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Post by researcher on Sept 17, 2009 3:38:02 GMT -5
I am researching the anti-Fascist struggle in the 1980s for a book I am writing and am interested in getting in touch with anyone that was at the 1984 GLC 'Jobs For A Change' festival at London's County Hall on the South Bank. The RedSkins played at this event and were attacked (along with the Hank Wangford Band) by a group of Neo-Nazi Skinheads. This actually led to the formation of AFA. If anyone has any photos from the Festival that I could use, or their version of what happened i would be very grateful. PM me.
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Post by rookley11 on Oct 6, 2009 18:42:09 GMT -5
hi, i was there, don't think i've got any photos anymore, but i'll have a look. i've definitely got a cassette bootleg of the gig, which includes the bundle at the end, which you are welcome to have a copy of. i can remember quite a bit of what happened, the day being curtailed by my girlfriend at the time getting hit over the head with a bottle. get in touch if any of this is of interest to you. cheers
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Post by researcher on Oct 7, 2009 3:06:21 GMT -5
What would also be helpful would be if someone had a copy of the edition of the Red Action Newspaper - 'Red Action', that came out after the Festival (June or July 84??) and carried a report on the event. If anyone has got one, a scan would be very helpful. I have emailed Red Action but the emails keep bouncing so I'm assuming the account is no longer in use.
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Post by Bazza on Oct 7, 2009 4:06:18 GMT -5
What would also be helpful would be if someone had a copy of the edition of the Red Action Newspaper - 'Red Action', that came out after the Festival (June or July 84??) and carried a report on the event. If anyone has got one, a scan would be very helpful. I have emailed Red Action but the emails keep bouncing so I'm assuming the account is no longer in use. The Red Action website shut down a few years ago. In the end the forum just seemed to be full of bnp types. I'm just doing a copy of the gig now for you and I'll get in the the post later today.
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Post by researcher on Oct 7, 2009 13:19:13 GMT -5
Really? Why did they even let the BNP on there? What happened to No Platform?? Thanks for the disc, I appreciate it.
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Post by strangetown22 on Dec 4, 2009 17:25:11 GMT -5
Missed the gig by about ten minutes. Walking across Waterloo Bridge towards County Hall when a load of skins were going the other way, some cut and bruised and thought it was all a bit odd. When i met my mates they excitedly filled me in on events. Best gig i never saw!
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Post by chuckwilson on Feb 12, 2010 8:59:33 GMT -5
Got arrested after we gave the fash a kicking in the station after they attacked the gig. Got released on bail and later there was an attack on a fash pub in the evening as retaliation. The fash printed kick over the redskin T shirts as I recall.
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Post by mx on Mar 15, 2010 15:09:59 GMT -5
I was there too. About twenty yards back from the stage when it kicked off. We chased them back to Waterloo and on to Waterloo East, before the police turned up. One or two of them got left behind and were given a good kicking iirc. Sorry to hear you got nicked, chuck. We must have been in the same mob at the station. Long time ago now.
On another thread, there's a report about a gig in Reading - not sure whether its the same one, but I ended up with six stiches in the back of my head after the Anti Apartheid tour gig.
I was always very keen on getting stuck in, but was a lousy fighter!
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Post by crimson on Jan 24, 2016 10:17:36 GMT -5
I just read a fash book with a quite lengthy bit about the attack on the gig. "The White nationalist skinhead movement 1979 - 93 UK & USA" by Robert Forbes & Eddy Stampton
It contains photos of the stage invasion and fash that were there on the day are interviewed.
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