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Plan B apologises for Skrewdriver t-shirt in Shortlist cover shot

- Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

Plan B has issued a statement over a t-shirt he is pictured wearing on the cover of last week's Shortlist magazine, which some thought was imagery associated with Skrewdriver, the white power outfit that emerged in the late 1970s and which remains influential with far-right groups to this day, despite founder and frontman Ian Stuart Donaldson dying in a car accident in 1993.

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Plan B Apology For Skrewdriver T Shirt Misunderstanding

- Source: The Quietus

"I was ignorant to the existence of the band Skrewdriver. I don't listen to music like that so I wouldn't know the names of bands that make that music. I was wearing a t-shirt I created using a photograph from the photographer Gavin Watson's book Skins. I asked him if I could print shots from his book on to t-shirts. I made a number of these t-shirts. Gavin's photos are relevant to me because they represent the demonised youth of the past. Just like my generation of young people are demonised in the media to all be hoodie wearing thugs and chavs so were the skinheads in the 80's.

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