Thanks for story, very interesting.

Thanks - that's a nice little snapshot of what it was like as a kid back then!

nice read 👍

Thanks for that. If you'd been walking across Tower Bridge on a sertain day and time you may have witnessed the sex pistols playing on the river.

@@Boilingfrogg This is not quite MY memory of punk and the 1980s but who's to say what's wrong or right? But I had such a fun time.

They were dangerous.

@@dimitristripakis7364 Silly persons silly comment 🙄

​@@dimitristripakis7364Hahaha were we? What to the establishment maybe. We were mainly middle class white kids living in squats and getting wrecked.

@@Leigh-ry3yb I am sorry to have perceived your movement as threatening. I am Greek, I don't know first hand. All I know is that when we went a trip to London, 1982, I was 10 years old and the travel agent told us to not look or talk to the punks. Perhaps it was her fault for saying this, prejudiced and all. But to me they looked anti-social and a contrast to what a great time we had in London, with the big dinosaur in the museum (now it's a whale), Guy the Gorilla (he was dead but I got a poster with his story in my room for decades to come, perhaps Guy is still there in my parent's home somehow), fish n chips, Selfridges megastore, it was lovely for a kid like me, it was magic. I loved how people talked and was trying to talk with them, but Londoners would not underestand what a non-native 10 year old was saying he he. I asked a lady "where is Thames river, please" and she told me the time (she thought I said "what's the time, please". Wonderful place, wonderful people. That was 1982, Thatcher had only 3 years in office (since 1979) .Why do you say people were getting wrecked, as early as 1982 ?

is it wavy

This is gold, minus the 'g'.

more like copper

This is human not gold

and mine lol

C R so fun right. Stepping out of the machine lol. London Calling ❤️

Which one are you?

Blle Are you a Mohawk girl?

@@nonnon7270 very long twisted for a while then very short spikey blue. How bout you?

it was ezier life for developed countries lol... no need to work too hard, got cheap labour abroad, cheap products everyone not too worried about housing

That you know of. A lot had mental health issues from trauma. That’s why there is a lot of reference to drugs, alcohol, and violence.

​@@youwhatsuptube You are wrong. Housing was cheaper but most other things cost more than now.

No you’re miserable

The Pistols and the Clash were not happy. Jeez, have you actually listened to the lyrics on those punk recordings? Both their debut long-players were angry records, with splashes of dark humour. Your memory needs a check.

@@justanoldsnufkin9747 don't know what you are on about

Well??? Don't just leave us hanging..!

Still waiting

Does she still have her hair in a Mohican cut ?

stilllllllll waiting

replying just to get a notification

Haha, I'd love to see a middle-aged woman with a mohawk taking in my deposit.

eww i don´t think they´d want anything to do with anime shit

the one in the black mohawk is my mother actually

Deaf And Destruction yeah we know it was a joke

Probably have kids, working and pay for their bills.

Dumb comment

@@turtleneckferret dumb comment

@@wormkixxr3538 💯

Yeah for real! And just pretend to be living in that time and place, acting like you belong there, but knowing everything you already knew up until that point. Like Steve Rogers traveling back to 1945 after living the 2010’s lol

I've ALREADY been there once! 👍🤣 (Due to an infestation of humourless hate-filled trolls, and the general toxicity of social media, I no longer monitor or otherwise revisit any comments I may make!)

I thought it was Boy George... 🤔👍🇬🇧

Sometimes we all have to get a job to pay the bills, as we get on with Living.

Like the rest of us, she has to do what she has to do to put food on the table and keep a roof over head.

then 8 years later the rave scene would start

hardcore? grindcore? crust?

thank you from a punk who loves blackpool rebellion and saw the rejects

According to one of my friends old man, his dad was part of the punk culture here in Houston, Texas back in the early 1980s, times back then in Houston was diverse when the punk scene was popular.

"truth is dreams that never come true, and you don't get your name in the newspapers til you die". Tennessee Williams, cat on a hot tin roof

Really strange. I've come across you, same old fitup, on so many occasions over the last six months or so, and there's always a brilliant quote. Tennessee Williams is one of my favourite writers. A truly modern day shakespeare. And always happy to find a quote by him, specially on you tube. Keep it up, the world needs more well read people, specially nowadays. Where the dumbing down has taken on epic proportions. A bit scary

@@lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu7967 thank you

Well give us some back ground info then please! Names, places, stories! Spill the beans!

pls

Liar

@@aliceinpayne6911 No U

It’s more like ‘81 or ‘82

Fellow whats the point😂

You haven't paid attention to modern subcultures, mate. The punk spirit is still alive, although there's not as much need to be rebellious these days since many of the values of freedom punks preached have been embraced by a large portion of society.

(I know this was a conversation that happened months ago, but I really wish to add a few words., since i like the subject) We do have... "memes" as a way of speaking out about issues/spreading the word and mocking politics and other things that otherwise makes us mourn/weep for the world ? something like that The new subcultures and the branches of the old ones have all seemed to move to the internet these days and they now do their "battles" here haha and yes I wouldn't disagree that phones are the perfect distraction from reality and the present moment so I do my best to not get too involved with social media

@@MrAlepedroza punks are sjws change my mind

That's true Lol

LMFAO!!! :)))

LOL

Yes it is!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!

I thought it was Pablo Escobar.

As someone who uses my phone daily, I 100% agree with that.

Stephan Venner If these asshats had phones back then, they'd have been using them.

Many punks don't use smartphones or social media :)

@@sitalaki Most do though.

omggg

You been to any punk fests in the UK the past 20+ years

^gay

Yh looks like kings road to me

I used to drink in the dome ,I worked in American classics, Just up from the man in the moon pub

@@barryhossin1222 When did Johnson's disappear? I used to buy their boots. Solid leather, but pricey. They used to sell Zoot suits, too.

@@davidwhite4874 I'm not sure David

So wrong lol xx

Edgy

@@Bicklescab a punk calling another punk edgy. The irony in that....

@@finnkelly3456 prove its wrong then

I was around back then and they were largely homeless kids with pretty much nothing to lose. They'd scrap.

@Julian McSweeney There are no real punks. Punk has no definition.

Ok, thanks for sharing.

You'll love Twitter then

Ffs, you people make me want to puke.