Stiggers

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Stigger , real name Steve Calladine , is next to Ian Stuart Donaldson the best-known member of the British right-wing rock band Skrewdriver , who appears as a right-wing extremist singer - songwriter across Europe after the band broke up .

Life

Stigger, who was considered apolitical at the time, met Ian Stuart Donaldson around 1987 and became the second permanent member of Skrewdriver in frequently changing line-ups. Calladine's sister was Ian Stuart's long-time friend, which is how Stuart and Calladine met. Calladine, who had previously gained band experience in various cover bands, shaped the music of Skrewdrivers in the following years, which was previously oriented towards classic punk rock. Here he benefited from his skills on the electric guitar, compared to the previous guitarists Skrewdrivers.

He actually wanted to start his solo career in 1992, but the half-finished recordings for a solo album with covers from Black Sabbath to Bon Jovi to Ian Stuart were never published. Together with Stuart he founded the neo-Nazi band White Diamond, which was only to remain one of various projects. Together they also appeared as songwriters and published the series “Ian Stuart & Stigger - Patriotic Ballads”, which was recorded at concerts in Stuttgart, among other places. Stephen Calladine was also one of the so-called "Cottbus Six" who were involved in a knife fight on the sidelines of a Skrewdriver gig in Cottbus and were imprisoned for a short time. After their release, they did not show up for the announced trial and so abandoned it.

Like Stuart, he supported the British terrorist organization Combat 18 from 1994 to 1998 , which largely emerged from Skrewdriver Security , performed at their concerts and was interviewed several times in C18 videos.

After the end of Skrewdriver Stigger founded his band Warlord, named after an album by Skrewdriver, which initially consisted of the last Skrewdriver drummer (deceased) and the bassist "Sisco". With “Sisco” he still makes his appearances as a singer-songwriter. The band has released four albums so far, which are stylistically based on Skrewdriver. Stylistically, the first two Warlord releases followed rock'n'roll up to hard rock, but with some ballad-like pieces. The latest release, The Last Command, leans heavily in the direction of British rock of the seventies. In addition, Stigger published on numerous "ISD tribute" samplers, mainly from the environment of the Blood and Honor movement, and performed at their concerts. He is also a member of the Skrewdriver cover band Skrew You, where David Surette, also known as Griffin, plays from the Canadian band Stonehammer . He also appears at concerts as a supporter of the British National Party , the NPD and, more recently, for Dierechte .

A specialty of Stigger are colloquial albums and split albums with other right-wing rock greats, which were mostly created at joint concerts. In Germany he collaborated with André Lüders , the two recorded the CD live in memory of heroes . Together with Steffen von Noiewerte and Ian Stuart, he was a founding member of the German-British Friendship project, which released several albums between 1995 and 2007. Calladine was not involved in all albums. The aim of the project was a collaboration between the British and German skinhead scenes. The Second World War was reinterpreted in this sense as a "fratricidal war", which would be based on a misunderstanding. Callandine publishes his various projects on a number of German labels, including Pühse's List , Hate Society Records and PC Records . In 2002 he released the right-wing rock album Ballads for the New Britain together with John Cartwright from the Scottish band Nemesis under the project name Red, White & Blue as an in-house production.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1998: A Ballad Evening in Denmark (Ragnarock Records)

Collaboration & Split Albums

  • 1991: Ian Stuart & Stigger - Patriotic Ballads ( Rock-O-Rama Records )
  • 1992: German-British Friendship - When the snow fell ( Skull Records )
  • 1992: Ian Stuart & Stigger - Patriotic Ballads II (Our Time Will Come) (Rock-O-Rama Records)
  • 1994: Ken & Stigger - Pride (ISD Records)
  • 1994: German-British Friendship - Songs of Hope (GBF Records)
  • 2000: Ken McLellan & Stigger - Stand ( Pühse's List )
  • 2001: Stigger & Sisco / André Lüders - Live to remember heroes (Front Records)
  • 2002: Red, White & Blue - Ballads for the New Britain (in-house production)
  • 2005: German-British Friendship - No more fratricidal war! No More Brother Wars (Barbarossa Records)

With Skrewdriver

  • 1991: The Strong Survive (Rock-O-Rama)
  • 1992: Freedom What Freedom (Rock-O-Rama)
  • 1992: Land on Fire (Rock-O-Rama, indexed)
  • 1994: Hail Victory (Rock-O-Rama, indexed)

With warlord

  • 1996: An Old and Angry God Awakes (ISD Records)
  • 1999: Theater of War (Movement Records)
  • 2006: The Last Command (Tuono Records)
  • 2010: Ascension ( PC Records )

With White Diamond

  • 1991: The Reaper (Rock-O-Rama Records)
  • 1991: It's a Hard Road (7``, Street Rock'n 'Roll)
  • 1992: The Power & the Glory (Glory Records)
  • 2006: True Blood (compilation, ISD Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Forbes, Eddie Stampton: The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement: UK & USA, from 1979 to 1993 . Feral House, 2015, ISBN 978-1-62731-025-3 , pp. 371 .
  2. ↑ Robert Forbes, Eddie Stampton: The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement: UK & USA, from 1979 to 1993 . Feral House, 2015, ISBN 978-1-62731-025-3 , pp. 506 .
  3. ↑ Steve Silver: The web is spun . In: Searchlight, Antifaschistisches Infoblatt, Enough is Enough, rat (Ed.): White Noise. Right-wing rock, skinhead music, blood & honor - insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene . series of anti-fascist texts (council) / Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89771-807-3 , p. 37 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon Verlag Munich 2014, p. 59
  5. ↑ a b Nick Lowles: The International of Hate . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 236 .
  6. ↑ Marc Brandstetter: Musical memory of "Blood & Honor" founder: "The Lunikoff Conspiracy" on board. Terminus Rechts , July 31, 2013, accessed on March 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Lunikoff in Vogtland - "The Right" back in Saxony? Antifa Leipzig, November 2, 2014, accessed on March 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Andrea Röpke, Andreas Speit: Blood and Honor: Past and Present Right Violence in Germany . Ch. Links Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-707-6 , pp. 158 ( google.de [accessed on March 10, 2018]).
  9. ^ Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen, Germany: Rems-Murr-Rundschau: Noie values, Landser, Vandalen - newspaper publisher Waiblingen . ( zvw.de [accessed on March 11, 2018]).
  10. ^ Anti-fascist press archive and education center Berlin : Directory of RechtsRock-Bands . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 452 .
  11. ^ A b Anton Shekhovtsov: Far-Right Music and the Use of Internet: Final Conflict and the British National Party Compared . In: Paul Jackson, Gerry Gable (Ed.): Far-Right.com: Nationalist Extremism on the Internet . Searchlight, Ilford, S. 40 f . ( shekhovtsov.org [PDF; accessed March 11, 2018]).
  12. ↑ a b JMS Report August 4/11: Special list of music groups p. 64f.
  13. ↑ BAnz AT 02/28/2013 B6
personal data
SURNAME Stiggers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calladine, Steve (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British right-wing singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1987