Merchandise from my first gig. Bad Manners supported by proto riot girl act Dolly Mixture, Margate Winter Gardens, 1981. I wrote about it in this piece for the Guardian some years later when This Is England came out, comparing the film’s plot with my own youth.
Long before This Is England hit the big and then small screens there was Johnny Jarvis, a drama about a teen who becomes a skinhead, leaves school, hangs out with his mates, gets in trouble etc. A great story and some good clips around London with bands etc. The Fred Perry, shaven head and braces kick in towards the end of episode one.
