Another eighties manifesto from the British musical left, this time in support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. With just The Mekons crossing-over from Dig: A Tribute to the Great Strike (see HERE), this album shows the depth of talent that was willing to stand up to the British state under Thatcher.
Let us know what you think of this defiant document in the COMMENTS section!
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) but we had to skip ahead to the later stuff, such as 1986's "The Power is Yours!" 7" because the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010).
Here's a lovingly put-together vinyl-era bootleg of Redskins rarities. Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for Rarities!) MRML has way more Redskins HERE!
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) then we skipped to give the the later singles since the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010) and finally we arrive at the posthumous era.
This fansite bootleg does what it says on the tin - gives us the last gig (which was also caught on video!)
Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for The Last Gig!) MRML has way more Redskins HERE!
And don't forget to visit I Vomit 4 U for even more Redskins!
We interrupt his excrcise in political nostalgia to present you with a modern-day hero.
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) then we skipped to give the the later singles since the band's first two singles were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010) and finally we arrive at the posthumous era.
This peak-power live Redskins show from 1985 was put out twice in the nineties under two different titles, both of which are way out-of-print. Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for Live CD!) MRML has way more Redskins HERE!
And don't forget to visit I Vomit 4 U for even more Redskins!
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) but we had to skip ahead to the later stuff, such as 1986's "The Power is Yours!" 7" because the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010).
This next-to-final three song single from 1986 (which actually precedes "It Can Be Done") slows things down and makes an almost funeral final statement.
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) but we had to skip ahead to 1986's "It Can Be Done " 7" because the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010).
Another funky, swingin' rabble-rousing single with a different version of the A-side and three otherwise-unavailable live songs.
Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for Kick Over the Statues!) MRML has way more Redskins HERE!
And don't forget to visit I Vomit 4 U for even more Redskins!
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) but we had to skip ahead to 1985's "Kick Over the Statues!" 7" because the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010).
This swingin' single has exclusive versions of "Young and Proud" and "Kick Over the Statues!" (plus, as a MRML-exclusive bonus, the Ramsey Mckinnock mix of the latter track).
Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for Kick Over the Statues!) MRML has way more Redskins HERE!
And don't forget to visit I Vomit 4 U for even more Redskins!
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) but here we've skipped ahead to 1985's "Bring It Down Now" 7" because the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010).
This funky double header includes non-LP version of "Bring It Down Now" and a never-re-issued B-side, "You Want it, They've Got it".
Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for Bring It Down Now) MRML has way more Redskins HERE!
And don't forget to visit I Vomit 4 U for even more Redskins!
Now, first we gave you a lengthy political diatribe to accompany The Redskins BBC Sessions (see HERE) but now we'll need to skip a little because the band's first two singles, were part of an oddly-compiled, exceedingly brief compilation called Epilogue (Insurgence, 2010).
This three song single shows the Redskins polishing their punks-soul sound (singer X Moore said, "'We want to walk like The Clash and sing like The Supremes").
Comments, comrades!(Which is also the section where you'll find the link for Keep on Keepin' On.)
And don't forget to visit I Vomit 4 U for more Redskins!
It was back in 1988, the dark, dark year when Conservative leader Brian Mulroney set about selling a divided Canadian electorate on a Free Trade deal with the U.S., that I began attending the meetings of a political action group named Youth Against Free Trade (Y.A.F.T.).
It was lead, not by a youth but by a mustachioed middle-aged man named Nigel, who eventually turned out to be not just some Bizarro leftist version of a youth pastor but a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of Canada. (If you're of a certain age, you may read "card-carrying member of the Communist Party" words with that McCarthyite Southern slur).
