01-05-2025
Father and children accused of inciting racial hatred through music
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.
Lucy Organ, prosecuting, told Woolwich crown court in London that the movement was 'explicitly organised around music' aimed at promoting their ideals, inciting racial hatred and encouraging a race war. It was said to promote 'violence and hatred' against Jewish people, Muslim people, black people, gay people, immigrants and communists, along with anyone