Steve Strange (R.I.Peace) & Rusty Egan are legends. I want to jump on a time machine back to 1980 and experience the BLITZ on a Tuesday night! Who's coming with me?
@Sam219983 жыл бұрын
Me for sure, I'm 22 only and want to have a good time and get away from covid, masks, and lockdowns haha. I just wanna party and be me without being "canceled" haha
@fundrive2 жыл бұрын
I wish, I'm 22 now as well
@cat2000ish2 жыл бұрын
Me ❤
@susanrich606 Жыл бұрын
We’re having reunions in Philly of whoever’s still alive! Art gallery shows, too!
@triadafillos1 Жыл бұрын
why don't we all organise a thing like that, why do we have to copy the glorious past? All these guys did everything for themselves, no one had financed them....
@WomanNextDoor3 жыл бұрын
The creativity of the 80s was incredible, and I'm so pleased I got to experience it. One way ticket back to the 80s please!
@Sam219983 жыл бұрын
I'm only 22, take me back with you please and get me out of this covid crap I just want to have fun "girls just wanna have fun" haha
@Eirene303 жыл бұрын
I was 13 years old back then when the New Romantics fashion movement exploited. Their fashion, sense of style, the music, the attitude, it was such an amazing moment and such an inspiration for me. I was obsessed and tried to copy the clothes, makeup. Begin to listen to bands like Human League, Soft Cell, Ultravox, Visage. Then Culture Club with the one and only Boy George came for me, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode... I discovered David Bowie, the legend...All of the above defined my youth, my teen years and more...I loved Electro music to the fullest...Thank you New Romantics, thank you 80s...thank you thank you thank you....🙏💕💖
@movesky66963 жыл бұрын
40 year
@plejady3 жыл бұрын
puff
@Artaud19573 жыл бұрын
The movement didn't really catch on here in the US, but some of us did follow it from a distance. We bought the records on import and read the UK music weeklies, which arrived in our stores up to a month after the publication date. The movement was very inspirational!
@MrMCN19632 жыл бұрын
True statements. Same here!!!
@clairepeace57832 жыл бұрын
We in 🇬🇧 always are forward in fashion and music x especially the working class eg punk New Romantics original skinheads etc mods & rockers 60 s xx
@LAMags2 жыл бұрын
Who is watching in 2022? ME .. saying hello from Toronto , Canada 🇨🇦.. I’ve was a New Romantic , started very young .. the 80’s were the best!! I wish I could go back in time !! Take care everyone .. luv LA ♥️👗👛🕶
@jasoncollins17024 жыл бұрын
"What can the movement achieve apart from dressing up and fun?" Both sound really worthwhile to me!
@melaniemonk91514 жыл бұрын
I was a New Romantic lol now l am an old neurotic!
@gaskellr443 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you can be both.
@jchisholm19683 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Marcos-lq6qy2 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5K2XodpdreHm5I.
@swiftcee2664 жыл бұрын
These guys really laid the foundations for the London club scene that exploded into 90s and beyond. All due respect to them. London was an amazing place to go back then. I was lucky enough to get to know Philip Salon ..Mudd club ..and met boy George. Crazy days
@marcfischetti54904 жыл бұрын
Me too, used to love going to the Mudd club at busby's, great times.
@Eirene303 жыл бұрын
I envy you😊
@heathsavage48523 жыл бұрын
I saw Spandau at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in 1981. They were really good. Very tight. Great night!
@1wheeldrive6 жыл бұрын
"The New Romantics are forever taking pictures of themselves." That'll never catch on.
@Bellasie13 жыл бұрын
Boy George can be spotted twice. Between heads on the right @4'02, and as a nun on the magazine picture @11'05.
@jdb47games7 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this 36 years ago. Like most viewers, I had not not heard of Blitz Kids or New Romantics until then.
@gaskellr443 жыл бұрын
I never saw this...but then again I was clubbing in my old town when it was probably shown...ah, the good old days.
@davieleerio7 жыл бұрын
thank you for this I was a new romantic in the 80s it was one of the best eras ever. wish I was back there!!
@briansolomon29696 жыл бұрын
Me too
@rippingale1006 жыл бұрын
And me
@CashelOConnolly5 жыл бұрын
I guess you weren’t thrown on the dole by Thatcher or effected by those dying of AIDS
@Mimi-zh7wc4 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@newwavepop3 жыл бұрын
@@CashelOConnolly whats that have to do with anything. people that were on the sole or who were dying of AIDS. for a lot of them that was still the best times of their life, poverty or not they were young and free and full of energy and passion. because AIDS came along soon after doesnt mean they shouldnt/couldnt have been having a great time.
@anjosixtyeight2773 Жыл бұрын
Thank God for these people now in their 60s.
