UK Rockabilly: Trying to save a shrinking subculture

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Жыл бұрын

To save his subculture from dying out, Dylan is fighting to encourage other young people to join.
The 22-year-old has dedicated his life to Rockabilly culture ever since he first heard Elvis Presley play and now he's one of the most popular artists in the UK scene.
Watch this film to see inside one of the UK's most dedicated movements and witness how Dylan wants to inspire other young people to get involved.
00:30 What is Rockabilly culture?
01:12 Rockabilly Rave
01:41 Wetherspoons
02:29 Saving the culture
03:36 The music
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Thank you to United Masters and to London Hatred
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This film was made by Tom Gordon-Martin (@tomgordonmartin)

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@bobbyfeathers2279 27 күн бұрын

Real rockabillies don't care if it's popular or not, we love the music and clothes and nothing will ever change that.

@bigbeargaming7608 4 күн бұрын

Exactly. I'll be rockabilly no matter who thinks it's cool or not

@dylankirkandthekillers7060 Күн бұрын

I don’t also care if it’s popular or not I’ll always be the same whether the scene does die or not. You seem so annoyed by this and I don’t know why, just tried to do a good thing. Also if you was a real rockabilly you would be happy that young guys like myself are trying to keep the old subculture alive and kicking while you just sit on your arse spitting your opinions which I and nobody really care about. You can’t decide whether I’m this or that. Sorry are my turn ups not tall enough for you!

@bobbyfeathers2279 23 сағат бұрын

@@dylankirkandthekillers7060Calm down, you might get a hair out of place...

@dylankirkandthekillers7060 4 сағат бұрын

@@bobbyfeathers2279 I’m fine, you are the one with the issue clearly 😂

@garyspring5981 11 ай бұрын

When you get hit with the rockabilly bug your hooked for life rocking since 66

@ironpunk-vh6ck 8 ай бұрын

Im a young greaser, Im also a full blood native american Both are really dying out And I really hope we can all bring it back

@michaelpearson1272 5 ай бұрын

Maybe dying out where you are. It's not dead in the UK. And in the 70s the UK was more American than the Americans. I seen all the big names from the 50s America that come to the UK. The huge revival in the UK brought all the original singers from the 50s to the UK and many of them sounded just as good as they did in the 50s and could not believe their eyes and thought they had went back to the future with all the styles and 50s American cars parked everywhere we made them feel young again sadly many past away but at least they got to re live their dream.

@slicksnewonenow Ай бұрын

@@ironpunk-vh6k Boozhoo ni'ji! Brother, I'm half Ojibwe and ALL Rockabilly 😂 But sadly, you're right... Great Cultures just homogenizing and dying out because the youngsters just don't care. Hey... Hopefully we'll cross paths at a Powwow somewhere... Just look for a tall, goofy looking Chippewa with a pompadour and Ducktails... Driving a 32 foot long turquoise blue motorhome. Meegwetch!

@darrenfrancis326 Ай бұрын

I may not dress like I did when I was a young rockabilly, but I still love the music.

@rockinblue 29 күн бұрын

Dylan is a top lad, seen him play many times and also just walking around Margate.

@indrajitadvani3742 2 ай бұрын

Lovely video Dylan. I can still remember, today, the first time I heard Johnny Burnette's "Rockbilly Boogie" around 1980. I bought the LP and I've never looked back. Whether I listen to something like that or Carl Perkins "Put Your Cat Clothes On" or Joe Clay "Sixteen Chicks", I feel like a teenager and the music sounds as vivid and exciting as it did 45 years ago. And when you hear something like Charlie Feathers "That Certain Female" - it's just so distinctive, that you either feel that music deep down and it means everything to you, or you just don't get it.

@henrysonnemann2597 9 ай бұрын

I've been around since I was 14 years old. I'm 61 now and still Rocking in Holland.😅😂😅

@montbrehain 5 ай бұрын

DO NOT MISS DYLAN KIRK ! I am not into the Rockabilly scene but caught him at the Rockin Roundup last year.. he literally blew us all away ... Fantastic.. like I said .. if you get chance.. Don't miss him 😉

@SomeRandomPunk Ай бұрын

I’m a punk who got his start in the subculture through phsychobilly and rockabilly. And I still love the style and music. From my experience, phsychobilly is still alive in Europe, many people including my self make music and attend shows. However I get the feeling that rockabilly is getting smaller. And if it goes it would be devastating. So if you like the music, support your local scene❤

@frankmartinez4856 10 ай бұрын

U.K. Rockabilly is the Most 🎉Viva, the Kats & Kittens! They keep the movement going 😮Thanks Tom for this Documentary 😅

@petecronin2543 9 ай бұрын

I have been into rockabilly for over 30 years,i go to the rave and trying out the rhythm riot soon

@herbert9241 8 ай бұрын

I like his attitude re. lifestyle: he pulls pints for money but his career is music. 100%. All I wanted to do at school was be a rockabilly and I achieved just that. Kids who like the music shouldn't be daunted by the excellent musicianship demonstrated by a lot of the older rockabilly bands who have 30+ years experience: your starter for ten is literally pick up a guitar and mess around with it. Play along to your records, play along with likeminded friends and record it - you'll surprise yourself when you hear it played back. Acknowledge your influences but put something of yourself into it: there's no reason why your personal experiences shouldn't make for lyrics as good as anyone else's experiences.

