Any Punks?
BanglaRoad
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Watched a documentary on BBC 4 this evening about the punk movement in the late 70s I was just a small child then and have no memory of it at the time but watching it now it looked exciting, rebellious and a little bit dangerous
Anyone on here who was a punk and was it as wild as they portray it on TV?
Anyone on here who was a punk and was it as wild as they portray it on TV?
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We covered them in safety pins and drew spiders webs on our faces. It lasted for two days as my mam said we looked about as rebellious as a pair of Barbie dolls.....
all because of this song !
Yeah that sounds like a laugh! BTW that is a cracking good song
Yes one of my favourites. I've still got the vinyl single which sounds pretty good now, even after playing it about a thousand times over that summer
I never really warmed to punk, even though I went to every gig. I remember Max Wall (who was pretty old even then) supporting a punk multi-act gig, and people were just covering him with spit. I thought it was just so demeaning to spit at a 70 year old man.
When I got home that Saturday afternoon - ripped t-shirt, 14 hole docs, and a new exiting hair style my Mum went absolutely f*****g mental.
Her and my auntie frog-marched me to round to the local barber where I emerged 10 minutes later bald.
Later that same day, my Dad got home from the golf club - half pished after several hours in the 19th hole - and commented that my hair was looking a bit tidier.
Unfortunately no photographic evidence of my hair on that day 37 years ago exists, but my Mum still complains about my (to her eyes) somewhat unconventional tastes in hair, tattoos, clothes etc. I suppose I am now just an ageing punk.......who listens to Radio 2!
Pistols, Jam, Stranglers, Souxie and so on........I think those groups would have 'made it' in any era, certainly they'd have fitted in during the 60s
I never went to what could really be classed as a punk gig (excluding local kids in pub cellars), but I remember going to see The Cure and The Banshees and thinking how glamorous the girls looked when made up like Siouxsie Sioux. I could never get my hair to do the full Simon Gallup, but I would have done if it had cooperated.
I steered well clear of the political side of it and all that skins vs punks vs mods vs rockers tribalism nonsense. I didn't have the classic punk attitude or a taste for gobbing and glue-sniffing.
Yes they were classed as a punk band, but not hard core like the Pistols. Some would say more New Wave really.
yeah I reckon so........Teenage Kicks
Described by John Peel as 'the greatest record ever made' or something like that !
Yeah another favourite
She is one very sexy woman Very sexy but also scary too!
A "punk" version of a Burt Bacarach/Hal David classic made famous by Dionne Warwick.
What a bunch of sophisticated softies.
They were light years away from most punk bands given their individual musical pedigrees.
Well I did say it only lasted two days
And I have a copy of the original press made in Belfast by Terry Hooley.
Think there were 500 issued before it was pressed nationally.
Worth a few bob now.
Dress choice ........see through, eh?
It was the real thing then - safety pins and bin bags not bespoke designer gear artfully ripped. One of my sons thinks of himself as a punk. But he has no idea. I keep telling him I'm going to teach him to make his own clothes so he can be a true punk not a plastic one.
(not the tedious,aging 'rock' band, but the dreary cosiness we have today)