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| Name:Anthony Charles WakefordProfile:Anthony Charles Wakeford started his music career as bassist in '77 British punk band Crisis (2).The new band disbanned quite soon, and Tony Wakeford stayed away from the music scene for some years, pursuing his own political and magical interests.He came back in 1987 with Sol Invictus, involving Ian Read and Karl Blake of Lemon Kittens and Shock Headed Peters.In 1991 Ian Read left the band to form Fire And Ice (3), and Wakeford took the sound of Sol Invictus progressively more towards a dark folk approach, hiring new talented musicians, such as genius violinist Matt Howden and talented singer and instrumentist Sally Doherty.Fields, The Death Of T...In The Jaws Of The Serpent (LP)
S.Sacred War (CD)
Total War, Abattoirs O...Sol Veritas Lux (CD, Album)
S.Solstitii Temporis Sensvs (CD)
This Is The Way, Novus...See The Dove Fall (7", Ltd, 2nd)
See The Dove Fall, Som...Solstitii Temporis Sensvs (CD, Album)
This Is The Way, Novus...What Is Eternal (CD, Ltd, Dig)
Petals From A Rose, Th...SixSixSix: SickSickSick (CD)
Panzer Ruin (In The Ha...Redroom (CD)
Leaves Of Life ('Stell...Orkus Compilation V (CD, Smplr, Enh)
Amongst The Ruins (Liv...The Angel (CD, Album)
Street Of Many Murders...Elegy Sampler 47 (CD, Smplr)
The London Hanged (Ele...Orkus Compilation 28 (CD, Smplr)
The Hangman's Son (Ork...Update Information: Click this button to correct information, submit new information or submit images.Copyright 2002 (c) Milonic Solutions Limited.Sol, bringing in combinations of other musicians as required for each album or performance.All subsequent albums have been issued on CD only.Live concerts in England are a fairly rare event in the Sol calendar.The solo appellation has often puzzled people and is really just a convenient label for pursuing new directions.Orchestre Noir for which FluxEuropa has a separate entry.FluxEuropa carries a review.Wakeford's Wiki Wars: Time for truth?In early June 2007 Tony Wakeford (proprietor of Tursa Records etc.Above The Ruins were an English band fronted by Tony Wakeford.After the first Sol Invictus release Gary Smith left but continued playing in No Remorse; Liz Grey also left after this first Sol Invictus album.Nazi groups Skrewdriver and No Remorse.No one apart from Tony Wakeford was in atr and Sol.Above The Ruins and early Sol Invictus did not coincide.Above The Ruins by knowing who did play with this 'musical' abomination).Wakeford has had no connection or interest in such ideas for 20 or more years.Likewise, Gary Smith's love affair with Nazism is well documented via his membership of No Remorse, while Ian Read's interest in both fascism in general and more specifically The Order of Nine Angles runs even deeper than Wakeford's; and it is less than 20 years since Wakeford stopped playing 'music' with either of these two talentless creeps.Nazi League concerts, while Wakeford was a member of the Socialist Workers Party which got them on the bill at Rock Against Racism and Right To Work events.Moving on, it seems that Wakeford maintained a close personal relationship with Death In June members Doug Pearce and David Tibet even after leaving this group due to his membership of the National Front having become a matter of public knowledge.AKA 'dark' or 'apocalyptic' folk) 'music' scene much of which is openly fascist, and despite the tendency of this trio to remain coy about their own right arm problems, the younger bands that look up to them like Waldteufel and Von Thronstahl share their obsession with Nazi imagery.This is their problem and they could sort it out themselves if they wanted to, but it appears they don't want to sort it out.Instead they prefer to lie about their own and each other's pasts.Draw your own conclusion but personally I hope this pair of jerk offs just drop dead (not too unlikely in Wakeford's case since he is so obese it is causing him serious medical problems).Note: I haven't given names or urls for various Nazi sites mentioned above; although they aren't difficult to find, I prefer not to provide them with the oxygen of publicity.Tom Metzger: You know a lot of these racialist type singers in bands in Europe and Britain, could you mention a few?Tom Metzger: Well the last group Above The...Boyd Rice: Oh I haven't really heard Above The Ruins yet, I've just heard of them, but I know there's one guy from Death In June and one guy from Skrewdriver, so I assume its fascist.It would seem this interview is the original source for the rumour that Nazi bonehead Ian Stuart of Skrewdriver was in Above The Ruins.That said, while Tony Wakeford was politically close to Ian Stuart at this time, I have seen no convincing evidence that they