-BootStroke was born through the need of playing Oi!Oi!Oi! music and sing about the things we like and hate.Thats football,having a laugh and having a say,hating politics,hating the police and the state and being proud to be working class.The band was formed in Thessaloniki (bigest city of greece after Athens in the north of Greece) in 1999-2000 by members of other Oi! and streetpunk bands of that time.The band released a demo tape and did some local gigs.All the members were from diferent cities so the band couldnt last for long like this.The band moved to Athens city with a diferent line up,members of which where playing in the Athenian skinhead band called "Streetboys".After that the story begins...---BootStroke sound is a unique powerful melodic but rough Oi!punk influenced by classic 80s British Punk-Oi! sounds, rock'n'roll and hardcore rythms.BootStroke lyrics have to do mostly with football matters,with everyday problems a single individual may have,lyrics for the working class and social problems.---Over the last years, BootStroke have made a lot of tours,they have travelled all over Greece(Athens,Patra,Pirgos,Volos,Kastoria,Serres,Agrinio,Thessaloniki,Kavala,Alexandroupoli and Rhodes island),but also in Germany(Hamburg,Potsdam,Leipzig), France(Marseille),England(East Sussex),Italy(Bologna,Milano,Cremona),Austria(Vienna),Spain(Ourense).Thanks to these gigs the band received very good reviews and gained fans from all around the world.The band shared the stage in festivals and in single gigs with great bands such as Cock Sparrer,Cockney Rejects,Sham 69,The Last Resort,Peter and the test tube babies,Section 5,Argy Bargy,Deadline,Discipline,G.B.H,Bonecrusher,On file,Volxsturm,Perkele,Stomper98,Evil conduct,Skarface,and many many more including most of the greek Oi!punk bands.The band played in really important festivals like:"Oi the meeting"festival in Potsdam-Germany(2006)"Concrete jungle"festival in East Sussex-England(2007),"Rebellion"festival in Vienna-Austria(2008).---BootStroke in these 9 years have released : "XILO META MOUSIKIS"(2000-Self released demo CD)"GIVE EM THE BOOTSTROKE"(2005-Self released CD) - "FOOTBALL DRINKS & ROCK N ROLL"(2009-Anfibio records) and participated in many various compilations all around the world.---After all BootStroke is all about good friends,Oi! music,football and beers!!!---Never lose faith!
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