From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref PZ3F 1981 punks on the streets of London
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@AnonAnonAnon3 жыл бұрын
As a kid in 1977 my family and I went to London the day before the Queens Sliver Jubilee. Imprinted on my mind is the first time I ever seen two punks. They were stood outside a pub, male and female, she was all dressed in bondage kit and he was in leather with 'Sex Pistols' painted on the back. I stood wide eyed staring at the two, like they'd just landed on Planet Earth from another planet. Fast forward to 1980 and my mate was a punk. We had the Perry Boys and casual fashions, and he couldn't afford it, so went punk. He painted his Doc Martins with black gloss paint and stuck safety pins and chains on his jacket. I think he had one album, by the Damned.... Strange but fantastic times, late 70s and through the 80s.
@user-gj8iq7bu1u3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for story, very interesting.
@MysticOblong3 жыл бұрын
Thanks - that's a nice little snapshot of what it was like as a kid back then!
@xsystem1 Жыл бұрын
nice read 👍
@Boilingfrogg Жыл бұрын
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.
@hopebgood10 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Daud763 жыл бұрын
With the threat of nuclear attack, a cold war, and so many other horrible things happening in the world at that time, the punk found reason to smile. By looking at this film, one can truly say most, if not all, punks were genuinely nice (although different) a kind of people. 😊
@@dimitristripakis7364Hahaha were we? What to the establishment maybe. We were mainly middle class white kids living in squats and getting wrecked.
@dimitristripakis73645 ай бұрын
@@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 ?
@augustopoggi61177 жыл бұрын
this is gold.
@Clariccy7 жыл бұрын
is it wavy
@the_gilded_age_phoenix87173 жыл бұрын
This is gold, minus the 'g'.
@Kanibulus3 жыл бұрын
more like copper
@ritchie2413 жыл бұрын
This is human not gold
@belle21545 жыл бұрын
Thank you thank you thank you. 57 now....that was my youth you filmed ♥️✨thank you
@CR-qh7ei5 жыл бұрын
and mine lol
@belle21545 жыл бұрын
C R so fun right. Stepping out of the machine lol. London Calling ❤️
@kecapdongo52613 жыл бұрын
Which one are you?
@nonnon72702 жыл бұрын
Blle Are you a Mohawk girl?
@belle21542 жыл бұрын
@@nonnon7270 very long twisted for a while then very short spikey blue. How bout you?
@stoneisland67893 жыл бұрын
Bring back these days 💚, what a sensible place England was
@stoneisland67893 жыл бұрын
@@justanoldsnufkin9747 don't know what you are on about
@petermurphy5053 жыл бұрын
Even the punks were happy in the old days,everyones bloody miserable now😄
@youwhatsuptube3 жыл бұрын
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
@yaelfeder9042 Жыл бұрын
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.
@divergencefilms Жыл бұрын
@@youwhatsuptube You are wrong. Housing was cheaper but most other things cost more than now.
@lasakau272 Жыл бұрын
No you’re miserable
@douglasfreeman3229 Жыл бұрын
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.
@deafanddestructiononthepis31495 жыл бұрын
I think, and am pretty sure the woman on the right in the thumbnail with the black mo is a friend of mine Sally. She lives in Denver now, coming from Scotland. Still a punk, she goes to our local shows all the time. I'll have to ask her but I think she showed me a picture from this
@lumpyplop5 жыл бұрын
Well??? Don't just leave us hanging..!
@anonek66404 жыл бұрын
Still waiting
@mistofoles4 жыл бұрын
Does she still have her hair in a Mohican cut ?
@rollinthruu3 жыл бұрын
stilllllllll waiting
@mh201623 жыл бұрын
replying just to get a notification
@duffbaker95543 жыл бұрын
They're so cute! Mom can we take one home...please??
@turtleneckferret3 жыл бұрын
Dumb comment
@wormkixxr35382 жыл бұрын
@@turtleneckferret dumb comment
@paddyeejit19542 жыл бұрын
@@wormkixxr3538 💯
@CapChronic3 жыл бұрын
Would be so cool to go back in time.