@sharoncurtis5820 Жыл бұрын
I was a part of the 90 NYC club scene when I was 18 well into my 20s. Back in the 90's I went Limelight in NYC, Palladium, The Tunnel...to name a few... Very very similar style ....you couldn't get into most clubs if you weren't in some of self made costume. Yea, looks like we copied the Blitz Kids. LOL! It was a great time. The music was amazing. It was always judgement free..... America pretty much copies another generations style and revamps it. The problem with my club scene is most of the clubs closed by 2000 or before because the drugs got a tad bit out of hand. If anyone wants a taste of it you should read James St James book Disco Bloodbath.....its a great read.
@_ms.mannequin_ Жыл бұрын
Steve Strange RIP such a beautiful man
@jasonblitz74544 жыл бұрын
Thank You SOOOOOO much for this upload! To see Le Kilt is phenomenal! And the Blitz Kids dancing to Nina Hagen, just fab!!!!!!
@PONKEYWAG2 жыл бұрын
The Kemp brothers looking fresh faced and keen there lol
@harryharrison61287 жыл бұрын
Excellent ! saw a couple of people I know, brings back memories..
@number1authority3 жыл бұрын
Media coverage of new youth movements is always so hilarious. Britain underscores it with jaded, prim stuffiness, America frames it in concerned PTA member moralising. The kids may come off looking like they’re going through the latest fad, but the adults always make the most pathetic impression.
@GeoffreyPheasantFilm6 жыл бұрын
A excellent piece of film from that period. Credit to the makers. Even more credit to the people who were filmed and interviewed. "Axiom" what a great little shop and hive of originality. I went to the tiny one on the kings road, I'm not sure if this was the one that they featured in this film?
@glamnesianouveaux20394 жыл бұрын
How I so love this clip. It's absolutely extraordinary and I do love that as much as I BOW DOWN to Steve Strange that they show other pioneers like Chris Sullivan of the Blitz Kids/New Romantic club scene. TIme machine, pleasssssssse. I just love seeing the punters coming in and paying their small fee to enter the best world that there ever was and ever will be xxxxx
@krisscurtis4483 жыл бұрын
I used to work at the Kilt on greek street!! Thank's for sharing
@glenjarnold7 жыл бұрын
Don't think I remember seeing this one before. Many thanks!
@nicolem889 Жыл бұрын
What's crazy is that i ended up watching a short piece on a singer that was from Jamaica that married a man who built a hotel, and music studio there. Tonight, I saw this and wondered what happened to that 20 year old, Jon Baker. It turns out he is the man who built the hotel and had the Jamaican singer as a wife. Amazing how things come full circle.
@bruhlickd3 жыл бұрын
chris sullivan and Gary Kemp... what a big boys!
@PincoPallino-zh8wm4 күн бұрын
What a great period!! I 'm happy I was able to live through it!
@Doogie53 Жыл бұрын
70's 80's music was the best
@alexiswaller30653 жыл бұрын
Even now stevie nicks and new romantics influence my fashion choices
@suicidesitter65273 жыл бұрын
Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound You'll see I'm right some other time…
@joshuastclair77253 жыл бұрын
I wish there was more new romantics today
@Rose_Arcana Жыл бұрын
Now old romantìcs... sadly an oddity.
@MariPogba352 жыл бұрын
"Esto no es un escape,es una realidad"
@j.s.connolly85792 жыл бұрын
One thing I am VERY GLAD about is that they have banned Smoking in all clubs all over the world! As a Musician and Non-Smoker I always HATED that! My cloths would STINK when I got home! And I had to take a shower EVERY time I went to a club! If I went to a club just to dance or listen to music with friends, I would often get burned by stupid drunk people with their cigarettes in their hands or mouths ON the dance floor while they danced! I guess they thought it made them look "COOL" Or "TRENDY" or "GLAMOROUS" but to me they just looked stupid! And it also started to make my entire drum kit look dull and dingy so I would have to clean my whole drum kit, Drums, Cymbals, Stands... Everything, EVERY week after I played somewhere!
@TheFlush19805 жыл бұрын
Why should a youth movement be anything more than dressing up and having fun?! Like these individuals don’t have a life and ideals besides going out and dancing in the weekends.
@Sam219983 жыл бұрын
Yeah nowadays everything is so mainstream and cookie cutter in my generation Z generation i hate it! The news has to get involved with one side and you're not allowed to stray away or else you'll be shut up, I like being a rebel and my own person I probably would've done well back then haha
@themetamorph6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful-had not seen this clip before,just short extracts.
@Marcos-lq6qy2 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5K2XodpdreHm5I.
@tolislauper7 жыл бұрын
FANTASTIC !
