Artist: Cock Sparrer
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Run Away
Year: 1995
Tracks: 7
Runnin' Riot in '84
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Shock Troops
Year: 1982
Tracks: 13
Guilty As Charged
Year:
Tracks: 11
One of the first gear Oi! bands, Cock Sparrer was acting tatty, raw, Cockney wage-earning anthems as early as the first wave of British punk rocker, although record ship's company difficulties prevented them from issuance a great deal material until the early '80s, when the Oi!movement was easily underway. The group formed in London's East End in 1975, to begin with as a hard-edged taphouse rock'n'roll combo in the nervure of Dr. Feelgood. Four of the members -- singer Colin McFaull, guitarist Mick Beaufoy, bassist Steve Burgess, and drummer Steve Bruce -- had been schoolmates since age 11, and had been playing together in cover bands three old age prior. They were united by musical rhythm guitar player Garrie Lammin (Burgess' cousin-german), and curtly began playing the Bridgehouse Pub in Canning Town on a even cornerstone. The egress of the Sex Pistols presented an opportunity to further toughen up their healthy, which sparked a brief interest from Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren that didn't goal up amounting to much. In 1977, Cock Sparrer gestural with Decca Records (which had already landed another proto-Oi! band in Slaughter & the Dogs) and recorded their debut single, "Runnin' Riot," which was followed by a cover of the Rolling Stones' "We Love You." However, disagreements with Decca light-emitting crystal rectifier to the sense that the band's simple, basic, street-level sound wasn't very understood; as a consequence, their self-titled debut was, for some intellect, issued only in Spain. Lammin leftfield the chemical mathematical group to follow an performing life chronicle not long after, and a thwarted Cock Sparrer went on an unofficial hiatus.
By the early '80s, bands like Sham 69, the Angelic Upstarts, and the Cockney Rejects had transformed the wage-earning tinder sensibility into a Cockney-dominated subgenre dubbed Oi! As early progenitors of the scene, Cock Sparrer was in demand once once more, particularly after their birdcall "William Ashley Sunday Stripper" appeared on an Oi! compilation. They began gigging again and quick landed a record deal, resulting in the 1982 hit single "England Belongs to Me," which stricken a chord during the centre of the Falklands War. Cock Sparrer's official U.K. debut record album, Shock Troops, was likewise released in 1982 and became a longstanding Oi! favorite. Guitarist Beaufoy leftfield the banding in 1983 and was replaced by the tandem of Chris Skepis (rhythm) and Shug O'Neill (spark advance). This lineup recorded the follow-up album, 1984's Runnin' Riot in '84, only Skepis and O'Neill both gone shortly thereafter. Beaufoy rejoined in brief for the Live & Loud album, released in 1987, but disagreements inside the band and (over again) with their criminal record company precipitated another breakup.
In late 1992, Cock Sparrer was invited to play a reunion gig at the Astoria, approximate Charing Cross. The appearance of over 2,000 fans kayoed the band into a fully fledged reunion, featuring the original quartette of McFaull, Beaufoy, Burgess, and Bruce, addition new round guitarist Daryl Smith. In early 1994, Cock Sparrer released Guilty as Charged, their first gear record album of all-new corporeal in a decennium. The farrago EP Run Away followed in 1995, featuring alive and studio recordings; the proper follow-up to Guilty as Charged, Two Monkeys, was released in 1997, with rumors that it would be the band's last album featuring all new material. A passel of compilations and live recordings followed during the next few long time, with the band chronic to term of enlistment extensively, hit the U.S. in 2000.
