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Retaliator

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 brought into the band. Ian - a former roadie - was taken on as singer and now the band were 100% skinhead. They are also one of the first oi bands to play Portugal, which resulted in some good exposure in the national press there.