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IV Ritorno a Camelot, 1-2-3 September 2006 "The Festival of Light"

Dolomia, La Peggio Gioventu´, Generazione 80, Strapo, Stevie (Son of Skrewdriver), Legittima Offesa, ARMCO , The bombers, Ultimatum, Más Que Palabras, Ultima Frontiera, Faust, SPQR, Warlord, Noie Werte, Gesta Bellica.

The Weekend of 1-2-3 of September was held one of the biggest European festivals, the Ritorno A Camelot / Return to Camelot, that arrived to his 4th edition. The event has held in camping of a village in the north of Venice, Italy, in the Rovine lake and organized by the Veneto Fronte Skinheads Cultural Association and the Unione Skinhead Girl Italia (USGI).

We arrived there after a trip by car trough the north of Italy, and after taking the indicated exit, we followed the cardboard signals that said “Camelot 88” arriving to the camping at the 21:30. There was some police there, but they do not stopped the cars or made searches with rude manners like the Spanish police use to do. The festival was opened on Friday, September 1. around 10am. At 11 o'clock, a conference took place, followed by the presentation of Ritorno a Camelot at 5:30am. The bands started playing around 8pm.

After entering in the 10.000 m2 compound we went to the camping area, and once we had assembled the tent we pay the tickets (40 € for 3 days, including concerts, breakfasts, use of showers, swimingpool etc) and crossed the “security chek point” that included metal detectors and that lasted during all the festival to enter in the concert and canteen.

As we entered in the concert area at 23:00 we couldn’t see the performance of Dolomia, La Peggio Gioventu´, Generazione 80, Strapo, Stevie (Son of Skrewdriver) and Legittima Offesa, but we saw ARMCO playing their songs as well as covers of Peggior Amicco. There we found some comrades of Spain and others that we met, in total we were 30 Spaniards there or so.

Next morning when we awake we saw the beauty of the place, in a valley surrounded by mountains and next to a lake. We made a tour trough all the areas of the enclosure that consisted in two camping areas, the concerts tent, the canteen tent, a tattoo tent, swimingpool, place for children, a pub, swings for the children, a pier next to the lake, and some wooden huts.

At 11:30 started the first activity of the day, the “Conmemorazione” that consisted in a march at 3 line headed by the flags of Italy, Germany, Spain and Veneto Fronte Skinheads, from the concert tent to the pier, where a garland was trown to the lake at the same time that thousand of throats shouted “Present!” in memory of our fallen comrades, a shout that resounded in all the valley.

We ate the very popular “Gnocchi” and rested till the start of the afternoon conferences, making a visit to the swimingpool were a group of Germans with their childs settled during all the afternoon. We must highlight that in this event there were many families with their children, giving an image of normality far away of what the mass media says about this events only for xenofobic ultraviolent skinheads.

At 15:30 started the conferences, but it was only in Italian language, so we stayed only during the first part.
Speeches were held till 18:45 by: Prof. Umberto Malafronte, Enzo Gipriano, Gabriele Adinolfi, Andrea Miglioranzi, Roberto Bussinello, Luigi Ciavardini, Piero Puschiavo, Manuel Negri, Luca Romagnoli, Maurizio Boccacci etc.

Then we went to the stalls of material, were different organizations sold books, mags, t-shirts, shirts, sweaters etc. Some of the organizations that had a stall there were the Veneto Fronte Skinheads, USGI, Fiamma Tricolore, B&H España, and 628 a new italian clothing brand.

At 19:00 started the concerts. The big tent where the concerts took place was decorated with banner of different organizations like B&H Rumania, B&H España, B&H East London, B&H Croacia, Casa Pound, WAU España, Skinheads Hungria and diffrent sections of the VFS.

First band to play were the young lads from Roma, ‘The Bombers’ in front of 300 persons. Next band was Ultimátum, that played a hard heavy metal and next the most awaited performance of the night by the Spanish contingent, the spanish band ‘Mas Que Palabras’ that did a good performance in spite of the fact that they only had 30 minutes to play.

We only see half of the act of Ultima Frontiera as we were dinning, but we arrived at time to see the full performance of the German band ‘Faust’ formed by members of Noie Werte and Kraftschlag.

There were some bands announced for the Saturday but finnaly they didn’t play: Blitkrieg, Mistreat and ZetaZeroAlfa.

A band that did play, to the joy of the public was the English band Warlord, that played many covers of Skrewdriver. When they started to play in the concert tent there were more than 2.000 persons. Next band were the Italians SPQR that played two covers that make everybody sing: ‘Fare Quadrato’ from Londinium SPQR and ‘Come il Vento’ from Intolleranza. At the middle of their performance they stopped as there was a firework exhibition in the lake during 25 minutes with a great variety of effects.

Noie Werte from Germany took the relif, and to end the night played Gesta Bellica, that did one of the best performances of all the festival. They invited people from the crowd to sing, so one german played a cover of ‘Deutschland’ from Skrewdriver, an english other cover of Skrewdriver, and a group of Spanish sung ‘No Pasaran’. At 3:30 ended the concerts and we went to sleep.

Next Monday we have to go to Venice to take the plane back home so we couldn’t attend to any of the Sunday activities.

