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- Oi! band started in 1976. The group formed in London's East End, originally as a pub rock combo in the vein of Dr. Feelgood.
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First-generation Oi! bands such as Sham 69 and Cock Sparrer were around for years before the word Oi! was used retroactively to describe their style of music. In 1980, writing in Sounds magazine, rock journalist Garry Bushell labelled the movement Oi!, taking the name from the garbled "Oi!"
Angelic Upstarts are an English punk rock / Oi! band formed in South Shields in 1977. AllMusic calls them "one of the period's most politically charged and thought-provoking groups". [2] The band espouse an anti-fascist and socialist working class philosophy, and have been associated with the punk and skinhead subcultures .
- Neil 'Newts' Newton, John Woodward, Mick Robson, Andy Wilkinson
- South Shields, England
- 1977–present
Mar 18, 2010 · A July 1981 Oi! gig featuring the 4-Skins and the Business in Southall – the scene of a racist murder in 1976 and the race riot that ended in the death of Blair Peach in 1979 – erupted into ...
Mar 16, 2024 · The Oi! subgenre of punk rock originated in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United Kingdom. Known for its working-class and street-level themes, Oi! music often reflected the realities and struggles of the working-class youth at the time.
Aug 27, 2018 · The Buzzcocks' original singer, Howard Devoto, formed the seminal post punk group, Magazine, in 1977 and Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols returned to being just John Lydon and started the "anti-rock" group Public Image, Ltd. in '78.
Mar 20, 2013 · Though women formed an integral part of the wider social milieu from which Oi! emerged, its bands and core audience were primarily male: the focus of the article reflects this. 19 In terms of structure, the article is divided into three sections. Oi! will first be located within the broader trajectory of British punk.
Oi! music was an attempt to keep punk a populist, street-level phenomenon, and most of it came from the working class of South London and the cockney East End. When Garry Bushell, then features editor at Sounds, coined the term “Oi!” he gave us a punk subgenre that was loud, brutal, and extremely simple. In essence, it was punk rock that ...
