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Cocksparrer
Cock Sparrer () is an English punk rock band formed in 1972 in the East End of London. Although they have never enjoyed commercial success, they helped pave the way for the early '80s punk scene and the Oi! subgenre., Their songs have been covered by many punk, Oi!, and hardcore punk bands. Their style is influenced by pub rock, glam rock and raw 1960s beat music as delivered by bands like the Small Faces and The Who. Their lyrics mostly deal with topics related to the daily lives of working class people. Their name derives from their original name, Cock Sparrow, a Cockney term of familiarity. Career Cock Sparrer was founded by Colin McFaull, Mick Beaufoy, Steve "Burge" Burgess and Steve Bruce – who had known each other since the age of 11. Playing in nightclubs in and around London, they developed the style that was later to be known as streetpunk or Oi!, mixed with pub rock/ R&B influences. In 1976, Garrie Lammin (Burge's cousin) joined as second guitarist, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Running Riot In '84
''Running Riot in '84'' is punk rock band Cock Sparrer's third studio album, released in 1984. Track listing All titles written by Cock Sparrer # "Run with the Blind" # "Is Anybody There?" # "Price Too High to Pay" # "Think Again" # "Don't Say a Word" # "The Sun Says" # "They Mean Murder" # "Closedown" # "Chip on my Shoulder" (live) # "Runnin' Riot" (live) # "The Sun Says" (Oi! LP version) (1996 CD Bonus Track) Personnel * Colin McFaul − vocals * Steve Burgess − bass * Steve Bruce − drums * Shugs O'Neil − lead guitar * Chris Skepis − rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ... Release history References 1984 albums Cock Sparrer albums Pirate Press Records albums {{1980s-punk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shock Troops (album)
''Shock Troops'' is the second album, and the first widely distributed, by punk rock band Cock Sparrer. It was released in 1983 on Razor Records. Track listing All titles written by Cock Sparrer Original release Side A # "Where Are They Now" # "Riot Squad" # "Working" # "Take 'em All" # "We're Coming Back" Side B # "Watch Your Back" # "I Got Your Number" # "Secret Army" # "Droogs Don't Run" # "Out on an Island" Subsequent releases # "Where Are They Now" # "Riot Squad" # "Working" # "Take 'em All" # "We're Coming Back" # "England Belongs to Me" # "Watch Your Back" # "I Got Your Number" # "Secret Army" # "Droogs Don't Run" # "Out on an Island" # "Argy Bargy" 1993 bonus track # "Colonel Bogey" 2001 bonus tracks # "I Need A Witness" # "Platinum Blonde" # "What's It Like To Be Old?" # "Teenage Heart" # "Run For Cover" Personnel * Colin McFaul − vocals * Steve Burgess − bass * Steve Bruce − drums * Mickey Beaufoy − lead guitar * Chris Skepis − rhythm guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, singer, songwriter, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way. He is best known as a promoter and manager of bands the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols. Brought up unconventionally by his grandmother after his father, Peter, left the family home, McLaren attended a number of British art colleges and adopted the stance of the social rebel in the style of French revolutionaries the Situationists. McLaren realised that a new protest style was needed for the 1970s, and involved himself in the punk movement, for which he supplied fashions from the Chelsea boutique SEX, which he operated with girlfriend Vivienne Westwood. After a period advising the New York Dolls in the U.S., McLaren managed the Sex Pistols, for which he recruited the nihilistic frontman Johnny Rotten. The issue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada—since the 2023 season. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Major League Soccer is the most recent in a series of men's premier professional national soccer leagues established in the United States and Canada. The predecessor of MLS was the North American Soccer League (NASL), which existed from 1968 until 1984. MLS was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The inaugural season took place in 1996 with ten teams. MLS experienced financial and operational struggles in its first few years, losing millions of dollars and folding two teams in 2002. Since then, developments such as the proliferation of soccer-specific stadiums around the league, implementation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Hardy
Daniel Mark Hardyhttp://boxing.nv.gov/2012%20Results%20Web/05-26-12%20MMA.pdf (born 17 May 1982) is an English former mixed martial artist who fought in the welterweight division. During his professional MMA career, which began in 2004, Hardy fought in multiple promotions, such as Cage Force and Cage Warriors, before signing a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2008. In 2010, he fought Georges St-Pierre for the UFC Welterweight Championship, but lost the bout via decision. Biography Hardy was born in Nottingham, England, where he began martial arts training at the age of 5. Hardy's initial education was in Taekwondo, and he later began competing at the age of 7. He started practising other martial arts as a teenager, which included Karate, Jujutsu, Judo and eventually wushu. After he had finished college, he began Muay Thai and Boxing at the age of 19. He then moved to Mixed martial arts a year later. His nickname, "The Outlaw", comes from the screen na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Zuffa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It is the largest MMA promotion company in the world as of 2011. It produces events worldwide that showcase 12 weight divisions (eight men's and four women's) and abides by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. , it had held over 600 events. Dana White has been its president since 2001. Under White's stewardship, it has grown into a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise. The UFC was founded by businessman Art Davie and Brazilian martial artist Rorion Gracie, and the first event was held in 1993 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of the early Ultimate Fighting Championship competitions was to identify the most effective martial art in a contest with minimal rules and no weight classes between competitors of different fight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riot Fest
