Very nice my friend.. I'm a 51 yr old child at heart..You're so right, they were the best years and I was lucky, bad manners, the jam , the who in my school days. And then lucky enough to have all acid house warehouses, hangers and fields leading up to castle morton, Longstock and torpedo town (ive seen a few videos with us all with that dislocated jaw look with flickering twitchin eyes at the back of ur head along with countless others. A lot more united back then. You're song made me feel it was about me, I think that's what good art (as in music, poetry and even pictures) is, it makes everyone think about themselves. You done that for me. Kudos
Ahhhh Torpedo Town, we never made it last year we went. Our convoy got blocked onto the M4 by the riot squad. About 600 people set up a sound system right there and partied on the motorway for the day. Awesome times, probably get deported or shot for it now! I laughed at the "dislocated jaw" comment too!
FUCKIN love the jam.. my older brother was a mod the 2nd time round so I grew up with all that... the who, and of course quadrophenia. after school there was no citv and kids Netflix back in late 80s so I was sat in front of quadrophenia new it word for word! about 8!🤣 still bang in to it now and will be for ever... "RESPECT BRO"👍 KEEP IT REAL 💯😉 GREETINGS FROM CARLISLE 🏴🎼
@@johnners911 Ah yes, Torpedo Town! Never made it to the last (?) one either; spent the night in a field with a few other vans and said fuck it, not worth the hassle. Nothing like a few hundred coppers in boiler suits with no numbers to deter you from a party! Cissbury Ring also not far from there if I remember (anything) rightly... It all started with Treworgey for me and still hasn't finished. What a long, strange trip it's been, as they say!
I went school in Highbury, born and raised in north london and me and Louis are the same age. He described my childhood down to a T. Great song great artist, style of writing is sick 👏🏽 The “sweet mate uniform” got me 😂
It's amazing how a song can be so universal, regardless of geography. Change a few slang words in this one and it perfectly describes my younger years growing up in Virginia Beach.
I've only just discovered Louis, I'm from an older generation, who grew up with punk and oi music, it's great to see a working class lad, singing about real life, just brilliant
@@ar.nazarenkoa subgenre of punk made by skinheads, 4 skins, the business, Red alert and Blitz are some prominent bands of that specific genre or culture.
@@1975andstillkicking I know mate, I still dream of them; at that time we lived in the murder capital of Europe (Glasgow, Scotland) and other entities came in and tore us apart, especially me; these entities (bullies, fully grown and dangerous men) didn't like it when they...scrap the back-story; ye know what...YOU ARE TRULY BLESSED and may the good times roll on for you and your mates because we never got that chance.... ❤💔❤ x l4e x
@1975andstillkicking Good advice. I've lost a lot of friends simply because life pulled us down different paths and depression and anti-social behaviour had me self isolate.
I thought my boys from deployment and I would be thick as thieves forever. Five years after we got back, maybe I get a text once a year or something. I went out of my way to try and hold the tribe together, but you can't stop time. Time is undefeated.
I was a Holloway Hooligan in the early 1980s, we did all those things he siad in the song. Fucking love it brother, thank you for the blast from the past.
I get mixed emotions from this song 😔😊 it is my whole childhood in a song. It makes me sad for the times that have gone but also happy for the memories it brings back. Not many songs get me in the feels like this. Absolute genius song writing 🙏
Jesus Mary and Joseph this is bringing back so many fucking memories, washing dishes in an old pub after school until the lads showed up then we would drink to our hearts' content, hanging off the roof of a car park down by the harbour to get a selfie, smoking spliffs out back of the Roundstone shade station in a tent meant to fit four with ten of us piled in, stuffing ten spots down our jocks, selling oregano to underclassmen that thought it was smoke, buckfast in housing estates getting screamed at by people with nothing better to do, wandering around the playground at 2am with the lads... If I could trade every tomorrow for one more hour being 17, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Great stuff. Good to see a local lad doing good music. I love the lyrics and I grew up playing in these same parks in the video. Barnard park the packington estate. I believe the park behind Cross street was in the video as well. This makes the song very nostalgic to me. Can so relate
So much nostalgia in one song. Kicking back listening to this brings back so many great memories. Every word is relatable. Thank you for such a great song. X 💞🙌🎶
Mate you'd swear you wrote this about me and my mates as kids, right down to the whistle. Man I love this tune, you are gonna be massive, and rightly so bro you are pure talent.
