As a kid in 1977 my family and I went to London the day before the Queens Sliver Jubilee. Imprinted on my mind is the first time I ever seen two punks. They were stood outside a pub, male and female, she was all dressed in bondage kit and he was in leather with 'Sex Pistols' painted on the back. I stood wide eyed staring at the two, like they'd just landed on Planet Earth from another planet. Fast forward to 1980 and my mate was a punk. We had the Perry Boys and casual fashions, and he couldn't afford it, so went punk. He painted his Doc Martins with black gloss paint and stuck safety pins and chains on his jacket. I think he had one album, by the Damned.... Strange but fantastic times, late 70s and through the 80s.
With the threat of nuclear attack, a cold war, and so many other horrible things happening in the world at that time, the punk found reason to smile. By looking at this film, one can truly say most, if not all, punks were genuinely nice (although different) a kind of people. 😊
@@Leigh-ry3yb I am sorry to have perceived your movement as threatening. I am Greek, I don't know first hand. All I know is that when we went a trip to London, 1982, I was 10 years old and the travel agent told us to not look or talk to the punks. Perhaps it was her fault for saying this, prejudiced and all. But to me they looked anti-social and a contrast to what a great time we had in London, with the big dinosaur in the museum (now it's a whale), Guy the Gorilla (he was dead but I got a poster with his story in my room for decades to come, perhaps Guy is still there in my parent's home somehow), fish n chips, Selfridges megastore, it was lovely for a kid like me, it was magic. I loved how people talked and was trying to talk with them, but Londoners would not underestand what a non-native 10 year old was saying he he. I asked a lady "where is Thames river, please" and she told me the time (she thought I said "what's the time, please". Wonderful place, wonderful people. That was 1982, Thatcher had only 3 years in office (since 1979) .Why do you say people were getting wrecked, as early as 1982 ?
it was ezier life for developed countries lol... no need to work too hard, got cheap labour abroad, cheap products everyone not too worried about housing
The Pistols and the Clash were not happy. Jeez, have you actually listened to the lyrics on those punk recordings? Both their debut long-players were angry records, with splashes of dark humour. Your memory needs a check.
I think, and am pretty sure the woman on the right in the thumbnail with the black mo is a friend of mine Sally. She lives in Denver now, coming from Scotland. Still a punk, she goes to our local shows all the time. I'll have to ask her but I think she showed me a picture from this
Yeah for real! And just pretend to be living in that time and place, acting like you belong there, but knowing everything you already knew up until that point. Like Steve Rogers traveling back to 1945 after living the 2010’s lol
I've ALREADY been there once! 👍🤣 (Due to an infestation of humourless hate-filled trolls, and the general toxicity of social media, I no longer monitor or otherwise revisit any comments I may make!)
The girl with the mohawk is probably some manager of risk assessment at a paper mill now. The camera man was especially keen on her haha. I think these kids were just looking for fun more than anything else.
Just kids enjoying the latest music revolution (for want of a better phrase). It was great and a much needed kick up the 70s. It couldn't last of course, the establishment came in and the 80s were born. But like 50s Rock n Roll, it felt great while it lasted.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
Really strange. I've come across you, same old fitup, on so many occasions over the last six months or so, and there's always a brilliant quote. Tennessee Williams is one of my favourite writers. A truly modern day shakespeare. And always happy to find a quote by him, specially on you tube. Keep it up, the world needs more well read people, specially nowadays. Where the dumbing down has taken on epic proportions. A bit scary
I remember back in the 80's when I moved from the country to the city for university. It was the first time I saw "punk rockers" with their mohawk haircuts walking of the sidewalks. I was amazed. I was told to never take their picture because if they saw you doing that they would chase you down and demand money from you or they'd break your camera. Then I saw them doing it do someone who did take their picture.
The youth (sub)cultures from the 1960's to the 1990's were a lot more rebellious and rad than nowadays. Nowadays young people are just attached to their phones.
You haven't paid attention to modern subcultures, mate. The punk spirit is still alive, although there's not as much need to be rebellious these days since many of the values of freedom punks preached have been embraced by a large portion of society.
(I know this was a conversation that happened months ago, but I really wish to add a few words., since i like the subject) We do have... "memes" as a way of speaking out about issues/spreading the word and mocking politics and other things that otherwise makes us mourn/weep for the world ? something like that The new subcultures and the branches of the old ones have all seemed to move to the internet these days and they now do their "battles" here haha and yes I wouldn't disagree that phones are the perfect distraction from reality and the present moment so I do my best to not get too involved with social media
i was a 6 year old kid at the time (‘81) and living in london. you didn’t normally see any punks untill you get to places like trafalgar square. but you did get to see them from time to time in your neighborhood and they were scary as fuck
According to one of my friends old man, his dad was part of the punk culture here in Houston, Texas back in the early 1980s, times back then in Houston was diverse when the punk scene was popular.
