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Blood & Honour Australia<\/a><\/strong> and the Southern Cross Hammerskins<\/strong> have announced a date and line-up for their annual Road Safety Awareness<\/a> concert. The date is Saturday, October 13 (two weeks after Collingwood wins the AFL Grand Final) and the line-up is Bail Up!<\/a><\/strong>, Fortress<\/a><\/strong>, Quick & the Dead<\/strong> and — we are promised — at least one other band or performer from one of them bloody foreign countries what’s full of all them bloody foreigners.<\/p>\n

Speaking of bloody foreigners, while the Australian franchise of the B&H brand was the first to be established outside of the UK, following recent splits (2004\/5) in the international movement, it is currently only recognised by one of the two main tendencies to emerge from the splits — a faction aligned with the Hammerskins. And the Hammerskins, too, especially in the network’s US heartland, are being increasingly forced to compete with other bonehead organisations<\/a> for the short attention spans and loyalties of even shorter-haired racists, with large numbers of independent and unaligned boneheads apparently growing tired<\/a> of the Hammerskins’ elitist attitudes and behaviours.<\/p>\n

Bloodshed and Retaliation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ongoing devolution of the bonehead scene began with what will live in infamy in bonehead lore as “the pool cue and blowtorch incident.” It happened in mid-1999, when Hammerskin Nation’s power was peaking, with about 600 Hammerskins distributed across five regional divisions. To become a Hammerskin, a bonehead who wanted to join had to be a “prospect” for one year, then a “probate” for six months. All this time, and forever after, they were required to pay $10 a month in dues to their local chapter, and $10 a month to Hammerskin national leaders in Dallas, who asserted dominion over boneheads nationwide, portrayed Hammerskin Nation as elite, and enforced strict codes of conduct.<\/p>\n

Early that summer, these leaders issued a direct order to the members and two probates of the Indiana chapter of the Northern Hammerskins that set in motion a cycle of bloodshed, retaliation, and dissent that continues to shape the level and nature of bonehead criminal activity in this country and abroad.<\/p>\n

The order was simple: Hammerskin leaders had determined that a certain Hammerskin was no longer worthy of membership due to his persistent sexual propositioning of a fellow member’s wife. They directed the Indiana Hammerskins to seek out this offender, inform him of their decision, and then “remove” his Hammerskin “colors,” meaning any patches, pins or other markers indicating his affiliation.<\/p>\n

Looking back, the Dallas shot callers may wish they’d been more specific on the meaning of “remove.” When a pack of five Indiana Hammerskins tracked down the offender, they not only roughed him up and tore off his colors, they held him down, burned off his Hammerskin tattoos with a blowtorch, and then shoved a pool cue up his rectum.<\/p>\n

The Hammerskin leaders were outraged and banished the attackers for exceeding their orders. Basically, the five Indiana boneheads were punished for being too violent. Eight of the other Indiana Hammerskins turned in their patches in protest of the punishment and together, the 13 former Hammerskins formed a new, rogue crew they called Outlaw Hammerskins, which represented the first serious challenge to Hammerskin Nation authority…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But back to road safety.<\/p>\n

Formed way back in 1981, Quick & the Dead is an old-school racist oi! band from Perth. In fact, Quick & the Dead is probably the first mob of string-plucking, tub-thumping boneheads to come from Down Under. The band is led by the almost 50 year-old bass player Murray Holmes<\/em>, who has the dubious distinction of actually having shared a stage, alongside another Aussie, Adam Douglas, with the Skrewydriver himself, Ian Stuart<\/a>. Holmes and Douglas joined the dead loser’s band in 1984, and left the following year, but not before taking part in the recording of Hail the New Dawn<\/em>, widely regarded as being among the top one hundred albums ever to have been recorded by a middle class bloke from Blackpool with a Grammar school education who then died in a car accident in 1993.<\/p>\n

Hail<\/em>, incidentally, has an absolutely smashing cover by another dead bonehead, Nicky Crane<\/a><\/em>, one which features a large group of muscular Vikings (wearing skirts and brandishing swords) disembarking from their longship and obviously about to penetrate deep into the English heartland. While all Stuart’s lyrics are batshit, the title track (Chorus<\/em>: “Hail the new dawn! Hail the new dawn! Hail the new dawn! Hail the new dawn!”) is especially loopy for its claim that Ian and his pinheaded followers “will never submit to a six point master plan”; this being a reference, of course, to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n