@adrianberrocal Жыл бұрын
Steve strange English s so clean
@bluerondo85716 жыл бұрын
this was filmed in November 1980
@Shapersofthe80s6 жыл бұрын
Broadcast on BBC Newsnight 23 Jan 1981.
@ajs415 жыл бұрын
How do you know it was filmed in November 1980? (I'm not disputing it, just curious).
@Shapersofthe80s5 жыл бұрын
I was there.
@ajs415 жыл бұрын
@@Shapersofthe80s Interesting. By the way, did you go to the Japan concert on 27th November 1980 at the London Lyceum? www.nightporter.co.uk/pages/japlive_80.html
@SarahTheMiddleEarthling2 ай бұрын
Happy I came across this. Thx magical algorithm!
@cycleSCUBA Жыл бұрын
0:05 skyscraper heads were popular amongst intellectuals and academics in the 70's and first half of the 80's. They fell out of vogue and were replaced by the mullet and the goatee beard.
@TabbyAngel25 жыл бұрын
Guys looked soooooo hot back then. People in general looked much better
@MysteriousAsteria5 жыл бұрын
interesting how people nowadays like it. Back then men who dressed that way were usually made fun of for being "queer" and also wearing make up and looking flamboyant and pretty wasn't accepted for men. People want to go back to that time because of rosa tinted glasses, truth is your average guys back then weren't new romantics or pretty boys, lmao.
@JC-yz1sf3 жыл бұрын
I agree!!! Men with make up and style, were all gorgeous and no, not all were gay. And some became some of the biggest musical influences of our time! ❤️
@farmyardflavours3 жыл бұрын
We made an effort everyday to look our best. didn't matter what day it was
@2degucitas3 жыл бұрын
We were all thin.
@Sam219983 жыл бұрын
@@2degucitas i think thats from the food chemicals in our food now.
@anthonyposso37644 жыл бұрын
I LUV what Perri Hanes was saying . . And Jon Baker . .
@abracadabrat8 күн бұрын
This look fits my vibe. I love changing outfits.
@poultrykid7 жыл бұрын
Rare ! Thanks *:-)*
@newwavepop3 жыл бұрын
i spent the late 80s through 90s clubbing and obsessing over the New Romantic scene and the early Death Rock scene, and hating the actual 90s goth scene i felt trapped in. so i am no expert on the New Romantic scene as i wasnt there, because i was across the world in the U.S. plus i was 9 in 81. so i admit i dont know who a lot of these guys they are interviewing are as i only know the faces of the scene. but it still feels weird to me that they seem to be mostly interviewing a bunch of reasonably normal looking guys while all these people standing behind them are done up to the nines.
@mojojojojuniper61223 жыл бұрын
Me too I was 9 in 81 in England I still got my inner goth at 49🤘🤘🎵🎵
@marcop15873 жыл бұрын
So, this is the John Baker guy who made my shoes! 😳
@pigknickers29757 жыл бұрын
Really, really good. That guy at the end from iD magazine though. What twaddle :)
@Shapersofthe80s5 жыл бұрын
Sorry Piggy, you're referring to the legendary Perry Haines who had his finger on the pulse better than many people in 1980, one of the true Shapers.
@ppauly2 жыл бұрын
4:00 Boy George in the background before he was famous
@markgreet354313 күн бұрын
Thanks for this its interesting.
@paolaginelli52773 ай бұрын
The footage at Min. 6:40 ( Nina Hagen " African Reggae " in the background ) is taken inside The Blitz or Le Kilt ? Thanks !!!! ❤❤❤❤
@agomodern3 жыл бұрын
Why is the bottom half of the video gone?
@cleancut17994 ай бұрын
Thatcher s days were inspirational
@mr80s-on6qr3 ай бұрын
was it
@barrysmith45883 жыл бұрын
to cut a long story short ..........
@MauriceCox-d9q3 ай бұрын
Was in London 88 Great Times, 2024 we are in hell
@mr80s-on6qr3 ай бұрын
agree
@vidform4 жыл бұрын
This was the movement that gave us Boy George.
@JC-yz1sf3 жыл бұрын
And Spandau and Duran
@3twelveworkshop3123 жыл бұрын
Adam ant was in that mix, really interesting how there were different subdivisions (in different towns) within the movement...
@cdoc24393 жыл бұрын
Hard to say. Japan was doing all this long before. The bands you mention were pretty derivative.
@scottkingsley80372 жыл бұрын
And Pet Shop Boys,Visage, Human League...
@scottkingsley80372 жыл бұрын
@@cdoc2439 Japan was amazing. DD very much lists them as an influence. But also Bowie and Kraftwerk were very big influence on the scene
@naira15035 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the song that starts playing at 6:36?