Used to be a Skin hung around with the Punks in London. We used to have a right laugh and go to all the gigs. The Punks were colourful and energetic who liked to Party ❤️
Filmed down the kings rd normally on a Saturday would ride down on me vespa around the time of this and before . Always a great laugh them running after us. Brilliant times good time to be seventeen
Thanks, appreciate you posting this as the kids that age in the video were who I looked up to at 11yrs old in 1981 , I turned 50 this year and still have a Mohawk, better yet I’m helping keep it going as my GF is 22 and has a nicer hawk than me, we’re trying to spawn a little punk rocker of our own
Is this the Kings Road? Anyone remember the Dome, or Goat in Boots/ Parsons on Fulham Road? As a kid punks & skinheads scared the crap out of me. Walking out of a record shop at the age of 10 with a Madness single and saw some Punks standing on the corner. I thought they were going to lynch me right there on Barnet High street and ended up walking 1/4 mile to skirt around them,, I was an idiot, of course, that's one thing that never changed. ..Thank you for this sub+1
They always used to hang about a monument or something in city centres, Manchester used to get loads of them on a Saturday afternoon, all congregating on Market Street.
my first time in London as a punk was right in summer of 1981, could be compared to the summer of 69 or summer of love...golden years of the second wave of punks, it was incredible, it lasted until 1984, then started the downfall and the american hardcore outlook overwhelmed the glorious spike hair, mohavks, creepers, leather jacket and studs, doc martin, bondage trousers...
After 1978 punk became mainstream and accepted. Teens started putting the A (anarchy)symbol on t shirts and for fun dyeing their hair. Then came the pretty punk bands in 79 (no swearing or being offensive). They hadn’t got a clue about “white riot “ or “flogging a dead horse” or “Holiday in Cambodia”....After Sid replaced Matlock punk went soft and cute.
Six years after 1976 and the kids are looking like Johnny ........... Lydon was never impressed with the copycat mentality , dress for yourself , not wear the obligatory punk uniform . Can’t knock the music though, 1981 was a good year for new wave tunes .👍
when England was England and it belongs to me. the nation's pride of dirty water by the river, no one can take away her memories, nooo, England belongs to me!
Looks like it’s filmed down the kings road prob about ‘81 ‘82 my youth great days. We used to supplement our dole money with charging tourists to take pics what entrepreneurs we were
These are my predecessors. I'm 43. I remember watching VHS of this type of stuff so hard to get your hands on in the early 90s. Thinking man that was like 12 years ago, so old. LOL.
As a kid in 1977 my family and I went to London the day before the Queens Sliver Jubilee. Imprinted on my mind is the first time I ever seen two punks. They were stood outside a pub, male and female, she was all dressed in bondage kit and he was in leather with 'Sex Pistols' painted on the back. I stood wide eyed staring at the two, like they'd just landed on Planet Earth from another planet. Fast forward to 1980 and my mate was a punk. We had the Perry Boys and casual fashions, and he couldn't afford it, so went punk. He painted his Doc Martins with black gloss paint and stuck safety pins and chains on his jacket. I think he had one album, by the Damned.... Strange but fantastic times, late 70s and through the 80s.
Thanks for story, very interesting.
Thanks - that's a nice little snapshot of what it was like as a kid back then!
nice read 👍
Thanks for that. If you'd been walking across Tower Bridge on a sertain day and time you may have witnessed the sex pistols playing on the river.
@@Boilingfrogg This is not quite MY memory of punk and the 1980s but who's to say what's wrong or right? But I had such a fun time.
With the threat of nuclear attack, a cold war, and so many other horrible things happening in the world at that time, the punk found reason to smile. By looking at this film, one can truly say most, if not all, punks were genuinely nice (although different) a kind of people. 😊
They were dangerous.
@@dimitristripakis7364 Silly persons silly comment 🙄
@@dimitristripakis7364Hahaha were we? What to the establishment maybe. We were mainly middle class white kids living in squats and getting wrecked.