@garethshoulder1468 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyable watch Tom, great work

@kark56cc 2 ай бұрын

Best video, best culture, best music - yeah, gimme some rockabilly! I'm 80, but on our weekly R 'n R night my legs are 21!! Lovely write, full of - I dunno, just full of of all the good stuff - thanks.

@user-bi3ww3im3s 3 күн бұрын

Good documentary good lad Dylan 🎙️🎶🎵📻🎼🚀💥

@Atomikcity 2 ай бұрын

Our culture is resilient and has already experienced bad times like in the 90s. People like Jerry CHATABOX were able to bring it back to life by organizing sumptuous weekends, which we miss today.The problem is no longer only in the UK which is isolated after Brexit and covid, here in FRANCE we have the same problems. A large number of Europeans came to financially support the high quality events created in the United Kingdom such as rockabilly rave, hemsby, atomic, hotrod hairide, rythm riot, etc.. I would like to personally thank Jerry CHATABOX for his support of ROCk'n ROLL and ROCKABILLY.

@petecronin2543 Ай бұрын

i am missing the rockabilly rave already this year,gutted .

@Atomikcity Ай бұрын

while waiting for a new rave, let's listen to rockabilly radio..the kool sound of UK roc'nroll...

@tomhayes4782 Жыл бұрын

Been into it since mid 70s....

@MegaVector2011 9 ай бұрын

He's a great ambassador Tom, very talented lad. (can't use my real name on here - Chris from York) Hope you, Theresa & family are well.

@tomhayes4782 9 ай бұрын

@@MegaVector2011 in Italy at the moment.. Cheers mate

@grassyknollblues 14 күн бұрын

Rockabilly is a throwback to a time that we all crave today. The music business puts out total gibberish today. Rockabilly strips it down to the roots. We crave a simpler time and better music

@cindygardener-collinsmimi531 3 ай бұрын

Got into Rockabilly in 1980, There were about 40 of us in our town all about the same age & we totally bonded thanks to the music & we are still close mates through & through, still play the music & love talking about the old days. London was brilliant, Kensington Market was where we got our clothes, never any trouble in the clubs, Caister was a once a year mass get together & life was a total blast. It felt great to be alive & jive!!!!.

@johnhoffmanpaintings8512 11 ай бұрын

nice little piece, ive been rockin since the 70s and cantsee me changing any time soon. we certainly need new blood coming through.

@MarxIstMuss 7 ай бұрын

The problem with the aging and dying Rockabilly scene is that everything seems to be a copy of itself and the past now. When the Stray Cats came along in the 80s they spiced up the dusty fifties sound with some punk rock guitar riffs and attitude. We need something like this that attracts the youth of today. A sound which makes the music edgy and easy to listen and dance to instead of the feeling of enduring your grandpa's records. I don't have a solution myself and I am not even 35. The new 2020s Brian Setzer might be out there somewhere ... who knows?

@michaelpearson1272 6 ай бұрын

Stray cats where and still are crap. And who cares if it dies out. The guy talking is emotionally disturbed there is young people getting into the music. Who is this square making a you tube video about himself

@thehangingparsiple5692 5 ай бұрын

@@michaelpearson1272 Woah! Someone needs a great big hug! Poor you

@michaelpearson1272 5 ай бұрын

Not in my day before the stray cats I was rockin at the ritz to the real stuff in 1977 the girls took of there bra's and the rockin scene was a lot wilder than the stray cats. Later in the late 70s leading up to the stray cats jumping the band wagon. You had phsycobilly and in the 1950s the grandad of punk was Hazel adkins. And if you listen to I hates rabbits by Eddie cochran that also sounds punk and I could name others. The stray cats did nothing for me I'm afraid. 👍🏻

@MarxIstMuss 5 ай бұрын

@@michaelpearson1272 People who love the music care if it dies out? Without fresh blood there is noboby to rock this music in the next 30 years.

@michaelpearson1272 5 ай бұрын

@@MarxIstMuss there is only aging as it did in the 50s there is no dying scene there are countless numbers of cd copy's of records I have that I bought the originals in 1972 onwards I've seen many original and modern bands. I don't like the stray cats. I didn't then and I don't now and that's how it is

@feey0x Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed watching this and learnt something, never heard of rockabilly’s before

