To this day the hippy Left perceive Oi as a kind of cultural cancer. LET’S hear it for Oi! – the most exciting, despised and misunderstood youth movement of all time.Īfter 21 years we’re still winding up the mugs.īack in 1981, Oi! managed to outrage all shades of polite middle class opinion, right, left and centre. “The voice of Oi is unity/No ‘them and us’ just you and me/Think how strong we could be/United against society’” – Garry Johnson, United, 1981
“45 Revolutions on my stereo, not one revolution on the streets. “What we want’s the right to work/Give us jobs not jails/Don’t throw us on the scrapheap because your system fails.” –The Gonads, Jobs Not Jails, 1980
“They always put the blame on us/And they tell the public lies/But that don’t mean that we have lost/Cos our spirit never dies.” –East End Badoes, The Way It’s Gotta Be, 1982 “ Wankers had out leaflets/They never ever let it be/I don’t care what they say/But they better not come near me….” –Cockney Rejects, Fighting In The Streets, 1979 “ Oi! is working class, and anything that is part of, and comes from, the working class has got to be mostly good.” – Mick O’Farrell, Red Action, 1981. “ All you kids, black and white/Together we are dynamite” – Angelic Upstarts, Kids On The Street, 1981. “ This generation won’t keep quiet/Work, work, work – or RIOT!” – The Business, Work Or Riot, 1981 “ Oi expresses an us-against-the-world attitude, it’s the continuation of the tradition which has its roots in the Teddy Boys of the 1950s.” – Simon Frith, sociology lecturer at Warwick University, 1981.
“ Loud, raw and violent, Oi-Oi is the musical battle cry of the skinheads, and like them it pulls no punches.” News Of The World, 1981. Oi! is working class, and if you’re not working class you’ll get a kick in the bollocks.” – Stinky Turner, 1980.
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