@@Leigh-ry3yb I am sorry to have perceived your movement as threatening. I am Greek, I don't know first hand. All I know is that when we went a trip to London, 1982, I was 10 years old and the travel agent told us to not look or talk to the punks. Perhaps it was her fault for saying this, prejudiced and all. But to me they looked anti-social and a contrast to what a great time we had in London, with the big dinosaur in the museum (now it's a whale), Guy the Gorilla (he was dead but I got a poster with his story in my room for decades to come, perhaps Guy is still there in my parent's home somehow), fish n chips, Selfridges megastore, it was lovely for a kid like me, it was magic. I loved how people talked and was trying to talk with them, but Londoners would not underestand what a non-native 10 year old was saying he he. I asked a lady "where is Thames river, please" and she told me the time (she thought I said "what's the time, please". Wonderful place, wonderful people. That was 1982, Thatcher had only 3 years in office (since 1979) .Why do you say people were getting wrecked, as early as 1982 ?
Thank you thank you thank you. 57 now....that was my youth you filmed ♥️✨thank you
and mine lol
C R so fun right. Stepping out of the machine lol. London Calling ❤️
Which one are you?
Blle
Are you a Mohawk girl?
@@nonnon7270 very long twisted for a while then very short spikey blue. How bout you?
this is gold.
is it wavy
This is gold, minus the 'g'.
more like copper
This is human not gold
Even the punks were happy in the old days,everyones bloody miserable now😄
it was ezier life for developed countries lol... no need to work too hard, got cheap labour abroad, cheap products everyone not too worried about housing
That you know of. A lot had mental health issues from trauma. That’s why there is a lot of reference to drugs, alcohol, and violence.
@@youwhatsuptube You are wrong. Housing was cheaper but most other things cost more than now.
No you’re miserable
The Pistols and the Clash were not happy. Jeez, have you actually listened to the lyrics on those punk recordings? Both their debut long-players were angry records, with splashes of dark humour. Your memory needs a check.
Bring back these days 💚, what a sensible place England was
@@justanoldsnufkin9747 don't know what you are on about
I think, and am pretty sure the woman on the right in the thumbnail with the black mo is a friend of mine Sally. She lives in Denver now, coming from Scotland. Still a punk, she goes to our local shows all the time. I'll have to ask her but I think she showed me a picture from this
Well??? Don't just leave us hanging..!
Still waiting
Does she still have her hair in a Mohican cut ?
stilllllllll waiting
replying just to get a notification
They're so cute! Mom can we take one home...please??
Dumb comment
@@turtleneckferret dumb comment
@@wormkixxr3538 💯
I wonder how they are now today...
Haha, I'd love to see a middle-aged woman with a mohawk taking in my deposit.
eww i don´t think they´d want anything to do with anime shit
the one in the black mohawk is my mother actually
Deaf And Destruction yeah we know it was a joke
Probably have kids, working and pay for their bills.
Great little video, l was 17 in 1981in North East England, seems so long ago.
Would be so cool to go back in time.
Yeah for real! And just pretend to be living in that time and place, acting like you belong there, but knowing everything you already knew up until that point. Like Steve Rogers traveling back to 1945 after living the 2010’s lol
I've ALREADY been there once! 👍🤣
(Due to an infestation of humourless hate-filled trolls, and the general toxicity of social media, I no longer monitor or otherwise revisit any comments I may make!)
Wow what a time capsule! Also crazy to see how the punk “style” evolved in a few short years from how it was in the mid/late 70s when it started.
That girl with the Mohican is so pretty!
I thought it was Boy George... 🤔👍🇬🇧
The girl with the mohawk is probably some manager of risk assessment at a paper mill now. The camera man was especially keen on her haha. I think these kids were just looking for fun more than anything else.
Sometimes we all have to get a job to pay the bills, as we
get on with Living.
Like the rest of us, she has to do what she has to do to put food on the table and keep a roof over head.
Cool to be reminded how radical some of those haircuts were, mohawks especially.
I’m from Norwich and I always remember as a little kid in the 80s, the punks hanging around outside the Guildhall and outdoor market.
Just kids enjoying the latest music revolution (for want of a better phrase). It was great and a much needed kick up the 70s. It couldn't last of course, the establishment came in and the 80s were born. But like 50s Rock n Roll, it felt great while it lasted.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
"truth is dreams that never come true, and you don't get your name in the newspapers til you die". Tennessee Williams, cat on a hot tin roof
Really strange. I've come across you, same old fitup, on so many occasions over the last six months or so, and there's always a brilliant quote. Tennessee Williams is one of my favourite writers. A truly modern day shakespeare. And always happy to find a quote by him, specially on you tube. Keep it up, the world needs more well read people, specially nowadays. Where the dumbing down has taken on epic proportions. A bit scary
@@lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu7967 thank you
I remember back in the 80's when I moved from the country to the city for university. It was the first time I saw "punk rockers" with their mohawk haircuts walking of the sidewalks. I was amazed. I was told to never take their picture because if they saw you doing that they would chase you down and demand money from you or they'd break your camera. Then I saw them doing it do someone who did take their picture.
