1983 Islington Squatter Punk Documentary 

Nostalgia doesn't even come close... Unbelievable to see these guys on film and hear their voices again. I knew most of them (that's Scott, by the way, not Cyril, and I think he's really acting up for the camera!) and they were some of the nicest, most accepting and easy-going people I've ever met. And FUN! So good to hear some of them are doing OK. I was just a 'weekender' but loved these people. 1985 sounds right because I didn't think Alex was around in 1984. Great to see Animal again, what a lovely, lovely bloke. Miss them like crazy. X

I picked up on it. love the vid cheers

Hey Howard, would love to get in touch about the doc, please send me a message back and we can talk over email!!! Thanks

The old days

Its wasnt 1985 more like 1983 i was there and i wasnt in london 1985 im alien in it a few times cool film

Alex was a bellend was 1 of those people that when he was on his own was cool with other people around a bully nee him well he s a rat

So did I dont no who that was alex was a bellend just tall I he didnt control me

Sometimes the English are like that

@@philpatton5652 yo wtf

@@amrfwws4461 well hello is this who I think it is ?

without a doubt; my parents we punks and are the most accepting and chill people. gave me loads of freedom when i was younger so i didn’t have to rebel and get myself into trouble

Some of them are yeah, I was a punk in Jersey but when my friends went to NYC the crusty punks were the worst. They were assholes if you didn't have money for beer or drugs. They used to call people with jobs housies

so fucking true

Until you hold different political and social beliefs than they do.

@@youthfulcurmudgeon3627 actual punks who value the state of personal autonomy and equality/fairness in society will be tolerant of other political leanings and views or beliefs so long as it does NOT prevent personal autonomy and isn't unjust and harmful to others.

REALLY??! TELL ME ON WHAT SEC. ARE YOU IN THIS VID? DESCRIBE YOURSELF

Do you know my husband Sean? He was in Eat Shit

I was 16 in '85 and a regular on King's Road - maybe we knew each other X

That's ausome. Is it more strict in the uk now as far as squatting goes? I think skin heads dont tolerate fashion swazticas now right?

@Eric Sirias i do these things and im 29 hahaha but idk what people think

They have principles! 😤 😇😂😂

I knew this fellow who would go into the subway station bathrooms, in a city I used to stomp around in many moons ago, who would sniff popper crap in the bathroom stalls downstairs. He was a weird airhead and liked to wear this grey DRI shirt every freakin' day of the week and cut his red curly hair into a mohawk regularly. He would squeegee cars on the roads nearby and would bump into everybody like a dingus on crack or something. Lol I heard a story once where he kept asking for this girl's number and she ran telling him he was a smelly hobo or something. 😂

I wonder why that was?

@@LunaRose1312 chill

I lived there iv grown up now

I lived in that squat but was out the day u shot it gutted would luv 2 hear from sum of my old mates

I lived in that house at that time but was out who got in contact . Anne maria used 2 b ny girlfriend . We moved 2 Brixton after that squat great times

Great film I lived there but was out that day ( gutted ), great film with good friends but who told u alex was the leader alex he was a bellend bully not my leader anyway

yes that me

Yh

Bold

*Slowthai

oh fuck off all these fucking cunts have nothing to do with our cultures and are literally raiding everything fuck off

RicheyClear spent all my money you ain’t getting no more

Anyone know where the soundbite from the end of Toaster came from?

i listened to slowthai and remembered this video

Who the fuck is Slowthai?

@@gasparsalguero6242 educate yourself

I was trying to find the song he was playing, and i listen to that song all the time, i didn't even recognise it. Honestly he doesn't play it very well i think he's playing it on the wrong string. But anyway I can see the resemblance and it does sounds pretty good lol good on you for spotting it.

​@ch-yq5ynthat sounds more like living the "dream" of the avarage person, keeping up the status quo. Fuck that.

​@ch-yq5yn feel you. Completly agree

No you didn’t.

