Kings Road punks vs New Romantics - Captain Zip 1981

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  • Опубликовано: 15 авг 2016
  • Extract from Citizens Banned (1981) Courtesy of Phil Munnoch
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    Punks find their turf invaded by New Romantics in the final part of Captain Zip's seminal Video Trip.
    The last in Phil Munnoch aka Captain Zip's series of 8mm portraits of the London punk scene captures the movement in decline - and Chelsea's last gasp as a bohemian enclave. Zip's extended family of young punks - including Katie Thunder and Wobble - are still a close-knit bunch, defiantly living it up on the Kings Road. But by 1981 they were a tourist attraction, posing for photos with curious straights for a few quid. This final chapter in Zip's Video Trip also captures an important transition in outsider fashion, the punks competing for pavement space with a new breed of 80s dandy later dubbed the New Romantics.
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  • @AnInsideJob-mynewbook
    @AnInsideJob-mynewbook 8 лет назад +63

    Loved Kings Road and all the different groups in the 1970s and 80s. I was a Rockabilly but had many friends who were Skinheads, Punks and Mods. Great times!

    • @guardianoftheduat
      @guardianoftheduat 5 лет назад +1

      I envy u

    • @enrage6073
      @enrage6073 5 лет назад +2

      I know a place where you still can enjoy this freedom: the Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany

    • @barryhossin1222
      @barryhossin1222 4 года назад +4

      I worked on the Kings Road from 1980 until 1985 ,at American Classics, it was Fantastic back then

    • @aliadidondiaa8024
      @aliadidondiaa8024 3 года назад +1

      @@enrage6073 a bit different lol

    • @enrage6073
      @enrage6073 3 года назад +2

      @@aliadidondiaa8024 But that’s all we have left 😞

  • @glamnesianouveaux2039
    @glamnesianouveaux2039 4 года назад +61

    EVERYTHING about this is just EVERYTHING. WHat a beautiful, creative world there was once.

  • @clairepeace5783
    @clairepeace5783 5 лет назад +17

    One of the best times which also shows how Great British music was and always will be xx

  • @danielnewton5867
    @danielnewton5867 3 года назад +8

    I remember the punks, New Romantics and goths. They were everywhere and people loved them! In fact they became tourists attractions!

  • @nickiperkins3839
    @nickiperkins3839 5 лет назад +21

    0.29 sure the pink hair guy is an irish guy from dundalk called Spuk. I went out with his best mate for a while. Keeping a lookout for Dave Fergy (Ferguson) he was always on Kings Rd n 1 of my best friends. Anyone know him or where he is now?? He was the "spokesman" wen a tv camera appeared!!!
    Miss those days n all the amazing people i had so much fun with. Things were often tough but we were free....no employers no parents no teachers no landlords. Wouldnt change a thing. Wd b fun if we cd all meet up......

    • @harbourdogNL
      @harbourdogNL 3 года назад +3

      lol, and sadly see how fat and middle-class and boring everyone has become...Cool that you recognised someone, tho!

    • @vantastroganoff4370
      @vantastroganoff4370 3 года назад

      So true
      Survive on nothing
      I cant travel from here to corner with 20
      But i sure went across kanada with 20
      Now in f mansion and bored.life life sure have its up n down.stocks & shares may kill you
      Simplicity was more fun

  • @robjones2408
    @robjones2408 3 года назад +7

    Studio 21 and the Camden Palace in the very early 1980s was the
    place to be. David Bowie, Iggy, early Simple Minds, Associates, Japan,
    Was (Not Was), Roxy Music, Bauhaus, The Banshees, the Bunnymen.
    was the soundtrack to my life.
    They were my Golden Years. A great snapshot of a long-vanished
    time.

    • @michaelearthling
      @michaelearthling 3 года назад

      well...was it or wasn't it?

    • @jimmyriddles
      @jimmyriddles 5 месяцев назад

      Agreed.... 100% loved all these bands and more. Great times being a NR, visited the Camden Palace a few times when I got down to London.

  • @grahamherbert9328
    @grahamherbert9328 10 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing times I grow up down the kings road Chelsea... unbelievable david bowie look alikes.. every where you went... loved it

  • @r.pneumo7337
    @r.pneumo7337 8 лет назад +13

    Unique footage! Thank you.

