Preliminary notes:
"For the historian, Oi!’s significance rests on its providing insight into socio-economic, political, and cultural trends beyond the remit of youth culture. First, those associated with Oi! communicated a very real sense of disengagement from politics in general and mainstream politics in particular. In other words, Oi! expressed a form of anti-politics that opened the way for contact with organizations on the political fringe but more typically led to an expression of class-cultural identity rooted in the local community." - Oi! Oi! Oi!: Class, Locality, and British Punk, Matthew Worley, Twentieth Century British History, Volume 24, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 606–636.
"People don't understand me
'Cause i play in a rock & roll band
It's the only way i can make a stand
We run in different games
But we all feel just the same
You know our name and you know our name
You know our name and you know our name
Born to win, born to lose
The right is ours which way we choose
It don't matter what clothes you wear
It's how you feel that makes you real"
The Last Resort, Rebels With a Cause, 1982
PLAYLIST
1. Diminished Return - Concrete Jungle Jive
from 'Oi! ...Rare & Exotica' LP (Teenage Rebel, Germany, 1997)
2. Antisocial - What Have We Got (Sham 69 cover)
from 'Battle Scarred Skinheads!' CD (Captain Oi!, UK, 1997
3. Garry Johnson - Dead End Yobs
from 'Strength Thru Oi!' LP (Deram, UK, 1981)
4. Angela Rippons Bum - Kill The Bill
from 'Deaf And Dumb Not Blind (Demos And Rarities 1980-82)' CD (No Label, UK)
5. R.A.S. - Votez Pour Moi
from 'Rien A Signaler' 7" (A.P.R.B.N. Production, France, 1983)
6. Cunt Sparrer - Runnin' Riot (Cock Sparrer cover)
from You Tube video
7. The Redskins - Kick Over The Statues
from S/T 7" (Abstract Dance, UK, 1985)
8. Seething Wells - I Hate You, Garry Bushell
from 'The Intolerance Tape' cassette (Bluurg, UK, 1986)
9. Miles Wootton - Skinheads
from 'Sunday Supplement World' LP (Long Man Records, UK, 1975)
10. Asociale - Hoxton Tom For President
from 7" (Havin' A Laugh Records, Italy, 1992)
11. La Souris Déglinguée - Haine, Haine, Haine
from Garçon Moderne 7" (Merjithur, France 1979)
12. The Upsetters - So Bad
from 'Build The Ark' 3xLP (Trojan Records, UK, 1990)
13. My-Lai - N. Mandela
from 'Skin' Songs Vol.I' LP (Kartác, Czechoslovakia, 1992)
14. London Punkharmonic Orchestra - Hersham Boys (Sham 69 cover)
from 'Symphony Of Destruction: Punk Goes Classical' CD (Music Club, UK, 1998)
15. Criminal Sex - Steal Your Car
from 7" (Flexi Tits Disc, UK, 1985)
16. Attila The Stockbroker - Away Day
from 'Oi! Oi! That's Yer Lot!' LP (Secret, UK, 1982)
17. R.I.P. - Join the Rejects (Cockney Rejects cover)
from 'Directo En Andoain 22-03-85' cassette (No Label, Spain, 1985)
18. JJ All Stars - Dambusters March
from 'Carry On Oi!' LP (Secret, UK, 1981)
19. Trevor Griffith - Oi For England play (extract)
from You Tube video, 1982
20. Cunt - Crepa
from 'Bands Of Mercy - Benefit Tape Per L'Animal Liberation Front' cassette (Mulino Nero, Italy, 1998)
21. The Last Resort - Oi! Oi! Skinhead (outtake)
from 'A Way Of Life ( Skinhead Anthems)' LP (Last Resort, UK, 1982)
22. Komintern Sect - Tous Ensemble
from 'Dernier Combat' LP (Chaos Productions, France, 1985)
23. Angelic Upstarts - Heath's Lament
from You Tube video, 1984
24. Blank Generation – Out Of My Head
from S/T LP (Hammer, UK, 1994)
25. Crass - It's the Greatest Working Class Rip-Off
from 'Christ The Album' 2xLP (Crass Records, UK, 1984)
26. The Apostles - Rock Against Communism
from 'The Giving Of Love Costs Nothing' 7" (Scum Records, UK, 1984)
27. Skin Disease - I'm Thick
from 'Back On The Streets' LP (Secret Records, UK, 1982)
28. Garry Bushell - A passionate defence of skinhead culture
reading from Sounds article, 6 November 1982
29. A.C.A.B. – We Are The Skins
from CD Single (Bovver Brigade Records, Malaysia, 1998)
30. Cracker Jacks - Animal Life
from 'Oi! of Japan' LP (AA Records, Japan, 1982)
31. 4 Skins - BBC Documentary 1981 (Pt. 1) *
from You Tube video
32. Blood Axis - Walked In Line (Joy Division Cover)
from Split 7" (Storm, USA, 1995)
33. Garry Johnson - United
from 'Carry On Oi!' LP (Secret, UK, 1981)
34. Criminal Class - Blood On The Streets
from 'Strength Thru Oi!' LP (Deram, UK, 1981)
35. Quick And The Dead - Pyramid Party
from 'Another Violent Night' 7" (No Label, Australia, 1981)
36. Little Brother - Sigmund Freud / Tommy Toilet Humour / Great British Justice / Letter To Knave / Phallic Bars / Metaphors For Sexfrom 'The Rising Son Of Ranting Verse' 7" (Radical Wallpaper, UK, 1982)
37. Psychic TV - Unclean **
from S/T 12" (Temple Records, 1984)
* John Peel soberly comments here on the flirtation with fascism of early Punks, The Skids ("not an Oi! band"), Joy Division.
** Video for this track featured Nicky Crane, controversial "cover star" of the 'Strength Thru Oi!' LP.
Watch out for the follow up show on 10th February, where this - and more - will be discussed with a special guest.
Image: Roi Pearce (The Last Resort / 4 Skins), 1979.