@itwontcomeout56783 жыл бұрын
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
@marcse7en Жыл бұрын
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!)
@missingmochigumanofficial7 жыл бұрын
I wonder how they are now today...
@missingmochigumanofficial7 жыл бұрын
Haha, I'd love to see a middle-aged woman with a mohawk taking in my deposit.
@Clariccy7 жыл бұрын
eww i don´t think they´d want anything to do with anime shit
@Hlsyea6 жыл бұрын
the one in the black mohawk is my mother actually
@Hlsyea5 жыл бұрын
Deaf And Destruction yeah we know it was a joke
@abangemirzaihanabangzulkip95024 жыл бұрын
Probably have kids, working and pay for their bills.
@OtakuBK3 жыл бұрын
That girl with the Mohican is so pretty!
@janetwestwood91943 жыл бұрын
I thought it was Boy George... 🤔👍🇬🇧
@caesar3493 жыл бұрын
Wow what a time capsule! Also crazy to see how the punk “style” evolved in a few short years from how it was in the mid/late 70s when it started.
@bernadettemurray20162 жыл бұрын
Great little video, l was 17 in 1981in North East England, seems so long ago.
@justincase48123 жыл бұрын
The girl with the mohawk is probably some manager of risk assessment at a paper mill now. The camera man was especially keen on her haha. I think these kids were just looking for fun more than anything else.
@fishgazoo58513 жыл бұрын
Sometimes we all have to get a job to pay the bills, as we get on with Living.
@MH-zg5yw5 ай бұрын
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.
@petems32833 жыл бұрын
Just kids enjoying the latest music revolution (for want of a better phrase). It was great and a much needed kick up the 70s. It couldn't last of course, the establishment came in and the 80s were born. But like 50s Rock n Roll, it felt great while it lasted.
@Kblog7773 жыл бұрын
I’m from Norwich and I always remember as a little kid in the 80s, the punks hanging around outside the Guildhall and outdoor market.
@Sameoldfitup3 жыл бұрын
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
@lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu79673 жыл бұрын
"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
@lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu79673 жыл бұрын
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
@Sameoldfitup3 жыл бұрын
@@lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu7967 thank you
@normanleroy18743 жыл бұрын
Cool to be reminded how radical some of those haircuts were, mohawks especially.
@punkst6r3 жыл бұрын
Everyone Genuinely Looked So Happy
@Lola-AreaCode212 Жыл бұрын
Punk was so over in '81.
@MH-zg5yw5 ай бұрын
then 8 years later the rave scene would start
@Environmental-Time2 ай бұрын
hardcore? grindcore? crust?
@OUigot3 жыл бұрын
I remember back in the 80's when I moved from the country to the city for university. It was the first time I saw "punk rockers" with their mohawk haircuts walking of the sidewalks. I was amazed. I was told to never take their picture because if they saw you doing that they would chase you down and demand money from you or they'd break your camera. Then I saw them doing it do someone who did take their picture.
@thetraveller88923 жыл бұрын
Wholesome af.
@foo_fah3 жыл бұрын
i was a 6 year old kid at the time (‘81) and living in london. you didn’t normally see any punks untill you get to places like trafalgar square. but you did get to see them from time to time in your neighborhood and they were scary as fuck
@metalpunk1234 Жыл бұрын
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.
@neilturner68653 жыл бұрын
Used to be a Skin hung around with the Punks in London. We used to have a right laugh and go to all the gigs. The Punks were colourful and energetic who liked to Party ❤️
@terryedwards44002 жыл бұрын
thank you from a punk who loves blackpool rebellion and saw the rejects
@kimeton55024 жыл бұрын
57 now i was on king's road 79
@ToastedCigar5 жыл бұрын
The youth (sub)cultures from the 1960's to the 1990's were a lot more rebellious and rad than nowadays. Nowadays young people are just attached to their phones.
