Fatal Blow - The Knives

   

  Skinhead Forever Bonehead Never

  Fatal Blow (https://www.facebook.com/fatalblowstreetpunk) are the anti fascist oi/streetpunk trio from South Wales who started off as a side project of The Oppressed and who've put out some top notch releases over the last 5 years or so (https://thefatalblow.bandcamp.com/).

  They return to Just Some Punk Songs with a track from their excellent new album, Rise Of The Underdog.

  It's a dozen tracks of the 70's/80's classic oi style that the band are known for and confirms their standing as one of the best of the modern day bands who play these kind of working class anthems. It's not yet on Bandcamp though you can listen on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mcnB58Nbp2evm1l9-lTUkCNr7ScW85WKs  (Is it just me who's hearing influences from Go For It era Stiff Little Fingers on some of the tracks?)

  American fans might be interested to hear of their 1st ever US gig in October at the Bossanova Ballroom, Portland, Oregon.

  To help promote the album, the band have released a video for the song Skinhead Attitude  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTuPnnRi7zU

  There's many more highlights though. I played Punk Police on this week's show and for the blog I'm going with a song about a young life taken, another wasted life. This is The Knives... 

Fatal Blow - One Voice

  

  Fatal Blow (https://www.facebook.com/fatalblow161/) are the oi/street punk quartet from South Wales who featured on here last year with a track from their excellent Generals And Soldiers album https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2020/04/fatal-blow-tent-city-reality.html

  They return today with an equally enjoyable selection from a new long player titled Black Gold. They started up as a side project of The Oppressed and feature a line up of Paul Cobley (guitar/vocals), Nidge Downs (guitar), Wayne Bending (bass) & Antal Kizmus (drums). To help promote the album, they'll be supporting Booze & Glory at The Moon in Cardiff on November 17th.

 

  Black Gold is a worthy follow up to Generals And Soldiers with 13 "working class hymns" that will get attendees at that Booze & Glory gig singing along. Politically astute songs of solidarity, fighting side by side and lost love, it even features a top notch cover of the Tom Robinson Band's Up Against The Wall. You can get it on cd and digital download here :   https://thefatalblow.bandcamp.com/album/black-gold

  Knowing that regular Just Some Punk Songs show listener Atti Emecz was going to snap up the cd I asked him to choose a favourite song for me to play on Sunday and I'll also post his choice here. This is One Voice... 

Fatal Blow - Tent City Reality

  Fatal Blow (https://www.facebook.com/fatalblow161/) are an anti fascist oi/streetpunk trio from South Wales who line up with Paul Cobley (vocals/guitar), Nidge Downs (bass) and Antal Kizmus (drums). If a couple of those names seem familiar to you, it's because the band started as a side project of The Oppressed. They released a split ep in 2017 with Oi Polloi and have been pretty prolific ever since with the Hope Not Hate and Victimized albums plus the Live In Manchester lp. Last month saw them return with new album, Generals And Soldiers. 

  The album mixes things up between the personal;
  Skinhead Time Bomb deals with false preconceptions ("You hate me, for my boots and braces. won't approach me, because you believe the lies...") whilst Last Skinhead In Town laments the loss of mates (some of them got married, some are up in heaven whilst others are behind bars) whilst vowing to carry on with the skinhead lifestyle (a lifestyle also touched upon in the eponymous Fatal Blow ("For the boots, and the braces and the angry faces"). The title track is a footie hooligan song ("Saturday's heroes, home and away")....

  ...And the political;
  Still Hate Thatcher is pretty self explanatory (Vocalist Paul grew up in a mining community) as is Party Political Bullshit ("See that face on your tv, it's a politician talking to you. He's lying through his false teeth, but it looks as though the message is getting through..."). Proud Boys, Proud Of What displays their Antifa roots ("Mummy's boy is nothing but a racist jerk") and Sink The Ship asks why rock the boat when you can sink the fucker with a hammer blow.

  All in all, a great oi record that would have sounded every bit as good in 1982 as it does today. You can find it here : https://thefatalblow.bandcamp.com/album/generals-and-soldiers-2  The cd has the added bonus of Live In Manchester added on and the vinyl version should be available in a few weeks  https://www.madbutcher.de/index.php/component/muscol/F/212-fatal-blow/434-generals-soldiers

  This track is about homelessness and how it's ignored by politicians,  it's called Tent City Reality...