A neo-Nazi music producer and his two children who created and distributed songs that called for people to ‘paint the walls with n***** blood’ have been jailed.
Robert Talland, 56, was described as a leading figure in the ‘Blood & Honour’ network – a far-right extremist movement which organised gigs and sold merchandise for white power bands.
He also ran a record label, Rampage Productions, which distributed CDs by groups promoting neo-Nazi ideology. His children Stephen, 36, and Rosie, 34, played in one of those bands, Embers Of An Empire, which he managed.
Jailing them at Woolwich Crown Court, Judge Andrew Lees said: ‘At the time of your offending I am satisfied that each of you had a long-standing allegiance to the neo-Nazi cause.
‘That is most clearly evidenced by the racist and antisemitic messages, videos, memes and other materials you posted via social media.
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‘In addition, each of you were heavily involved in the neo-Nazi Blood & Honour music network.
‘The concerts were characterised by the display of extreme right-wing symbiology including Nazi flags and banners, and provided a forum for the encouragement through music of racial hatred and neo-Nazi ideology.’
All three were found guilty of inciting racial hatred at the end of a nine-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Robert Talland was also convicted of two offences of encouraging terrorism.
His son was jailed for two years, while his daughter was given an 18-month prison sentence.
During the trial, jurors were told that the elder Talland organised a gig at the Corpus Christi Club in Leeds in September 2019, where Embers Of An Empire performed songs promoting racist violence.
CCTV captured audience members making Nazi salutes.
Police searching his home found hundreds of CDs containing white supremacist lyrics, along with neo-Nazi banners and Blood & Honour memorabilia.
The albums encouraged racial violence with songs calling for people to ‘paint the walls with n***** blood’, ‘join the fight against race mixers’, ‘hunt the reds’ and ‘let the blood flow’, the court heard.
Other song lyrics cited in court on Thursday said: ‘Wake up white man, there is an enemy to slay, wake up white man, and take your place.’
Members of the audience at the 2019 gig were captured on CCTV making Nazi salutes to lyrics that said ‘Hope you’re ready to die’, ‘Won’t stop until the last one hits the floor’, and ‘We’ll send them back in a box’.
The gig was also a memorial for Ian Stuart Donaldson, frontman of the white power band Skrewdriver and founder of Blood & Honour, who died in September 1993.
Blood & Honour promotes racist, antisemitic, anti-Communist and anti-LGBT violence, and was hit with a UK asset-freezing order in January this year over suspected terror links.
‘The venue is strewn with Nazi symbiology: there are many different far-right flags and banners, and a stall is set up to sell far-right music albums and other far-right material,’ Judge Lees observed.
Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said: ‘Robert, Stephen and Rosie Talland were part of a network of hatred which had encouraged violence and extreme right-wing terrorism across Europe for decades.
‘Robert Talland dismissed the group as an ‘old man’s drinking club’, but through the gigs and events they organised, they promoted music which glorified acts of murder to audiences which included young children.
‘In doing so, they encouraged attitudes of hatred, intolerance and violence which have no place in our society.’
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