Now I was young, idealistic blah, blah blah but I was not a communist. To begin with, it was a little late to be jumping on that bandwagon, what with the wheels clearly coming off in the USSR. More importantly, the Communist nations contempt of human rights made all their rhetoric less than useless to me. Nowhere was this more obvious to me personally, then in the pages of the impossibly well-packaged (read: Kremlin-funded) Communist Party free paper which regularly contained bald-faced denials of the Ukrainian famine (The Holodomor). As a wanna-be historian and a proud Manitoban (our province was built by different groups fleeing Russian malfeasance) this Orwellian revisionism was truly deplorable. Plus, I'm just a contrarian by nature and not much good with party lines.
Nonetheless, in the election campaign of '88, I fought for what I believed in, alongside guys with nicknames like "Trotsky" and "Lenin". Really, they were just kids my own age, kids who listened to lots of Billy Bragg, Dead Kennedys and The Redskins (but not SNFU who'd dared to slam the postal union in one song) and were into politics. We confronted Mulroney himself at two Conservative rallies. ("The only good Tory is a Supposi-tory" the man nick-named Trotsky shouted out during a pause in The Big Chin's speech and, at another, a picture of me and "Trotsky" screaming at some Tory lackey made the front page of The Winnipeg Free Press). But we, and Y.A.F.T. was just a tiny group in a very broad-based opposition, lost that election due to vote-splitting by the two left-leaning parties.
Mulroney, Bush the Elder, Thatcher et al - dark times, readers, dark times.
Then, in 1992, after the Tories suffered the greatest defeat in electoral history, came a Liberal government, who, with all their attendant faults, were not content to just auction off our natural resources, our banking system and our social safety-net to the highest bidder. So, as a result, some of our darkest fears about this Free Trade Agreement were kept at bay for the next thirteen or so years.
While I may not grown much wiser during this interim, I did come to see that resistance to the corruption inherent in power is a human necessity and one not beholden to any single ideology. After all, world developments after the collapse of the Soviet Union muddied the ideological waters far more then the Reaganites have ever let on. Capitalism hardly made Russia a safe, open democracy and communism didn't stop the Chinese march towards becoming an economic superpower. I came to be less worried about the specific ideology of those who seek office and more concerned with what actions they took with whatever power they did have.
Now, Stephen Harper's Conservatives has brought the darkness back to my country. Here in the 21st century, tariff policy seems less significant when compared with this government's intolerance towards the weak, its deliberate attempts to divide the people, its rapid concentration of power in the Prime Minister's office and its creep towards plutocracy. It is this sort of skullduggery that makes this regime repellent to me and not their public commitment to the ideals of conservatism (individual responsibility, smaller governments, lower debts et al) which is merely a fig-leaf.
So in these bleak times, even those of us who will never be Trotskyists or pamphleteers can agree that eighties British band The Redskins kicked up a righteous soul-punk racket that evinced one of the universal principals of the never-ending fight against the darkness of corruption - don't mourn - organize!
Peel Session 09/10/1982
The Peasant Army Kick Over The Statues Reds Strike The Blues Unionize & Pickin' The Blues (Outro)
* Chris Dean (Guitar, Vocals) * Nick King (Drums) * Millicent Martin (Hewes) (Bass) * Steve Nichol (Trumpet) * Lloyd Dwyer (Saxophone) * Dagenham Pete Pixie (Backing Vocals) * John Mekon (Backing Vocals) * Colin Car (Backing Vocals)
Peel Session 08/08/1983
Young And Proud Hold On 99-And-A-Half Take No Heroes
* Chris Dean (Guitar, Vocals) * Nick King (Drums) * Millicent Martin (Hewes) (Bass) * Steve Nichol (Trumpet) * Lloyd Dwyer (Saxophone)
Kid Jensen Session ???
A Plateful of Hateful It Can be Done Keep on Keepin' On Complete Control (Bonus Track)
* Chris Dean (Guitar, Vocals) * Nick King (Drums) * Millicent Martin (Hewes) (Bass)
Holy Hell, that was laborious.Some COMMENTS (where the BBC Sessions link can be found) on The Redskins, political activism or Punk-Soul Brothers checkin' it out now would not only better the world they might inspire me to unleash the (almost) full force of The Redskins discography upon you...
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