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13 Tracks – Punk Rock, Oi, Hard Rock.
Oi! Punk band from East Anglia, UK.
Retaliator are a 4 piece skinhead/oi! band from the Norfolk area of England.
They first formed in 1996 during the euro football championship,and recorded their first demo that August.The band played a few gigs before getting a support slot with Braindance and The Exploited in Norwich,and from then onwards they started to build up some sort of reputation with regular gigging.
At this point the band were offered a single deal with Data records from Coventry,which resulted in the ‘Feel the power’ E.P.Although an oi band from the outset, Retaliator-like most new bands-had many line up changes in the early days.The original singer had a mohican which resulted in the band being labelled ‘Punk’, with support slots being offered with bands like The Varukers.This was not the path the band wanted to take,so a new singer was bought into the band. Ian-a former roadie- was taken on as singer and now the band were 100% skinhead.Since then Retaliator have gone from strength to strength,releasing two L.P’s on Pure impact records and appearing on several compilation L.P’s.
They also are one of the first oi bands to play Portugal,which resulted in some good exposure in the national press there.Future release’s include a split 12" single with Scotlands Bakers Dozen called ‘Kick down the fucking walls’ which should be out this year.Until recently ,Retaliators line up included Steve Gale from Loyalty but now the band are back to being a four piece.The current line up also includes two members of Condemned 84
