Since 2015, Special Duties have continued to perform and record as an active punk rock band. The band released 77 One More Time: Volume 2 in 2015, followed by the studio album 7 Days a Week , released on 5 November 2021 through Violated Records. The album contained 14 tracks…
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In 2014 they signed to the Jailhouse Records label. which produced two discography releases. They began regularly gigging and recording, with multiple festival appearances, shows, and a U.S. tour planned for 2016 as well as a new studio record.
In 2007 the band re-recorded the “Up the U’s!” with local band Koopa with a song entitled “Stand Up For Col U” by Koopa and with the vocals of Colchester United players Jamie Cureton , Chris Iwelumo , Wayne Brown , Karl Duguid , Kevin Watson , Pat Baldwin ,…
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In July 1998, the band travelled to New York for a gig at CBGB’s , releasing the performance on the Live at CBGB’s 1998 album.
In 1997 the band released “Wembley Wembley! (Wembley here we come)” to commemorate Colchester United reaching the final of that year’s AutoWindscreens Shield at Wembley . Also on the CD was a version of ” Up the U’s! ” a song written about the football club and still sung there…
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Twelve years later, Captain Oi! Records reissued 77 in 82 , and encouraged by the response to it the band got back together, playing at 1995’s Fuck Reading at the Brixton Academy . After that the group didn’t split again.
In 1982 Arrogant decided to declare war on the anarcho-punk band Crass . Their debut LP was followed by their biggest selling single “Bullshit Crass”, an attack on a band that they saw as destroying the traditional punk scene. It came with a Crass-style sleeve and the lead track began…
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Special Duties was created in October 1977 by schoolfellows Steve Green (Aka Arrogant), Steve Norris (Aka Duty) and Nigel Baker. They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw The Adverts in Colchester. The fact that the three schoolboys couldn’t play and…
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