In our opinion this event was a complete success. The bands were very well selected and there was an optimal amount of variety. And also the costs were acceptable. We must highlight the perfect organization, formed of more than 120 persons (including the security, people in the canteen, in the bar,etc) where comrades of Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Chezc Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Switzerland, Greece, Norway, Finland, Australia, and even a skinhead from Asia, baptized as “skinhead Singapur”, joined together without any incident.

You could watch a video made by us with photos here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnMgS4yA7lo

or here:

http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=481715603716566997&hl=es

STATEMENT FROM VENETO FRONTE SKINHEADS

RETURN TO CAMELOT

The Cultural Association Veneto Fronte Skinheads sincerely thanks all the comrades who have attended the 4 edition of Ritorno a Camelot. Your presence and your cooperation, booth respectful of the spirit of the party, have helped us in the perfect success of the happening, and permitted us to exceed plentifully the presence of the past edition, although they were rather valid. We would like to thank the camping’s administrators who have been very kind, open-minded without prejudice.

A special praise goes to the committee promoter for its honour and its worth, to the Security and Staff members, (comrades from Piave, from Udine, from U.S.G.I above all). They have permitted everything to go right with their sacrifice, their patience, their willingness, and last their cleverness. We don’t forget the comrades from Torino and from Roma who have stoically shared not only the hard work and the stress, but also laughter and satisfactions.

We want to thank all the European and extra European delegations who have taken part at the Camelot: English, Spanish, German, Croatian, French, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek, Finnish, and so on till who came from the far Australia just to be here.
A sincere appreciation goes to the Italian realities that have chosen to be present in harmony with our initiative: specially comrades from OSA, Casa Pound, and Fiamma Roma; together we have renewed a human friendship, and we hope it will be harbingers of fruits in the future.

A fraternal greeting to the numerous skinheads from Sardegna, Abruzzo, Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro, Puglia, Sicilia who have sustained never-ending journey just to share moments that, willy-nilly, will remain in the history of the Italian skinhead movement, as the past editions of return to Camelot.

Finally we want to thank the speakers of the various conferences who have presented us their willingness; thanks to the numerous bands alternated on the stage during two nights that have done their bit to give our party the qualification

Hoping that the 4 return to Camelot will be a full stop to start out again with a brotherhood in everlasting progress, we hope to see you all more than ever within 5 years at the next edition.

Cheer up!

Review by Division Schweiz, in StormFront.org

Ritorno a Camelot 2006, Italy, September 1.-3.

The sun was shining in a clear sky on a lovely lake and to nationalist music. It was in Venice, Italy, where the Ritorno a Camelot took place, primarily supported by the Veneto Fronte Skinheads and drawing an audience of comrades from Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Croatia, etc. The festival was opened on Friday, September 1. around 10am. At 11 o'clock, a conference took place, followed by the presentation of Ritorno a Camelot at 5:30am. The bands started playing around 8pm. On Friday, following bands were presented:
Dolomia
La Peggio Gioventu
Generazione 80
Strappo
Stenie
Legittima Offesa
Armco
On Saturday, speeches were held from 15:30 to 18:45 by:

Prof. Umberto Malafronte, Enzo Gipriano, Gabriele Adinolfi, Andrea Miglioranzi, Roberto Bussinello, Luigi Ciavardini, Piero Puschiavo, Manuel Negri, Luca Romagnoli, Maurizio Boccacci etc.

On Saturday, following bands were playing (beginning around 7pm):

The Bombers (Switzerland
Ultimatum (Italy)
Mas Que Palabras (Spain)
Ultima Frontiera (Italy)
Faust (Germany)
Warlord (England)
SPQR (Italy)
Noie Werte (Germany)
Gesta Bellica (Italy)

Blitzkrieg and Mistreat didn't play at Ritorno a Camelot, although previously announced. Though it was a pity, after listening to the bands playing there, the disappointment got weaker among the crowd and the audience welcomed the bands playing. To me, Mas Que Palabras from Spain was a new acquaintance, who showed some serious skill in rocking out, especially appreciated by the Spanish comrades. Faust played songs from the old and new CD, I liked them very much, a cool band. I don't think I need to say anything about Warlord, everyone who was there or who watches the video will know how much it ruled. Ultima Frontiera was the highlight of the event for me. I saw them play a few times live (among others, at the ISD Memorial, Switzerland), but at this concert, hell's been set loose when they've been announced. Simply ingenious. I don't really have to say more about the other bands, I liked them all who played on Saturday. About Friday, I can't say anything unfortunately, since we've only arrived on Saturday in the morning. Among the bands and the orators there was a skilled tattooist present. There were also a great range of CDs, clothes, pins, books, etc. On the campsite, everything was supplied to the visitors, except the toilet paper - there was a permanent lack of that. Just like at the Tuono Records Festival, the food was delicious and there were plenty of drinks available. On Sunday, breakfast (coffee and a sandwich) was free, which in my opinion was a very nice gesture.

In Conclusion:

The bands were very well selected, there was an optimal ammount of variety. The costs were acceptable, one met comrades from nearly all of Europe, the visitor count was also nice with the event counting over 1000 comrades at the festival. The location was well chosen, there were cool fireworks. The journey to the location was as usual: sometimes fun, sometimes annoying. The installation was wicked, after the festival I was hearing a permanent buzzing
Again, big thanks to Italy, the festival was superbly organized.

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