I Don’t Wanna was delightfully bass led and Borstal Breakout faithful but reimagined with a funky little middle section. There was subtlety too, a reggae breakdown in What Have We Got (“Fuck All!”), and a cheeky nod to the yanks in No Entry.
Buzzsaw riffs, minimally pleasing solos forceful yet supple bass and drums of thunder: Parsons, Tregunna and Guy motored through the set like a runaway tank. No one would argue that this was a night of virtuoso musicianship, but nonetheless there’s a skill to underplaying, to staying true to the tunes rather than showing off, to just nailing it with power and passion. Then again, you should have seen the dent in the pillar…
There was nothing casual about the pit either, just ask the fella with the lump the size of an egg that staggered to the merch mid set. Er, correction – judging by the volume of the singalongs throughout the night there were no casual fans in attendance. The setlist picked itself and whilst the casual fans had to wait for the finale and encore for the hits, the hardcore were rewarded with a judicious selection from the core catalogue. The same French who are, apparently, “good at rioting but fuck all else”. Next to no comments addressed directly to the audience but he was prone to uttering gnomic comments… Borstal Breakout allegedly a French folk song for instance. He managed to be fully engaged with the crowd (unnecessarily requesting singing, as the crowd constantly took the lead) but strangely disengaged. Still packed with righteous anger on the political tunes but with irresistible joie de vivre on the party songs. His voice hasn’t changed (well, more of a rasp to it) and still powerful: online dictionaries use a picture of Pursey to define stentorian. Jimmy Pursey was in fine form – looking alarming like Bobby Gillespie’s deranged Uncle – and a man prone to pogoing with abandon.
Album DescriptionIndependent journalism is needed now more than ever. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. This is the definitive Sham collection for those looking for something reasonably complete. The liner notes are rudimentary, but the sound is great and so is the price. But it hardly matters, since the early material is in such great quantity. It's true there are some reunion cuts here, which are not up to par with the best stuff by a long shot. Disc two focuses primarily on album tracks from the band's Polydor recordings and the last one on live material. Disc one does contain all the wild and unruly hits "Angels With Dirty Faces," "If the Kids Are United," "Borstal Breakout," "Hurry Up Harry," "Hersham Boys," "Unite and Win," "Tell the Children," "Cockney Kids Are Innocent," and ten others. The most notorious omission is the band's first single on the Step Forward label, "I Don't Wanna"/"Rip Off," though awesome live versions of those songs from 1979 are on disc three. While the title here, Complete Collection, is somewhat misleading because it doesn't contain everything they recorded, it really is almost everything (and more) you'd ever want. Everyone from the great leftist working-class bands like the Angelic Upstarts and Newtown Neurotics to Nazi punks Skrewdriver and the 4-Skins claimed Sham 69 as an influence. Buy the album Starting at 43,89€Īs reviled as they were celebrated, Jimmy Pursey and company were the original boot boys from London's notorious East End, the true Cockney kids, and the lot who inadvertently inspired the loads of Oi! and skinhead punk bands that followed.
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