By no means as serious as their Two Tone counterparts in The Selector and The Specials, nor as musically diverse as Madness, Bad Manners nevertheless carved themselves a niche in the world of Ska and…
Few bands have garnered as many contrarian viewpoints as London hooligans The 4 Skins; not least among the MM staff; who seem evenly split between love, hate and uncertainty. Having run a rather troubled course…
I’m not one of those punk purists who blather on about the whole seventy six / seven wave of punk rock bands that popularised the American born* genre of music in the UK. I couldn’t…
Hot on the heels of Captain Oi’s Angelic Upstarts box set comes this 4 album, 53 track collection from one of my all-time favourite bands – London’s finest – Cock Sparrer. Frequently name-checked as an…
Five album box set of the legendary North-East Oi band featuring the band’s first four studio albums and their Live album from 1981. Kicking off with ‘Teenage Warning’ – the album that set out the…
When I slid on my knees across the highly polished assembly hall floor at the junior school disco in the mid-80s, little did I know I was hearing punk rock for the first time. Yep,…