actually played together.Boyd Rice does not say who from Skrewdriver plays in Above The Ruins, so even if he is correct on this detail it doesn't follow that Ian Stuart was in the band because it may be another member of Skrewdriver who is being invoked.It strikes me as possible that Rice is confusing Skrewdriver and No Remorse, and that he is referring to Above The Ruins bass player Gary Smith who was simultaneously playing with Wakeford and Nazi skinhead band No Remorse.However, since Ian Stuart ran a number of side projects to his main band Skrewdriver, it remains possible (although to me it seems unlikely) that he had some involvement with Above The Ruins.Amazingly it isn't until after narrating how Rice was jailed for assaulting her that Carver finally calls this alcoholic failure an 'unemployed fascist'.Wolfgang in my arms, my mouth hanging open.The sink is filled with crusty dishes.The coffee pot is on and the coffee has burnt down to a thick black sludge on the bottom.Shit covers the toilet bowl, inside and top.The ring in the bathtub is thick and black.Tony Wakeford's south London council flat which are every bit as disgusting as this.The toilet was in such a state she coated it with caustic soda and went to bed intending to clean the caustic soda and encrusted shit off in the morning.Wakeford got up in the night and sat down on the toilet, because he is so fat he sank down and got caustic soda all over his balls, causing him to scream in agony for hours.AND WAKEFORD CAN'T STOP LYING...Until very recently, when the evidence became so overwhelming that he was forced to admit the truth, Tony Wakeford would deny he'd been in Above The Ruins and instead constructed alternative histories of the period in which he was not only a National Front activist heavily involved in fascist street violence, but simultaneously a leading Nazi 'musician' (well there wasn't a lot of competition, so by default Wakeford was one of the Front's best punk squealers, oops, I mean screamers).But I realised that music was about the only thing I was good at.The first stuff that I wrote became the first Sol Invictus songs.Tibet and Wakeford's curious friends....Wakeford's electric bass and Pearce's incongruous drums leave parts sounding almost new wave....Give Me That Old Time (Nazi) Religion...Sol Invictus member Ian Read as organising security at Iona events)....After both recording with and playing live in the bands Sol Invictus (aka Above The Ruins) and Current 93, Read went on to form the group Fire + Ice.Current 93 (run by David Tibet) and Death In June (run by Douglas Pearce).TONY WAKEFORD'S LIE MACHINE...As indicated above, Tony Wakeford and his immediate circle of fascist friends are very active on the web promoting themselves and simultaneously covering up a staggering quantity of Nazi involvements and connections (see above for more on this).I've seen material about Wakeford and his chums all over the place; the number of Wikipedia entries for them is ridiculous (with individual entries for Sol Invictus albums etc.Above The Ruins entry at Last.Wakeford then took a few years off to study magic and politics, and when he returned to making music in 1987 it was under the name of Sol Invictus.David Keenan (page 173); for more about IONA see above.Current 93 and contributed vocals to the tracks, Benediction and Malediction on the 1987 album, Swastikas for Noddy as well as Loony Runes, recorded in 1990.Death In June album, Brown Book and appeared on Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God, a reworking of Swastikas for Noddy, with new tracks and arrangements.In 1987 Read joined Tony Wakeford's Sol Invictus along with Karl Blake.Read recorded three albums and an EP with Sol Invictus before leaving to form the band Fire + Ice in 1991.Read was in the band before Blake joined it.This sort of slippage is typical of the way in which Wakeford's circle attempts to cover its fascist involvements.What work did you do with Patrick Leagas, Gareth Smith and Alan Jeffries?While Angels Watch): We used to write and share experiences and at the time we all lived together.Sol Invictus (with Tony Wakeford and Ian Read) and Alan used to play the WASP!Jane Howden) and one old member (Ian Read).Death In June (as he still was, although I didn't know him at that time) was having anything to do with Wakeford.Tony Wakeford (who I didn't know would be there).I'm not the only person to feel I was lied to and kept in the dark by Pearce, Wakeford and Tibet (who it seems to me acted in concert).Sol Invictus have no interest in or connection to any totalitarian ideology and that includes Nazism.As if having been a member of the National Front didn't demonstrate an interest in and connection to