Cover star of Have-A-Go Merchant.
The image was first published in Nick Knight's 1982 book "Skinhead".
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Had a quick look through. Don't see it there.I'm pretty sure it's in Peepholism.
”Man hands on misery to man.” Fantastic poem, that.They f*** you up, your mum and dad.
he has his name tattooed on his hand.
yip bluebird iv known quite a few skinheads in my time going back to the late seveties,closets must have been in short supply in those days because i have never met a gay skinhead.Used to have a houseful of ( male)skinheads live down the road from us, approx 1982/3..
It was quite a big corner terraced house where they all gathered, sniffed glue and listened to Madness and Oi music and would threaten to beat you up unless you let them play football with you (badly in their Doc Martens to be fair).
They also revelled in writing extremely non-PC graffiti.
If any of them were gay they were definitely in the closet at that time.
I should have said 'about the cover star's age' there. Sean is just the account holder? Sorry, I'm not on Facebook.I've watched various interviews with former skinheads of about Sean Nevin's age on YouTube in the last few years. Whilst there are acknowledgements that the movement contained a violent, even neo-nazi, element, in general they are adamant that being a skinhead was primarily about the look - hair, clothes, boots - and the music. However, my own closest contact in person was with an Essex woman who once boasted to me that her skinhead brother, a West Ham FC supporter, would go up to London at weekends in the late 1970s expressly to do a bit of Paki-bashing with his mates. Coincidentally, the woman (a big Frank Sinatra fan and now a grandmother) had the surname Harrington, so I think of her every time I look at Mporium.
Had many a great night up the Klub Foot in Hammersmith back in the day. Mad nights, Restless, Stingrays, Guana Batz and the Tall Boys and the Meteors. The bogs tho, were disgusting.Not rockabilly but psychobilly gigs were insanely violent.
As I imagine they should be in a joint like that.The bogs tho, were disgusting.
Had many a great night up the Klub Foot in Hammersmith back in the day. Mad nights, Restless, Stingrays, Guana Batz and the Tall Boys and the Meteors. The bogs tho, were disgusting.
I always liked the opening sequence of Introducing M, where Moz has a part time job postering for an Angelic Upstarts concert. I guess the yob walking around is supposed to be Mensi?I’m most definitely counting early ska and reggae. Absolutely magnificent music. But also bands like The Oppressed and The Angelic Upstarts. And the 2-Tone stuff. I don’t know how much of a puritan you are, but this is some great music associated with skinhead culture.
Ditto! It’s such a great little vignette.I always liked the opening sequence of Introducing M, where Moz has a part time job postering for an Angelic Upstarts concert. I guess the yob walking around is supposed to be Mensi?
This is just rubbish. 'Gay men' (whatever that means) have been dressing like 'straight men' (whatever than means) for centuries to blend in and not stand out. And also as a bit of a fetish - a form of masculine 'drag'. This is why the Village People were able to turn this into a bit of a visual joke in the US context - one of them dressed as a construction worker, one of them dressed as a cowboy etc. In the UK context one of them could have quite easily dressed as a skinhead. Many gay men did indeed adopt the skinhead look - very simply because it was how other (straight) men were dressing in the towns where they grew up. It was all about blending in and not standing out. And as a bit of a fetish. The idea that some gay men dress 'butch' (to blend in) and some gay men dress 'effeminate' (to stand out) is as old as the hills. There are jokes in Juvenal's Satires about butch and effeminate homosexuals, even though that word hadn't been invented yet. And it is the main theme of The Naked Civil Servant, published in 1968 but recalling Quentin Crisp's experiences in the London of the 1930s through to the 1950s. There is nothing new under the sun.It was one of the first masculine gay subcultures that wasn't completely hidden. It was moving closer to the mainstream.
you would have thought he would have got a new shirt by now!
Contrarian or hypocrite?Yeah, that and, I always speculated the British skinhead culture represented an England to him that no longer exists. Around the same time he was singing of it’s ‘death’ and American cultures hand in that, with such songs as Glamorous Glue and We’ll Let You Know. Though being the contrarian he is, he would eventually move to L.A.
Maybe neither? Maybe a pragmatist?Contrarian or hypocrite?
'97. Check out the Alma Matters video.To an extent. The haircuts weren't. Rockabilly's and rockers always looked better. I can't remember Moz ever shaving his head......can you? Apart from that one-off short haircut in 95,
'97. Check out the Alma Matters video.
This is just rubbish. 'Gay men' (whatever that means) have been dressing like 'straight men' (whatever than means) for centuries to blend in and not stand out. And also as a bit of a fetish - a form of masculine 'drag'. This is why the Village People were able to turn this into a bit of a visual joke in the US context - one of them dressed as a construction worker, one of them dressed as a cowboy etc. In the UK context one of them could have quite easily dressed as a skinhead. Many gay men did indeed adopt the skinhead look - very simply because it was how other (straight) men were dressing in the towns where they grew up. It was all about blending in and not standing out. And as a bit of a fetish. The idea that some gay men dress 'butch' (to blend in) and some gay men dress 'effeminate' (to stand out) is as old as the hills. There are jokes in Juvenal's Satires about butch and effeminate homosexuals, even though that word hadn't been invented yet. And it is the main theme of The Naked Civil Servant, published in 1968 but recalling Quentin Crisp's experiences in the London of the 1930s through to the 1950s. There is nothing new under the sun.
Morrissey's interest in the skinhead culture is almost certainly predominantly to do with its staunchly working class origins, much less so with its tangential 'gay' context, that you seem unhealthily obsessed with in your role of the titillated 'voyeur'.