Everyone Genuinely Looked So Happy
The youth (sub)cultures from the 1960's to the 1990's were a lot more rebellious and rad than nowadays. Nowadays young people are just attached to their phones.
Fellow whats the point😂
You haven't paid attention to modern subcultures, mate. The punk spirit is still alive, although there's not as much need to be rebellious these days since many of the values of freedom punks preached have been embraced by a large portion of society.
(I know this was a conversation that happened months ago, but I really wish to add a few words., since i like the subject)
We do have... "memes" as a way of speaking out about issues/spreading the word and mocking politics and other things that otherwise makes us mourn/weep for the world ? something like that
The new subcultures and the branches of the old ones have all seemed to move to the internet these days and they now do their "battles" here haha
and yes I wouldn't disagree that phones are the perfect distraction from reality and the present moment so I do my best to not get too involved with social media
@@MrAlepedroza punks are sjws change my mind
Wholesome af.
i was a 6 year old kid at the time (‘81) and living in london. you didn’t normally see any punks untill you get to places like trafalgar square. but you did get to see them from time to time in your neighborhood and they were scary as fuck
According to one of my friends old man, his dad was part of the punk culture here in Houston, Texas back in the early 1980s, times back then in Houston was diverse when the punk scene was popular.
Used to be a Skin hung around with the Punks in London. We used to have a right laugh and go to all the gigs. The Punks were colourful and energetic who liked to Party ❤️
thank you from a punk who loves blackpool rebellion and saw the rejects
Punk was so over in '81.
then 8 years later the rave scene would start
hardcore? grindcore? crust?
Thriving London when it was London. Absolute cesspit nowadays! Cheers government
It's interesting and fascinating to see archive footage Punks from the 80s plus I starting to become an punk myself.
I was there 1980 August
Well give us some back ground info then please!
Names, places, stories! Spill the beans!
pls
Liar
@@aliceinpayne6911 No U
It’s more like ‘81 or ‘82
Filmed down the kings rd normally on a Saturday would ride down on me vespa around the time of this and before . Always a great laugh them running after us. Brilliant times good time to be seventeen
57 now i was on king's road 79
These were the days 😪🇬🇧
I think all those Green Day Kiddies don't know what this is. Beercans are still more fun than Iphones!
As someone who uses my phone daily, I 100% agree with that.
Stephan Venner If these asshats had phones back then, they'd have been using them.
Many punks don't use smartphones or social media :)
@@sitalaki Most do though.
omggg
Thanks, appreciate you posting this as the kids that age in the video were who I looked up to at 11yrs old in 1981 , I turned 50 this year and still have a Mohawk, better yet I’m helping keep it going as my GF is 22 and has a nicer hawk than me, we’re trying to spawn a little punk rocker of our own
Freeze on 0:18 and you'll find what it seems to be Josef Stalin behind the cameraman.
LMFAO!!! :)))
LOL
Yes it is!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!
I thought it was Pablo Escobar.
Is this the Kings Road? Anyone remember the Dome, or Goat in Boots/ Parsons on Fulham Road?
As a kid punks & skinheads scared the crap out of me. Walking out of a record shop at the age of 10 with a Madness single and saw some Punks standing on the corner. I thought they were going to lynch me right there on Barnet High street and ended up walking 1/4 mile to skirt around them,, I was an idiot, of course, that's one thing that never changed. ..Thank you for this sub+1
^gay
Yh looks like kings road to me
I used to drink in the dome ,I worked in American classics, Just up from the man in the moon pub
@@barryhossin1222 When did Johnson's disappear? I used to buy their boots. Solid leather, but pricey. They used to sell Zoot suits, too.
@@davidwhite4874 I'm not sure David
should have put some punk music in this video
God bless the person who shot this film! 🥳
We need to get a professional lip reader to add dialogue and a Foley Artist to add some ambient sound! 😃
Looks like Sid Vicious & Rudolf Pieper @ 0:27!
That's true
Lol
As I saw it, all those years ago, ahhhhhhhhhhhh
The girl with the Mohican is now Chief Justice of the judiciary.
Уникальные кадры. Девчонка красивая и очень эпатажная.
0:18 Pause the video. It's the Spanish bloke from Mind Your Language
This old times must go back ❤❤❤....when in England has changed today 😓....
the girl with the mohican is gail thibbert.
I was seeing her about 4 years after this was filmed.
They always used to hang about a monument or something in city centres, Manchester used to get loads of them on a Saturday afternoon, all congregating on Market Street.
