Classic Or Dud : The Oppressed - Oi! Oi! Music!

"Joe Hawkins" video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_FEViGcW_gU

Also good is the Fatal Blow/Dead and Buried CD which combines 2 early demos. Some song crossover with Oi! Oi! Music but there's some good songs not on the album. Sound isn't bad for an early 80s demo - it's pretty raw but it's clear enough. My fave track is Local Constabulary.

Who was Joe Hawkins anyway? Come to think of it, who was Freddy Jasper?

I'm going to a festival this summer where they've got the Cockney Rejects and the Business playing at the same time. That's a toughie.

I recognise some of the clips of Roddy Morenno in that video where he's sat on some steps from a documentary about skinheads that came out in the mid-90s. I think the footage of SHARP skins is from that as well.

Dammit Scott I haven't been able get that song out of my head since you posted that clip!

I looked up who Joe Hawkins was, he was the main character in the cult book Skinhead by Richard Allen.

i have three volumes of the Collected Richard Allen, don't you know. They are great books.

http://www.reggaereggaereggae.com/RichardAllenBook.JPG

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimthing/SKINESC.JPG

http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/suedehead.jpg

i want this one:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/298249300_f46c84abc4.jpg?v=0

I think I saw the Skinhead book at some market a few years ago but I'd never heard of it before, just thought it looked intersting.

There was a punk one as well I think, might not have been by the same bloke tho.

this is one of the ones i have:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KT4H5T3KL._SS500_.jpg

cheapest copy on amazon u.k. for that complete edition above is 25 pounds! i bought mine cheap.

yeah I can imagine these being sought after here.

You should check this out if you don't know it:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_IWqfvyO_nw8/Rf7QuLZuXBI/AAAAAAAAAgA/LZ20mFZVhAk/s400/Barbed.jpg

in philly there was a record store run by two guys. a beatles fanatic and a skin/punk lover. the skrewdriver records were behind the counter. you had to ask for them. not that i did, but that's where they were. so, he always had lots of oi! stuff that other stores would never carry. not just racist stuff, but stuff like those books. i couldn't resist. and they are very entertaining.

I haven't decided if I'll go and see the 4 Skins this summer. I just read it's the original singer backed up by this band Indecent Exposure who if it's the same band played at RAC Oi! gigs in the mid 80s.

Did a bit of googling and seems Indecent Exposure are more one of those "we're not racist but we're patriotic and hate lefties" bands like Condemned 84 so I guess I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now. They did have Eddie & the Hot Rods headlining the other stage at the same time, probably would have gone to that instead but they've cancelled.

My wife's just gone away for the weekend so I've been blasting Blitz, Cockney Rejects, the Business and next up is the Oppressed. I have far too much hair to be listening to this but fuck it.

FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY

Tonight, I saw the Oppressed! Live! On stage!

So happy.

nice!

Violence, violence, violence, ultra violence, blood on the streets

my friend sasha used to be a skin in boston in the 80's so its been fun to talk about this stuff with him. he has traded me some really great records. its weird to say this, but i never listened to a lot of second wave punk back in the 80's. i either listened to '76 punk or 80's u.k. peace punk or american punk/hardcore. so all this year and last i have been having a blast listening to the subs and the upstarts and stuff like that. and other oi/oi-related bands.

sasha is in this 80's business footage. the only guy in the front row with thick black hair. he made a pilgrimage to england as a young oi boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlBhoWTbZDE&feature=PlayList&p=5B7FCCAB7F83A11F&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=50

They had some fucking big skinheads with them, I guess doing security, not that there was going to be any trouble at this gig - it was mainly crust punk bands so hardly likely to be any nazi skins there, I mean I'm 6'3" and I felt short next to some of these bastards

xpost I LOVE the first Business album. They never really did anything as good as that again though

i actually get chills sometimes when i listen to the business. i love that band. (don't own everything. mostly listen to the great 2-lp taang comp that came out here years ago.)

I was hanging out with some of my wife's old friends in LA last week and one of them turned out to be super into punk music, was a bit older than me so had seen a load of great bands in his youth, it was funny because he was all "oh wow I'm a real anglophile I love all those british punk bands" and I was "oh wow I'm a real yankophile I love all the american punk bands" oh how cute

that business comp is one of the greatest things i own on earth. same with the opressed album. and my 4skins albums.

sasha has been kinda getting rid of his records little by little. the pricier rare german oi stuff and the like he puts on ebay. i think he feels like it belongs to another person. his younger drunk self. but he still has lots of love for it. he's the only person i can talk to in real life about the count bishops and chiswick stuff like that.

I really don't know much Oi stuff outside of the UK and a bit of American stuff like Iron Cross & Anti Heroes. I know there's a lot of European stuff but it's harder to filter out the nazi bands when you can't understand the lyrics, I can only think of Nabat from Italy that I like.

I got a Count Bishops CD with their 1st EP and some bonus tracks for a couple of quid in the Soul Jazz shop, tbh I think I've somewhat neglected it, think I've only listened to it once since I've bought it. I don't have a lot of Chiswick stuff really, the Damned & Motorhead, that's about it.

The Oppressed did quite a few covers tonight, the 4 Skins, Eddie & the Hot Rods, Newtown Neurotics & whoever did Skinhead Girl originally, I know I've got the original somewhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvInAcF-PPc

Thanks, yeah I have a Symarip album on mp3, must have that on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtqEw2_wN1Y

The other cover was Menace - GLC except they changed it to BNP.

this guy puts the best skinhead reggae/ska stuff on youtube. the sound isn't great, but he's got quite the collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-_Ou4XnRtI

Wow that Symarip gig you posted was held not all that far from me, no idea.

Today, 11AM, Minnesota State Fair.

Me & the lil' one eating corn dogs by the go-kart track

said go-kart track was playing all oi! music over the PA, i was only half paying attention until "England Belongs To Me" by Cocksparrer came on.