@Hugo-rq2wo4 жыл бұрын
Fellow whats the point😂
@MrAlepedroza4 жыл бұрын
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.
@aizak233 жыл бұрын
(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
@brucetransjenner71112 жыл бұрын
@@MrAlepedroza punks are sjws change my mind
@exgunnerdaz3 жыл бұрын
These were the days 😪🇬🇧
@theghoultaker7624 Жыл бұрын
It's interesting and fascinating to see archive footage Punks from the 80s plus I starting to become an punk myself.
@oddities-whatnot2 ай бұрын
They always used to hang about a monument or something in city centres, Manchester used to get loads of them on a Saturday afternoon, all congregating on Market Street.
@michelguevara151 Жыл бұрын
the girl with the mohican is gail thibbert. I was seeing her about 4 years after this was filmed.
@rogerlawrencewhite14753 жыл бұрын
Thanks, appreciate you posting this as the kids that age in the video were who I looked up to at 11yrs old in 1981 , I turned 50 this year and still have a Mohawk, better yet I’m helping keep it going as my GF is 22 and has a nicer hawk than me, we’re trying to spawn a little punk rocker of our own
@marcusdance50683 жыл бұрын
Filmed down the kings rd normally on a Saturday would ride down on me vespa around the time of this and before . Always a great laugh them running after us. Brilliant times good time to be seventeen
@burgermister75805 жыл бұрын
I was there 1980 August
@JohnSmith-su3ze5 жыл бұрын
Well give us some back ground info then please! Names, places, stories! Spill the beans!
@rollinthruu3 жыл бұрын
pls
@aliceinpayne69113 жыл бұрын
Liar
@itwontcomeout56783 жыл бұрын
@@aliceinpayne6911 No U
@TheFairway83 жыл бұрын
It’s more like ‘81 or ‘82
@user-zv6ww2ex7j3 жыл бұрын
Уникальные кадры. Девчонка красивая и очень эпатажная.
@JohnSmith-su3ze5 жыл бұрын
0:18 Pause the video. It's the Spanish bloke from Mind Your Language
@MrZluvu4ever3 жыл бұрын
Looks like Sid Vicious & Rudolf Pieper @ 0:27!
@zebaxi51693 жыл бұрын
That's true Lol
@nosajkrad3 жыл бұрын
Freedom compare to today
@missingmochigumanofficial7 жыл бұрын
Freeze on 0:18 and you'll find what it seems to be Josef Stalin behind the cameraman.
@leeneale87764 жыл бұрын
LMFAO!!! :)))
@lugm10343 жыл бұрын
LOL
@stypa17173 жыл бұрын
Yes it is!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!
@godsstruggler87833 жыл бұрын
I thought it was Pablo Escobar.
@petrichor6493 жыл бұрын
As I saw it, all those years ago, ahhhhhhhhhhhh
@mohtadibakali15573 жыл бұрын
We were happy and we didn't know
@annwalker4513 жыл бұрын
Six years after 1976 and the kids are looking like Johnny ........... Lydon was never impressed with the copycat mentality , dress for yourself , not wear the obligatory punk uniform . Can’t knock the music though, 1981 was a good year for new wave tunes .👍
@terceiraxxi3 жыл бұрын
Good Life no cellphone 📱
@charlyroadmolko80903 жыл бұрын
This old times must go back ❤❤❤....when in England has changed today 😓....
@agnostic473 жыл бұрын
40 years later and you couldn't tell them apart from anyone else. BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T COVER THEMSELVES IN TATTOOS.
@chaospunx31185 жыл бұрын
should have put some punk music in this video
@batsematary3 жыл бұрын
Cool footage
@jacekpiskrzynski96623 жыл бұрын
Co to były za czasy 💪
@nirvanafatal3 жыл бұрын
those were the good old days. Fashion still cool in 2021
@lucatricky14574 жыл бұрын
my first time in London as a punk was right in summer of 1981, could be compared to the summer of 69 or summer of love...golden years of the second wave of punks, it was incredible, it lasted until 1984, then started the downfall and the american hardcore outlook overwhelmed the glorious spike hair, mohavks, creepers, leather jacket and studs, doc martin, bondage trousers...
