Skip to content
Second edition of this great book any OI! and Punk fan has to have. Different cover from the first edition and slightly lighter in size, this one is not numbered and doens't come with the 2 free posters like the first edition, but includes another poster as freebie with the first orders. Also includes a 4 page update at the back covering new releases, etc... from the past 6 months.
Several years and many pub closures in the making... Here Comes The New Punk is a long overdue printed extravaganza of UK Oi! and streetpunk, covered in such depth that both Moby Dick and Linda Lovelace would be equally proud.
Presenting a near A-Z (from ABH to The Warriors) of the new punk movement which came to prominence after punk's first wave had gone septic, the book contains detailed biographies and complete discographies (including re-issues) of over 100 bands.
The likes of The Business, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects and the 4 Skins are all covered in great detail with several pages being allocated to each, as are such similarly important names as Red Alert, Section 5 and Splodge, but the subjet matter also includes many short lived bands and those with a fleeting but albeit important connection to the movement.
A quick sample list of bands featured doth include... The Afflicted, Angela Rippon's Bum, Another Man's Poison, Barbed Wire, Barney & The Rubbles, Blank Generation, Case, Clockwork Soldiers, Distortion, Five-O, Foreign Legion, The Gymslips, Intensive Care, Scum, Skinful, Slaughter and The Dogs, Straw Dogs, Venom, Vicious Rumours...
Other content includes detailed section on the 30 or so Oi! compilations and important labels such as Secret, No Future, Hammer and Helen of Oi!; chapters on Oi!'s overseas development in the 80s and early 90s; a lenghty introductory section which looks at the background and lead up to Oi! and new punk via 60s skinheads, 70s bootboys, and music halls of the early 20th century; and a sideways glance at later stuff such as ranting poetry, casual culture and punk nostalgia.
Finally, the book attemts to be as un-biased politically as is possible when dealing with new punk and Oi!, with the likes of The Oppressed and Skrewdriver given equal consideration, and The Ovaltinees and Oi Polloi also viewed as important independent inclusions.
Oh, and even more finally, there is a small section on "Missing in Action" bands such as Shin Beef, The Elite, Allegiance To No-One and Breach of the Peace.
Several years and many pub closures in the making... Here Comes The New Punk is a long overdue printed extravaganza of UK Oi! and streetpunk, covered in such depth that both Moby Dick and Linda Lovelace would be equally proud.
Presenting a near A-Z (from ABH to The Warriors) of the new punk movement which came to prominence after punk's first wave had gone septic, the book contains detailed biographies and complete discographies (including re-issues) of over 100 bands.
The likes of The Business, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects and the 4 Skins are all covered in great detail with several pages being allocated to each, as are such similarly important names as Red Alert, Section 5 and Splodge, but the subjet matter also includes many short lived bands and those with a fleeting but albeit important connection to the movement.
A quick sample list of bands featured doth include... The Afflicted, Angela Rippon's Bum, Another Man's Poison, Barbed Wire, Barney & The Rubbles, Blank Generation, Case, Clockwork Soldiers, Distortion, Five-O, Foreign Legion, The Gymslips, Intensive Care, Scum, Skinful, Slaughter and The Dogs, Straw Dogs, Venom, Vicious Rumours...
Other content includes detailed section on the 30 or so Oi! compilations and important labels such as Secret, No Future, Hammer and Helen of Oi!; chapters on Oi!'s overseas development in the 80s and early 90s; a lenghty introductory section which looks at the background and lead up to Oi! and new punk via 60s skinheads, 70s bootboys, and music halls of the early 20th century; and a sideways glance at later stuff such as ranting poetry, casual culture and punk nostalgia.
Finally, the book attemts to be as un-biased politically as is possible when dealing with new punk and Oi!, with the likes of The Oppressed and Skrewdriver given equal consideration, and The Ovaltinees and Oi Polloi also viewed as important independent inclusions.
Oh, and even more finally, there is a small section on "Missing in Action" bands such as Shin Beef, The Elite, Allegiance To No-One and Breach of the Peace.