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UK Resist,
A SHORT STORY
There was this skinhead, a kid from Newcastle. One day this skinhead was on a desert island with his good old Oi Records (all the latest raves back in 1981 BC). He had many ways off the island via bridges from it. Then for some reason (I don't know why) he decided to bum a bridge down. "What good fun that was" he thought, and carried on burning the rest of the bridges until there were none left.Then he got bored and put on his good old Oi records. After 5 minutes of CONDEMNED 84 and the 4 SKINS he became bored again! So now he to himself "I'll go down the record shop and buy some new records", which of course was on the mainland.
But 'oh gosh' all the bridges have been burnt down and this silly little bonehead couldn't swim. So poor little Trevor Haggel got stuck on his desert island all alone, nobody knew him and nobody cared.
Yes Trevor, you have a right to your opinion but I'll tell you what hurts, when you go about flagging bands work--particularly when it's junk comments. Totally unconstructive criticism; like calling our song 'Meat' a waste of time, and calling your mates' (HDQ) album crap, is in my book one step up from fighting talk.
But what hurts ten times more is that we once considered you and your fanzine friends to the band. Now it seems you've stabbed us in the back and have apparently given HDQ and SOFAHEAD the same treatment.
Don't you realize how much work, effort and money bands like us put into making records. Then you come along and abuse them.
OK Trevor if you want to knock the band down it's up to you, but at least realize that if you go about slagging down and knocking relatively unknown punk bands then they never become anything, people don't buy records with shit reviews!
To top it all, please don't mention our name BLAGGERS ITA in any more 'Oi' reports to Maximum Rock n Roll, for fucks sake we arc not an Oi! band. We don't look like an Oi! band (although I guess you'd never know as you've never seen the band). We no longer sound like an Oi! band and we aren't on an Oi! record label anymore.
Trevor dig this--we are all in this ahithole of a situation together, you scratch our back and we'll scratch yours and I'm not talking about scratching with Stanley knives.
Matty/Blaggers ITA, BM Box 1734. London WC1N 3XX
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