Sham 69 frontman Jimmy Pursey has written in with a statement on the upcoming North American tour booked by his ex-bandmates. Pursey and guitarist Dave Parsons have both laid claim to the band name following a bitter split earlier in the year. The group planning to tour this August under the name Sham 69 will feature Parsons, bassist Rob Jefferson, and drummer Ian Whitewood and new vocalist Tim ‘Scazz’ Scargill.

Pursey commented:

It would be more understandable for you to feel how angered I am by the representation of SHAM 69 , being portrayed as something that you and I know it isn’t! The band never was and never will be anything to do with Oi! The band never set out to make money or play millions of gigs around the world, it was an ideology and as near as damn it, a diary of the outside world as how I saw it day by day…

My annoyance and anger is over Dave Parsons bringing over, to the good ol USA, his version of MY band and thinking that he can try and release an album, to which, going back to December 2005, I first penned the lyrics and musically arranged with [former Sham bassist] Matt Sargent.

He also speaks of a song penned for the album titled “Hollywood Hero,” a track inspired by the war that the frontman has since decided not appropriate to release. In the below statement Pursey explains his reasons for not wanting it to see the light of day. .
Source Sham 69 frontman Jimmy Pursey has written in with a statement on the upcoming North American tour booked by his ex-bandmates. Pursey and guitarist Dave Parsons have both laid claim to the band name following a bitter split earlier in the year. The group planning to tour this August under the name Sham 69 will feature Parsons, bassist Rob Jefferson, and drummer Ian Whitewood and new vocalist Tim ‘Scazz’ Scargill.

Pursey commented:

It would be more understandable for you to feel how angered I am by the representation of SHAM 69 , being portrayed as something that you and I know it isn’t! The band never was and never will be anything to do with Oi! The band never set out to make money or play millions of gigs around the world, it was an ideology and as near as damn it, a diary of the outside world as how I saw it day by day…

My annoyance and anger is over Dave Parsons bringing over, to the good ol USA, his version of MY band and thinking that he can try and release an album, to which, going back to December 2005, I first penned the lyrics and musically arranged with [former Sham bassist] Matt Sargent.

He also speaks of a song penned for the album titled “Hollywood Hero,” a track inspired by the war that the frontman has since decided not appropriate to release. In the below statement Pursey explains his reasons for not wanting it to see the light of day. .
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