  • @jeffgreen7629
    @jeffgreen7629 2 года назад +2

    What an amazing piece of archive film.

  • @jimmyriddles
    @jimmyriddles 5 месяцев назад

    I bloody loved the New Romantic era and the music that went with it, and was a NR myself. Take ma back, it does not seem so long ago, how times flies...

  • @starmichaelz4721
    @starmichaelz4721 5 лет назад +6

    Tokky and Jane, adorable. I Used to live in Royal avenue.....which was scandalous having punks actually living on a posh street!! Wonderful times.

    • @aliadidondiaa8024
      @aliadidondiaa8024 3 года назад +1

      many lived in squats or cheap houses in posh streets

  • @keith-leecastle6700
    @keith-leecastle6700 3 года назад +2

    I turned 13 in 1981 and even at that tender age I was fixated with this lot! Even moved to nick my mums make-up.
    Eventually graduated to Boots and Superdrug. Still enthralled by the look, the age and music.

  • @benedettobruno1669
    @benedettobruno1669 3 года назад +26

    Ditch the internet: yes
    Bring back the 1980s and the Berlin Wall: yes.

    • @JRStephens5005
      @JRStephens5005 3 года назад +7

      But........we wouldn't be able to see all of this if we didn't have the internet. There's that.

    • @NOWtheband
      @NOWtheband 3 года назад +1

      One of those three is fairly easy to achieve.
      The other two are a tad trickier.......
      ;-)

  • @jaradh67
    @jaradh67 8 лет назад +5

    takes me back !

  • @rushshukla4636
    @rushshukla4636 3 года назад +1

    Oh the good old days. I was briefly a New Romantic in the summer of 81.

  • @JRStephens5005
    @JRStephens5005 3 года назад +4

    Bet most of them are Nanas and Grandads now. This footage is awesome.

    • @Scotty-P
      @Scotty-P 3 года назад +1

      And the area would be "diversified".

    • @dirkbogarde44
      @dirkbogarde44 3 года назад

      @@Scotty-P Haven't been down the Kings Road since the early 90's ...I imagine all those little clothes shops have long gone, priced out of existence. I used to go there looking for second-hand Levi's and 50's stuff which you could get at reasonable prices then.

  • @didiervidry7687
    @didiervidry7687 3 года назад +1

    WEIMAR in LONDON.
    Fantastique !!!

  • @markwright9887
    @markwright9887 3 года назад +1

    me and my best mate sean,yellow leapoard skin trews - 0:12 in. on a day trip from brum to kings road...... yea yea - tourist - but it was fun - still go to see the bands and gigs... my kids still think i dress weird, rather than other way round!! i was 16 now 56 - great times...

  • @RazSux
    @RazSux 5 лет назад +27

    It's such a shame that there is no youth cult to unite the kids nowadays!

    • @baldieman64
      @baldieman64 4 года назад +7

      There is - and the cult leader is called "Greta".

    • @moosemcgroose7261
      @moosemcgroose7261 4 года назад +6

      baldieman64 shut up you utter nob

    • @baptist.01
      @baptist.01 4 года назад +1

      thats a lie

    • @gavinreid5387
      @gavinreid5387 3 года назад +3

      @@moosemcgroose7261 what is todays youth fashion?

    • @andriuslblck6770
      @andriuslblck6770 3 года назад +1

      @@gavinreid5387 today's youth fashion is influenced by social media's eboy fashion maybe

  • @davehoward22
    @davehoward22 4 года назад +1

    Used to hang around there before gigs

  • @badasseal3001
    @badasseal3001 2 года назад +1

    Why am I so young dang it

  • @Scotty-P
    @Scotty-P 3 года назад +3

    Split between the two I was. More on the New Romantic side, though, of course.

  • @johnpresnell
    @johnpresnell 3 года назад +1

    I think that’s Alison Moyet who appears at 0:30 in!

  • @80snewwavemusic-synthpostp80
    @80snewwavemusic-synthpostp80 3 года назад +7

    Jeeeez... My consumer generation sucks (I'm 18). They all look the same.
    I love the new wave generation: punks, post-punks, new romantics, goths, dark/cold wave people. You were amazing

  • @NewAristocrats
    @NewAristocrats 4 года назад

    Great Video, Great Era, Great Styles. Thanks For posting :)

  • @petems3283
    @petems3283 3 года назад +4

    It's funny. The New Romantics make the Punks look quite dated.

