Ok it's a far cry from British oi! - butmy life has gone to shit and i have been slacking on this, so, for now try out these 2 West(?) Montreal (NDG - some french title for that part of the city) skinhead bands from the 80's - the first and second (respectively) oi bands in Canada. It so happens that the modern NDG/Montreal oi band, the Prowlers, have covered both of these bands (makes sense - credit where it's due). Except there is a very real possibility that these old bands would be too un-PC for the Prowlers if they were actual contemporaries...
Discords
they had only one 7" out in the 80's and latger reformed in the 90's and sounded liek some snotty 90's semi pop punk parody of themselves swith a shitty album name ("Spank it!") - so let's jsut forget that ever happened and enjoy the only 4 songs the Discords ever really recorded.... They sounded like a uk82 style oi-punk band.
R.C.M.P. = royal canadian mountie police, or something close...
Gassenhauer
they only had 3 releases on vinyl. One being a comp. track on 1985's "It Came from the Pit" and the other being comp. track on an '85 NYC/Montreal comp. - the same tracks later appeared with some Alteau artwork on a bootleg 7" asking for band members to please contact whoever pressed it so they could give them what's deserved and half apologizing, saying that this had to be put to vinyl and they couldn't find any band members. Essentially of all of their recordings come from the same set - Digitally their whole live set is floating around somewhere and there's plenty of it on Youtube,apparently all from their last show in 1985 at the the Black Light(?):
Local Youths from the 85 "...Pit" comp....
i have the live set burned on cd somewhere, but not on hand, i have no clue what the order of these songs are.
Not sure me and Charles Bronson (Death Wish, not British berserker-prisoner) agree on this next one.. good tune either way
doing justice (enough) to "I'm A Rebel" by the Sedated.
live footage
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