The 4-Skins
The 4-Skins are a working class Oi! band from the East End of London, England. Originally composed of Gary Hodges (vocals), 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt (guitar), Steve 'H' Hamer (bass) and Gary Hitchcock (drums), they formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1984 – although new line-ups formed in 2007 and 2008. Many of their songs dealt with violent topics, but the band has claimed they were discussing the realities of inner city life, not promoting violence. Other 4-Skins song topics include police harassment, political corruption, war and unemployment.
Career
Initially the band members had known each other from football, or from following bands such as Sham 69 and Menace. Most of the original four band members were or had been skinheads, thus the double meaning of the band's name. However, Steve Pear had a rockabilly style, and Hoxton Tom McCourt — who was a suedehead — was one of the leading participants of the mod revival. Prior to the release of the band's debut single, "One Law For Them", The 4-Skins contributed songs to the first three Oi! compilation albums, alongside bands such as Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, The Business and Angelic Upstarts. The 4-Skins went through many personnel changes during their five-year existence, with only bassist/songwriter 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt being present in every line-up of the band. Other former members include Roi Pearce, who was also the frontman of The Last Resort, and Paul Swain, a guitarist who later joined the white power rock band Skrewdriver.
Podcasts:
The 4‐Skins
ALBUMS
- The Return released: 2010
- History of...The 4 Skins released: 2004
- The Secret Life of the 4-Skins released: 2001
- From Chaos to 1984 released: 2000
- Singles and Rarities released: 1999
- Clockwork Skinhead released: 1999
- Singalong-A 4-Skins released: 1998
- One Law for Them released: 1997
- A Fistful of 4 Skins released: 1997
- The Good, the Bad & The 4 Skins released: 1996
- Live and Loud!! released: 1993
- A Few 4-Skins More, Volume 2 released: 1992
- A Few 4-Skins More, Volume 1 released: 1991
- The Best of the 4-Skins released: 1991
- Live and Loud!! (The Bridgehouse Tapes) released: 1989
- Wonderful World of the 4 Skins: The Best of the 4-Skins released: 1987
The Secret Life of the 4-Skins
Released 2001- Wonderful World (John Peel radio session)
- Jealousy (John Peel radio session)
- One Law for Them (John Peel radio session)
- Evil (John Peel radio session)
- Yesterdays Heroes (John Peel radio session)
- The Greatest 4 Skins Rip Off (live)
- Things Ain't Gonna Change (live)
- Watcha Gonna Do About It? (live)
- Chaos (live)
- Clockwork Skinhead (live)
- A.C.A.B. (live)
- Summer Holiday (live)
- Wonderful World
- Evil
Singles and Rarities
Released 1999- Wonderful World
- Chaos
- Clockwork Skinhead
- Evil (original version)
- A.C.A.B.
- I Don't Wanna Die
- Yesterdays Heroes (original version)
- 1984
- Sorry
- Evil
- One Law for Them
- Brave New World
- Merry Christmas Everybody
- Yesterday Heroes
- Justice
- Get Out of My Life
- Low Life
- Bread or Blood
- Plastic Gangster
- Norman
- Seems to Me
- Chaos (Herbert version)
- On the Streets
Live and Loud!!
Released 1993- Wonderful World
- Sorry
- Summer Holiday
- A.C.A.B.
- Chaos
- Jealousy
- 1984
- Clockwork Skinhead
- I Don't Wanna Die
- Evil
- Wonderful World (Encore)
- Chaos (Encore)
- Feel the Rage
- Riot Riot
- Triffic Spiv Ya OK
- You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
- We Out Number You
- The Catalogue Kids
- In for a Riot
- Drug Squad
- Punch the Air With Glory
- Still Out of Order
- Each Dawn I Die
- Emergency
- Punch the Air With Glory (Encore)
- Riot Riot (Encore)
A Few 4-Skins More, Volume 2
Released 1992- Wonderful World (live)
- Jealousy (live)
- On the Streets (live)
- Johnny Go Home (live)
- 1984 (live)
- Bread or Blood (live)
- Saturday (live)
- A.C.A.B. (live)
- City Boy (live)
- Five More Years (live)
- Evil (live)
- On File (live)
- Clockwork Skinhead (live)
- Chaos (live)
- Clockwork Skinhead
- Evil
- 1984
- Sorry
- A.C.A.B.