Nazism!Wakeford in the late seventies when he was a member of the Socialist Workers Party playing Rock Against Racism benefits with the Trotskyist pop group Crisis.Indeed, to this day I know a number of people who belong to the SWP.Tony Wakeford out of the band for joining the fascist National Front.Other individuals I knew corroborated this information.Occasionally I would run into him by chance, on the street or else northern line tube trains.When this happened I refused to speak to Wakeford.We Mean It Man, which had been posted on the web at www.In this piece he was only mentioned incidentally, with my critical focus being on Doug Pearce and Death In June.Wakeford's claims to have ended his involvement with fascist politics are true.Five years on from writing this letter, I'm aggrieved that after giving Wakeford the benefit of the doubt, and the opportunity to clear the air, he still hasn't done so.Wakeford has finally matured into an fully grown adult without my being aware of it, this is exactly the sort of magnanimous gesture he might make.David Black, the individual involved with Hobgoblin of whom I am most critical, appears to have made a very small advance in his positions over the past five or so years.US publications such as Anarchy and Fifth Estate.Trees In Winter is about the last thing I can remember and to me that seemed a better direction for you, since you appeared to have broken with your past and were gradually removing the problematic content from what you did, which is something I thought worth encouraging).Death In June for sixteen years and had nothing to do with writing or recording Rose Clouds Of Holocaust.Since I have never had access to Above The Ruins records, or any primary material that might indicate whether or not you were involved in that band, it is impossible for me to take a fully informed position on this matter.You might find it useful to do the same.Like I said, I think it unlikely you played with Skrewdriver but regardless of whether this allegation is true or not, being seen to have made a clean break with your past is going to do you a lot more good than denying a specific but groundless smear.If this is the dynamic that is going on, then a clear and unambiguous attack on their politics can only weaken them and strengthen you.Making an attack of this kind is what I would do.Doug Pearce since he is the mainstay of Death In June, he sells more records than the current bands of former members such as Tony Wakeford or Patrick Leargas, and I have access to a greater amount of material by and about him.Fascist Action made into Death In June, Tony Wakeford and a number of other musicians connected to them.AFA concluded Death In June weren't involved in recruiting on behalf of fascist organisations and that AFA decided not to physically prevent them from performing live.That said, since these discussions took place coming on for ten years ago, I feel the publication of an informed critique of Death In June is long overdue, hence the enclosed submission.On a slightly different tack, Black appears to believe that Tony Wakeford is still active in fascist politics.Likewise, Black could write a companion piece to my article focusing on Tony Wakeford and Sol Invictus since various things he has written leave the impression that he believes himself to have a knowledge of this subject that greatly exceeds my own.An email was sent to this website on 22 July 2006 purporting to come from Tony Wakeford.However, if this email is from Wakeford (and I think it is) then he's seen my letter now and even after a six year cooling off period doesn't want to deal with the issues it raises.As for Wakeford's macho posturing (Acklam Hall is a reference to a fight that took place in Notting Hill in 1979 after I was attacked by a bunch of guys who were a lot bigger than me, and it was with the help of several dozen other people who jumped in that I avoided getting badly beaten up), all I can say is: 'meow!Among other things it is alleged that there is some 'connection' between Tony Wakeford, Ian Stuart (deceased 'singer' with Nazi band Skrewdriver), the Italian fascist terrorists responsible for the Bologna train station bombing, and a hotel in Kings X (north London).Further, there is supposedly a direct physical connection between this hotel and the fascist ideologue Julius Evola;, as well as a link between those who stayed there, the death of Roberto Calvi and a murder in Holland Park (west London).Yet other rumours connect Wakeford via former Sol Invictus singer Ian Read to politically dodgy goings on at a north London club.And I've been told that anyone interested in Wakeford's fascist activities should look out for the name Dave Waters, which is an