The owner of a Blackpool club due to host a two-day neo-Nazi gig in Blackpool says he is “let down” by its cancellation following an investigation by campaigners, writes Antonia Charlesworth Stack. The two-day gig was being organised by Britain’s most prominent Nazi music promoter, Chad Charles. The Real Rebellion had not advertised a venue for the event publicly but Nick Lowe, owner of the Talbot social club, confirmed to The Blackpool Lead that organisers had booked his venue months ago.
He said it was originally organised by small-time music promoter Jade Griffiths. Griffiths also ran a merchandising company called Unstoppable Hate Distro. Promoters in subsequent years have been less extreme, he said. “One organiser wasn’t like that at all because someone did a Nazi salute on stage and he went and banjoed him,” he said. According to the Blackpool Gazette, in 2018 the Talbot was set to host a far-right meeting called White Victims of Multiculturalism.