@Boilingfrogg3 жыл бұрын
You been to any punk fests in the UK the past 20+ years
@leedonovan85673 жыл бұрын
SOME TRULY GREAT HUMAN BEINGS!! HONEST AND NO BULLSHIT!!
@stephanvenner29397 жыл бұрын
I think all those Green Day Kiddies don't know what this is. Beercans are still more fun than Iphones!
@IAmKye5 жыл бұрын
As someone who uses my phone daily, I 100% agree with that.
@GilbertSyndrome5 жыл бұрын
Stephan Venner If these asshats had phones back then, they'd have been using them.
@sitalaki4 жыл бұрын
Many punks don't use smartphones or social media :)
@MrAlepedroza4 жыл бұрын
@@sitalaki Most do though.
@umacontaai573 жыл бұрын
omggg
@alitlweird Жыл бұрын
God bless the person who shot this film! 🥳 We need to get a professional lip reader to add dialogue and a Foley Artist to add some ambient sound! 😃
@xyuser-vx3on6vd4j3 жыл бұрын
Perfect 👍
@soldolcemelo29602 жыл бұрын
Sid en el fondo siempre fue un niño y la imagen con el REVERENDO LO DICE TODO...
@derekgourney Жыл бұрын
1977,1999,was, best day s,years,
@shutup30393 жыл бұрын
Spend your time on earth wisely as it is just a very long day
@cjrogers90603 жыл бұрын
Those 1970s-80s beer cans had funny V-shaped openings. Perhaps deliberately made small so you wouldn't drink too fast!
@DRF10016 жыл бұрын
Is this the Kings Road? Anyone remember the Dome, or Goat in Boots/ Parsons on Fulham Road? As a kid punks & skinheads scared the crap out of me. Walking out of a record shop at the age of 10 with a Madness single and saw some Punks standing on the corner. I thought they were going to lynch me right there on Barnet High street and ended up walking 1/4 mile to skirt around them,, I was an idiot, of course, that's one thing that never changed. ..Thank you for this sub+1
@JohnSmith-su3ze5 жыл бұрын
^gay
@fatboofs2635 жыл бұрын
Yh looks like kings road to me
@barryhossin12224 жыл бұрын
I used to drink in the dome ,I worked in American classics, Just up from the man in the moon pub
@davidwhite48743 жыл бұрын
@@barryhossin1222 When did Johnson's disappear? I used to buy their boots. Solid leather, but pricey. They used to sell Zoot suits, too.
@barryhossin12223 жыл бұрын
@@davidwhite4874 I'm not sure David
@mpeknyc3 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing some real punks like these as a kid in my hometown, they were not someone you messed with.
@patrickbrowder68573 жыл бұрын
I was around back then and they were largely homeless kids with pretty much nothing to lose. They'd scrap.
@MissEddieBlueKawaiiKrafts3 жыл бұрын
Back in the days of acid & PCP 👀🙈 I wasn’t afraid of anything back then, such a different world... really brings back memories 🖤
@rajadhand3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1981.....I had a cooler generation before , I got to know this from video 👍
@DbeeM2 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh! the good days .
@Aurora2097 Жыл бұрын
That mohawk girl is gorgeous!
@bentramer42813 жыл бұрын
These people are close to 70 now.
@juniorpontes46203 жыл бұрын
- Punk's Not Dead 💪🎵🎼🎶🎸😎👊
@Swayzeo3 жыл бұрын
I was around that age that year😎
@damonfenixtrismegisto7698 Жыл бұрын
Punks ❤☠️💀🍺
@ozieljimenezmorales52873 жыл бұрын
Real punks.
@jaymorris3468 Жыл бұрын
The girl with the Mohican is now Chief Justice of the judiciary.
@condors19723 жыл бұрын
Interesting film. I wonder how it worked out for them.