alias used by the Sol Invictus front man.Wakeford to address the issues I raised in my letter to him.Tony Wakeford's website a couple of weeks ago.It was probably the worse decision of my life and one I very much regret.None of the artists I work with hold such views either, and I doubt they would want to work with me if they thought I did.However, this is the last public statement I plan to make on the subject.But better late than never....However, since I am now convinced that Wakeford lied to me when he assured me he hadn't been in the band Above The Ruins, I remain sceptical of anything he says, and I am willing to further revise my position on whether he has or has not broken with fascism.These further notes were added on 2 March 2007.Tony Wakeford looking fat and tired.Gary Smith, original bass player with Tony Wakeford's Sol Invictus giving a Nazi salute.The way the UN describes the differences between openly fascist parties and their more populist fellow travellers in the article this is extracted from should also be applied to the contrasts between different types of fascist band of which Sol Invictus and No Remorse are stereotypical examples.Note: due to fresh and more relevant information about Tony Wakeford's involvements with fascism (and his ongoing attempts to conceal them) coming to light, this page has been radically restructured.However, the original content of this page is still here in its entirety....After reading the recent updates on this page, those loveable folk at uncarved.Nazi grouplet American Front; Tony Wakeford played in Boyd Rice's backing band around the time this photo was taken in San Francisco in 1989.Boyd Rice junk food junkie."Are you sure you want to block this user?The first half of 2008 will see the release of a Tursa download compilation featuring artists connected to the label either by the signing of blood sucking contracts or through insincere and transitory friendship.Grey Force Wakeford the project of Nick Grey, Kris Force and Tony Wakeford will be released on Athanor in the winter of 2007.The first release by the new look Orchestra Noir has now been mixed by M and if all goes to plan should see an autumn release via Portuguese label Extremocidente.Any day now should see the release of a track form the album as a limited edition 7inch single titled "The Theme from Affordable Holmes".The CD also contains a live version of "Stay".This is the first official release of Sol Invictus in Russia.The Killing Tide album has been released in limited edition via Portuguese label Extremocidente.Russian label Infinite fog Prod in 2008.Tony is aided on the recording by members of Orchestra Noir, Zunroyz and Sol Invictus.Centuries later Zunroyz have come together to cherish and record those melodies.Music that was passed from generation to generation, like an echo resounding from an old Europe of cobblestones and mist."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Come with me, the KIA and the ZOS, to witness this extravagance.Thanks for accepting the request.Thank You for Adding us!May happiness be yours this holiday season and May hope and love fill your heart.Frohe Weihnachten Ihr 2!Sterne,Brennt in uns das Herz voll Not,Brennt der Ruf in alle Ferne!Flammt, ein einziges Gebot.Many greetings from Poland!See our page and latest blog entry for details.You Got Radio Airplaywww.ICONOCLAST (The Boyd Rice Documentary).Thanks for your supportNice sounds filling this space.We command the influence of olde shadows and coatrack phantasms, and also of wooded animal baritones and such...Northwest "In The Rain"...This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).In turn, Sol Invictus, under Tony Wakeford have put forward values and beliefs which they believe are necessary if we are to be able to survive this soulless age.Tony Wakeford, augmented by individuals such as Karl Blake and Chaos International editor Ian Read, amongst others.Death In June, Tony Wakeford has shown more than a passing interest in Paganism, to which the sound of Sol Invictus strongly resembles.Paganism for many years, mainly of the Northern tradition.Why did you decide to start again?It took me quite a while to want to be involved with music again.Of course, the other people I work with add a huge amount to the finished material.As the people I have used are very talented in their own right , they have their own projects to work on.Karl Blake is stiIl in Sol but because he is doing a course at University, he is now taking a back seat for a while, although we both hope to work together in the future.In fact, by the European tradition.Sol Invictus wish a return to magical beliefs.And if they do it will probably only be an excuse to shoot someone else in the