@LukeNicholls501 Жыл бұрын

Guest appearance from my bass at @2.38 😂

@slicksnewonenow Ай бұрын

I grew up in the "second wave"... The late 70s and early 80s, in Texas. My rockin' parents LOVED going Honky Tonkin' and introduced me to all the GREATS that were still touring at the time. By the mid Eighties and the "third wave" in America (Stray Cats, etc) I was already performing with my own band. In the Nineties and early 2000s, there was a pretty great Scene here in the U.S. ... But the U.K. and European scenes were always a lot more fun. I was always amazed at how well the Cats over there "did the Fifties"... Even better than it was done here in the U.S. BACK IN the Fifties 😂 I guess it was sometime in the 2000s that it started dying out here (as far as I'm concerned). Even the festivals here became more or less fashion shows, it got ridiculous seeing people get to the hotel with three steamer trunks full of clothes for their hourly costume changes. And folks got SO TATTOOED it started looking like everyone was permanently bruised. Us in the "old crowd" would jokingly ask random "Pin Up Queens" exactly where the pattern on their dresses ended and where the full sleeves of ink started 😅 It's sad to learn that this British Scene is winding down... I honestly never would have thought that it would. Thankfully there are still the Stalwarts keeping the blood pumping! I'm pushing 60 uphill now... I came down with three kinds of arthritis and had to quit performing around 2008. But I still LOVE the culture. Hearing Johnny Burnette belting out "Train Kept A Rollin' " is still as exciting to me today, as it was the first time I heard it. I visited England twice years ago... I intend to do so again before they shovel dirt over me... And I hope I get there during one of the Festivals. I'd even like to perform one last time. Toothless and crippled, but I can still ROCK 😂 CHEERS!

@user-co3zy7st5e Жыл бұрын

amaaaazing

@hellcatBMX468 11 ай бұрын

This is no word of a lie an all, I walk round in South London where i live and even Kent also when I'm up that way, I'm a bit older than Dylan but even at 27 myself people my age look at ya like your a weirdo, but it's what's we enjoy and the lifestyle we live, dress, listen to the music and breath it. It's a culture and I also wish more young people would be into it and keep it alive an all

@MarxIstMuss 7 ай бұрын

I'm 34 and from the Ruhr Area. Keep it goin', buddy !

@slicksnewonenow Ай бұрын

KEEP ROCKIN' , fellas!

@thehangingparsiple5692 5 ай бұрын

Hey. I used to go to a rock n roll club in Eastbourne years ago. Fell out of it cz of life, bad knees etc etc etc. We now meet once a month at Eastbourne railway club, depleted numbers, all getting on, few youngsters but they don't dress rockin. Used to go to Weymouth, Hemsby, Brean Sands once a year...best years of my life. Keep rockin ❤❤❤❤

@lucymarley4319 Жыл бұрын

Loved this!

@SlickCrusty 11 ай бұрын

excellent

@peterney2402 4 ай бұрын

Rockabilly was born out of Kentucky mountain music and especially bluegrass.

@devonmoors 9 ай бұрын

Keep on rockin’ and boppin’ .Great music! Still playing Roy ORBISON ‘ROCKABILLY ‘ EP on SUN records

@paulhadfield7909 8 ай бұрын

in 80's we were calle d'rockers' or' teddyboys.' i was both, loved rockin

@dennyboy3840 5 ай бұрын

Rockabilly died I would say 2010-2014ish at least here in Los Angeles. The promoters tried including too many different genre bands into the shows which brought different crowds and it just wasn’t a good mix. Fun times though!

@bcassie 26 күн бұрын

That’s when it peaked in the valley. Haha. Idk it died in 2016 and on from what I saw from the valley and LA. We are now in our 30s still rockin the style but older.

@dennyboy3840 26 күн бұрын

@@bcassie If you ask me , what killed it in the valley was that place Viva cantina in Burbank . It started off as a cool lowkey rockabilly spot, then they started bringing in punk bands and it was a weird mix.

@bcassie 25 күн бұрын

@@dennyboy3840 haha I knew people in those bands and how that started to happen. They needed shows to play badly and knew the right people. But sadly killed the vibe. Miss Viva Cantina. So yeah you’re right.

@dennyboy3840 25 күн бұрын

@@bcassie Yup those Wild record days were the best at its peak

@bobbyfeathers2279 27 күн бұрын

If he's so into rockabilly, why does he play piano??

@dylankirkandthekillers7060 Күн бұрын

There is plenty of rockabilly with piano 😂 just like there is Hillbilly music with piano. I play a mix of rockabilly and rock n roll I don’t hold myself to one genre. I also don’t class myself as a rockabilly, just “rockin” I like all different forms of that kind of music. Who are you to tell me what I can and can’t do anyway 😂 you seem really pressed

@bobbyfeathers2279 23 сағат бұрын

@@dylankirkandthekillers7060it's called rock and roll when there's piano kiddo

@dylankirkandthekillers7060 4 сағат бұрын

@@bobbyfeathers2279 okay think what you like, however I believe there are a quite a lot of tunes that lean more toward being rockabilly than rock n roll still have piano in them. For example Matchbox by Carl Perkins (The King Of Rockabilly) I’d 100% class a classic rockabilly song that literally has Jerry lee Lewis playing the piano on it. Or going a bit more obscure with Art Buchanan “time will tell” is a perfect example of rockabilly being done with a piano as the instrument at the front. Going back to Carl Perkins though with Jerry lee on keys, I will openly admit Jerry Lee was rock n roll and not rockabilly but you saying that anything that has piano isn’t rockabilly is like saying Carl Perkins wasn’t a real rockabilly 😂