In stark contrast to the insipid and lightweight pop pap that was being served up in 1984, there was a angry roar coming from a musical tribe that were a million miles away from Wham! Throughout the early '80s the anarcho-punk scene was pretty much fronted by Crass, but in this year they fulfilled their declared intention to split and south east London mates Conflict stepped up to fill the void.
In 1984 it is fair to say that world politics were in a mess and the UK was very much affected. In Berkshire, RAF Greenham Common had become a permanent home for thousands of women for whom the staging of Cruise missiles at the base was an affront. In terms of temperature, the relationship between the US and USSR was still below freezing as the Cold War saw it's fifth decade..... Perestroika was some way off yet.
In London's St. James's Square, WPC Yvonne Fletcher fell to a terrorist's bullet fired from the Libyan Embassy, an act that would destroy the relationship between the UK and Libya for many years and play a role in the UK endorsed bombing of Tripoli and the downing of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
In the month that saw Conflict play this gig in sleepy Worthing, an announcement by the National Coal Board that Cortonwood Colliery was to close prompted a walk out that triggered the year long Miner's Strike, the bitterest industrial dispute in living memory and the start of my interest in politics.
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01. Intro
02. Increase The Pressure
03. Law & Order
04. Berkshire Cunt
05. The Guilt And The Glory
06. Great What?
07. The Serenade Is Dead
08. One Nation Under The Bomb
09. Vietnam Serenade
10. Meat Means Murder
11. No Island Of Dreams
12. Exploitation
13. Punk Inn’it
14. Technical Problem
15. Whichever Way You Want It
16. Cruise
17. The Positive Junk
18. The System Maintains
19. Conflict
Very decent recording of this anarcho-punk band at their top. Saw them not long ago ..and they still deliver.
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