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  • 'White light' presenter James Maw speaks to teenagers about youth culture and how different groups of teens such as punks, Mods are treated differently.
    First shown: 08/09/1980
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  • @stellacantyouhearmeyell-a8279
    @stellacantyouhearmeyell-a8279 3 роки тому +56

    Man the 80s, what a time to be alive

    • @piper_lori-williams-tudhope
      @piper_lori-williams-tudhope 3 роки тому +3

      I miss it! 😢

    • @movesky6696
      @movesky6696 3 роки тому +2

      form london burning ross boatman very young

    • @glenngeeful
      @glenngeeful 3 роки тому +2

      The hair bands got in the way sometimes, but around that yeah the 80's were all out

    • @angusmeigh5141
      @angusmeigh5141 Рік тому +2

      The 1980s was a very long decade for youth culture. Many different fashions and styles came and went in that decade! And some remain to this day like Hip Hop and Rap!

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 Рік тому +1

      @@angusmeigh5141 Liked Rap back then but wish it buggered off in the late 1990s.

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 3 роки тому +14

    “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..

  • @mod69
    @mod69 3 роки тому +23

    We had a huge advantage compared to today’s kids and that was the music

    • @EVERTONFC.
      @EVERTONFC. 2 роки тому

      F em. Hate to be young now.

  • @derin111
    @derin111 11 місяців тому +9

    People forget just how violent and how much an atmosphere of violence pervaded youth life during that time.
    I hate it when people look back only with rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia as if everything was “wonderful”.

  • @jamesnewman4351
    @jamesnewman4351 3 роки тому +22

    I was a rocker in the 80s , am still a rocker now , will still be a rocker on my "deathbed"

    • @mrmusi4512
      @mrmusi4512 3 роки тому

      Think about meaning of life, God and religion... Find the Truth (Islam 😉). The current path your on will take you to hell

  • @carlwhitney917
    @carlwhitney917 Рік тому +8

    You had something to be into in those days , I was a Skinhead with no racial intentions , It was a look I liked and the music reggae and ska , I loved Punk ,later I was a mod which was not that far away from the skinhead look . later I was a casual But looking back I loved so many different styles of dress and music . I hung around with people of both black and white decent colour was never chatted about we was friends and that was that. But the 80s gave you so many looks /fashions from Skinheads to mods to punks and goths , Rockers to rockabillies , Soulies to Northern soul , New wave and early indie to new romantics even a few Hippies . Music was our life and the 80s gave us every kind of sounds you can imagine I am not saying these where perfect times But I felt safer walking the streets back then than I would today at that age . Today there is nothing both fashion wise and music wise and someone would rather stick a blade into than mix with you.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood Рік тому +2

      I was a punk and right into Crass and all that sort of thing in the early 80s. Was very matey with all the Conflict lot cos they lived a bus ride away but was also very good mates with all our local skins and soulies (casuals) too. We were all just out to get pissed and have a good time. Some people liked one sort of fashion/music and other people liked other stuff. And everyone *I* knew was cool with that. I sort of miss that these days. All the kids look the same now, heads down zombiefied by their phones.

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 Рік тому +1

      The 1980s Scooter Scene seemed to adopted a lot of the late 70s/early 80s tribes like Northen Soul, Skinheads and Psycobilly etc

    • @richmck007
      @richmck007 14 днів тому

      You hit the nail on the head. Glad I came up back then. I shipped my lad off to be away from the nonsense of today.
      No class nowadays, no style, nothing to admire or to be a follower of.

  • @gregfowler957
    @gregfowler957 3 роки тому +21

    I was a mod early 80s but had mates who were skinheads punks rockabilly rockers used to mix and had a great time to be honest I did get some hassle occasionally but luckily nothing serious 😅

    • @jamescorlett5272
      @jamescorlett5272 Рік тому

      Deeside 81 The Jam a gig that will always be remembered by anyone who was there - pure Mayhem with the Welsh

  • @mildpigeon
    @mildpigeon 3 роки тому +9

    And a rare appearance from Daley Thompson down at the front there 😄

  • @H.J.G
    @H.J.G 3 роки тому +7

    That poor bloke who got jumped in Camber Sands... he was trying to give his story and everyone was laughing but he was just so dead serious!! Bless him 🤭

  • @Colin-ro6lh
    @Colin-ro6lh 2 місяці тому +3

    The bloke down front with Rockabilly look ended up as one of main characters in TV programme Londons Burning

    • @lilynorthover8378
      @lilynorthover8378 Місяць тому +1

      Thank you. Couldn't figure where I knew him from 🙂

  • @simonnott3076
    @simonnott3076 3 роки тому +11

    Do you have any other footage from those shows? The Meteors first appeared on TV on White Light in the same month, their drummer speaks on this, finding that would be cool.

