The anti-migrant march in Faversham last November led to some unfortunate consequences for up-and-coming local musician Dylan Kirk after he was unwise enough to take part – and to pose for a photograph with Paul Golding, the visiting leader of the far-right group Britain First. Kirk, a Rockabilly singer and pianist with a band called […]
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Fascist singer’s London gig axed after protests
The Underworld in Camden, London, has cancelled the scheduled gig by Michale Graves, the far-right aligned American rock singer. We reported on Thursday that music fans were protesting at his proposed appearance at the well-known London venue, following his declared support for fascist groups like the Proud Boys in the US. Today, apparently following a […]
London venue to host US fascist singer
Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early fame came from fronting the horror-punk band the Misfits in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But more recently Graves’ name has become increasingly linked with the American extreme right. Graves’ career began in the […]
How purple-haired cartoon ‘Amelia’ became a far-right icon
Amelia was never meant to be real. She began life as a cartoon character in a government-backed game designed to help young people recognise and resist extremist ideology. But she has been reimagined online as something far darker: a far-right fantasy figure, fetishised, politicised, and repurposed by thousands of men who see in her both […]
Golding selfie gets rockabilly singer banned from Cavern Club
Liverpool’s iconic Cavern Club has cancelled a performance this weekend by rockabilly singer and pianist Dylan Kirk and his band after anti-fascist campaigners raised concerns over Kirk’s recent appearance in a photograph alongside Paul Golding, the leader of Britain First. Laughing together The picture was taken at the rally which concluded an anti-migrant march earlier […]
Artur Gold: the violinist of Treblinka
In the summer of 2013 I interviewed Samuel Willenberg, at the time the last surviving participant of the Jewish revolt at Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in Eastern Poland. During the interview, he reminisced about Artur Gold, the famous Jewish violinist, and leader of the Treblinka orchestra. He told me: “As we stood during evening […]