@angelblack1985ful3 жыл бұрын
2021 🤘🏻
@antneyfatts6653 жыл бұрын
The mohawk girl in thumbnail, is the kind of woman I've always been attracted to, especially back then
@ghostriderinthesky66853 жыл бұрын
Ok, thanks for sharing.
@brucetransjenner71112 жыл бұрын
You'll love Twitter then
@wallywalrus174 жыл бұрын
I like
@blackkoganinja50935 жыл бұрын
Cool
@user-fo2dh4ow5r3 жыл бұрын
Now they are in theirs 50s
@yahyajerrari8185 жыл бұрын
my family
@nottinghamboy94093 жыл бұрын
After 1978 punk became mainstream and accepted. Teens started putting the A (anarchy)symbol on t shirts and for fun dyeing their hair. Then came the pretty punk bands in 79 (no swearing or being offensive). They hadn’t got a clue about “white riot “ or “flogging a dead horse” or “Holiday in Cambodia”....After Sid replaced Matlock punk went soft and cute.
@finnkelly34563 жыл бұрын
So wrong lol xx
@Bicklescab3 жыл бұрын
Edgy
@brucetransjenner71112 жыл бұрын
@@Bicklescab a punk calling another punk edgy. The irony in that....
@brucetransjenner71112 жыл бұрын
@@finnkelly3456 prove its wrong then
@danielnewton58673 жыл бұрын
What an amazing youth culture!
@Skaarxiong13 жыл бұрын
when England was England and it belongs to me. the nation's pride of dirty water by the river, no one can take away her memories, nooo, England belongs to me!
@JerichoMile44 жыл бұрын
The British and Punk rock and Mohawks !!! 🤔👍
@fbiguy52693 жыл бұрын
@Julian McSweeney There are no real punks. Punk has no definition.
@maybeyuli9753 жыл бұрын
I love this
@markymarco25703 жыл бұрын
Boutique punks.
@nomdeguerre133 жыл бұрын
when I watch this stuff, I wonder where are they now and if they think the same and/or look back fondly?
@darrenplatt67803 жыл бұрын
Ffs, you people make me want to puke.
@TheFairway83 жыл бұрын
Looks like it’s filmed down the kings road prob about ‘81 ‘82 my youth great days. We used to supplement our dole money with charging tourists to take pics what entrepreneurs we were
@tvcharli37853 жыл бұрын
London calling
@veganswines3 жыл бұрын
Hey the one guy must be Ray. Greetings if you see this!
@daveadam4353 жыл бұрын
Kestrel Larger !!!! That takes me back !!!
@fromindramayucity78923 жыл бұрын
Punks 👍🏼🎸🥁🎹🎷🎤🎶🎻
@Ricardo-cl3vs3 жыл бұрын
Punks on the streets of London. Punks on the streets of Birmingham. I wonder to myself...
@Ricardo-cl3vs3 жыл бұрын
@sanjay j What about Carlisle?
@skyclarking-1233 жыл бұрын
I always wanted to have a mohawk..
@devinpeirce71525 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@dionisio771910 ай бұрын
E anche se fuori non lo mostriamo, il punk ci batte dentro cuore e testa. Credo di poter parlare a nome di molti ....
@DXmYb3 жыл бұрын
Death and Despair
@commanderstarstrider71766 ай бұрын
These are my predecessors. I'm 43. I remember watching VHS of this type of stuff so hard to get your hands on in the early 90s. Thinking man that was like 12 years ago, so old. LOL.
@tebtwis-ys8fx5 ай бұрын
You are the same generation as the Kardashians right ?
@GregNFresh4 жыл бұрын
It's true that the guy on the left at 0:25 looks badly at Sid!
@andynormand13524 жыл бұрын
Bof
@shanew3293 Жыл бұрын
when punks were 'real'. today they just look bored
@user-uq3ft3ol2x3 жыл бұрын
Эти кадры были использованы в фильме "Тайна Чёрных дроздов "