those were the days when we all mixed together and had fun with no hangups, We danced together all nations be it to reggae or Motown .I thank the heavens I was part of that time and thank goodness for the soul put in my body from that time.
Yeh. Christ what the hell happened. There was no racism we all loved black music Soul, Reggae and Funk. We just all got on the dance floor together. Somewhere somehow did it all change. Or did we all just grow up and started acting like adults. Having nothing left in common and just being suspicious of each other?
This is an amazing true to life documentary. Thank you for showing skinheads as they really are... A culture solely influenced by black people and music. Thank you for also recognizing the influence or skinhead culture on raves. I have seen and noticing this for years as a 90s era Chicago raver for years but nowone has pointed it out online. The rave dance of "jacking" is just a modified skanking dance. Thank you you are brilliant
In the 70s in Walsall i went to school with Jamaican lads & listened to Dub reggae, the in soul & disco. Then in 1980 i knew someone who worked at EMI records & i was getting Hip hop records.
When I was a kid in Catford there was a Rude boy Sink who worked in the Safeway. He had dreadlocks and always had on drainpipes, DM boots, Fred Perry T shirt and red braces. He look the business! He had a white mate who had a full on skinhead and cherry red DMs! I thought these guys looked like pop stars! Hahaha
From a very early age I loved ska, skinhead, northern soul (of which I still listen to and dance to today) soul and Motown to raving in the late 80's and early 90s done the lot, what a time to be alive !😊 I was never the conventional, straight laced kid like my boring older brother 😂 My mother still says I was wild and a rebel without a cause, (I thought differently, hated being categorized and controlled by government..and still do) A right handful but looking back I wasn't that bad and came out relatively well all things considered. Best days ever ✊🔥❤
Born too late to be a Teddy Boy or a Rocker but was a Rockabilly in East London/Essex, during the late 70s/early 80s Rock 'n' Roll revival. Me and my mates were proud to wear our school blazer collars up and of course our leather jacket collars up outside of school. I had quite a few skinhead and mod friends and we gave each other mutual respect. Mind you, my well known boxing skills probably prevented a few confrontations. Haha! Great times!
back in 68 you used to have to use the right boot polish ox blood and use a bone handled knife to work the polish in. would to spend a long time on them, with the shoes you used to have a horse shoe blakey on the heal used to take my new shoe strait to the cobbler to have them put on. Cost £3.50 pair of levis £5 a pair of brogues £5-6 for doc's crombie £12 and the first Ben Sherman's run at a staggering £5 and most of would not now the difference between brogues and Squires
Agree. Black guys were very much in the minority. The music was black but us skins and suedes were white. This was a white working class thing. And Bob Marley was WAY TOO LATE and had nothing to do with skins. It was all finished by the time he had a hit in 73. Wigan Casino and Northern Soul was a later development of the golden age of 68 -70.
I puked in the pocket of my Crombie in a taxi and dumped it.Happy days........Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.Couldnt afford the clean up bill. Gr8 times.I was into SKA.................
@merthyrmafia Listen mate i'm 50 coming up next - I was brought up the same.Some are born cool ! - others have to work at it -The clobber you mention i still wear - mixed in with other casual stuff - You don't have to look like a streotype 60s Mod/Skin to still stay cool. you can mix it about a bit and still stay "Mod smart " As i'm sure you know
Warehouse parties in London were far more of a precursor to raves than Wigan Casino as many of the people that organised the Warehouse parties went directly on to setting up raves... A long time prior to that Southern soul clubs also had all nighters, but for some reason this whole scene has been ignored. Given the size of the community in the south this is amazing.
No the ones I followed were generally local, as in from London. Early to mid seventies (pre-punk) Northern soul and Southern soul clubs were entirely different, music, dancing and even dress. To be honest I don't remember any Northern DJ's from my early clubbing days. That said I am no spring chicken anymore.
Spot on. Northern soul had feck all to do with the emergence of acid house. The southern jazz funk and soul clubs, all-dayers and London warehouse parties and pirate radio were the pre-cursor. Northerners, in fact everyone outside of the M25 area were years behind.
when were yyou born? there's plenty of video showing yanks in the 70s wearing flares. and they were not bell bottoms if you even know ehat bell bottoms are. which by your own words, you don't.
They nevever wore Bell Bottoms, except for those who didn't really know what the scene was about those in the know wore Spencers or affectionately known as 40" as they were 40ince around the bottom, when your dancing your tits off at 10 mph you sweat so you need some way of getting fresh air to those hmmm lets say difficult parts.
Not sure, might be from "the Strange World Of Northern Soul" but I can't be sure as I've not seen it nor can I find out the original Documentarys name if it's not TSWONS.
As for the northern soul scene, yes - it was a white thing with hardly a black presence. This in some part explains why the peculiar northern soul style of dance had (has) absolutley no link with black America or black people.
Shemra, you're talking nonsense.How on earth can you compare the moves of James Brown to the bland waltzy type swaying moves, often performed by fat pot bellied northern men and women at the average northern soul do? Hilarious!
yeah, but you said northern soul was british soul and gay, for someone who labels themselve a skinhead you should probably sort out you facts before you say them northern soul is simply obscure soul like rare motown, stax, volt, i assume thats the american soul music you are referring to is northern soul
Northern Soul was all the tracks that didnt make it in the US, Some tracks were OK some not. Reality was it was a hybrid of the Soul that was all over the UK. there was a huge soul scene down south too but it is never mentioned?
@@upstandingmale no most Norhern tracks were made by groups, bands etc who could only afford to press a few 100 copies at most which is why they are mainly on obscure, now defunct, record labels. You could argue Motown is uptempo blues but it's not.
