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Oh dear, what have I done?<\/p>\n
Uploading the 4 Skins debut 7″ single on St George’s Day of all days!<\/p>\n
I can feel the backlash already writing this piffle, and myself having to explain that I am in fact, not sympathetic to the lowest common denominator in ‘Street Punk’ or as Bushell lovingly called the\u00a0small movement around the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, ‘Oi!’.<\/p>\n
The lowest common denominator meaning extreme right wing politics,\u00a0and\u00a0extreme macho stances outside off licence’s and inside gig venues all over towns, \u00a0all over the country, with boot soup as standard fare.<\/p>\n
This band claimed “not guilty” on the charges above, and there is no doubt of the extremely powerful performances on both sides of this\u00a0debut single, a single that was released just before the band’s most publicised split. The single was released shortly after the Southall gig with Last Resort and The Business in support. This gig in Southall ended up in the pub venue being burnt down by some members of the local community, and fighting spreading onto the street\u00a0until a full scale riot took place, making news headlines in all the media outlets at the time, all over the world.<\/p>\n
The single although being made ‘Single Of The week’ in Sounds (where else?), sold poorly due to failed distribution. Not many copies got into the shops to be sold\u00a0into\u00a0the hand’s of the\u00a0public. Not many shops took the risk of stocking it.<\/p>\n
Gary Hodges the gravel voice vocalist, left the band,\u00a0which I guess could be considered admirable in the\u00a0context of\u00a0what had happened on that night in Southall, never (to my knowledge) to\u00a0bother with fronting a band again.\u00a0The guitarist also upped and left the band.<\/p>\n
Though the band claimed not guilty to anyone who would listen, in media circles, with regards to the various bigoted views allegedly held by the band, including racism,\u00a0many members of the band’s audience were (I am in no doubt\u00a0whatsoever) either, paid up racist party members or extreme hardcore hooli’s for various football firms.<\/p>\n
I guess\u00a0the 4 Skin’s\u00a0got judged on the company they kept, and continued to keep through various other lesser line up’s of this band through to the mid 1980’s, line ups that I know\u00a0next to nothing\u00a0about, and own nothing on vinyl or tape.<\/p>\n
Feel free to slag off this post, I reckon a few eyebrow’s will be raised as it is not really KYPP material. It is a great single though, and the fact that two members left the band and distanced themselves somewhat\u00a0from the Oi! scene during the Southall aftermath, to me speaks volumes of those specific members of this band.<\/p>\n
Then again I could be mistaken and will no doubt be corrected if this is the case…<\/p>\n
Please read the comments for other peoples points of view on the 4-Skins, they are quite an eye opener and most place the band in the ‘well dodgy’ category including that Gary Hitchcock, the original drummer and then the manager for 4-Skins was an active paid up member of BM and was used to causing a fuss on the streets and was one of the founding members of C18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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