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We wanted to pick a song from The Rocky Horror Show in tribute to the wonderful Tim Curry (who sadly died last month) – who, among other stellar credits across his amazing career, played Dr. Frank-N-Furter. So this is our live attempt at parodying “Time Warp” – the hit song from 1975 with lots of spoken word, weird energy, dark intent and suggestion, and loony choreographed dance moves. The glam rock and roll song was written by Richard O’Brien and Richard Hartley, and in the stage show, served as an encore (led by Dr. Frank-N-Furter).
The choreographing of loonies brought us to this week’s headline stories in Europe, where gangs of masked men have appeared (especially in port cities) under a new banner – calling themselves “Patriot Platform” and intimidating the general public with their black costumes and menacing paramilitary vibe and chants. They disrupted the ferry port at Dover, have made life miserable for the Royal National Lifeguard Institution and its incredible volunteers (who put their lives on the line to save those at sea), and in midweek also targeted the offices of journalists (well, the Daily Mail). At the moment it’s a rather pathetic operation, but with millions of dollars of (largely American) funding pouring into all sorts of organisations, there is a sense of a new watershed in how the Far Right are mobilising. In very-much linked news, the German AfD party also just won a notable election – celebrated by their supporters Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
The comparison in the title and chorus links back to the developments in Europe/Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, when in Germany, Italy, and here, roaming paramilitary groups were coordinated to link militarism, nationalism, fascism, masculinity, and intimidate their enemies and those they blamed for decline.
Backstories/context suggested below:
– On Freikorps: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2024/11/04/freikorps-how-germanys-post-wwi-paramilitaries-paved-the-way-for-the-nazis/
– On Stormtroops: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-sa
– On Italian Blackshirts: https://historyoftotalitarianism.com/mussolini-and-his-thugs/
– On UK Blackshirts: https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/121/the-british-union-of-fascists-1933-1953
– On ‘Patriot Platform’ in the UK: https://theconversation.com/what-patriot-platform-tells-us-about-how-the-far-right-in-the-uk-is-changing-its-tactics-291587
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LYRICS:
It’s dumbfounding … it’s repeating
Blackshirts on the roll
The ghosts of Mosley
With American wonga
Gimp masks now on patrol
This September, Europe’s in time warp
Sinking right back to when
The fascists prowled cities
Chanting slogans and brawling
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
It’s just a jump to the right
And then a step further right
Threaten citizenship
Deny some legal rights
Make up a dipstick test
A silly costume and name
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Mussolini … had fancy squadristi
They challenged the police see, to flout the law
They exploited dissension
With nationalistic pretension
Well it grew to all-out war
We’re not yet in the vice grip
But there’s a sinister kinship
They’re coming – and they’re repeating claims
Are they saving your nation?
Bringing Christian salvation?
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Well I was driving down the street, to a ferry port when
I met a bunch of balaclava-wearing black-clad men
They blocked it all up, it took me by surprise
They had some dickhead slagging off the RNLI
Looked out to sea, across to Germany
There’s been a seismic victory for the AfD …
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
It’s just a jump to the right
And then a step further right
Want a dictatorship?
There might be one in sight!
We gotta ban the masks
We gotta try to disclaim
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
Stormtroops and Freikorps again!
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Published: September 13, 2026
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