Subcultures, fashion, haircuts and historyTumblr (3.0; @youthculturehistory)http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://what-we-wore.com/post/49923613510/an-anarcho-punk-in-dreamland">whatweworeuk</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/c8be44d230e0996fbabde8da5d41ba4e/tumblr_inline_mmh2m7obIO1qz4rgp.jpg"/></p> <p><span>These first two pictures show me in 1981, the one below just before I had a skinhead and the one above after.</span></p> <p><a href="http://what-we-wore.com/post/49923613510/an-anarcho-punk-in-dreamland">Read More</a></p> </blockquote>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/49936935465http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/49936935465Wed, 08 May 2013 16:23:25 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ca351e9af9439c9a329b0004e6de92df/tumblr_mk813yY4U11r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Skinheads on way into Dreamland, Margate, 1980. </p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/46252259914http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/46252259914Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:47:58 +0000Margatedreamlandskinheadsseasidebank holiday<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9194e3e49e7178107452bff27be69c35/tumblr_mjwkbp1fpU1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Blast from the past as some of the subjects of my pics turn up for the private view at Turner Contemporary. A mix of (former) punks and skinheads from the Margate area. Oh, and a goth. Some had been part of more than one subculture, including rockabilly. </p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45747069728http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45747069728Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:11:49 +0000punkskinheadSkinhead GirlsMargateturner contemporary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/85d2b605d2af1d832ac4a61a3b868b5f/tumblr_mjp99hW8Oq1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Skinheads in Dreamland, Margate circa 1980. This is 2-Tone era where the cult was big again. Note the policemen to the right of shot. Just about every skinhead coat of the era in shot here. </p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45413408966http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45413408966Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:29:41 +0000skinsskinheadsmargatedreamland2-tonecrombieHarrington jacketflight jacketdonkey jacket<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6015565dd84750593cd1c4634bc7a71a/tumblr_mjp91qwwkD1r9f580o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Rocker’s jacket circa 1964 with MARGATE on the back. </p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45413287165http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45413287165Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:25:02 +0000rockersbikersbootsleathersleather jacketbikes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec2bf7fb45581bcd441d2db13ca0179e/tumblr_mjp5tjqVn91r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Margate FC, home to Scooterists in 1989.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45411506123http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/45411506123Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:15:00 +0000scooteristsscooter rallymodsskinheadsrockabilly<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/10c4fe361bfb94b1362a20e4a94928a3/tumblr_mgp025WrL91qlpnuko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://glammygal.tumblr.com/post/40639533834">glammygal</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>By Andie Zerpa. Illustrator.</strong></p> </blockquote>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/42917292324http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/42917292324Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:44:28 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnar2jjbq1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnar2jjbq1r9f580o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Adrian Coombs-Hoar in 1978 at Dreamland and again in 2011. Still a Rockabilly. Copyright Iain Aitch.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/34554157408http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/34554157408Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:11:25 +0000turner contemporaryrockabillydreamlandiain aitchcachetMargate<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m49yenYMFB1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m49yenYMFB1r9f580o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Keith, circa 1981 and again in Margate 2011. Taken on the Harbour wall, where Keith now sells his paintings, inspired by the work of JMW Turner. The Turner Contemporary Gallery was named after Turner, who lived and worked in the town, painting some of his most famous work from a spot on or near where the gallery now sits. Keith was a friend of mine back in the 1980s.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/23350518883http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/23350518883Sat, 19 May 2012 15:47:09 +0100iain aitchcachetturner contemporaryMargateskinheads<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2byeswBFg1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dennis Morris was highly adept at capturing the emerging black subculture in late 1960s and early 1970s London, as he was a teenager as it was growing. From sound systems to street fashions, he caught it all. He also captured life around in him in Hackney before going on to photograph the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley (his two most famous jobs) and choose acts for Island Records. I interviewed him last month for the Daily Telegraph. Only a few of the words made it to the web, but you want to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9131235/Growing-up-Black-the-photographs-of-Dennis-Morris.html" title="Dennis Morris gallery" target="_blank">see the photos</a> anyway!</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20916105644http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20916105644Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:35:15 +0100Dennis MorrisHackneyIain Aitchblack londonBlack BritainBlack britonssound systems<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29cqfKMt61r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29cqfKMt61r9f580o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>This is Tracey, taken circa 1981 and 2011. Part of my Cachet show in Nothing in the World But Youth at Turner Contemporary 9/2011-1/2012</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20835497591http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20835497591Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:51:49 +0100iain AitchCachetmargateskinheadskingirlturner contemporary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m21q632gtu1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Great piece from US author Bee Lavender about the importance of finding your subcultural group and how she found them <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/05/desperately_seeking_survival/" title="Fuck You Seattle" target="_blank">in the queue for Madonna’s first show</a>.