The memories. Its hard to articulate the ways that were but we always had a bird and some burn. Nobody cares about the youth but we are those who went on to defend the nation and go on to demonstration. To all of you who lived it I have nothing but respect.
Mate fucking flashbacks to mid 90s Dartford, hearing phrases like "you're getting chawed" were a dying breed people don't talk like us no more.much love to all the Hooligans still here enjoy it from a guy in his 40s not everyone gets to grow old with you.
Sometimes I sit and reminisce about the good old days I miss About the days I spent with all my friends In fact, I've come to realise those were the best days of our lives Oh, what I'd give to be fourteen once again But still nostalgia makes me sick, I feel I've grown up far too quick But I can't help thinking 'bout back in the days When we were the riff, we were the raff, my pals would wait outside my gaff The door would open and you'd hear my old girl say "Oh, no, he can't come out to play tonight He's lucky he ain't dead, the shite He's stole another tenner out of my purse And so all you boys can piss off home Don't bell him on his dog and bone I swear to God you fuckers make him worse" But little did she know That when she's tucked up, oh, so tight We'd roamed the streets 'til it was light Run from old Bill all through the night Until the day We were delinquent little shits We were the hood rats taking sips out of a bottle While we sit on your estate And life was so simple then When we were hooligans So off we'd roam into the night, we ride our stolen pedal bikes And who's to say where we would go or who'd we see But still a plan that never failed, get on the booze and off the rails We'd buy a twenty bag of snout with a fake ID And all our clobber was on form, we we'd wear the swing made uniform Grey tracksuit bottoms, Ralph Lauren, we were looking suave And all the birds are throwing up cheap Chardonnay in plastic cups Dressed like it's prom night but they're pissing in a park And it's only 8 o'clock But who's to romance is dead She's in the bushes off her head With an older boy who stole her ped that she adores But old Prince Charming's just a drip The smell of Stella on his lips Her make up's run, her tights are ripped Her knees are sore And girls were so foolish then When we were hooligans So as the night would carry on, the joints were rolled and the birds were gone As all the boys sat on the benches getting stoned And as we got high into the night, you'd hear the sirens, see the lights So it's the scum, here they come to take us home So with a meaty on the way, we'd throw the booze and the green away We'd jump the fence, lodge out the park onto the streets Oh, hurry up boys, fucking hell, I can't spend the night locked in cell 'Cause my old man and my old girl think I'm asleep But what a way to end the night, chased through the streets by flashing lights If you can't have it on your toes, you're getting torn And as the night came to an end, we lodged the old bill once again Before my mum was up, I'd slip through the front door Oh my, how times have changed So as I sit and reminisce About those good old days I'd miss So much has changed, sometimes I wish I'd not grown old They'd call us hood rats, call us scum I'd call us kids just having fun We were delinquents who would call these streets our home And we believed things would be that way forever then When we hooligans When we hooligans
Being at school at those years growing up will be some of the funniest, carefree & nest of your lives. No bills, rent, buying this and than, making wages stretch. Believe me I'm 40+.
Growing up in the 80s was just like this only we took one step further I can say we all done our bird and we're all grown up and still living our best lives we lost a few along the way but the ones that are still here will never let them be forgotten
Everytime I hear this it reminds me of the man that came in, although fleetingly and made me feel so much better. This was his song from his childhood. I miss that man 💔 ❤❤
I’m 20 year old lad the only music I listen to is drill it’s what I like, Iv never really liked most music but this this right here is different, this song needs to blow
I can relate to this song , took me back to a time when life was easy when I was at my happiest 👍🏻💪🏻 well in bro keep them coming , for what is worth you have my sub and support 👌🏻
Imma be playing this song in 60 years to let the future know things were better 80 years ago 😂 makes me feel like they missed out and we can’t ever give it them in this current world. I think it’s time to stand up and fight for this back but it’ll be too late before people understand what I’m saying. 🥺 oh my how times have changed!
