Alright so what’s a bit of girl watching without an appropriate soundtrack. What we’ve got here is an overview of the songs about skinhead girls (in no particular order and this is a work in progress) :

“Skinhead Girl” - This one’s a gimme, I will admit. Pretty sure this one originated with Symarip, but I honestly do not know if they wrote it. The song has covered by about every band within a mile of the skinhead scene, including The Specials, The Oppressed, Patriot, Bad Manners, Murphy’s Law, Section 5 and Sheer Terror. (Young) Pioneers even ripped the (Oppressed’s version’s) instrumentation off for “Downtown Tragedy” on their Lookout LP. Whether this was intentional or the subconscious power of the song’s titular girls, who can say. Anyways for my money The Symarip and Oppressed versions are the essential two, because I just can’t feel that Two Tone revival ska crap and almost every other version just straight up sucks (though the (Y)P song is real ace, it’s not really relevant here).

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Posted: January 19th, 2008 under music, oi! anthems, records, twee.
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From Fun Vampires: Calling all twee kittens and skinbyrds - this Saturday night, me and Mike McKee are doing our monthly England Belongs To Twee night at The Khyber.

Featuring your humble narrator, that is me, Labuda. And, my pal Mr. Mckee. We bring you the absolute finest in pop and oi! and every so often we throw in some punk rock and some brit-pop and whatever else makes us want to shake it up and down some pints. Read more »

Posted: January 18th, 2008 under music, oi! anthems, twee.
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