The Tribes of Britain



Download: We’re So Cool – Au Pairs (mp3)




Download: This Boy – The Beatles (mp3)



Download: Angel Face – The Glitter Band (mp3)



Download: Lipstick – Buzzcocks (mp3)

The Tribes of Britain



Download: Skinhead Moonstomp – Symarip (mp3)



Download: Teenager – Camera Obscura (mp3)




Download: The Kid’s A Punk – Slik (mp3)

The Voice of Yoof



Something Else was a great show (The Specials!) but this comes across at times like a parody of “Yoof” television. It’s all a bit earnest and awkward and that twat in the pajamas (who the hell is he? I have no memory of him) is, I assume, an “alternative poet” or something equally embarrassing. The footage of different youth cults is terrific though.

You might recognize the chap in the purple suit, three years before he became world famous.

The Way They Woz



This is wonderful, and a great document of when the King’s Road was an exciting (and a little scary) place to be. When Ann Wobble says “There’s me!” and the camera zooms in on her younger self I found it quite touching too, you can feel the glow of youth reaching across the years. I’m the same age as her and if I saw film of myself from that year I think I’d be more cringing than delighted.

Something for the Weekend

Lucky Dip


Download: Tell That Girl to Shut Up – Holly and The Italians (mp3)

Picture Post


Download: One Of The Boys – Mott The Hoople (mp3)

Something for the weekend



Make you feel 16 again? It does me, then my lumbago starts acting up and I have to sit down.

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