{"id":1057,"date":"2008-02-26T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2008-03-03T03:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T17:31:06","slug":"blood-honour-c18-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Blood & Honour \/ C18 in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re a weird mob, these Nutzis.<\/p>\n

A while ago I referred<\/a> to the splits in Ian Stuart<\/a>‘s painful legacy of bad muzak, otherwise known as ‘Blood & Honour’, but also as C18 (Combat 18: 1=A; 8=H; AH=Adolf Hitler). In Australia, the local franchise is loyal to B&H, and allied with the Hammerskins. So too, the tiny B&H\/Hammerskins mob in Aotearoa\/New Zealand. In Australia, B&H\/Southern Cross Hammerskins organise an annual gig to commemorate Ian Stuart’s death; in Aotearoa\/New Zealand, B&H\/NZ Hammerskins organise an annual gig to celebrate Hitler’s birthday.<\/p>\n

C18, on the other hand, exists only in Patrick O’Sullivan<\/a>‘s fertile imagination<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Skrewydriver’s overdue death in 1993 resulted in a battle over his financial and political legacy. Initially, B&H came under the control of C18, a small mob of Nutzi headcases initially part of the BNP, but soon operating independently of it. C18 was established in the early ’90s, and led by a violent crank named Paul (‘Charlie’) Sargent. Charlie was a fascist, drug-dealing football hooligan, and good mates with Chris (‘Chubby’) Henderson, later lead shouter with Combat 84 (available locally through Deadset Music<\/a>), as well as the former manager of the 4-Skins, Gary Hitchcock. All three were well-known faces in the Chelsea Headhunters, a fascist football firm.<\/p>\n

In 1992, Neil Parish, the main bonehead behind B&H in the UK, was in all sorts of trouble — legal, drug, alcohol and familial. Good ol’ Charlie offered to take over operations while Neil did a spell, on the understanding that when he got out, things would revert to normal.<\/p>\n

Duh.<\/p>\n

Instead, with Neil safely tucked away behind bars, Charlie quickly moved to consolidate control of the business. In addition to discrediting poor ol’ Neil (an alleged “low-life thief and Jew informer”), C18 made its first public appearance at a Skrewydriver Xmas show, where Ian Stuart quickly accepted their presence. C18 then proceeded to rapidly replace the British Movement (BM) as thugs-of-choice on the neo-Nazi muzak scene. The final nail in the coffin occurred when Ian skidded off a road and to his death, and with it Ian’s ability to hold competing factions together.<\/p>\n

The BM had been in decline for many years, and it was a relatively simple matter for C18 to end its association with B&H, one maintained most closely by Paul Burnley, lead shouter with the band No Remorse. Burnley himself was attacked in the squabbling over Ian’s lucrative legacy. Charlie’s sidekick Will Browning played a crucial role in these shenanigans, and it was him what established ISD Records in January 1994. Gary Hitchcock, the man credited with coming up with the name Combat-18, wasn’t happy with this development, as he’d secretly been appointed British distributor of the German neo-Nazi label Rock-O-Rama — which has since been transformed into the Belgian label Pure Impact (available locally through Deadset Music<\/a>). Hitchcock eventually dropped out of the race for Nutzi $, and his place taken by Browning’s ISD Records…<\/p>\n

Since then, there have been many ups and downs for the bloody, dishonourable criminals associated with B&H, C18 and ISD — notably, in 1998, Charlie Sargent’s conviction and sentencing to life imprisonment for murdering another Nutzi — but the schism between the ‘musical’ and the ‘political’ B&H remains.<\/p>\n