Lmao

@@hermanhawtrey8578 relax herman

By the time mohawks and studded jackets came in, punks were dressing like normal people

Not a big different between the million persons who died because alcohol poisoning

A lot of them probably had personality disorders from their trauma. Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day squatted and described it as all these people with personality disorders coming together. As someone with borderline personality disorder, I love punk music because it helps me put words to my feelings❤

@@yaelfeder9042 Dang I forgot about this.. Cool. Well, Billie Joe isn't really a triumphant example realistically, he had alot of resources at his disposal specially in his upbringings. Great musician though. My loved forgotten companions (another one just recently passed in Nov 2021) have had drug addiction issues, most of them were from broken one parent homes. I've been blessed in that area. Punk music was the intervention I solely stumbled across, I'll love it always!

@@humachine5226 Aw thank you for your kind words! I’m just 25 but I am fascinated by punk because I never had other people like me to connect to as a teenager. While I wish had that connection y’all had, I am still grateful for where I am now. I am sorry for your loss. I am studying public health now so that people like us with complex childhood trauma can get access to the right resources needed to live a long life. I am going to quote Billie Joe again “We’re a product of war and we’ve been victimized.”

bullshit mate. Are you Australian like the patronising ahole who made this?

What the title?

hard not to be when you're around this bunch

Of course they're smug. These squatters have a far lower worth to society than the journalists interviewing and filming them. The people making this video are just far better people in general in all respects of life.

@@mrdojob uh duh duh duh

@a weed The path they follow in life is to exploit others. It''s a shit path and one of the home owners should have gone around and given them the beating their fathers forgot to give them as a child. Better late than never.

There's not been punks in camden for about 30 years. They're all plastic. Islington's full of champagne socialists.

Next time I'll look harder.. :P

BLUEbalerbals London is dead honey. There's no punks in London. But yes, there is one venue in Camden, the only one in London, you have to look.

this is 83 babe.....times change image wise, but the Punk Spirit Lives On in Anarchy.

I have nothing against punk fashion or music, but you're wrong... punk is not really political. It merely adopted anarchy as an ideology. Anarchists are usually respectable, well-rounded and intelligent people who look after themselves - unlike these twits!

I knew two of the punks here Kev Deverill and George Willy they were from Barnet I would have said its more 83 than 85.

and I found it many years later was funny to see it the guy recording it was a prick but he paid us in merrydown cider so we didn't really care and most of the commentary was added later he wouldn't of mocked us like that to our faces

BRO I LOVE YOU FOR DISCOVERING 1:37

My dad's playing that bass 😂

piss off

Sniff some glue and calm down

Flesh Robe gg fucking allin

I really hate some punks. They will literally say "we're punks. We don't condone violence and rape, unless it's G.G. Allin, of course. That guy is a god." Fuck G.G. and anyone that actually looks up to him.

@@Deeznutseighthundredthirty i dont think gg really raped people. He was saying it all for shock reaction. He was violent though

@@matthewjdouglas6471 i mean that guy was a junkie and had the physique of a fat 60 year old, it wouldn't take a professional boxer to fight him off so im sure he was full of shit, literally.

@@Deeznutseighthundredthirty punks are antifa losers change my mind

I haven't seen him since we lived in brixton shame cos he was ok on his own

​@@philpatton5652hi Phil emm which punk are you in the video(? Hello i really like Punk i'm 20 and i have curiosity i like punk moviment and music, can we have a conversation (?

yeah all you fucking raiders

@@aliadidondiaa8024 imagine gatekeeping an entire music scene that died almost 30 years

14? you barely hit puberty by then, most everyone in this video is in their 20's, the lead guy was 24 here. If you think punk is something you "outgrow" then you were just a poser all along, which is why you think punk is about drinking and sleeping around. Instead of creating a life outside the system, understand geopolitics...etc. So fuck you poser, put on your slacks, button up shirt and drive to your office job and fall in line like the good little sheep you are. And maybe sometimes you can reminisce about how you were "punk" at 14 because you drank and has meaningless sexual encounters with other adolescents.