  • @hansmoser989
    @hansmoser989 3 года назад +12

    gone, damned gone these times. today there is nothing more than
    i-phones and start-ups ( and corona plus brexit ). folks are formated
    and plastic-minded. that time i believe it couldn´t get much more worse,
    i was wrong.
    h.m.

  • @metaldetectingengland
    @metaldetectingengland 3 года назад +1

    I wonder how many are grandmas and grandads ...like me lols I was a mod and a skin and have had 4 scooters over the years ...I lived in Camden/kentish town london and a grandad now with a lambretta ! Awsome days !

  • @pantelaja6528
    @pantelaja6528 3 года назад +1

    Even the air was different...

  • @Steve-bo6ht
    @Steve-bo6ht 3 года назад +1

    Not 100% sure but is the girl at 1:06 Beth Rigby from Sky News?

  • @arontxuofthenewchurch
    @arontxuofthenewchurch 3 года назад +1

    ❤️

  • @jesteronetime
    @jesteronetime 3 года назад

    Never sounded so good

  • @myfragilelilac
    @myfragilelilac 3 года назад +5

    I can only imagine how the ppl growing up in the 30s 40s would have a heart attack at the time.

  • @stephanvenner2939
    @stephanvenner2939 4 года назад +1

    Why is there no music in the background?

  • @Angel-nr8td
    @Angel-nr8td 3 года назад

    I was a punk in 1980 different times

  • @michaelcolello2735
    @michaelcolello2735 3 года назад

    Holy Kazagoogoo, Batman 0:46

  • @fasthracing
    @fasthracing 3 года назад

    Bloke at 46 secs in the red & black ensemble out shopping with mum so she can pay for everything.

  • @kendavid891
    @kendavid891 3 года назад

    I was a new romantic!!

  • @NOWtheband
    @NOWtheband 3 года назад

    I wonder who won.... (the video doesn't reveal that)
    ;-)

  • @Kkidzz
    @Kkidzz 8 лет назад +2

    Sal Solo this....

  • @chrysalis72
    @chrysalis72 3 года назад +1

    Oh look 39 years ago, anyone feeling old yet?

  • @alber.a1232
    @alber.a1232 3 года назад

    Trendies VS trendies

  • @warrick109
    @warrick109 3 года назад

    wonder how many are looking back 40 years on wondering what was i thinking lol

    • @markwright9887
      @markwright9887 3 года назад +1

      im in there 7 secs in with my best mate whose wering yellow leopard skin trousers... im thinking we had a great time!!

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg Год назад

      Thinking now what I we're thinking then. Fk the system!!

    • @jimmyriddles
      @jimmyriddles 5 месяцев назад

      I was one and I say now what a bloody great time and it does not seem so long ago. Can;t believe how time has flown. Music was great and new and exciting and loved the dressing up....

  • @Reprodestruxion
    @Reprodestruxion 3 года назад +3

    Some of those punks look more goth / post punk

  • @user-ie2gb4tm3s
    @user-ie2gb4tm3s 3 года назад

    サムネがジャガーさん。

  • @GEOindustries0
    @GEOindustries0 3 года назад +2

    I wonder how many of them there “punks” became lawyers or accountants or estate agents.

  • @dagmarmedabrejlova8825
    @dagmarmedabrejlova8825 3 года назад

    wow

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura 3 года назад +1

    it makes you wonder if these people think their children dress ridiculously

    • @jimmyriddles
      @jimmyriddles 5 месяцев назад

      I doubt it, I think most true NRs of old will always have that spark of individuality and understand their kids and grandkids need to express themselves. I know I am.

    • @sexobscura
      @sexobscura 5 месяцев назад

      @@jimmyriddles
      understood, but the opinion of one doesn't really speak for many

  • @toppertruthio
    @toppertruthio 3 года назад

    people say they go to london now,and its changed.It hasnt,its still the same.Its just the clothes,and fashion that have changed

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg Год назад

      Ueah it's the same as it always was. Knife crime is just an illusion

  • @deafanddestructiononthepis3149
    @deafanddestructiononthepis3149 5 лет назад +1

    I was not even 1 yet, probably. cool

  • @leeneale8776
    @leeneale8776 4 года назад +1

    fook me....i was 12 :)

  • @stayjit1
    @stayjit1 4 года назад +1

    Oh yes, the good old days. I look back and wonder "What the hell were we thinking !"

