Skinheads

[Fletch]

I'm still flying the flag.

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Have you got a brother called Ginge ? Or is this a different Tadge?

 

[Tadger]

Have you got a brother called Ginge ? Or is this a different Tadge?

Nah not me, none of that in my family.

 

[Latka Gravas]

So basically Sunderland folk got it wrong? ffs man



Sound lad him, daft as brush mind, and loves the odd tattoo

Not how I'd describe him, an ignorant bigot is a better description.

 

[Al]

It's interesting these days discovering how the early skinheads were such a noble bunch. My memory of the early 70s was that pretty much all they were about was violence. If you had long hair and were on your own you had to keep looking over your shoulder cos given half a chance a group of them would give you a kicking. I once had a bunch of them set on me near Chilton. I knocked the ringleader ower a fence and legged it - they found me at a bus stop & one of them pulled a knife, but I was saved by an owld wife who chased him away saying she'd tell his ma.

 

[Billericay Dichio]

Revisionist bullshit.

 

[vinegar hill]

It's interesting these days discovering how the early skinheads were such a noble bunch. My memory of the early 70s was that pretty much all they were about was violence. If you had long hair and were on your own you had to keep looking over your shoulder cos given half a chance a group of them would give you a kicking. I once had a bunch of them set on me near Chilton. I knocked the ringleader ower a fence and legged it - they found me at a bus stop & one of them pulled a knife, but I was saved by an owld wife who chased him away saying she'd tell his ma.

This is my recollection of them. Some on here are trying to state they were some kind of political movement!! Fuckin hillarious, most of the ones I knew were thick heeds from places like Farringdon and Thorney Close who were basically worky tickets.
Some I knew and were canny lads others just fancied themselves as hard men when in most cases they weren't.
Politics!?! They couldn't have deciphered Ted Heath from Harold Wilson.

 

[The Spezial One]

Romper Stomper

 

[zwartekat]

This is my recollection of them. Some on here are trying to state they were some kind of political movement!! Fuckin hillarious, most of the ones I knew were thick heeds from places like Farringdon and Thorney Close who were basically worky tickets.
Some I knew and were canny lads others just fancied themselves as hard men when in most cases they weren't.
Politics!?! They couldn't have deciphered Ted Heath from Harold Wilson.

Apparently, they were mainly about looking smart and liking reggae music . They were still knocking about Sunderland when punk started and they didn't take kindly to that either. They had a mob mentality and just picked out anyone who was 'different'. Probably the most conservative youth cult ever.

 

[vinegar hill]

Apparently, they were mainly about looking smart and liking reggae music . They were still knocking about Sunderland when punk started and they didn't take kindly to that either. They had a mob mentality and just picked out anyone who was 'different'. Probably the most conservative youth cult ever.

To be fair Sunday night at the Rink they donned their Levi Sta Prests and blazers and looked smart.
Not at as smart as me like in me Mohair suit!

 

[dangermows]

Seen a fair few out and about over the weekend. Is the look on the rise?

 

[ajthemackem]

Seen a fair few out and about over the weekend. Is the look on the rise?

Been a few gigs on - 1977, Mystery Cats etc. Imelda May played too, brought out the rockabilly crowd.

 

[Barnacle Boy]

Seen a fair few out and about over the weekend. Is the look on the rise?

Aye

 

[Deleted member 39494]

How comes people associate it with racism when the whole 'movement' was the exact opposite?

The original skinheads circa 68-69 looked cool as fcukand loved their ska music. They then in turn became suedeheads-I loved reading the Richard Allen books on the subject of

skins/suedeheads.

It was the numpties who jumped on the NF bandwagon circa 76-77 who gave that sub-genre a bad name and also became football hooligans. That's why Rock against Racism happened and you had that gig in Victoria park in London.

Looking back the 70s was a very violent decade. London at that time was graffiti and corrugated iron fencing and very bleak.

The Sweeney/Professionals is a brilliant snapshot of how it was back then

Have you got a brother called Ginge ? Or is this a different Tadge?

Turn ups an inch i see....a stickler for details I see

And the colour laces said something too:
Red
Yellow
Green
White

This is my recollection of them. Some on here are trying to state they were some kind of political movement!! Fuckin hillarious, most of the ones I knew were thick heeds from places like Farringdon and Thorney Close who were basically worky tickets.
Some I knew and were canny lads others just fancied themselves as hard men when in most cases they weren't.
Politics!?! They couldn't have deciphered Ted Heath from Harold Wilson.

.....deciphered Ted Heath from Harold Wilson

 

[Morse]

Sadly, when people of my age think of skinheads, it's probably the shiny green jackets, burgundy Sta-Prest (sp?)
trousers and 21 thousand hole doctor martens with coloured laces, going round causing trouble and giving random people a hard time. They also loved a bit of 'Paki bashing'.

The real skinheads were immaculately dressed and groomed, loved Ska and Reggae etc. and were anything but racist, violent bellends.

 

[dangermows]

Sadly, when people of my age think of skinheads, it's probably the shiny green jackets, burgundy Sta-Prest (sp?)
trousers and 21 thousand hole doctor martens with coloured laces, going round causing trouble and giving random people a hard time. They also loved a bit of 'Paki bashing'.

The real skinheads were immaculately dressed and groomed, loved Ska and Reggae etc. and were anything but racist, violent bellends.

Indeed.

 

[Morse]

All explained here.

Why have none of the lads in the vid preview pic got skinhead haircuts?

 

[dangermows]

Why have none of the lads in the vid preview pic got skinhead haircuts?

Look like the right cut to me. Granted they're a bit more a suedehead than skinhead in a literal sense but plenty sported that look from what I've seen and read.

 

[Morse]

Look like the right cut to me. Granted they're a bit more a suedehead than skinhead in a literal sense but plenty sported that look from what I've seen and read.

Second from right, back row is a yeti, man! Too scared to shave it off, the soft get.

 

[dom]

Because is wasn't. Part of the 'movement' was racist and violent and as we all know, the empty drum bangs the loudest and that became the public perception of skins.

Didn't care much for hippies and hairies either!

 

[Tadger]

The original skinheads circa 68-69 looked cool as fcukand loved their ska music. They then in turn became suedeheads-I loved reading the Richard Allen books on the subject of

skins/suedeheads.

It was the numpties who jumped on the NF bandwagon circa 76-77 who gave that sub-genre a bad name and also became football hooligans. That's why Rock against Racism happened and you had that gig in Victoria park in London.

Looking back the 70s was a very violent decade. London at that time was graffiti and corrugated iron fencing and very bleak.

The Sweeney/Professionals is a brilliant snapshot of how it was back then




Turn ups an inch i see....a stickler for details I see

And the colour laces said something too:
Red
Yellow
Green
White



.....deciphered Ted Heath from Harold Wilson

Half inch I'll have you know.