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Skrewdriver
English White Power Oi! band
Poulton-le-Fylde, United Kingdom · 1976-01-01 – 1993-09-24
Skrewdriver is credited on 809 releases across 206 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
809
Credits
206
Albums
6
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
UK punk / Oi! band, initially active 1976 - 1979, reformed as an explicitly white supremacist band 1982-1993.
Founded and led by singer Ian Stuart Donaldson in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, in 1976, relocating to Manchester in 1978. The band originally sported a punk look, but, at their label's urging, became skinheads during the second wave of skinheads in England. Skrewdriver became known for attracting violence at their shows and none of their Chiswick releases did very well in the UK charts. They broke up in 1979.
Donaldson re-formed the band in 1982 as an explicityly White Power National Socialist band, with an entirely new, and often-changing lineup. This new version of Skrewdriver became the musical arm of the British National Front and released as their debut album "Hail The New Dawn" in 1984 on the German Rock-O-Rama label. This release not only helped transform the label to a far-right position but effectively invented White Power rock and Skrewdriver quickly became a driving force behind the R.A.C (Rock Against Communism) movement.
In 1993 Ian Stuart died in a car accident, bringing an end to the band.
1977-1979:
Ian Stuart Donaldson - guitar, vocals
Kevin "Kev" McKay - bass (1976-1980)
John "Grinny" Grinton - drums (1976-1978, 1979)
Phil Walmsley - bass, guitar (1976-1978)
Ron Hartley - guitar (1977-1978)
Mark Radcliffe - drums (1978)
Gary "Gaz" Chammings - guitar (1978)
Pete Corley - guitar (1978)
Gary Callender - guitar (1978)
Chris Cummings - guitar (1978-1979)
Glen Jones - guitar (1979-1980)
Martin Smith - drums (1979)
1982-1993:
Ian Stuart Donaldson - guitar, vocals
Mark French - bass (1982-1984)
Mark Neeson - guitar (1982-1984)
Geoff Williams - drums (1982-1984)
Mark Sutherland - drums (1984-1987)
Adam Douglas - guitar (1984-1986)
Murray Holmes - bass (1984)
Paul Swain - guitar (1984-1987)
Steve "Stiv / Iena / A." Roda - bass (1984-1985)
Merv "Big Merv" Shields - bass (1986-1989)
Martin Cross - guitar (1987-1989)
Ross McGarry - guitar (1988-1989)
John Burnley - drums (1987-1992)
Steve "Stigger" Calladine - guitar, piano (1990-1993)
Jon "Smiley / Icky" Hickson - bass (1990-1993)
Paul "Mushy" Marshall - drums (1991-1993)
Darren 'Flubs' McEvily - bass (1990)
Andy Nunn - bass (1985-1986)
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
809 releases · 206 albums · active 1979–2026
- Performance · 1,078
- Other credits · 111
- Production · 15
Studios: Censored Sounds Studios · Plattenbude Ausschreitung · Nebelhorn Tonstudio · Wansk Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Kraftschlag
- Pitbullfarm
- Day Of The Sword
- No Remorse
- Brassknuckle Boys
- Spearhead (2)
- The Hawks
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