"Skinhead is an Urban Soldier - A protector of the streets, friends, family and home. It's an energy and belief that lives inside you and is released by dance or music. Skinhead means never giving up no matter how hard things get."

On the second of April 1983 in Stratford East London over six hundred people turned out to see Skrewdriver, The Ovaltinees and Peter and the Wolf.
The British musical establishment had just issued an ultimatum to the two bands with the biggest skinhead followings in Great Britain to denounce their right wing followings and views or face a total blackout by the press and ban from all music venues.
Sham 69, the first, complied with the establishment dictate and watched helplessly as 800 skinheads and supporters rioted at the next Sham gig at the betrayal, the Sham following or Sham Army as they were known voluntarily ceased overnight as did Shams career and credibility.
The second band, a true skinhead band were not about to be dictated to by anyone let alone abandon their fans and who’s action was about to shake the British music establishment to its very foundation and unleash an underground musical genre that is still causing widespread dismay and concern around the world today.
Ian Stuart, lead singer of Skrewdriver took the stage that evening dressed in Black Ben Sherman, stay pressed and boots with red braces and a Union Jack flag draped over his shoulders.........a legend was born!
With the subsequent release of the "White Power" single the press was given a thousand volt charged shock. The band and music they thought they'd sidelined or killed off, had come back and begun a fatal onslaught that continues to this day.
White Rock, Skinhead Rock, Street Rock n Roll, Rock Against Communism, Oi! call it what you may, but the music of the resistance and only real underground subculture, that is banned at every step in any way possible is still thriving and driving forward.

Welcome to the skinhead underground, the musical resistance and sound of rebellion!

"Oi! as played by Skrewdriver and their kind is punk without the theatrical overtones, punk without O levels, punk that has never been to art school. This is the genuine voice of council estates. Real working class music. Unlike every musician since Elvis, Oi! bands don't play with the mythology of danger. They were and are the real thing. It isn't pretty." Tony Parsons, Sounds September 1992.