![]() 'DANGER! NEO-FOLK 'MUSICIAN' TONY WAKEFORD OF SOL INVICTUS IS STILL A FASCIST CREEP!'. Live CD with Death in June and Current 93 Part of box set with Current 93 and Nurse with Wound Wakeford has responded to this criticism various times, stating that his involvement with the National Front 'was probably the worse decision of my life and one I very much regret', and that various members of his band (including his wife of eight years at the time) 'would be at best discriminated against or at worse dead if a far-right party took power' and further that '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.' In June 2011 the band, following attempts to cancel one of their concerts in London, stated that all its members 'are personally completely and unequivocally opposed to fascism, racism, anti-semitism and homophobia, and our work makes no attempt to appeal to an audience looking for this kind of message', also stating explicitly that they did not have 'any sympathy with national anarchism, or any desire to work with its adherents'. ![]() Wakeford's mid-1980s membership in the British National Front and the appearance of a track from his band, Above The Ruins, on the 'No Surrender!' compilation released in 1985 by Rock-O-Rama Records, alongside the Nazi groups Skrewdriver and Brutal Attack, has meant that Sol Invictus have been accused of neofascism.
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