currently active bands

i'm going to attempt to make a list of bands (maybe with links) of 80s oi bands who're still around or have reformed, or maybe i just heard they reformed and it never happened, who cares, just keep your eyes peeled for the ones who aren't cashing in and go have a good time. i'm goin to catch a Partisans gig and i;m fuckin drunk so i will update this some day.

4 Skins
ABH (in the process of reforming i heard?)
the Abnormal ?
Angelic Upstarts
Antisocial
the Blood
the Business
Close Shave
Cock Sparrer
Cockney Rejects
Condemned 84
East End Badoes
the Ejected
Feckin Ejits
Franky Flame
Gonads
Infa-Riot
the Last Resort
Last Rough Cause
Menace
Oi Polloi
Peter & the Test Tubes
Red Alert
Resistance 77
Skin Graft
Subculture
Vicious Rumours
the Warriors

Skingraft demo

as i was driving to chicago today and listening to Oi! Oi! Music by Skin Graft on a cd i made, i thought (again) "is anyone ever gonna find this fuckin demo? this shits great- raw as fuck, primal, simple and melodic but aggressive, like it should be" - i also thought, could i pull this off as a cover in my band that doesn't exist but that's some other bullshit altogether - who could be in a band with a purist asshole like me anyways haha. Well, anyways, today i saw online that their demo is fucking finally going to see the light of day on a 7"!!! more info as it gets closer to release....

Kerfew

more to come... not too much more tho

it ain't over yet... a small handful more of 80's bands coming when i get around to it.

while i have your attention - 2 american bands that have the right idea as far as U.S. oi goes. (since i hate most modern bands and styles)

Victory - my midwest neighbors and fat friends who have been around as a band for a few years now.


Their singer Dan's voice is going from being on tour and playing a show the same day before filming this, but this is best place to get a well rounded idea of most of their songs in one place.


i also got this demo cd in the mail from the female-fronted Class System (after bugging them first...), outta somewhere in California.

New Breed

various oi-related & skinhead documentaries

i will add to this over time.

the band it all began with - Sham 69 - "Tell Us The Truth" doc. 1979.
Includes a drama feat. Grant Flemming from the Kidz Next Door (who featured Sham singer Jimmy Pursey's little brother, Robbie Pursey), who was also half of the Terrible Twins; with my favorite song from Oi! the Album - "Generation of Scars".


4-Skins on BBC 1981


"Skinheads" feat. Combat 84 & the Elite 1982


"UK/DK A Film About Punks & Skinheads" feat. the Business, Angelic Upstarts & many others 1983


skinhead interview 1984


Oi! the Main Event footage - london '88


Oi1 the Video Pt. 1 & 2. - footage from late 70's-mid 90's

VA - Oi! The Album

maybe not quite where it all began, but this compilation put oi music, as we know it, on the map.

Oi! the Album