kdlt235 Obviously "reading comprehension" isn't a strongpoint of yours, so I'll elaborate. I was 12 when I got into "punk music" and 14 when I lost my virginity to a "punk chick". During the summers, we regularly drank and smoked [whenever it was available.] Regardless, I have never [to this day at the age of 30] disassociated myself from “punk culture” [which can be applied to ANY music or demographic]. ANYONE with a SHRED of common sense knows that in order to effectively combat ANY unjust “social norm”, one must attack that norm from within. To dumb-down things for you.. If obtaining my political science/sociology degrees and working A&R for record labels in order to better help the disfranchised aren’t “punk enough” for you...Go fuck yourself.

+SS Leibstandarte Agree with you. Intelligent comment.

six feet under

@@Nantosuelta It was only 1983 a lot of them are probably still alive although most of them should be in their 60s

Me 2 I spent many years with that lot I was out the day of the filming we all moved 2 brixton after that good times I was 17 then

I'm still alive 53 now I lived there but was out that day

I'm here

Correct we had great times

Correct great days living there we moved 2 brixton after that

thewhippetbeans eh mine isnt there yet but i think ive been every color after a few dyes for sure. Been doing it for decades but I think Im less radioactive than I was back then

@@deafanddestructiononthepis3149 Belsen was a gas

No she didn't

Shoot the messenger, string 'em up

If you’re looking for an immune boost check out a punk house lol

Look at the y’all dudes shoulder closer

@Fredrik Ängdahl I didn't scrutinize enough. Oh dear, but punls were generally rocking against racism.

@Fredrik Ängdahl i am 60 years old and I can assure you that there was a big anti nazi movement within the punk scene. The media often focussed on the negative punks, maybe it's more entertaining. Or perhaps because we are a threat to society so the media try to defame us.

My dad was playing that in the video... He died so can't ask him

Chaos UK - Victimized. I know its very late but I had listened through some of my old cassettes my dad had given me to find the song. Dad was a massive collector of early UK punk

@@grifnifta its been 10 yrs since he ask

Probably still just as boring but fat and bald now.

not chaos, anarchy, chaos is what gouvernment give us

"I believe... in anarchy!" ;-)

Fuck what punk means most of us are posting selfies on facebook right now. If punk was like this when I joined I woulda went metal instead. Punk ain't about shit. Streetpunk used to mean 24/7 not 5 minutes before a fuckin show or only on the weekend. I know so many 'punks' that lie about their life online and tell people to do shit they were never about in the first place just because they wanna impress the Casualties or some stupid bullshit. Facebook punx can suck their shit off my dick. I still have a level of intensity and aggression new breeds can't even achieve with alcohol and their fuckin coke habits

@@deafanddestructiononthepis3149 lol it´s fucking weird that people call themselves punk anyhow now people all styled like how we grew up like they invented it is just fucking weird

CardboardScone I have blue hair but I don’t do drugs and sleep in a boarded up abandoned building lol

Unlike them I actually wake up and go to work everyday lmao

Idiot I lived in that house an my life turned out well I'm 53 an still aving it

respect guys, who are you to judge anyone, CardboardScone you speak like you have fecal matter between your ears, no body is perfect but at least this guys enjoyed some nice experiences in life that you and Angela-MarryCow are apparently jealous about.

@@Denys_Fresh_Flesh no ones jealous about these bums you sensitive lowlife

Yeeeeeeee

stop fucking raiding our cultures

Was bullshit never happened

Bullying

At the start of this film they sing "leave me alone" as if they mean it....and then they whore themselves to tourists.....

@@thomasandersen6719 its like panhandling for booze and possibly drugs that is the point behind it

you need to step off our cultures dick

uh no

@@xvbiffbangpow8579 not your comment, you don't get a say.

K24 YESSSSS! Addicting, haha.

Lol same bro

Rihht

@@kristianmccallister759 right lol

YES

Yeah it’s pretty good, I like that part too.

stop attaching us to that shit

You was just a little piece of shat.

stop attaching our cultures to garbage