COCKNEY REJECTS

London’s Cockney Rejects formed in the late ’70s and pioneered Oi! – a working class-punk subgenre named after their song ‘Oi! Oi! Oi!’. Their brash, shouty songs are written with an East End sense of humour and often reference their beloved West Ham United. Rarely in the long history of British rock’n’roll has there been a story of such depth, magnitude and sheer turbulence as that of the Cockney Rejects. The band were formed in the late Seventies in East London as an answer to the art school punk that had dominated the scene.