Dirty Small Town

As previously detailed on this site, the retirement of one of Korea's wildest, craziest skinheads resulted in the dissolution of Jiraltan99. The guitarist and bassist of that band went on to make their own project, Dirty Small Town. This band didn't last long, but they managed to get one good professional-sounding EP out before the inevitable.

The core of the band was Yongwook and Seokyoon, and they went through a few drummers and were even joined by the occasional guest vocalist.

They switched back and forth on vocal duties, but I got the impression Yongwook was supposed to be the main singer.



Seokyoon was a worryingly short guy, but as usual the short guys tend to be the toughest for some reason. And he was never afraid to take off his shirt. In fact, a little too not afraid. I have it on good authority from a Canadian skingirl who will go unnamed, but who was somewhat overweight at the time, that he was able to pick her up and carry her back to his home, where he had his way with her four times in one night.

(Yes, I make skinhead collector cards. Good for a laugh.)

To be honest, they were a little baffling to watch at times because of the dual vocals, but they had a few performances where they really nailed it. Whenever they performed, all the skinheads physically able to make it would be standing on stage with them, adding backing vocals and I guess trying to be in my photos.

Here's their old singer Seungpa coming temporarily back from retirement.


And this singer is Jiwoong, who used to front the band Oi Broker who never did a single recording.


Yongwook eventually grew tired of the direction the skinhead scene was taking, more deeply into far-right politics, and ended up growing his hair out. Seokyoon went the opposite direction, joining Samchung and I'm assuming joining the far-right brigade. I'll have a report on them in the future.

They released a six-song EP that does them justice and features the usual brigade of guest vocalists. Notable songs are track 2, "Working Hard, and track 6, "Dirty Small Town" (not another Pogues cover, don't worry) which features Yeongsoon from Attacking Forces and Jonghee from Rux. The funniest song is track 3, Gochu Chingu, which translates to the meaningless-sounding "Pepper Friend" but in Korean is a term for freakishly close friends, and gochu/pepper is slang for penis. Download "All Together Now" by Dirty Small Town.