SPECIAL DUTIES - POLICE STATE - UK 1982 - FULL ALBUM - STREET PUNK OI!

TRACKLIST
1) Police State
2) We gotta Fight
3) It just ain't Me
4) Special Duties
ABOUT THE BAND
British punk rock band from Colchester (Essex) created in October 1977 by school-fellows Steve Green (Aka Arrogant), Steve Norris (Aka Duty) and Nigel Baker... They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw the Adverts in Colchester… They decided to put Arrogant on vocals, Duty on guitar and Baker on Bass.
The band was originally going to be named X-pelled, but they switched to Special Duties when a box of around 200 badges with "Special Duties" printed on them which had been stolen from a school in Colchester came into their possession… The band deciding that they could save money on getting badges made by simply changing their name to match the stolen ones.
For their debut live show, they spread the word through the underground punk grapevine that they would performing a free gig underneath the shopping precinct in Colchester... Hundreds of people turned up to see them play a fifteen-minute version of the only song they knew.
In 1980, Bart Povah joined the band and they recorded their first demo, which got them a record deal with Charnel House Records… The band moved to Rondelet Records soon after and recruited drummer Stuart Bray.
Their second EP titled "Police State" spent two months in the indie chart, prompting Rondelet to get the band into the studio to record their debut album, titled “77 in 82”.
In 1982 Arrogant decided to declare war on the anarcho-punk band Crass... Their debut LP was followed by their biggest selling single "Bullshit Crass", an attack on a band that they saw as destroying the traditional punk scene... However, after that, their music's leading distributors, Rough Trade and Small Wonder, refused to stock their material... This censorship made life a burden for the band... In 1983 they released the single "Punk Rocker" which was not well distributed… In the same year, the group broke up.
Twelve years later, Captain Oi! Records reissued “77 in 82” with a new title "77 in 95" and encouraged by the response to it, the band got back together, playing at Fuck Reading at the Brixton Academy… After that the group didn't split again.
In July 1998 the band travelled to New York for a gig at CBGB's, releasing the performance on the “Live at CBGB's” which became an album.
In 2014 they signed to the Jailhouse Records label, which produced two discography releases… They began regularly gigging and recording, with multiple festival appearances and an USA tour planned for 2016, as well as a new studio record.