East End Babylon – review

A knotty documentary about punk's Oi! faction captures the rage festering in the late 1970s East EndOi! was punk's extremist wing, given more to skinheads than mohawks. Richard England's knotty, tricky doc strives to give the movement context through the story of the Cockney Rejects' Jeff and Micky Geggus, who exploded out of a cramped Canning Town semi in the late 1970s with a tape recorder full of "four-bar shitter songs", and came to provide the soundtrack for West Ham's hooligan element. Th...

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