Flashback 1979: Rock Against Racism gig under attack, W10

[lostexpectation]

I can't quite place when Sounds went al wild for Oi! but I recall it was not longer after their enthusiasm for mod had faded, so that might explain their stance.
More on Oi! here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi!

rock against communism... LOL

 

[chico enrico]

I remember hearing about that. Knew some folk there. Actually there's a book coming out shortly about that era and before, culminating in the Crass gig at Conway hall when the BM got battered to fuck.

Oi was all a bit later than that, 80/81 but before then there was always a far-right skin element. just look at any photos from sham or menace gigs from 77.

Ironic to think what Doug and Tony of Crisis turned into later,no?

 

[chico enrico]

More for reminiscing. I was involved organising RAR Ooop North.

cheers for that link. good stuff.

incidentally, you know bushell was the editor of RAR's 'temporary hoarding' mag??

 

[chico enrico]

Kids today with their air-conditioned, logo-branded gigs.

Don't know nuffink!

actually, i often think just how mental gigs back then were. Now if i was in a club or bar and a big fight kicked off i probably wouldnt ever go back there.

back then it was a run of the mill, almost expected occurrance, for the skins to kick off, folk to get battered, bottled etc.

still, at least we 'kept it within our own' back then.

 

[linerider]

cheers for that link. good stuff.

incidentally, you know bushell was the editor of RAR's 'temporary hoarding' mag??

I thought it was Lucy Toothpaste who edited 'Temporary Hoarding'.

 

[audiotech]

I thought it was Lucy Toothpaste who edited 'Temporary Hoarding'.

It was, along with assistance from others. Bushell wrote some articles for the paper though.

 

[linerider]

It was, along with assistance from others. Bushell wrote some articles for the paper though.

Thought so,it must of been at the time he was writing for S.W.