![]() Opening the show will be the Orlando-based hardcore foursome the Attack, with "classic, face-smashing, broken bottle punk." I love cinema and TiVo, but I am not a social networker because I think it's taken away personal touches, and privacy. "I'm actually a technophile, I love technology, have to have the next new phone. There's so much work that can be done on the computer now that used to take 10 people now. "People out of work.is an old problem, but it's relevant now. "Some of them are the same," replied the frontman. The best-known Business songs are doubtless "Drinking and Driving," "Smash the Discos" and (try to figure out what this one's about) "England 5 - Germany 1."Ī few months ago, an interviewer in Hawaii asked Fitzsimmons if the working class issues, as he saw them, were the same after three decades and change. That's right, Oi! didn't die with the 4-Skins, Blitz or the Angelic Upstarts. Michael "Micky Fitz" Fitzsimmons has been the lead singer of The Business since the band was formed in 1979.Īmazingly, this rough and ragged band is still in existence and still touring Micky Fitz and (his new) company will perform at the Jinx Saturday, Nov. Others just went with the slightly nicer-sounding "pub rock." music press to tag it "punk's idiot half-brother." It's anthemic, soccer-match punk, and its association with angry violence (not to mention that many of the early Oi! fans were card-carrying skinheads who lived by the far right) led some in the tarty U.K. Working class kids who believed (quite correctly) that punk had been commercialized and (gasp) an accepted part of the bad old music business, kept it hard, fast and street-sloppy with a hardcore subgenre eventually dubbed Oi! When you think of British punk bands that were actually thrashing about all the way back in the mid to late 1970s, when the movement was sweeping the U.K., who comes to mind - Sex Pistols, Clash, Damned?īy 1980, British punk had splintered into loads of different directions - including what slack-brained labelists at the time took to calling "new wave," which really wasn't so new at all. ![]()
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