CRUX

"People on the street need punk and Oi because they're sick of listening to disco shit"....................................................... ..................................................if you want more info about crux go here : http://www.uk82.com/ and look it up.......................................................The record-buying public's first introduction to the Camphill Liberation Army and their apparently blissful existence came at the fag-end of '81 courtesy of No Future's seminal 'Country Fit For Heroes' compilation EP.A gem of bootboy basics built on a wobbly but well rowdy terrace rivvum, Crux's raucous ode to their beer^ swilling buddies would hardly have endeared them to Paul 'I hate cavemen who drink in pubs' Weller and similar grim gurus but it did bring a ginsoaked tear to the eyes of less tight-lipped listeners.The next vinyl outing from these Nuneaton nutters, 'Liddle Towers' on last year's distinctly average 'Oi Oi That's Yer Lot', saw their stadium-soaked sentiments take on a more serious side.Basically a rough-house rewrite of 'De Camptown Races' it saw the street corner quartet taunting the constabulary with lines like -You got Liddle Towers, but you won't get me, doo-dah- 'Further defiant pleasures were available a little later on No Future's 'Keep On Running' 12" which Crux shared with the nicely speed-crazed Crash.Here they proffered four spunky sing-songs in classic OiOi style, the best being the sprightly title track. Though not exactly Ted Templeman production jobs, they were spirited yobbo anthems which were delivered just as fine live, as London billies discovered at the band's knuckle-dustered fistful of Skunx gigs last year (before that sweaty dive got polluted by blockheads).