It has been an incredible last 10 months for Oi! Music. December 15 of last year saw the launch of the first Oi! Music album on vinyl in the Philippines with Kalbo Pilipinas. The Sound of Pinoi! Skinhead Anthems (Vanity Records) celebrated the scene and cemented its legacy. The album, which has since sold out and was also featured at an incredible launch show at WYP in Poblacion, Makati.
This 2025 has seen the releases of Cebuanos Fury (Vanity Records) and, most recently MaOi (Mutilated Noise Records) that has kept the momentum. And this coming Saturday, October 18, the biggest show in the Oi! Music scene will return with Oi! Attack: Rock Against Racism at Rewind also in Poblacion, Makati.
‘The Oi! Attack we organized in 2023 was supposed to be the last one after doing this for a while,’ said Merck Alvarez, the organizer of these events. ‘But the scene is alive and doing well again, so game lang ulit.’
‘Oi! Attack is not for profit but for the scene where skinheads and punks can enjoy good music by bands who are against racism in any form and are against fascist governments. And the foreign bands support this too. This is expressed in their music and in their lyrics as well.’
Performing at Oi! Attack Rock Against Racism are local bands namely the Spaceflower Show, Disorganize, Against the Wall, Squad 79, Southern Lads, as well as Permanent Revolution from Australia, Dickie Spike from Japan, and the headliner making a return to these shores. the Bois from Singapore.
Oi! Music is a subgenre and subculture of punk rock that fused early punk rock, ska, 1970s British rock and roll, football chants, and pub rock, and has come to be considered mainly a skinhead-oriented genre. Oi! Music has gone from merely a scene in the United Kingdom to a global phenomenon today.
Added Alvarez, ‘We will have merchandise available for fans, but of course, limited yan. The show begins at exactly 3pm on October 18.’