Robert Talland allegedly used his record label as a recruitment tool for the ‘white power’ music scene. A father who ran a neo-Nazi record label encouraged terrorism by distributing inflammatory rock music across the UK and Europe and incited racial hatred through the lyrics of a band in which his two children played, a court has heard. Robert Talland, 56, known as Ginger Rob, ran the label, Rampage Productions, from his home in Waltham Abbey, Essex, allegedly using it as a recruitment tool for the “white power” music scene. (…) Talland was said to be the leader of a white supremacist music network called Blood and Honour, and his children, Stephen, 36, and Rosie, 34, were said to have played a “significant role”. The two children played in a rock band called Embers of an Empire, in which Stephen Talland played guitar and Rosie Talland played the bass. The two children “have been imbued by their father with all his hatred, all his attitude to violence and all of his beliefs”, Organ said. “They too are an integral part of the Blood and Honour Network, as you will see, heavily involved in supporting it in their own way.” Robert Talland produced an album called Phoenix Rising by Embers of an Empire, which was said to espouse hatred and racism. The band also allegedly played “threatening, abusive and racist music” at a neo-Nazi gig at Corpus Christi Catholic Club in Leeds in September 2019, organised by Robert Talland.
via thetimes: Father and children accused of inciting racial hatred through music