I shall never grow up. Self deprecation and humour are my only two redeeming features but the tarts like that about me, so all's well.
Way before my time , probably fueled by speed & bad music. Before that Mods & rockers used to beat **** of each other over mopeds & leather jackets. In the 90s I used to listen to hip hop & go to concerts with zero trouble after that raves where it didn't matter what colour the DJ was, I used to ho to AWOL where most of the DJs were 2nd generation Jamaican , never any violence just gurning sweaty e heads . I wouldn't fancy going to a club with drill rappers , they seem a little bit aggressive.
Amphetamine sulphate, £10 a gram, tip half a gram in a can of blue Tennents and that was you for the night. Some of the punk bands were brilliant live, especially the yank outfits like The Ramones and The Heartbreakers. And the DJs always played reggae between the acts at punk gigs.
London's Burning is my favourite song by The Clash, just a shame that they went all "Americanised" and started wearing Cowboy Hats and Boots and other ****ing guff American paraphernalia. Sold out for Uncle Sam's Dollar.
I get the impression that Punks & skin heads wanted to be antisocial & edgey they didn't really hate anyone. Going out of their way to look scary , fighting & jumping into each other on the dance floor was part of the appeal . Pretty sure most of these people got old paid into mortgages & live normal boring lives now . The embarrassing faded tattoos they got at 18 year old the only evidence of their rebel phase they went through. DMs, skin tight jeans with a Fred Perry shirt skin head & tattoos was a pretty cool look & probably got them tons of girls wanting to make daddy angry . Probably only a small percentage of these skins were actually racist, they seemed to look permanently angry & hated everyone especially normies. Not that dissimilar to heavy metal dudes with scary Satan badges sewn on their leather jackets with long greasy hair . The recent fashion of young kids wearing all black tracksuits with hoods & ski masks is equally ******ed & I'm guessing a uniform to look scary to old ****s like us .
Their first album contained the song “I’m so Bored With the USA”. Then they spent two years touring the USA. In other news, I still have “White Man at the Hammersmith Palais” with the pistol on the label, and the original pink sleeve. Must be worth at least £12 to a collector now
Most of the so called "punks" were a bunch of ****tahs and lezzers that wouldn't say boo to a goose. The Sex Pistols were a manufactured boy band (Malcolm McLaren) much in the same vein as The Beetles. The Clash were never punk.
I was in central London last week with my eldest daughter & she's into 90s style baggy raver jeans . There was 2 guys walking around with massive parallel jeans & one of them was wearing them backwards with the fly at the back . I didn't even know that was possible
And being the Daily Mail, his £600k semi-detached house in Surrey is the most important part of this report... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-near-600k-house-say-theyre-embarrassed.html
I had it on a compilation cassette tape that wore out in the late 90s. I used to let all the spoilt kids in school buy the records, then I borrowed them and taped them. Except for all The Beat, Selector and Specials stuff. Loved that scene. Harks back to all the RAR stuff too.
