One Way System — Discography

One Way System are a street punk band formed in the Fleetwood area of Lancashire, England in 1979. One Way System’s initial line-up consisted of Craig Halliday (guitar), Gavin Whyte (vocals), Tez Mcdonald (drums) and Gaz Buckley (bass). A demo of the song Jerusalem, recorded by that lineup, was later included on the A Country Fit For Heroes compilation album, released in January 1982 — Catalogue number Oi3 — which reached No. 4 in the UK Indie Charts. David Ross of Poulton-Le-Fylde band Zyklon B joined as second guitarist and in 1981 Blackpool’s Lightbeat/Beat The System label released the No Entry EP: A-side Stab The Judge, B-side Riot Torn City and Me and You, featuring all 5 musicians.

The first ever record released by One Way System was «Stab the Judge», financed by Craig Halliday with his grandmother’s legacy on a loan basis. Although all 1,000 pressings were sold, Craig’s loan to Lightbeat Records founder Barry Lights remains unpaid, and it is believed the money was used by Lights to finance releases by other bands on his label. After some early personnel changes (Tez Mcdonald joined The Fits and Craig Halliday left following a disagreement regarding a broken Gibson SG, resurfacing years later in Sick 56), the line-up settled down with Gav Whyte on vocals, Dave «Crabby» Ross on guitar, Gary Buckley on bass and Tommy Couch on drums.

The Give Us A Future 7″ was the first release (Halliday, Couch, Whyte, Ross & Buckley) (ANA1) on Cherry Red’s Anagram Records in 1982. In the same year, Anagram also re-released No Entry as the Stab The Judge EP (OWS2) and the single version of Jerusalem. One Way System became Anagram Records’s first signing with the release of the All Systems Go LP, following the Give Us A Future 7″ indie chart success and the band being featured on the front cover of UK national music paper Sounds. Between 1982 and 1984 the band had five Indie Chart hit singles and two Top Ten albums. A U.S. West Coast tour alongside Circle Jerks in 1984 was abandoned when Circle Jerks vocalist Keith Morris broke his neck, although the band managed to salvage one date with Suicidal Tendencies. In 1985 Gav Whyte was replaced on vocals by Andy Gibson of Preston punk band The Genocides and the band remained signed to Anagram until they split in early 1986 with enough songs written for an unreleased third album.

Tom Couch then spent 2 years with the UK Subs and has since been voted one of the best punk drummers of all time. One Way System was resurrected in 1995 with Gavin Whyte returning after Captain Oi! re-released All Systems Go and Writing On The Wall in CD format. Gaz Buckley left the band to be replaced by Dave Brown for a ten date European Tour. Brown was replaced in turn by Andy Wilkinson and, in 1996, Cleopatra issued a Best Of collection. In 1996, whilst working on a new album, Gavin Whyte left the band and was replaced by longtime fan Lee Havok (real name Lee Pinkney) and it was with this line-up that undertook a tour of Japan.

A new CD, Waiting For Zero was released through GMM in 1998 and Cherry Red released a Singles Collection in 2003. The 2005 various artists compilation CD Give Us A Future (The History Of Anagram Records 1982-1987) took its name from the One Way System single of that name. More recently, White South African Lee Havok was replaced by ukNige (ex of Pink Torpedoes and, with One Way System founder member Craig Halliday, Sick 56) on vocals and ukNige was then replaced by Jay Susel. In 2011, Couch and Wilkinson, while remaining in One Way System, joined singer Dunk Rock (UFX) and guitarist Tony Mitchell (Kiss of The Gypsy) in gothic psychobilly band Boneyard Zombies, releasing the Death Rattle and Roll album in 2012. Both bands appeared at the 2012 Rebellion Festival in Blackpool. Recording for a new One Way System album is already underway and the band toured the U.S. West Coast in 2013. Gaz Buckley is currently in Aussie punk band The Terraces.

One Way System — 1983 — Writing On The Wall

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 1983
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 151,49 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. Corrupted World
02. This Is The Age
03. One Pay Soon
04. Nightmare
05. Neurotix
06. Reason Why
07. Into The Fires
08. Days Are Numbered
09. On The Line
10. Life On The Outside
11. Cum On Feel The Noize
12. Children Of The Night
13. Down
14. Shine Again
15. Out Of Mind
16. Stab The Judge (Demo)
17. Me And You (Demo)
18. Jackie Was A Junkie (Demo)
19. Jerusalem (Demo)
20. Give Us A Future (Demo)
21. Magic Roundbout
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One Way System — 1984 — All Systems Go

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 1984
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 129,93 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. Ain’t No Answers
02. Give Us A Future
03. Jerusalem
04. Me And You
05. No Return
06. Waste Away
07. One Way System
08. Gutterboy
09. Breakin In
10. Forgotten Generation
11. Victim
12. Your Ready Now
13. Stab The Judge
14. Riot Torn City
15. Me And You
16. Just Another Hero
17. Jackie Was A Junkie
18. Jerusalem
19. 1980’s
20. Spokesmen For The Teenagers
21. All You Kids
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One Way System — 1995 — The Best Of

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 1995
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 117,02 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. Stab The Judge
02. Give Us A Future
03. Just Another Hero
04. Jerusalem
05. Jackie Was A Junkie
06. Ain’t No Answers
07. No Return
08. One Way System
09. Gutterboy
10. Forgotten Generation
11. Cum On Feel The Noize
12. Breakin In
13. This Is The Age
14. Into The Fires
15. Corrupted World
16. One Day Soon
17. Reason Why
18. Children Of The Night
19. Shine Again
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One Way System — 1996 — Forgotten Generation

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 1996
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 101,25 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. Stab The Judge
02. Give Us A Future
03. Jerusalem
04. This Is The Age
05. One Day Soon
06. No Return
07. One Way System
08. On The Line
09. Nightmare
10. Aint No Answers
11. Jackie Was A Junkie
12. Breakin In
13. Forgotten Generation
14. Victim
15. Just Another Hero
16. Life On The Outside
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One Way System — 1997 — Return In Breizh

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 1997
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 123,45 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. One Way System
02. Reason Why
03. No Return
04. This Is The Age
05. Waste Away
06. Days Are Numbered
07. Slaughtered
08. Victim
09. Into The Fires
10. Breakin’ In
11. Gutter Boy
12. Believe Yourself
13. Ain’t No Answers
14. Riot Torn City
15. Stab The Judge
16. Jerusalem
17. Jackie Was A Junkie
18. Corrupted World
19. Give Us A Future
20. No Return
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One Way System — 1999 — Waiting For Zero

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 1999
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 108,39 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. Real Me
02. On The Up
03. Search Your Soul
04. Systematic Abuse
05. Pressure On
06. Reality TV
07. Shut Up
08. Leave Me Alone
09. Guilty
10. Enemy
11. Believe Yourself
12. Backshine
13. Rise To Flame
14. Bonus Track
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One Way System — 2004 — Punker Than Fuck

Genre: Punk Rock / Street Punk
Year: 2004
Country: England, Lancashire
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 118,04 MB
Site: Facebook
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01. Stab The Judge
02. Give Us A Future
03. Just Another Hero
04. Jerusalem
05. Jakie Was A Junkie
06. Ain’t No Answers
07. No Return
08. One Way System
09. Gutter Boy
10. Forgotten Generation
11. Cum On Feel The Noize
12. Breakin In
13. This Is The Age
14. Into The Fires
15. Corrupted World
16. One Day Soon
17. Reason Why
18. Children Of The Night
19. Shine Again
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