Ah right, thought they might have been an older band. Slade started off as a skinhead band in 69, short sleeved, large check shermans, high turned up jeans, martens and braces to boot..Some proper aggro at their early gigs like..
Isn't it a dovetail cut or something like that? The curvy one that looks **** when worn outside and not tucked in.
Yes, proper hardcore.. They were the promoters of skinhead music when they first got going.. The first ever proper punk/political band were called 'Third World War' back in 72. Check out their tracks Ascension Day and Teddy Teeth..
School uniform ... Oxford bags with raised seams and 27 buttons (looked like a pearly ****ing king) ... footwear was either 16 hole black docs or diamond stacks that had to be worn with neon stripey socks ... your bags had to stop half way down your shins so lots of sock was on show (if wearing the stacks) ... white shirt and had to wear the school tie but we all had these jumpers with 3 stars in a row, bigger one in the middle ... my 'go to' was black with white stars (but I also had a red and back and a black and yellow) ... feathered mullet hair, dab of old spice round the mush (and down the y-fronts) and you were good to go ... the dogs bollocks ...
Must be my memory ... they were the longer ones ... that's how we initially got around the ridiculously short trousers ... they still came down to our 'shoes' which were the school regs ... still got them somewhere in the loft ... boots that is
10 and even 12 holes were probably the max. 16 holes would nearly come to your knees, mind they probably made them.
Likely 12 ... but a trip to the loft beckons ... Also had a pair of the 8 holes mind ... funny thing is that in later years they became a client of mine when I worked for one of the Big 4 accounting firms and I handled part of the deal that saw them sold to the VC house Permira ... they were my favourite client and I loved going out to their offices at Wollaston ... they converted the house that Max Griggs was born in, into part of those offices ... it was his father that founded the firm and obtained the original licence from the German inventor of the airwear sole ...
Comm speak. Met the guys that owned Doc Martens. Helped them sell their family business for circa £300 million. They all lived happily ever after. The end.
