Sham 69

I'm looking at the, we have all the, on the screen in front of us, all the tracks with all the timings.

And I've got, Luke's found Sham 69, 6 minutes 21.

That

can't be

And if that's going at 6 minutes...

I reckon

that's going to be a Sham 69 live medley or something.

So we might have to go with it.

Let's go back to 1978 for a classic.

Here is Sham 69 and the live version of Ulster.

One, two, three, four.

[rock music]Ulster boys! Ulster boys! Ulster boys! Ulster boys! You know it's gonna last a few more years So when you're throwing bricks don't you cry no tears And when you see the tanks go past You throw your lot with the rats on the blast Ulster! Ulster! There ain't no Ulster! No, there ain't no Ulster! Ulster! Ulster! There ain't no Ulster! There ain't no Ulster! And now you're lying in your hospital bed You can still hear the bullets rushing past your head No more battle, you ain't no more You've ended on the list and now you're dead Ulster! Ulster! There ain't no Ulster! You're all nothing Ulster! Ulster! There ain't no Ulster! No, there ain't no Ulster! [audience cheering] Jimmy is your leader!

Uh, just a great, great band live as well as on record.

I urge you to go check out their two albums.

Anyway, before Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, we heard Sham 69, a band that should need no introduction.

We heard Ulster Boy.

Their style of music, though, was much more straightforward with a focus on speed and intensity.

They were initially described as a street punk band, which that sound is initially credited to starting with Sham69, the UK Subs, and Cockney Rejects.

But then street punk eventually splits into two forms of punk.

So you get a narco punk, which is where the more political bands were.

All of these are shows with The Levellers.

And their final date at the moment is the Adrian Flux Waterfront in Norwich with Sham69 on December the 12th.

Next up, Doghouse Rose.

Rearrange my mind Push and pull So my poor back is breaking, breaking While pretending everything is fine Can't seem to get ahead of troubles that surround me One step forward from another step behind Not bad or good for nothing I'll win or lose again Every time I'm alone Takes me right down the middle of the line Am I sane? Or am I going crazy, crazy? Clouds of rain or rays of warm sunshine Can't seem to get ahead of the troubles that surround me One step forward from another step behind Nothing good for nothing I'll win or lose again Every time I'm up to something Who's he dead? Every time I look

Welcome to the History of Punk Rock podcast.

Today, we dive into Gary Bushell’s naming of Oi!, Deca's Oi! the album, and the birth of a working-class punk scene.

Back in 1979, a guy named Gary Bushell was scribbling on the front page of Sounds, calling the street-battling punk sound Oi!, as if to say, this is raw, no-nonsense rock for real working-class kids.

Bushell had seen the skinhead movement split into two camps, the racist ones and the honest street lads who wanted a louder voice.

He was trying to unify bands that were playing at the same small clubs, yet they had never considered themselves part of a collective genre.

Fast-forward a few months.

Deca Records heard the buzz, saw potential for a marketable product, and put together Oi! the album, a 1980 compilation that would seal Bushell’s coinage into mainstream consciousness.

The album gathered some of the most prominent street punk outfits, Sham 69 with their rousing anthemic cock-sparer’s battle cry riffs, Angelic Upstarts’ political punch, and The Business’ gritty edge.