Riot Fest is an annual three-day punk rock music festival based in Chicago, Illinois, at Douglass Park. It is known for booking reunions, guest performances, and full album performances. Riot Fest remains one of the largest independently owned music festivals in the United States. History Riot Fest was established in Chicago in 2005 by Mike Petryshyn and Sean McKeough, the latter who also co-produced Chicago's Motoblot annual motorcycle rally. Riot Fest spent seven years as a multi-venue festival, using the Metro, Subterranean, Double Door, Cobra Lounge and the Congress Theater to present bands over a three-day weekend, such as Social Distortion, Danzig, Cock Sparrer, Weezer, Alkaline Trio, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Bad Brains, the Dead Milkmen, Fun., the Lawrence Arms, Bad Religion, the Murder City Devils, Butthole Surfers, the Suicide Machines, and more. Punk, rock, indie rock, alternative, psychobilly, metal, skate punk and ska are represented at Riot Fest alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebellion Festival
The Rebellion Festival, formerly Holidays in the Sun and the Wasted Festival is a British punk rock festival first held in 1996. The festival has attracted mainstream press coverage from such sources as The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and Kerrang. The first festival in 1996 was held at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool England. It is still held there now, although on some years the festival has been held in nearby Morecambe. Festivals have also been held under the Rebellion and earlier brand names in Australia, United States, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, the Basque Country, Ireland and Austria. It is still a family-run, family-orientated event which celebrates Punk in all its forms, but also puts on bands from other alternative genres plus some Glam Rock artists and seminal bands from the 1960s and 1970s . There are up to seven music stages plus also an acoustic stage, a literary stage and a Punk Art gallery along with many workshops, and stalls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Monkeys
''Two Monkeys'' is an album by the punk rock band Cock Sparrer, released in 1997. It was initially released in Germany. Critical reception AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ... wrote: "Pick up the original as a collector's item, but save your ears for the 2009 Captain Oi! reissue, which remixes the original master tapes and reveals the album for the all-round masterpiece it ought to have been." The '' Sunderland Echo'' called the songs "anthemic street punk in classic Sparrer style." Track listing # ''A.U.'' # ''Before the Flame Die'' # ''Tart'' # ''Lies?'' # ''East End Girl'' # ''Anthem'' # ''Time To Be Me'' # ''I Live in Marbella'' # ''Bats Out'' # ''Battersea Bardot'' # ''I Feel a Death Coming On'' # ''Back Home'' # ''Goodbye'' References 1997 albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilty As Charged (Cock Sparrer Album)
''Guilty as Charged'' is punk rock band Cock Sparrer's fourth studio album, released in 1994 on Bitzcore Records. The album was re-released on 24 February 2009, in a remixed and partially rerecorded form on Captain Oi! Records Captain Oi! Records is a punk rock and Oi! record label based in High Wycombe, England. The company has released over 300 albums by many notable punk and Oi! bands of the late 1970s and 1980s. The label was set up by Mark Brennan, former bas .... Track listing # "Get a Rope" # "Because You're Young" # "Bird Trouble" # "Don't Blame Us" # "Roads to Freedom" # "Last Train to Dagenham" # "I Fit Central Heating (Working Pt. 2)" # "Strip" # "Crack in the Mirror" # "We Know How to Live" # "Tough Guys" #: 2009 reissue bonus tracks: # "Runaway Johnny" # "Why Can't You See?" # "Sunday Stripper" (1995 version) # "Roads to Freedom" (full version) References 1994 albums Cock Sparrer albums {{1990s-punk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Are They Now
{{about, the Cock Sparrer song, other uses, Where Are They Now? (other) "Where Are They Now" is a song recorded by English Oi!/ punk rock band Cock Sparrer in 1982, from their album ''Shock Troops''. The lyrics comment on the previous six years of the punk subculture. The song portrays the early years of the punk movement in a negative light, bemoaning the lack of follow-through by the leading figures. It also comments on the band members' own naivete, exhorting listeners to not make the same idealistic mistakes. Its lyrics mention several punk legends. In an interview with the fanzine ''Schizoipunx'' from 27 July 2006, Mickey Beaufoy of Cock Sparrer stated: ''Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons were rebellious "punk" journalists from the late-1970s. Joe is the late, great Joe Strummer, Jimmy is Jimmy Pursey and Rotten was Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols - and the song, which was written in 1982 was about what we saw as the quiet death of Punk - as none of these people w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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