back of the neck.Optimism has never played a large part in my outlook!!!In many ways yes, but not in totality.To me anyone who creates is strong.Lyrics to songs such as "Kneel To The Cross" may seem on the surface to be not an attack on Christianity, but certainly a criticism.How would you respond to this, and what are your views on Christianity?These, not Christianity, are the real enemies.Since you left Death In June in 1984, it's been quite a coincidence that both you and Douglas have since become interested in magical and spiritual beliefs; whereas up until that point the music of Death In June didn't seem too concerned with these topics.Would you agree with this view?In a sense the material was not overtly spiritual, whatever that means.What attracted you to paganism and how important is this to Sol Invictus?You've been working with the Italian band Ordo Equitum Solis on an album.You can contact them via BM O.It is not for me to say what the CD is about.This of course was the record company's idea, not OES.You collaborated with Steven Stapleton on "The Revenge of The Selfish Shellfish".It was quite a departure from your usual style.Nurse With Wound and Steve was happy with what I did and it went on from there.For me it was a very good way to try and get away from that way of thinking.The Killing Tide to tackle the subject from a slightly more credible and creditable position.It is what we do with our lives or at least attempt to do with it, that give's it some worth.You played with Death In June and Current 93 in London, are there any plans for more British dates?Sol Invictus seem to be more popular on the continent.Do you have any opinions on why this is so and on why Sol Invictus seem to be somewhat ignored and overlooked in Britain?Anything else you would like to add?France that will be released next year.Sol (and Sieben) member Sally Doherty's's official website.About MP3 downloads at CD Baby)An acoustic concert of guitar, voice, and violins.LondonRecommended if you like ...Tony Wakeford's Paris features an accoustic concert of Sol Invictus songs recorded at the Theatre Dubois in November 1994.Go on, you know you want it.Wakeford tries to have it both ways and succeeds.LP), which was the first album to be released simultaneously on CD and vinyl.LP) was the second and last album to be issued simultaneously on CD and vinyl.The solo appellation has often puzzled people and is really just a convenient label for pursuing new directions.TURSA 008 CD) which finally committed to plastic as its title track a song long in the repertoire.Click the link below
function fbs_click() html .Stapleton of Nurse with Wound.The Wardrobe: A Sandwich Short press release
'A Sandwich Short' continues the journey from where the previous album, 'Cups in Cupboard' finished.The 14 tracks cover a strange and contorted musical landscape.With an ample amount of crows, magpies and deformed city dwellers the album combines the very best of Andrew Liles' twisted and incomprehensible 'vision' with Tony Wakeford's dark sensibilities.Lucifer Before Sunrise' which originally appeared some 14 years ago on the excellent 'Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish' by Tony Wakeford and Steven Stapleton.The Wardrobe: A Sandwich Short reviews
Strange Fortune reviews are a free space to share your impressions of the music.That one was a tiny edition of 500, and a number of them were lost en route across the Atlantic so it's even less.The absurd choice of a title carries on something of a tradition for Wakeford's most avant garde releases, going back to _Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish_ with Steven Stapleton (designed to be a "totally stupid" project, according to Stapleton in _England's Hidden Reverse_).Where _Cups_ maintained a relatively consistent vibe, _Sandwich_ is better described as being made up of many different parts, each track having its own odd character.The acoustic instrumentation and electronic sounds change with every track, dabbling in everything from accordian to didgeridoo.In summary, _Sandwich_ ranks as perhaps the weirdest album Tony Wakeford has ever released, and it even comes out on the weird side for Andrew Liles.Everybody else who enjoys their folk noir with a touch of sonic madness should also have a listen, along with anyone who happens to like their surreal electronics with a dash of real acoustics and some good old Satanism thrown in for fun.Files like creepy shite; sage advice about the British; and lastly, funeral dirges.Through manipulation, their voices and that of Tony Wakeford (he gets to sing!But, literally, "a few tracks" means two.NOT a Sol Invictus album at all. |
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