Great White Records recently released the eagerly awaited Colin Auty album. For nearly two years supporters had called for the release of Colin Auty’s first album debut.

This album sits right at the top of my cd collection, and travels with me on the road wherever I go. So when asked by GWR to write a review, I happily accepted this offer. Colin Auty is a self-confessed busker-singer-songwriter, and downplays his talent as Colin always does. Not a man of ego, Colin approached this album as Colin Auty, and not in an effort to turn his music into something alien to him. The result was a sincere, humbling experience of an album. So, song by song, here goes…

• Democracy. Starts with a harpsichord intro, and has a driving-rumbling beat throughout. Upbeat song. I think this is a great intro song, patriotic, and also crucially another marked difference of direction for GWR.

• Tsunami of Change. Fast tempo song, fast vocals. Great Chorus:

“And there’s no hiding place, from the problems that we face, they’re here and they’re taking over you, a tsunami of change is swamping you”. Up to now a bursting opening feel to the album.

• Oppression. An uplifting track, especially the chorus:

“And we’ll fight the injustice in this land, and together side by side we’ll make a stand, no faint hearts among our people they will see, they won’t ever put their chains on you and me”. Great song, and one that has received a lot of feedback at nationalist events.

• Goodbye to My England . This song first appeared on the now ‘out of stock’ RWB Live Album 2005 that was released by GWR. It was a poem written by Marlene Guest, a stalwart BNP activist and candidate. Colin picked these lyrics up when left behind after a meeting, and created a cracking folk song. Now, the official studio version is released here, and what a long way this song has come. A great English Nationalist song that really strikes a chord with the growing feeling of English Nationalism in England .
  
  
• Freedom’s Road. A BNP song to all extents and perhaps a song which hard working BNP activists would understand more than others. The opening line will strike a chord with any BNP activist:

“With an armful of Freedoms, and Identities a few, we’re out to save our nation, no stopping me and you”.

• Where’s it All Gone Then? This song, first mistakenly entitled ‘ Saville Town ’ by the Dewsbury Press, when they did a front page headline on this song. At the time, Colin received mass support for his lyrics, which exposed the drug-dealing in Dewsbury and anti-white racism. The song has a melancholy chorus really, although upbeat, sad in its reflection:

“Where is the chapel, where my grandma used to pray?

Where is the alehouse, where my father drank each day?

Where is the butchers shop, our mam would buy her pork?

Where have all the white folks gone, that used to stop and talk?”

• Roll Out the Wagon. Colin Auty and Ryan Law. Ryan (10 Years) is a character in real life and on album life too. He gives a superb cockney vocal throughout this song, and delivers a brilliant honky-tonk piano accompaniment throughout too, which makes the song fast, funny, and will make you smile.
• Where Has my Country Gone? This is a quiet number, and one of my favourites on the album. Opening line:

They’ve boarded up our public house,

No more ‘time gentlemen please’.

I live amongst the debris,

The break ins and the sleaze”.

It’s a sad song, expressing the loss of a British way of life that many of us used to know well, but has been sadly eroded. Cracking song!

• Mr Griffin Says Hello! This song has a star chorus with the line:

“If you don’t have feathers, and you walk on two legs,

You’re welcome in Britain , you don’t have to beg”.

The story goes that Colin was present at a meeting and Nick Griffin uttered this line during a speech with Colin found so amusing he wrote this song around it. Upbeat, again funny, albeit horribly funny for the truths it expresses and the lunacy of our political masters eagerness to accept all into these Islands .

• Smell the Coffee. Couldn’t shirk the feeling that this was Colin Auty doing his only Dylanesque number on the album. It is very poignant, and tells the story of Colin’s recent life on how he became affected by what he saw, and made the leap to do something about it, and eventually became a BNP councillor, and now of course, a singing hero to the heroic patriots around the UK . ‘Smell the Coffee’ says it aptly.

• Book by it’s Cover. Wow. For me, one of the best songs I have heard in a long, long time! About a quiet man named Pat Davey who sits in a corner with a drink in his hand, but tells a true story of battlefield action, loss of loved ones and ravage of age. Poignant song and illustrates the calibre of people involved in our struggle. Colin never did see Pat Davey no more, but what a song to remember him by. If there was just one reason to buy this album, this is it!

• Red, White and Blue. An upbeat final track expressing the sentiments of British Nationalism. Ends with an anthemic chorus that will rival the anthems of ‘All Stand Together’ and ‘West Wind’ for top spot. Great ending. A great crowd pleaser.

And of course, the overall production from GWR has once again improved massively. Another great full colour 16 page booklet with lyrics, jewel-cased, makes it a wonderful addition to the collection.