Those Punks posing for photo's were actual Punks. They squatted all over the city and met up at the weekend on Kings road where we posed for the tourists for beer and gig money. Also quite a few of the pubs in Kings Road served us regularly.
I was a punk from 1984 until 1989 during the time that the punk scene was very small. Then I was surprised when the punk revival happened in 1994 after the success of bands like Green Day.
Posted 7 years ago and I never found it here in the youtube, just found it now. That's actually good I love the contrasts between different zeitgeists! Congrats! 💫✨✨💫💫❤❤❤❤
I spent some of my youth growing up in Kew too - awesome place! Main thing I notice from this vid? How boring Kings Road is today! As I mention in my youtube tour of the former punk clubs of London - that McDonalds used to be a legendary club called The Chelsea Drug Store - immortalised in the Stones' Can't Always get What You Want.....London now? Shit Sandwich....
Next to the chelsea potter was a market in a shop called 'The great gear market' and in the middle of the market was a coffee/tea bar and all the stalls were around the central cafe/bar...further down towards Sloane Sq end was a cowboy boot shop and that has also gone...Robot shoe shop was down near where saditionaries were opposite what used to be a petrol station which is now a food market...Robot sold very fashionable winkle picker doctor martin sole shoes which also took some designs from creepers that used to be worn by teddy boys..Teddy boys didn't like the fact that many punks wore the same clothes...There were many record shops which were before our price,HMV,Some had there own names..Virgin Records were not that big then and this was also before 'Tower records'.We used to hang out in the kings road and some shops were second hand clothes shops and second hand record shops...brian eno's record company was also down kings road because i took a demo there in the 80's...All of the old haunts of that era have gone..intrepid fox, the marquee,the clarendon,the venue, the rock garden...
70s were really tough times, lots of violence and London was pretty grimey! Punk was exciting and thrilling. In the early days of it was very DIY. People were so frightened of us!! I've only got a few pix from that time, not everyone had cameras then! Plus the old trusty photo booth pix!! Loved going to the Roxy, Vortex, Marquee and late night Speakeasy club. Despite hard times, low paid jobs and even worse, dreadful freezing cold bedsits the Music was fantastic and original!
Hard to believe its nostalgia now, lots of good shops still in the late 80s.Superb second hand charity shop where that carphone fucking warehouse is, manned by very interesting people instead of spotty KPi villains in cheap suits. .
I'm a punk rocker myself and I have a punk rock band so it is must for me to visit Kings Road, The Roxy's, The 100 Club, No Tom Music Store at Denmark St., Camden Town and other punk spots in UK like Manchester.
Punk from 77 to 82, if i could go back,to get away from this woke orwellian society .i would in a heartbeat.debs xx i remember watching antz in vortex,and this big geezer was next to me,i looked up as i am tiny and it was arnold swarzenegger.😀
I’m wearing a BOY T-shirt tonight. Loved the Boy shop when I was 16, I’m 55 now 😂
Those Punks posing for photo's were actual Punks. They squatted all over the city and met up at the weekend on Kings road where we posed for the tourists for beer and gig money. Also quite a few of the pubs in Kings Road served us regularly.
Whenever I watch docs about London Punks I feel like I miss something I never had;
u probably did,
You didn't miss anything, don't worry. You had a youth, and that's all it really was.
I was a punk from 1984 until 1989 during the time that the punk scene was very small. Then I was surprised when the punk revival happened in 1994 after the success of bands like Green Day.
@@angusmeigh5141 hahaha what a bollox
@@angusmeigh5141 Punk was much bigger in the 80s than the 90s...certainly in England it was anyway.
Posted 7 years ago and I never found it here in the youtube, just found it now. That's actually good I love the contrasts between different zeitgeists! Congrats! 💫✨✨💫💫❤❤❤❤
I spent some of my youth growing up in Kew too - awesome place! Main thing I notice from this vid? How boring Kings Road is today! As I mention in my youtube tour of the former punk clubs of London - that McDonalds used to be a legendary club called The Chelsea Drug Store - immortalised in the Stones' Can't Always get What You Want.....London now? Shit Sandwich....
Next to the chelsea potter was a market in a shop called 'The great gear market' and in the middle of the market was a coffee/tea bar and all the stalls were around the central cafe/bar...further down towards Sloane Sq end was a cowboy boot shop and that has also gone...Robot shoe shop was down near where saditionaries were opposite what used to be a petrol station which is now a food market...Robot sold very fashionable winkle picker doctor martin sole shoes which also took some designs from creepers that used to be worn by teddy boys..Teddy boys didn't like the fact that many punks wore the same clothes...There were many record shops which were before our price,HMV,Some had there own names..Virgin Records were not that big then and this was also before 'Tower records'.We used to hang out in the kings road and some shops were second hand clothes shops and second hand record shops...brian eno's record company was also down kings road because i took a demo there in the 80's...All of the old haunts of that era have gone..intrepid fox, the marquee,the clarendon,the venue, the rock garden...
Nice little piece. I was around... hanging outside The Boy.
70s were really tough times, lots of violence and London was pretty grimey! Punk was exciting and thrilling. In the early days of it was very DIY. People were so frightened of us!! I've only got a few pix from that time, not everyone had cameras then! Plus the old trusty photo booth pix!! Loved going to the Roxy, Vortex, Marquee and late night Speakeasy club. Despite hard times, low paid jobs and even worse, dreadful freezing cold bedsits the Music was fantastic and original!
specially the exploited
My mum used to tell me I looked like a clown.
you look like a clown
Hard to believe its nostalgia now, lots of good shops still in the late 80s.Superb second hand charity shop where that carphone fucking warehouse is, manned by very interesting people instead of spotty KPi villains in cheap suits. .
I miss London too much really.
if I had a chance to go to London I will surely visit these places.
I'm a punk rocker myself and I have a punk rock band so it is must for me to visit Kings Road, The Roxy's, The 100 Club, No Tom Music Store at Denmark St., Camden Town and other punk spots in UK like Manchester.
Punk from 77 to 82, if i could go back,to get away from this woke orwellian society .i would in a heartbeat.debs xx i remember watching antz in vortex,and this big geezer was next to me,i looked up as i am tiny and it was arnold swarzenegger.😀
Has a similar documentary been done interviewing Mod's from say the 80's and possibly the 60's..?
Nostalgia is always exciting
Naah . Most of us bought our shoes in Robots
Brentford Market for all the bootlegs on a Sunday morning ....
When you think you've seen ever punk documentary on UA-cam
chelsea potter & man in the moon
I was a 80’s convert, due to my age.
I hated to uniform.
Does anyone actually remember these days of Brilliance ? I do ! One love Pete The murderer
Do Sloane Rangers still exist?
Sorry the comment underneath was meant to be me. I was watching on another account
In die periode bezocht ik London voor de 3e keer en zag voor het eerst punk mode.
King's Road oké, maar de Kammenstraat is dat ook.
You can still do it in your 40s though.
In a museum?
Im confused
You put punk in a museum?
Punks not dead
weird when people say things people said in the 80´s l o l
they look like puffs not punks
not punks just posers.