Wow... Fucking great songwriting, brother. Very close analog to my own misspent youth here in the good old US of A. God I miss those delinquent days and nights, they were truly glorious.
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Quality London music in the tradition of Squeeze and the Jam. Great stuff .
Very nice my friend.. I'm a 51 yr old child at heart..You're so right, they were the best years and I was lucky, bad manners, the jam , the who in my school days. And then lucky enough to have all acid house warehouses, hangers and fields leading up to castle morton, Longstock and torpedo town (ive seen a few videos with us all with that dislocated jaw look with flickering twitchin eyes at the back of ur head along with countless others. A lot more united back then. You're song made me feel it was about me, I think that's what good art (as in music, poetry and even pictures) is, it makes everyone think about themselves. You done that for me. Kudos
Love the jam
Ahhhh Torpedo Town, we never made it last year we went. Our convoy got blocked onto the M4 by the riot squad. About 600 people set up a sound system right there and partied on the motorway for the day. Awesome times, probably get deported or shot for it now! I laughed at the "dislocated jaw" comment too!
FUCKIN love the jam.. my older brother was a mod the 2nd time round so I grew up with all that... the who, and of course quadrophenia. after school there was no citv and kids Netflix back in late 80s so I was sat in front of quadrophenia new it word for word! about 8!🤣 still bang in to it now and will be for ever... "RESPECT BRO"👍 KEEP IT REAL 💯😉 GREETINGS FROM CARLISLE 🏴🎼
@@johnners911 Ah yes, Torpedo Town! Never made it to the last (?) one either; spent the night in a field with a few other vans and said fuck it, not worth the hassle. Nothing like a few hundred coppers in boiler suits with no numbers to deter you from a party! Cissbury Ring also not far from there if I remember (anything) rightly...
It all started with Treworgey for me and still hasn't finished. What a long, strange trip it's been, as they say!
Word for word description of my youth brings back all the memories of the good old days
I went school in Highbury, born and raised in north london and me and Louis are the same age. He described my childhood down to a T. Great song great artist, style of writing is sick 👏🏽 The “sweet mate uniform” got me 😂
Was the same in northern ireland
@@conormcconville2931 north of Ireland*. Stop promoting imperialism.
@@aidygooner lol get a grip
Nice pfp
@@aidygoonerno surrender 🇬🇧
It's amazing how a song can be so universal, regardless of geography. Change a few slang words in this one and it perfectly describes my younger years growing up in Virginia Beach.
I've only just discovered Louis, I'm from an older generation, who grew up with punk and oi music, it's great to see a working class lad, singing about real life, just brilliant
Pppp
Ppp
What is “oi music”?
@@ar.nazarenko cockney rejects, last resort, 4 Skins.
Oi! is working class punk.
@@ar.nazarenkoa subgenre of punk made by skinheads, 4 skins, the business, Red alert and Blitz are some prominent bands of that specific genre or culture.
I never knew that a complete stranger could describe my teenage life so perfectly
A stranger is only a freind you haven't met..
He missed the part about the spell in juvi 🤣🤣🤣
@@markmorgan6231 done a little holiday in Glen Starva 😂
We all lived the same life!
@@markmorgan6231 glad you found yourself funny div..
I’m from the north east but fully understand the emotions in the song and I’m 72 brilliant lyrics
"My friends are all gone" at 15 we all promised to be friends for life, forever; over 20 years since we've seen one another...Best days of my life ❤
Life's bitter sweet. Brothers come and go, but the time together will always be cherished.