Co to były za czasy 💪
40 years later and you couldn't tell them apart from anyone else.
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T COVER THEMSELVES IN TATTOOS.
We were happy and we didn't know
my first time in London as a punk was right in summer of 1981, could be compared to the summer of 69 or summer of love...golden years of the second wave of punks, it was incredible, it lasted until 1984, then started the downfall and the american hardcore outlook overwhelmed the glorious spike hair, mohavks, creepers, leather jacket and studs, doc martin, bondage trousers...
You been to any punk fests in the UK the past 20+ years
After 1978 punk became mainstream and accepted. Teens started putting the A (anarchy)symbol on t shirts and for fun dyeing their hair. Then came the pretty punk bands in 79 (no swearing or being offensive). They hadn’t got a clue about “white riot “ or “flogging a dead horse” or “Holiday in Cambodia”....After Sid replaced Matlock punk went soft and cute.
So wrong lol xx
Edgy
@@Bicklescab a punk calling another punk edgy. The irony in that....
@@finnkelly3456 prove its wrong then
Six years after 1976 and the kids are looking like Johnny ........... Lydon was never impressed with the copycat mentality , dress for yourself , not wear the obligatory punk uniform .
Can’t knock the music though, 1981 was a good year for new wave tunes .👍
Cool footage
those were the good old days. Fashion still cool in 2021
Spend your time on earth wisely as it is just a very long day
SOME TRULY GREAT HUMAN BEINGS!! HONEST AND NO BULLSHIT!!
Those 1970s-80s beer cans had funny V-shaped openings. Perhaps deliberately made small so you wouldn't drink too fast!
Perfect 👍
Back in the days of acid & PCP 👀🙈 I wasn’t afraid of anything back then, such a different world... really brings back memories 🖤
I remember seeing some real punks like these as a kid in my hometown, they were not someone you messed with.
I was around back then and they were largely homeless kids with pretty much nothing to lose. They'd scrap.
Interesting film. I wonder how it worked out for them.
I was born in 1981.....I had a cooler generation before , I got to know this from video 👍
- Punk's Not Dead 💪🎵🎼🎶🎸😎👊
Good Life no cellphone 📱
These people are close to 70 now.
That mohawk girl is gorgeous!
when England was England and it belongs to me. the nation's pride of dirty water by the river, no one can take away her memories, nooo, England belongs to me!
1977,1999,was, best day s,years,
Ahhhh! the good days .
I was around that age that year😎
Freedom compare to today
The mohawk girl in thumbnail, is the kind of woman I've always been attracted to, especially back then
Ok, thanks for sharing.
You'll love Twitter then
@@brucetransjenner7111 lol
can we used it for a shortfilm?
Sid en el fondo siempre fue un niño y la imagen con el REVERENDO LO DICE TODO...
2021 🤘🏻
Hey the one guy must be Ray. Greetings if you see this!
The British and Punk rock and Mohawks !!! 🤔👍
@Julian McSweeney There are no real punks. Punk has no definition.
I like
Punks on the streets of London.
Punks on the streets of Birmingham.
I wonder to myself...
@sanjay j
What about Carlisle?
Now they are in theirs 50s
Looks like it’s filmed down the kings road prob about ‘81 ‘82 my youth great days. We used to supplement our dole money with charging tourists to take pics what entrepreneurs we were
i wonder how are they doing now, probably now grannies and grandpas in peaceful homes
lol why is your avatar styled like my culture
also you have an extremely weird idea of what they are up to
Awww skinhead couple at 0:11 Oi oi oi ❤️
It would be nice with some sound, like punk music?
These are my predecessors. I'm 43. I remember watching VHS of this type of stuff so hard to get your hands on in the early 90s. Thinking man that was like 12 years ago, so old. LOL.
You are the same generation as the Kardashians right ?
my family
What an amazing youth culture!
when I watch this stuff, I wonder where are they now and if they think the same and/or look back fondly?
Ffs, you people make me want to puke.
Punks ❤☠️💀🍺
Kestrel Larger !!!! That takes me back !!!
Real punks.
That mohawk girl is cute
I have a crush on you, we´ve been told there were not police at this stage on streets, very fashionable way, America 🇦🇷
It's true that the guy on the left at 0:25 looks badly at Sid!
Bof
I always wanted to have a mohawk..
Cool
I don't know what's worse punks or hippies.
@letitia bradin no they both suck, that spread nothing but degeneracy. Foh
0:48 Chelsea Drug Store behind her - only usually see it in photos.. it's tiny inside now - was it always that small before it was a McDonalds?
Where are they now...
Boutique punks.
London calling