Section 5 are one of those second wave Oi! bands that came to prominence after the 4-Skins broke up and Blitz went post-punk. As the liner notes go, they couldn't get a gig for the first two years of the band, no doubt a result of the live environment after the 1981 Southall riot. What that did do was allow the band to hone their chops, as well as trim to a three piece, with Tosh handling vocals as well as guitar. What you get here is their first LP, released in 1985 on Oi! Records, as well as their two tracks from the "This Is Oi!" comp and a mess of demos that predate the power trio. My copy came out back in 1994 on Captain Oi!; a vinyl reissue came out via Spain's Disco Nightmare in 2015.
I keep coming back to the Oi! Records catalog regularly. A track will come up on shuffle, which will lead me to listening to "Unite and Win!" or "Boston Callin'" or "Dead & Buried" or this. Pronounced, even leftist Oi! is still somewhat underheard. So it's cool to come across this period in the mid 80s when a pair of Welsh ex-cons got together, started a band in the Oppressed and helped foster a scene that crossed an ocean and genres. To proudly carry the S.H.A.R.P. banner back then...wow, pretty intense stuff.
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