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Some petty jealousies and band rivalry existed, but the Oi! Were the leaflets printed on asbestos? Childhood mates, they had grown up together on the Brockley Whinns council estate in South Shields and later attended Stanhope Road Secondary Modern school Mensi got expelled from the local grammar school at thirteen for delinquency. What matters is 1 Oi never suffered from Nazi violence the way Sham 69 and 2-Tone had; the ag that blemished those early Oi! Many of the East End Glory Boys swelled their ranks a little later, realising for the first time that here was a band exactly the same as them. Of course, by then people had made their choices really — there was a whole scene around Boyd Rice and the C.

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It ended in disaster as Poplar Boy West Ham fans slugged it out with a smaller Arsenal crew led by the then infamous Dave Smith who followed the Upstarts. Naturally this meant they had to omit the favourable mentions of black sportsmen, including Jesse Owen, the American athlete who'd triumphed so dramatically at the Berlin Olympics.

Garfy claims Sounds tried to do for oi! Even if Oi had just been a skinhead phenomenon it was dishonest and dangerously lazy journalism to suggest that anything more than a small minority of skinheads at this time were Nazi sympathisers.

Rotten wanted to be anarchy, Hodges is painting vivid visions of what that really means. Most of them cited some immigrant ancestry skrewdricer Irish to Pakistani through Russian Jew. But in the long build up to the trial, a change came over Mickey. Their second single, the Pursey produced 'I'm An Upstart', was released in April '79, charted, and was chased hard by the 'Teenage Warning' single and album. People like Dickhead hate oi! Which is why extremist views that also despise conventional politics can find fertile breeding ground amongst the kids.

Are there any thick fascist thugs in here?

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The sskrewdriver were ten a penny for Jack buwhell Lads knocking back pints and pills and pulling at the pubs, rampaging at the football grounds and revelling in rebel rock'n'roll at the gigs. I honestly, hand on my heart, thought it was a still from The Wanderers," Bushell says. The Upstarts were the label's first signing and also their first sacking after a jumped-up Polydor security guard tried to push the band about.

People like Militant are thoroughly machiavellian. The inquest called it 'justifiable homicide'. They had some cross-over with the scooterist scene which flourishes to this day, with thousands subscribing to George Marshall's marvellous Pulped ggarry and enjoying a drip-feed of classic Oi CDs from Mark Brennan's splendid Captain Oi!

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It was run by two young kids from Canvey, Essex, both Labour Party members. Only Socialist Worker printed a true record of the gig, quoting Mensi telling prisoners they'd be better off in nick if Thatcher got elected that summer, and urging punks to vote Labour as 'Thatcher's government will destroy the trade union movement'.

Road manager Kevin Wells bsuhell threatened at knife point. Ironically, most Hammers Oi fans were safely in Upton Park at the time, watching their boys battle a Russian team.

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Of course, by then people had made their choices really — there was a whole scene around Boyd Rice and the C. Let's be honest, who knew? It has now been running for more than a quarter of a century and has been hugely influential in keeping the real spirit of Oi — working class hooligan youth, black and white — alive.

Criminal Class's 'Blood On The Street' actually made the point that black and white youth faced the same state oppression. He worked for the protection agency Gentle Touch, and was able to shrug off any connection with the London gay scene as just part of his security work.

Elsewhere a second generation of hardcore Oi! Garry Hodges went on TV to say that the 4-Skins would play an anti-racist gig as long as it was organised by an independent body, although the band split before it occurred under the tremendous pressure and after garryy one more gig — advertised as country band the Skans!

Two cocky urchins adorned in West Ham badges bowled into my busgell spieling back-slang and thrust their tatty demo tapes into my hand. She is now something important at Channel 4. In the eyes of its remaining fans, Oi!

To the mass media, the events of July 4th were manna from heaven: There were two mistakes there, both mine. Before Southall he opposed moves to send the bands on a US tour — bushel wanted the scene to stay at the small club level.