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20577872977http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20577872977Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:01:15 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1yi4vYdhe1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fascinating gallery of pics from the Independent today. Simon Barker’s 1976-77 Bromley contingent pics with <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/anarchy-in-the-uk-the-queens-silver-jubilee-in-1977-was-also-the-year-that-punk-hit-7594669.html?action=gallery&ino=3" title="Punk pics from 1976" target="_blank">Adam Ant, Steve Cook, Poly Styrene, Steve Strange et al. </a></p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20464807951http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/20464807951Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:14:54 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0z6dgdpFS1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I always try to catch TV shows that speak to or about youth culture, so I was interested to see that the BBC show (in the UK) <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01czct7" title="Melvyn Bragg on Class" target="_blank">Melvyn Bragg on Class</a> would deal with subculture in Britain. Melvyn (or, I think, his scriptwriter) made a half-decent stab at explaining the Teddy Boys, a rushed explanation of mod and an altogether poor attempt to tell us what skinheads are/were. He then added insult to injury, finishing the show by telling the viewer that skinheads did not have a voice, instead waiting eight years or so for punk to come along and give them one. A typical case of those in the middle class trying to take the voice away from those who have adopted an ethos that those outside are unable or unwilling to understand.</p> <p>Now, this explanation is problematic on SO many levels. The show largely ignored that skinhead was a more working class/tough offshoot of mod. It also ignored the fact that these working class youths had made a choice to differentiate themselves from what was becoming a staid and played out youth cult. The skinheads had a voice when they appeared in numbers in seaside towns like Margate or on the football terraces. It said ‘watch out’.</p> <p>From 1968 skinhead had various mutations (with the likes of the Skinhead series of novels bringing in numbers but, according to some, diluting the cult with those more interested in the violence than the clothes and music), including the late-1970s version that 2-Tone inspired. Yes, this was filtered through punk, but the voice was still a distinctive one. Punk was largely an individualist ‘fuck you’, whereas skinhead retained its desire to raise a collective middle finger to convention. By this time, and later, there were divisions between racist and non-racist skinheads, but it certainly did not take punk to take them to either point.</p> <p>Photo: Iain Aitch, aged 12, Margate. © Iain Aitch.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/19393418179http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/19393418179Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:24:00 +0000<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A9sMZ_5NjM8?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Goth night in Batley, West Yorkshire in 1984. Worth watching the whole thing for a look at the way that subcultures act and interact. Some wonderfully soulless dancing, some great looks, some goth favourites on the turntable. A perfect night out in 1984. </p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18898236795http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18898236795Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:59:08 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0433fl7P51r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Punks and skinheads in Dreamland, Margate, circa 1978. Mixing well, which would probably have not have been the case about 3 or 4 years later.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18440377503http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18440377503Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:28:00 +0000punksskinheadsmargatedreamland<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzsm4cYksV1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>All the young skins…</p> <p>Young skinhead, mod/rude boys in Turner Contemporary, Margate, showing off their Harrington jackets. An older skinhead looks on in the background. © Iain Aitch</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18066227620http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18066227620Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:48:12 +0000skinheadrude boyHarrington jacketMargateturner contemporarysubcultures<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzsdvzMxfW1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>poster for my residency in Margate. Tour dates! I should have had a T-shirt made.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18063480176http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/18063480176Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:50:22 +0000skinheadmodpunkrockabillyteddy boyrude girlsubculture<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjcq7Za8J1r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Me as as suede, aged 11, shortly before having the whole lot off. 1980.</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/17761766532http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/17761766532Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:46:55 +0000skinheadsuedeheadrude boyiain aitchloafers<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6lllUDP11r9f580o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6lllUDP11r9f580o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Taken on the same spot, around 25 years apart.</p> <p>© Iain Aitch</p>http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/17371582069http://youthculturehistory.tumblr.com/post/17371582069Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:43 +0000punkMargateCachetIain Aitchpunk hair