@@1975andstillkicking I know mate, I still dream of them; at that time we lived in the murder capital of Europe (Glasgow, Scotland) and other entities came in and tore us apart, especially me; these entities (bullies, fully grown and dangerous men) didn't like it when they...scrap the back-story; ye know what...YOU ARE TRULY BLESSED and may the good times roll on for you and your mates because we never got that chance.... ❤💔❤ x l4e x
@1975andstillkicking Good advice. I've lost a lot of friends simply because life pulled us down different paths and depression and anti-social behaviour had me self isolate.
❤
I thought my boys from deployment and I would be thick as thieves forever.
Five years after we got back, maybe I get a text once a year or something.
I went out of my way to try and hold the tribe together, but you can't stop time. Time is undefeated.
Saw lewis at the O2 academy in Oxford Cowley, such a good voice and his lyrics are so real. Recommend this chap and his band and even better live.
Sometimes you just gotta go on a louis Dunford binge and listen to all of em!
Everyday for me lad
Best lyricist describing reality on the street growing up ✨ nostalgic memories to reminisce to ✨💥💯🔥
Biblical tune. Nostalgias a killer but one thing we’d all be lost without. Keep at it lad!
perfectly put bro
I was a Holloway Hooligan in the early 1980s, we did all those things he siad in the song. Fucking love it brother, thank you for the blast from the past.
How come I've never gotten this mad good tune served on the air.. just a single time... Freaking epic....🤜🤛
Never wanted to learn the words to a song as quick as When we were hooligans.
Belting song 🎵
I get mixed emotions from this song 😔😊 it is my whole childhood in a song. It makes me sad for the times that have gone but also happy for the memories it brings back. Not many songs get me in the feels like this. Absolute genius song writing 🙏
I feel exactly the same mate noone understands 🤣
Couldn't have said it better
@@robbiethomas4540 course we understand brv
It isn't though it is
I could have
All the memories come flooding back 😢 what a time to be alive! Take me back
Jesus Mary and Joseph this is bringing back so many fucking memories, washing dishes in an old pub after school until the lads showed up then we would drink to our hearts' content, hanging off the roof of a car park down by the harbour to get a selfie, smoking spliffs out back of the Roundstone shade station in a tent meant to fit four with ten of us piled in, stuffing ten spots down our jocks, selling oregano to underclassmen that thought it was smoke, buckfast in housing estates getting screamed at by people with nothing better to do, wandering around the playground at 2am with the lads... If I could trade every tomorrow for one more hour being 17, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug, good times
Great stuff. Good to see a local lad doing good music. I love the lyrics and I grew up playing in these same parks in the video. Barnard park the packington estate. I believe the park behind Cross street was in the video as well. This makes the song very nostalgic to me. Can so relate
This is the best song ever can’t get over how good it is
So much nostalgia in one song. Kicking back listening to this brings back so many great memories. Every word is relatable. Thank you for such a great song. X 💞🙌🎶
Wow, I’m 42 and this song still speaks to me
46 getting there and this was exactly me lol much love seem we all was the same shhh the kids don't know lol.
These bars are relatable, if you know you know💯💥
Mate you'd swear you wrote this about me and my mates as kids, right down to the whistle. Man I love this tune, you are gonna be massive, and rightly so bro you are pure talent.
The memories.
Its hard to articulate the ways that were but we always had a bird and some burn.
Nobody cares about the youth but we are those who went on to defend the nation and go on to demonstration.
To all of you who lived it I have nothing but respect.
Mate fucking flashbacks to mid 90s Dartford, hearing phrases like "you're getting chawed" were a dying breed people don't talk like us no more.much love to all the Hooligans still here enjoy it from a guy in his 40s not everyone gets to grow old with you.
Can’t tell u how much I love this tune
How has he not blown up ?
He will, in time!
Smashing it now. Go on on Louis. .
Cos it's too real
@@ianbeauchamp9944 This. The last time a song like this made it big was probably just jack stars in their eyes
Because positivity and wholesomeness has no place in the music industry.
