Sharpie Dance 

I saw my parents dancing like this in the lounge room. I honestly thought they had lost their minds. Now i want to learn this dance.

sharpies.... a prehistoric version of what's now known as a bogan or westie.... commonly found at shopping malls, rarely seen near a beach.

It was ugly, it was primitive, it was fucking ridiculous... ...but it was Australian, damn it!

aka the brothel madam bop, the shazza shimmy, the bushpig boogaloo

I was there, in my 60s now but still love headbanging and love lobby loyed and Billy Thorpe

THIS IS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN ALL MY 20 YEARS OF INTERNET SURFIN'

Absolutely awesome. As a child of the late sixties this brings back some deep memories. Thanks for the upload. High culture.

The mullet is back, hopefully the dancing will be left to history.

Love it. Great sounds, looks and moves. Thanks for the upload from this whingeing Pom.

Thank God, disco came to the rescue!

Remember all too well . Westside Sharps Melb

Sharpies, like kangaroos, are uniquely Australian.

Michelle and Ferret. Remember them well on TV

It's, oh so very wrong, and yet, I can't look away 🙈😫

Aussie Skinhead/rocker cross over equivalent due to smaller population and less venues, yes it was a Melbourne thing, starting in the 60's in adversarial role to MODS, yes we had our own version of mods too in the 60's and a revival in the late 70's and 80's

Don't forget, they were wearing Treads, which gave 'em the grip they needed for those moves.

thankfully it never caught on outside Australia.

I’m so embarrassed, I did this dance. 🤣

Mick Jagger with the Sharps at 1:43.

Great song.

dancing possibly inspired by the original 'Planet of the Apes' movie which came out in 1968. i think it may of had a scene where the apes where dancing.

magda szubanski

sharpie boogie.

gotta love platform shoes...lol

A unique and very cool youth medium..I doubt that there is any film of any youth cult that's not embarrassing to those viewing or who was there..and that includes Mods ....Skins..Punks..Goths..Teds. .or New Romantic. Each to there own..he'll if they were enjoying themselves why not. What is embarrassing is Fat Middle aged Mods or Bald Pensioner Teds

Awesome

gotta love the sharpie dance....SYDNEY TOWN HALL SHARPIES !!!

I love the HIGH waisted jeans/pants of the time!

Never heard of sharpies b4 ,am English just stumbled across this coz mark reid said he was in them .

i like yo style

Ha ha....classic!

This explains my step fathers dance moves..

I urge you to watch the film clip for THE SLAB by Hunters and Collectors! Very retro

I've never heard of Sharpies before - was it a Melbourne thing? I'm 55 and grew up on the North Shore in Sydney in the 70's and we had 'Westies' out in the western suburbs - apparently now called 'Bogans' (I left Australia in 2001).

way too funny

Mick Ogilve

Does anyone no who invented this type of dance plz.

The Ozzy 70s version of krumping but with mullets….!

Sharpies made it across the ditch.

Yes it was the only dance that made everyone look stupid

I think Bowie Took This Idea for his Ziggy Hair

Lee jeans black bonds T shirt white white sox onyx cardigan platforms or cowhide slippers and my 1st tat at14 a blue bird Bj .

So that's how you move when you use itching powder for a yeast infection .. duly noted.

They look like their suffering fits🤪

pogo

idk dude

Before bez there was the sharpie

Meyer Music Bowl?

At least the girls are not emulating sex moves and gyrating with hardly any clothes on..

Dont laugh... we really DID used to dance like that... AND we thought it was cool too!

Wilde Tänze fremder Völker,faszinierend.

So many comments from people who either weren't there or barely even born at the time. Ignorance beyond the belief

Sharpies forever! 👨‍🎤👩‍🎤

OMG It's bad enough I remember it, it's worse that I actually use to do it!

Fair dinkum most of the people at those cobcerga look bored out of their minds. I know which group I'd be in .. the one a dancing. But in saying that, I wasn't from Melbourne but would have given it a go for sure. I don't blame the youth back then for breaking out of the mould any way they could. Looks like they just wanted to have fun ....

this is the whitest thing iv ever seen

So many mad boomers in the comments that can’t take a joke 😂

An obvious lack of toilets at these events

Its 2021 and their dance moves haven't evolved.

look like zombies from the walking dead

Slam dancing was a lot more fun. Nothing better than a bit of violence for fun.

They're all smoking the reefer

Dance is the visual equivalent of doing a poo

_PARTIBOI69_

SPASTICS!

This is what happens when white people experience freedom. don't worry though John Howard and his cronies ensured that white Australians will always be institutionalised, oppressed, racist 'line towers' just like white Americans and the brits. Oh how I yearn for a country with genuine freedom like New Zealand

Very un-coordinated

I know how everyone likes to romanticize their youth.... but this is just awful. Australians really shouldn't look back on this with fondness.

this is just a horrid dance

CRINGE

cringe-worthy to the max