At last but not the least, I would like to thank Rado for sending me a copy of this cd.

Nationalists arrested in Italy

On January 24th Italian police performed special raid in Naples, during which 10 activists of Casa Pound Naples were arrested. Nationalists are charged with crimes including illegal storage of weapon and explosives, organization of extremist community, street fighting of political cause in Naples in 2011, violent actions against left-wing activists, using knives and Molotov cocktail.
       At the moment 2 nationalists are detained, 5 of them are under house arrest and 3 others must check every day at police station.
     The operation was performed by Italian police together with Mass Media with an aim to discredit nationalists before regional elections, where members of Casa Pound Italy were going to participate. In spite of all the charges, no weapons and explosives were found during the search. Charges are based only on tapping telephone talks and Italian special units materials collected during investigation of criminal cases of previous years.

The Stormer zine # 13

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Slovenian ISD Memorial 2012

   Hello everyone, it’s time to tell you the story about the fourth ISD Memorial concert our crew attended this fall – the one in mighty Slovenia. On the flayer published at the end of the summer five great bands was announced, so everything seems to be quite promising for the future event. I have never been before in this country, so I was really looking forward the day of my departure. Unfortunately there was no direct flight from Sofia to Ljubljana, so I was forced to go by bus. The journey took approximately 14 hours, so in the very late hours of Thursday I landed in the outskirts of Ljubljana, where two comrades were waiting for me. We had a few beers and a good talk with them, so around 3 a.m. I thought it’s time to go to sleep, but they had other plans for the poor, innocent Bulgarian guest (hahahaha) The party moved in the comrade’s house and lasted until the morning involving wine, Schnaps  and other alcoholic beverages. The conclusion I reached is quite simple - Don’t try to drink with Slovenians, it’s a game you’ll never win J

  Next day passed very quickly, when after a few hours of sleeping and a lunch, on the late afternoon we headed to nearby town of Domazale. We’ve visited the local “Club 88” where comrades from near and afar started to gather. Guys from Bully boys were already there, so I was really happy and honored to shake hands with my good old pen pall Big Ed, which I’ve never met in real life before. Just a while after Ken from Brutal Attack and few lads from the old British guard joined us. We had a few hours of great party with our favourite White Power tunes, laughs, talks and drinks. I became a DJ for the part of the night, playing mostly Eastern European RAC tracks in favour of the huge Polish crowd in the pub which singalong the classics of their native bands such as Konkwista 88 and Honor. I believe all of us had a great time this eve, which for me ended around midnight, trying to stay sober in order to keep strength for the day of the gig.

On Saturday I packed my stuff and moved to a nice looking hotel, which I shared with our constant gig reporter (which came from France) and two of the bands which was supposed to play – Bully Boys and Blackout. After a delicious meal and few beers we headed to a city near by Italian border where the gig venue was. It was a nice looking night club plus a huge tent next to it, when all the merchandise tables were placed. Doors were opened at 6.00 p.m. and people started to gather in the next hour and a half. Unfortunately on the very same day there was another big gig (European Hammerfest in Switzerland) so the total amount of attenders was not that many as expected.

The first band of the night was Blackout from Wales. They’ve opened the gig with I think their best song so far “Mental Welsh Bastard” followed by some songs of their second cd, which was released this summer. They played a brilliant set playing some more songs from their first cd “Spirit of the warrior” plus the obligatory Skrewdriver covers. What I found interesting is that they’ve played covers of ballad tunes such as “The snow fell” and “Ode to a dying people” (by RA.HO.WA.) but in full electric version which sounded quite interesting. The crowd really enjoyed their performance dancing and hailing all over the place.

Blackout was followed by the most famous band from the East – Kolovrat. They started with a few songs in Russian like “Two Brothers”, “Music of the streets” and “Anti Antifa” followed by a huge amount of covers such as “Narodovy Socjalizm” by Honor, “Legion Blanche” by Legion 88, “Tales of Glory” by Brutal Attack, for which Ken joined them on stage and many others. During their performance the first problems with the sound system/technician started to happened which sadly continued almost until the end of the gig L.  What I can state as a minus is that their set lasted a way too long plus they didn’t played more songs on their native tongue, but preferred to count on covers, I believe to satisfy the large international crowd which attended the concert.

 After a short break third on the stage appeared Italians from Gesta Bellica. They were supported by a 50 plus people crew of VFS which made an incredible atmosphere singing together as one and dancing on every song. Between the songs they continued with singing like on a football game “Ole, Ole Venetto Skineheads” which once gain showed what strong following Italian bands have even far from home. Band played mostly their own songs from old albums plus covers of “Rivolta” (joined by Gigi from Legitima Offesa) and “Free my Land” (when again Ken took the mic).

Next on the schedule was long awaited legendary American band – Bully boys. Unfortunately the previous motioned problems with sound system reached its climax during their performance. This made their singer Scott really pissed, and I believe this was the main reason for the not so good performance of the band. So just for the record they played mix of both old and new songs such as “Jigrun” , “The hero was born”, “Hard times, hard measures” and of course “Superstar” as a last song of the set. To be honest most of the attenders was disappointed of their performance, as I believe the band members themselves.

The last band of the night was German veterans from Sturmtrupp. These three piece RAC bands really rocked the stage for the delight of the presenting German comrades. They played singalong tunes such as “Sturmtrupp 88” as an opener, “Der Letzten patrioten” plus some songs of their last cd entited "Unter Fiendlicher Attacke"

So around 3.30 a.m. the gig came to its’s end. We had a last beer and say “Good bye” to our friends, both old and new and returned back to hotel in Domzale to have some sleep after this long and exacting day.

On the next morning I had a breakfast with guys from Bully Boys, sharing opinions and laughing on some funny moments from the previous nigh. Then at early afternoon sadly it was time to go back to my Fatherland. I had one of the best weekends of my life meeting old comrades and making new friends from near and afar. I would like to thank all the boys and girls from 28 Slovenia for the perfect organization of the whole event especially to Rok for arranging my stay there and Matija for the great hospitality. For all you guys who are reading this report I can honestly highly recommend to visit a gig in Slovenia!!! This is land of the beautiful ladies, strong beer and at last, but not the least the home of one of the best (if not THE BEST) Blood and Honour Divisions in Europe!!! Slovenia, I’ll be back!!!

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