I'll tell you what you don't see any more...

A...friend...told me. I've still got that pic of Polly Toynbee in a thong

 

@Dubs sent me a pic of Owen Jones in a bikini

 

Public toilets

 

Watneys Party 7.
A great additive to a Skinheads Saturday morning trip to Weymuff, for the beach, in the early ‘80’s.
“Who’s got a tin opener?”

 

As a child of around 12 when you saw a large group of Skinheads in Reading or Oxford on a Saturday afternoon hanging around it was quite an intimidating sight .Never felt scared of the Punks or Rude boys though .

 

There were Skinheads and there were the Oi lot. The latter were worse, usually. The skinheads were mainly ok.

 

That’s football for ya!

 

I always thought Skinheads and the Oi lot were the same ? and not to be confused with the Two tone brigade .Although if I remember correctly Slade started off as skinheads .All very confusing ? A few locals in town used to be into Skrewdriver and Brutal attack and would go to their concerts (when not cancelled at the very last minute ) . Now in their late 50s and grandparents they still have their controversial tattoos although hopefully not worn with pride .

 

That's the one! Bus chassis?

 

Suadeheads, Skinheads and Rudeboys were more into Ska and raggae. Then Jerry Damners (from The Specials) started off the 2Tone label which bought black and white artists together. The Oi lot were more of a Punk/ skinhead mix. But not early punk, like the Sex Pistols. More The Exploited and harder stuff. A few of them were the neo Nazi sort, but never the original skins, as they mixed with the Blacks.
See Don Letts documentary on Skinheads. It’s a good watch.

 

No idea! It came up on my Facebook feed for some reason. Looks like a right laugh though! Maybe not in winter mind..

 

Looks quite recent?

 

I think it said it was from the 80’s, although the cars don’t look 80’s…

 

Mebbe. I haven't seen one for years. Have seen the chassis stacked up on a trailer @Lasty - style.

Looks like a bus chassis.

 

Thanks that makes it a lot clearer ! I will watch the documentary for sure .I remember The Exploited done the music for the opening scene in David Lelands Made in Britain .

 

It’s good. I was a Skinhead in the very late ‘70’s. Loved the fashion and the music. Go forwards to the late ‘80’s, and a fair bit of early raggae hits were sped up and sampled into rave records. It’s pretty much why I got into rave. It was just a musical evolution, not just about taking drugs in a field in Somerset. ( although that helped)…Out of Space, by The Prodigy, is a fine example of samples raggae. So is SL2’s record, taken from an old raggae hit Walk on Skank. If you know, you know…