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'Hoxton' Tom McCourt (born 1961) is the former bassist and bandleader of punk rock/Oi! band, The 4-Skins. He was one of the most influential members of the skinhead revival of 1977 to 1978, the mod revival of 1978 to 1979 and the Oi! movement from 1979 to 1984. McCourt moved to Hoxton, and was given the nickname ''Hoxton Tom'' by West Ham United supporters, at a time when a number of key people involved in football hooliganism from outside West Ham's natural recruiting ground were given tags after the area they came from.〔Pennant, Cass, ''Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF'', (2003: London, Blake Publishing, ISBN 978-1-904034-85-8)〕 He was and still is a Tottenham Hotspur F.C. supporter, but went to West Ham United matches with friends, many of whom were part of the Inter City Firm (ICF), which he became associated with.〔Pennant, Cass, ''Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF'', (2003: London, Blake Publishing, ISBN 978-1-904034-85-8), c. 4, p. 90〕 ==Career== Born in Shoreditch, London, England and an engineer by trade, Tom McCourt formed The 4-Skins in late 1979 along with Gary Hodges, Steve 'H' Harmer and Gary Hitchcock.〔(The New Breed A Teenage Warning )〕 Their first concert was in summer 1980, supporting The Damned and Cockney Rejects at the Bridge House in Canning Town. McCourt, Hodges and Harmer were all part of the Cockney Rejects road crew, as featured on the back cover of the album ''Cockney Rejects Greatest Hits Volume 1''.〔 McCourt played guitar on The 4-Skins' first commercially-released recordings (two songs on EMI's 1980 punk compilation, ''Oi! The Album'') before switching to bass for the remainder of the band's existence. McCourt performed vocals in the song "New War", on the 1984 album ''A Fistful of 4-Skins'', and performed lead vocals on a re-recorded version of "Chaos", which was released for the first time on the 2000 4-skins compilation ''Singles & Rarities''. McCourt was a continuous member of the band through its original incarnation, writing all of the music from 1979 to 1984, as well as writing most of the lyrics after Hodges' departure. McCourt was also a DJ at skinhead/mod bars and clubs in North and East London, such as the Blue Coat Boy at The Angel, Islington.〔(The Band )〕 He was known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of 1960s soul music, reggae and ska. McCourt has not joined the reformed line-up of The 4-Skins because, in his opinion, the band "was about youth".〔(4Skins ~ at Runboard.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hoxton Tom McCourt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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