Big track my g full support from the stedz team 💪💪
"And we believed things would be that way forever when, we were hooligans"
I love these type of tunes ☮
Sometimes I sit and reminisce about the good old days I miss
About the days I spent with all my friends
In fact, I've come to realise those were the best days of our lives
Oh, what I'd give to be fourteen once again
But still nostalgia makes me sick, I feel I've grown up far too quick
But I can't help thinking 'bout back in the days
When we were the riff, we were the raff, my pals would wait outside my gaff
The door would open and you'd hear my old girl say
"Oh, no, he can't come out to play tonight
He's lucky he ain't dead, the shite
He's stole another tenner out of my purse
And so all you boys can piss off home
Don't bell him on his dog and bone
I swear to God you fuckers make him worse"
But little did she know
That when she's tucked up, oh, so tight
We'd roamed the streets 'til it was light
Run from old Bill all through the night
Until the day
We were delinquent little shits
We were the hood rats taking sips out of a bottle
While we sit on your estate
And life was so simple then
When we were hooligans
So off we'd roam into the night, we ride our stolen pedal bikes
And who's to say where we would go or who'd we see
But still a plan that never failed, get on the booze and off the rails
We'd buy a twenty bag of snout with a fake ID
And all our clobber was on form, we we'd wear the swing made uniform
Grey tracksuit bottoms, Ralph Lauren, we were looking suave
And all the birds are throwing up cheap Chardonnay in plastic cups
Dressed like it's prom night but they're pissing in a park
And it's only 8 o'clock
But who's to romance is dead
She's in the bushes off her head
With an older boy who stole her ped that she adores
But old Prince Charming's just a drip
The smell of Stella on his lips
Her make up's run, her tights are ripped
Her knees are sore
And girls were so foolish then
When we were hooligans
So as the night would carry on, the joints were rolled and the birds were gone
As all the boys sat on the benches getting stoned
And as we got high into the night, you'd hear the sirens, see the lights
So it's the scum, here they come to take us home
So with a meaty on the way, we'd throw the booze and the green away
We'd jump the fence, lodge out the park onto the streets
Oh, hurry up boys, fucking hell, I can't spend the night locked in cell
'Cause my old man and my old girl think I'm asleep
But what a way to end the night, chased through the streets by flashing lights
If you can't have it on your toes, you're getting torn
And as the night came to an end, we lodged the old bill once again
Before my mum was up, I'd slip through the front door
Oh my, how times have changed
So as I sit and reminisce
About those good old days I'd miss
So much has changed, sometimes I wish
I'd not grown old
They'd call us hood rats, call us scum
I'd call us kids just having fun
We were delinquents who would call these streets our home
And we believed things would be that way forever then
When we hooligans
When we hooligans
One thing wrong *if you can't have it on your toes you're getting chored* (aka nicked/pinched)
This is amazing. This was me. Thanks mate.
Two years for me to discover this video and singer??? Shame on you RUclips!!! How class is this man!! 👍🏻
Sweet Lord, this was my life 👏👏👏 thank you
Only discovering Louis now! Brilliant musician
Being at school at those years growing up will be some of the funniest, carefree & nest of your lives.
No bills, rent, buying this and than, making wages stretch. Believe me I'm 40+.
I found the orignial song when I was 14 and knew I would relate to this soo much when I'm older. Here I am, 23 and reminiscing.
he's done it like the rest of us back in the day ... (was a SCALLY him self)!!💯 GREETINGS FROM CARLISLE 🏴
Growing up in the 80s was just like this only we took one step further I can say we all done our bird and we're all grown up and still living our best lives we lost a few along the way but the ones that are still here will never let them be forgotten
So glad you remade this Louis
Exactly what we got up to love it absolutely blinding, Keep it up when u live need a ticket for Ur show
Everytime I hear this it reminds me of the man that came in, although fleetingly and made me feel so much better. This was his song from his childhood. I miss that man 💔 ❤❤
Hello from the other side of the pond….Love it! So glad Ren made the shout out!!!
That made me so nostalgic! Took me straight back to the 90's 👌🏻 yes we did the same shit back then 😵💫😵💫😂😂
This guy needs to go viral
Banger bro, only just hearing this and should def be getting radio time. Oh i forgot only devil music gets pushed.
