here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nOi! Oi! Oi! Oi! The Partisans from the Bridgend area of South Wales were originally formed way back in August 1978. At that time they had two bassists and were heavily influenced by the Ramones and the Pistols (the former still visible in their music today). By the beginning of 81 the Partisans had gelled into Spike on the mike, Louise on the bass, Lealand on the guitar and Shark on drums. I managed to catch up with the firey foursome, apres gig, at Stevenage Bowes Lyon House for a few brief words.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Exploited said the Oi! Album they appeared on typecast them as an Oi! band. Would you mind this typecasting?
\nLealand:<\/strong> We don\u2019t mind being classed as Oi!, even though we are punks. We don\u2019t wanna segregate punks and skinheads, it\u2019s better they get on.<\/p>\nDo you see any difference between punk and Oi!?
\nLouise:<\/strong> No not really but Oi! is more for skinheads.
\nSpike:<\/strong> They\u2019re more violent.
\nLouise:<\/strong> No they\u2019re not, there\u2019s one over there who came with us, he\u2019s ok.
\nLealand:<\/strong> A lot of punks don\u2019t like Oi!, but if Anti-Pasti and the Exploited said they were Oi!, they\u2019d be more together. It\u2019s just punk groups trying to segregate the two.
\nSpike:<\/strong> We don\u2019t want any tribalism, skins against punks, anything like that, stick.<\/p>\nBut surely that creates an even bigger tribe?
\nLealand:<\/strong> Yeah, but I think it would be nice if every kind of kid, mods, punks, and heavy metal all got on and liked the same kind of music.
\nSpike:<\/strong> Oh! I don\u2019t know about that.
\nShark:<\/strong> If Oi! become a tribe, it should be working class against all kinds of crappy music.<\/p>\nBut don\u2019t you think Oi! is elitist when Garry Bushell says \u2018It\u2019s the vision of all working class youth sticking together\u2019?
\nLouise:<\/strong> No not really, it depends on what he means by \u2018working class\u2019, there are so many different ideas about that.<\/p>\nIt shouldn\u2019t be a strictly working class movement then?
\nLealand:<\/strong>No it doesn\u2019t matter whether you\u2019re middle class or working class. Punk and Oi! should be for anyone who wants to join in. You can get people who are middle class with very working class attitudes and vice versa. It\u2019s not what class you are that\u2019s important, it\u2019s what you are as a person that matters.<\/p>\nA lot of your songs are a protest, do you think a band can realistically change anything?
\nLouise:<\/strong> No!, but you can influence kids to do marches and things like that but no one ever listen\u2019s to them. We just try and make people more aware.<\/p>\nIs that why you put your lyrics on the sleeve?
\nLouise:<\/strong>Yeah!, and because no one can understand them!
\nLealand:<\/strong> We don\u2019t want people to read into them too deeply and get depressed about what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\nDo you see the new punk explosion dying down after a couple of years, as happened with the original bands?
\nShark:<\/strong> Yeah, I expect it will.
\nLealand:<\/strong> It all depends on what the kids are like who are into it, if they are all five minute fashion kids it will. But if they\u2019re really into, it won\u2019t. Also if the bands change musically it will die, hopefully they can stay loyal, we will.<\/p>\nAs for their future plans the Partisans seem a bit vague. The No Future deal consists of three singles and an LP. Money-wise, costs and profit are split 50\/50, a situation they are more than happy with. A new single, to follow up the 15 000 selling \u2018Police Story\u2019, should see the light of day around the end of April. Touring is the only thing they have a problem with at the moment, but when Shark leaves school things should be rectified pronto.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Story Killing Machine 17 Years Of Hell Power And The Greed \/ Bastards In Blue First couple of record releases from Bridgend\u2019s Partisans on the No Future record label, a label who also helped out with debut releases from\u00a0Blitz, Peter And The Test Tube Babies and\u00a0The Violators, and no doubt a load more bands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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