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General information
Genre (s) Street punk , Oi!
founding 1981
resolution 2007
Website www.nidgeblitz.com
Last occupation
Alan Nidge Miller
Carl Fisher
Shawn Attack
Neil McLennan
Charlie Howe
Steve Cast

Blitz was a punk / Oi! Band from New Mills in the district of Derbyshire in England . They had their heyday especially in the UK in the early 1980s.

Band history

The band consisted of both punks and skinheads and always referred to themselves as a punk band. Garry Bushell , an editor for Sounds magazine , loved Blitz and made it clear in several articles.

After major successes in the early 1980s, the band broke up, only to be reanimated by guitarist and songwriter Alan Miller with a new line-up. After an appearance, Miller was hit by a car while under the influence of drugs on a freeway and died on February 10, 2007 .

Blitz had a great musical influence on various punk rock formations. Some of their songs were known punk bands gecovert . For example, the Blitz song "Someone's Gonna Die" was on Rancids Radio Radio EP . "Warriors" was covered by The Distillers and Judge . On the sampler The Worldwide Tribute To The Real Oi , Oxymoron interpret the Blitz title “New Age” and the Ryker’s “Never Surrender”, on part 2 of the sampler Roger Miret and the Disasters cover the track “Voice Of A Generation”. With Voice Of a New Generation: A Tribute To flash a compilation, on the 15 punk bands of the band pay homage, including appeared in 1999, Red London , Red Alert and Charge 69 .

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • Voice of a Generation (No Future Records 1982)
  • Second Empire Justice (Future Records 1983)
  • The Killing Dream (Cleopatra / Skunx Recordings 1989)

EPs

  • All Out Attack (No Future Records 1981)
  • New Breed (Warning: Records 1992)

Singles

  • Never Surrender / Razors in the Night (No Future Records 1982)
  • Warriors / Youth (No Future Records 1982)
  • Propaganda / Moscow (Masterbag 1982)
  • New Age / Fatigue (Future Records 1983)
  • Solar / Husk (Future Records 1983)
  • Telecommunication / Teletron (Future Records 1983)

Compilations

  • Blitzed - An All Out Attack (Link Records 1988)
  • Best of Blitz (Dojo Limited 1993)
  • Blitz Hits (Cleopatra 1994)
  • The Complete Blitz Singles Collection (Anagram Records 1994)
  • All Out Attack (Get Back 1997)
  • The Best Of Blitz (13th Moon Recordings 1998)
  • Warriors (Harry May 1999)
  • Voice of a Generation: The No Future Years (Anagram 2000)
  • Punk Singles & Rarities 1980-83 (Captain Oi! 2001)
  • All Out Blitz: The Very Best Of (Anarchy Music 2005)
  • Never Surrender (Best Of) (2005)
  • Hits - Voice Of A Generation (SOS Records 2006)
  • Time Bomb Early Singles And Demos Collection (Radiation Reissues 2013)

Sampler contributions

  • Carry On Oi !! (Secret 1981) - "Youth", "Nation On Fire"
  • The Secret Life of Punks (Secret 1982) - "Youth"
  • Punk and Disorderly (1982) - "Someone's Gonna Die"
  • Seeds IV Punk (1987) - "Someone's Gonna Die"
  • The Crazy World of Punk (1996) - "Criminal Damage"

Tribute sampler

  • Various - Voice Of a New Generation: A Tribute To Blitz (1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oi! - The Truth by Garry Bushell ( July 28, 2007 memento on WebCite )
  2. ^ One Law For Them ( Memento of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Man Killed Crossing IH-35 in Buda ( Memento of November 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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