This is amazing and on-point, excellent work mate 🙂 🤜🤛 🍻
Rock a buy records sent me here. Love it!
I’d give anything to be back there now they were the best days of my life without doubt absolute Masterpiece is this well done 🏴✌️
How has he not been the man, awesome 👏
This guy is amazing hope he hits the big time he so real 👍💪
Quality stuff. You'll never beat Jamie T when it comes to describing growing up through music but this kid is definitely up there.
Respect, this song brings up so many memories being a lad back in the day
I’m suprised this has not hit a million views, massive fan! 🙌
100% my life lol ..
Loving the memories this tune brings me🎉🎉❤
Gave me goosebumps straight away
Gotta love Louis
Mate what a tune my teenage years in a whopper of a tune 😊love it
I’m 20 year old lad the only music I listen to is drill it’s what I like, Iv never really liked most music but this this right here is different, this song needs to blow
Drill ffs you utter plank
The estate days ❤
I love this song
This song brings back good memories of back in the day. Simple times, good days
Miss the guys i grew up with hurts to let all them times just go by cause shit in life meens we gotta move on somtimes❤
Love how I remembered this song on sbtv and found out your still making music. Keep it up, loved this song when I was younger
This is an older song??
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Wow so much nostalgia in this! I just spent my 21st in lockdown but it's the fifteen year olds I really feel sorry for
I can relate to this song , took me back to a time when life was easy when I was at my happiest 👍🏻💪🏻 well in bro keep them coming , for what is worth you have my sub and support 👌🏻
Imma be playing this song in 60 years to let the future know things were better 80 years ago 😂 makes me feel like they missed out and we can’t ever give it them in this current world. I think it’s time to stand up and fight for this back but it’ll be too late before people understand what I’m saying. 🥺 oh my how times have changed!
This deserves a lot more views
Deeply loved this.
Just discovered this song and im now obsessed with it.
stop i love it haha fuckin deadly
Ahahah crazy this a can feel every word of this. The way of growing up as a UK lad something across the seas will never know ❤️
the whistle is spot on carry on Louie I love ya mate every tune I relate to...COYG
Listened to this for years , still waiting for you to blow man but hopefully soon !
Listening in dublin 🇮🇪
Wow this just makes me smile but sad at the same time god I miss those days man 😢
Great tune , great lyrics
What a voice the words in your songs are fantastic rip Ben 🙏
Can't wait to listen to this in years for now
The tea man don't wait this later, grab it now.
I got chills!
Barnard pk ! Played on the gravel there, still got the scars ! IAM from market estate! Relate to this go on mate
Thanks, Louis! Gonna do a feature of your works if you don't mind... greetings from Bavaria, Germany!
Wow the old manner, grew up near Essex road N1 ❤
How relatable is this!!
This has become my new anthem.
Love this fella, can't understand why it's no got more views, it's gold mate.
Love this song, 💙💙
The future of music is here, its British and its brilliant! Thank you Louis!
Mate this song is my life 💙💙💙💙💯💯🤝🤝🤝🤝shout out to my 80s babys 💯🤝🤝💙💙💙
Reminds me of being a hooligan / casual in the 80's. 😁
The streets new replacement!
Remember listening to this years ago. Class video mate.
If you know you know mustard tune... could be any weekend in Islington 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
AMAZING love the video compliments the song so well!!!!
Here here!
Just remembered this song from ages ago when it was first heard it, to find a official music video. So happy right now 😅
What an amazing tune. Got introduced to Louis from a mate at work and he's shot straight up there with my favourites.
Same, those apprentice's do come in handy for something
Literally same situation lol
This song is an emotional barrage man. It gets me crying with happiness, sadness and all other things
🔥
This man has got the lyrics right to my childhood MUCH RESPECT BRO
Actual Banger
why have only discoverd louis dunford tonight this stuff is amazing
First time hearing it, love yer music lad
Wow... Fucking great songwriting, brother. Very close analog to my own misspent youth here in the good old US of A. God I miss those delinquent days and nights, they were truly glorious.
Love it