    • @JRStephens5005
      @JRStephens5005 3 года назад +1

      You weren't and that's the beauty of it. You just did what you wanted and to hell with everyone else.

  • @fasthracing
    @fasthracing 3 года назад +1

    1981 punk was dead what you are seeing here is fashionistas of the time.

  • @neilhumphrey4197
    @neilhumphrey4197 2 года назад

    Kings rd belongs to Chelsea when there was no firm to fight Chelsea use to go down the kings rd and wind the punks romantics who ever was available never it them how could you but use to wind them up it's only fun

  • @vantastroganoff4370
    @vantastroganoff4370 3 года назад

    I remember those days
    ROMANTIC GIRLS HAVE GOOD PARENTS a place to eat
    Eh toronto

  • @jeffgreen7629
    @jeffgreen7629 2 года назад +1

    It’s such a pity that the people in this video are now targeted by Alan Titchmarsh trying to sell them life insurance …. At least get Rusty Egan or Boy George to sell it 😜

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg Год назад +1

      Titchmarsh looked almost like a new romantic in the 90s lol

  • @gezbo66
    @gezbo66 3 года назад

    Unfortunately none of this will happen again. The youth today are weak, soppy, woke and hiding in safe spaces plus there has been ethnic replacement going on and Multiculturalism never Brought about musical or cultural revolutions ever.Whether you like it or not punk is a working class phenomenon and led by young white English kids ,like the music and fashions before them. Now before you all call me a Racist & Son of Hitler and ride around on your Moral high horse I lived through this time as a brown immigrant, second generation. I just wish to state fact and the fact is I am right and if I am wrong then please tell me where is the new music or fashion or culture of today at the height of this sickening Multicultural paradise were are all living in ? NOWHERE!!! That said I loved to watch this and I remember it well. Great days.

  • @keithrobinson9077
    @keithrobinson9077 3 года назад

    2 of the shortest fads ever

  • @Daniel48203
    @Daniel48203 3 года назад

    ahahhah.. this is dope

  • @bert6806
    @bert6806 3 года назад

    I think that most of this mob were going to an uglybugs ball.

  • @gestapo81
    @gestapo81 3 года назад +1

    "-I'm making a statement by wearing this this."
    -What's the statement?
    -Please look at me!"

  • @OriginalGrasshopper
    @OriginalGrasshopper 3 года назад +2

    Punks > New Romantics

  • @marcelofrancisco8884
    @marcelofrancisco8884 3 года назад

    Lady gaga??

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg Год назад

      She was in purgatory waiting to be reborn. Evil

  • @thetruthk5138
    @thetruthk5138 3 года назад +1

    News Romantics really they are now on Ru Paul's drag race 😂

    • @aliadidondiaa8024
      @aliadidondiaa8024 3 года назад

      lol i don´t think anyone from the culture would go kardashian make-up

  • @petems3283
    @petems3283 3 года назад +1

    They do make the punks look outdated. New Romantics didn't last though, 2 years really. It seemed more about fashion than music. Some of the bands were decent, Visage of course. Duran and Spandau were very mainstream. The 'movement' didn't really have any cause, anything to say, it just withered away. Am I missing the point?

  • @schmutz3
    @schmutz3 3 года назад

    all of you are crying couse "things like this dont happen today"
    what about getting your old jacket and do it? young people are way less then the older ones, so whoe is the group that should go in the streets and say "we dont want this shit any more" ? Whoes fault is it, that things like in the video arent happening any more? Couse everybody is telling you to be normal and dont fuck arround with anybody. It was your job zo show us how its done but you didnt

  • @sabinefischer9361
    @sabinefischer9361 Год назад

    😂 dieses Make up … grauenvoll.

  • @ianwhitehead691
    @ianwhitehead691 4 месяца назад

    First phase punk was the best 1976-78, You know before it became a bloody uniform. 🧷🇬🇧