Dropkick Murphys Singer Kicks the Crap Out of Skinhead Doing Nazi Salute on Stage During St. Patrick’s Day Concert
Neetzan Zimmerman

A skinhead who thought it would be a good idea to do the Nazi salute on stage during a Dropkick Murphys concert at NYC's Terminal 5 last week learned quite a bit about what's in a band name, courtesy of founding member/bass player/lead singer Ken Casey.

Here's how it went down, courtesy of Rocks Off:

It was St Patty's Day week, the shows were packed, and people were getting drunk. And Rowdy. Really Rowdy. As has become tradition the band invited the ladies to come onto the stage for their encore of "Kiss Me Im Shitfaced" 50+ ladies made it past the barricade and onto the stage and danced the song away. The band then kicked into "Skinhead on the MBTA" and a ton of dudes werre getting past security and the stage ended up being packed tighter than the underside of a real man's kilt. As the band kicked into T.N.T. by AC/DC some moron started seig heiling (the nazi salute) in time to the beat.

Ken Casey noticed this and ran right over to the guy, smashed him in the face, took off his bass and hit him with that and then jumped on him and all out chaos ensued. We could only assume from our vantage point that said nazi got his ass kicked. About 30 seconds later Ken emerged from the pileup with his shirt torn and made his way back to the front of the stage. He strapped on his bass and said into the microphone "Nazis are NOT FUCKING WELCOME at a Dropkick Murphys show."

As it so happens, the Dropkick Murphys just announced a nationwide tour that's expected to last for three whole months and will include performances at Coachella, Sasquatch!, and Kanrocksas.

Those planning on attending one of the dates are advised to leave their sieg heils at home.

This could of been dealt with in a better way Beating a nazi up is the right way to help change his beliefs

This guy could of been a violent racist nazi thug

This guy could of been so out of it that just did it for a laugh

This guy could of been suffering some kind of mental illness etc .

I think as soon as we start beating up nazis,racists, we lose the moral hiugh ground.

I think we need to understand people more if we are to move forward or else we are just a microcosm of the elite.


Ideas and ideologies are not beaten with the fist they are beaten with a change of insight.

foonclown wrote:
Good post Foon

I think it would have been more powerful if he'd stopped everything and challenged the guy in front of the entire crowd to explain what the salute was supposed to be about.

dogsmilk wrote:
Presumably people didn't have hours to listen to a load of NaN bullshit!
"oh, it's really the red hand of Ulster salute etc"

foonclown wrote:
Good post Foon

I think it would have been more powerful if he'd stopped everything and challenged the guy in front of the entire crowd to explain what the salute was supposed to be about.

The main thing that had caused this racism was he was attacked by a group of black guys then when he went to visit his family in Birmingham got mugged by a couple of black guys. This was like a trigger he assumed all black people was the same .

If he was a racist they could of asked him why in front of everyone . I can remember a while back well couple years ago there was a racist at my work place. He was not really a bad person just had a couple of experiences where he was on the receiving end of some black chavs.

Anyway I got to know him very well as I used to give him a lift to work . The main thing that had caused this racism was he was attacked by a group of black guys then when he went to visit his family in Birmingham got mugged by a couple of black guys. This was like a trigger he assumed all black people was the same .

Anyway I invited him to the martial arts club i used to go to steve the instructor is a black guy comes from Jamaica I told steve befor hand about my mate and mentioned i dont think hes really a racist just had a couple of negative experiences.

foonclown wrote:
I understand where you're coming from foon but I've been jumped by a group of black girls along time ago and this never turned me into a racist nor is it a basis to turn into one. I've also been fucked over by white people... did I become a racist against them? No.

The trigger can only go off if there was gun-powder in the musket to begin with.

It's great to hear he turned it around though.

Best way to deal with a Nazi at a punk show is a quick kicking, its how its always been done. Hell its almost a tradition. If I turned up at a Skrewdriver concert and started shouting Antifa I would expect to get hit in return. Only fair we return the compliment

Only fair we return the compliment

Ideas and ideologies are not beaten with the fist they are beaten with a change of insight.