- I Don't Wanna Die
- Chaos (Herbert version)
- Brave New World
- Get Out of My Life
- Bread or Blood
- Yesterday's Heroes
- Norman
- Dambusters
- Merry Xmas Everybody
A Few 4-Skins More, Volume 1
Released 1991- Plastic Gangsters
- Jealousy
- Yesterday's Heroes
- Justice
- Jack the Lad
- Remembrance Day
- Manifesto
- Wonderful World (live)
- 1984 (live)
- Sorry (live)
- Evil (live)
- I Don't Wanna Die (live)
- A.C.A.B. (live)
- Chaos (live)
- Five More Years
- Johnny Go Home
- The Gambler
- I'll Stick to My Guns
- On File
- Forgotten Hero
- H.M.P.
- No Excuse
- Betrayed
- City Boy
- New War
The Best of the 4-Skins
Released 1991- One Law for Them
- Yesterday's Heroes
- Clockwork Skinhead
- Brave New World
- Chaos
- Wonderful World
- Evil
- Sorry
- 1984
- A.C.A.B.
- I Don't Wanna Die
- Plastic Gangsters
- Yesterday's Heroes (single version)
- Get Out of My Life
- Justice
- Jack the Lad
- Low Life
- Bread or Blood
- Seems to Me
- Norman
- On the Streets
- Five More Years
- Betrayed
- Saturday (live)
- Dambusters
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Sergeant Stiletto
by: 2 Skinnee J'sThe scent of danger
takes me to the edge of panic
now I¡¯m caught
in the plot
that was thought up
satanic like Mayo
-Dayo,
daylight comes and I wanna get home before I¡¯m burnt by the sun.
I wanna be free in peace love and harmony,
but my veranda be vanishing like carbon see
check the scripture
a picture emerges now its shined
with the twelfth sign of the seventh sturgeons.
And the first is a sleeper
steeped in the force of the dark side
is striked but hold up hell horse.
And the source be above the law like Sir Gal.
The thought of their stare raised my hair like the dog.
Now he stalks where I walks
setting soldiers at the border
and hopes to catch Gueverra actin outta order.
And the fact is I was kidnapped
thrown in the back of the
unmarked van destination unknown
in league with the entry got an Oliver Stone.
We¡¯re starting revolutions
33 and 1/3,
you¡¯re mine now,
was all I heard.
In the jurisdiction marked of the prediction,
cuz the truth stranger than fiction
from the get go
the watcher said so
beware
Sgt. Stiletto.
J Gueverra takes the fifth to those who would drag me under
like coyote to roadrunner,
now the population faces incarceration
while select serpents reach
certain circles of illumination.
Looking over my shoulder,
I¡¯m seeing shadows on the walls.
I¡¯m turning pallid at the thoughts of the gallows.
Seven gables zooming for me cant neglect the connection,
Seven are the sides on the cross on the pendulum,
Stiletta, the name of the nemesis Gueverra,
I¡¯m trapped in the labyrinth.
Assassins be passing me and I amongst their midst,
before my name is known I slip into the mist,
I exist
the Specialist
who persists
to vent the secret entrance I decipher the hieroglyphs
TADA the creek before reveals a door VOILA
and I emerge into the crypt.
In the jurisdiction marked of the prediction,
cuz the truth stranger than fiction
from the get go
the watcher said so
beware
Sgt. Stiletto.
Now I¡¯m strapped to the rack and the terrors on,
God damn
I feel like the man from the marathon,
I gotta bust out or I¡¯m Dustin like Hoffman
and I feel like the mino shit I¡¯m lost.
The little keys unlock the mysteries unknown,
I roam these catacombs like Jones.
I float like a butterfly
see revenge like superfly
and I got high
be on like sky.
I¡¯m making a date with the undertaker
as Stiletta sends me
out to meet my maker.
I charge that cigar that comes like Kool-Aid
and I bust through the wall like a Big Jim Slim.
You trip the switch and you fall through the trap,
your friends are falling in and you can¡¯t get em back,
there¡¯s a dragon underground you heard the bellow,
beware
Sgt. Stiletto.
In the jurisdiction marked of the prediction,
cuz the truth stranger than fiction
from the get go
the watcher said so
beware.
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