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A TV series that captures an era will always be like one of those time capsules schoolchildren used to bury in their school grounds, a tin box full of examples of day-to-day objects and destined to lie unseen in the earth until someone digs it up decades – or even centuries – later and gets a glimpse of how people used to live. One such series was Chancer, ITV’s 1991, 12-part drama set in the England of the 1980s. (more…)
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I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet.
Put your braces together and your boots on your feet.
And give me some of that old moon-stomping.
— Symarip, “Skinhead Moonstomp”
People look at you in the street. Makes you feel proud. — a skinhead
Tribalism and Western youth go together, and from the 1960s to the 1980s in Britain the most feared tribe were skinheads. (more…)
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A hard rain is gonna fall. — Bob Dylan
Jesus Christ, they’ve done it. — Bob, Threads
In late September of 1984 I was in my home town preparing to go back to university, having graduated with a good enough Bachelor’s degree to continue to a Master’s. (more…)
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Nick Jeelvy was joined by Counter-Currents writer Mark Gullick PhD, OMIC to discuss the United Kingdom in the 1970s and ’80s as he remembers it, with a special focus on music of that period, on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Here are the young men.
But where have they been?
— Ian Curtis, “Decades”
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls (more…)