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 3 роки тому +5

    i was borning in 82, remember most things from 85 onwards tbh but i sometimes wish i was born a bit earlier so i could have witnessed all of the 80s

  • @James-oo1yq
    @James-oo1yq 3 роки тому +44

    All of them now in their 60s and thinking about retirement. I wonder what life had in store for them the last 40 years

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 роки тому +6

      Quite a few of these people were 16, 17, 18, so would be in their late 50s today.

    • @zalibecquerel3463
      @zalibecquerel3463 3 роки тому +5

      They went on to make The Comic Strip, Filthy Rich and Catflap, and "Bottom".

    • @James-oo1yq
      @James-oo1yq 3 роки тому +2

      @@zalibecquerel3463 Yeah, they look like the characters 😂

    • @zalibecquerel3463
      @zalibecquerel3463 3 роки тому +1

      @@Caesar1968 YES WE'VE GOT A VIDEO!!!!!!!

    • @russelllewis2142
      @russelllewis2142 3 роки тому +11

      i am one of those on there blaming my brother for getting me into the rock n Roll scene and i`m still doing it today at 62 as i said it`s a way of life

  • @zalibecquerel3463
    @zalibecquerel3463 3 роки тому +23

    "Nozin' Aroun' Nozin' Aroun'.....
    Nozin' Aroun'..."

  • @dazthemod69
    @dazthemod69 Рік тому +2

    I've been a mod since 78. I've had plenty of bother through the years, but generally it's been good. I've had skin and punk mates for years.

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 3 роки тому +7

    Odd how back then people who are in their teens look way older than what they were, half of these look in their 30s when really they are alot younger lol

  • @applemask
    @applemask 3 роки тому +3

    "THE VOICE OF YOUTH"! HE'S STILL WEARING *FLARED TROUSERS*!

  • @sugarfree1894
    @sugarfree1894 3 роки тому +6

    The girl who said about thinking about the future and not creating any trouble - she'd got on the Thatcher bus.

    • @nsoul8469
      @nsoul8469 2 роки тому +2

      She was born old!

    • @steviewondek
      @steviewondek 2 роки тому +2

      Conservatives will be conservatives. Only now many of them think they are the new punks and rockers :D

  • @indy5624
    @indy5624 2 роки тому +6

    Never heard of Mods and Skinheads getting into scraps, a lot of Mods morphed into skinheads.

    • @dazthemod69
      @dazthemod69 Рік тому

      It was the later neo nazi type skinheads that came with the trouble.

    • @shaunw9270
      @shaunw9270 11 місяців тому

      They're talking post mod revival type skinheads , Oi Boys. Real skinheads, the ones associated with Mods are nowadays known as Traditional Skinheads.

    • @lilynorthover8378
      @lilynorthover8378 Місяць тому

      It was the biggest problem that developed in 1979. Got on fine at first.

  • @vcollins2163
    @vcollins2163 3 роки тому +3

    Was indeed the best time I had growing up.

  • @rabhip
    @rabhip 3 роки тому +4

    Wow thats Mark Robinson from the Early Meteors.

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 3 роки тому +3

    James Maw in this. His accent :) compared to the other youth talk he then did in 1981 with loads of posh kids so he put on a posh accent :)

  • @mikesilva5085
    @mikesilva5085 2 роки тому +6

    The tribalism of 80s youth culture was everything- whether you liked Crass or the Exploited or whether you listened to two tone or followed Oi! But one thing I’ll never forget is the fear of seeing packs of skinheads walking towards you.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 2 роки тому +1

      It's weird how that "tribalism" has vanished now isn't it? I was a Crass type punk but we got on well with the local skins in our part of SE London who were totally non-racist. But yeah.....knocking into some other, non-local skins was always a bit of a worry.

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 3 роки тому +3

    James Maw was a very presenter.

  • @user-vj6ye5to1m
    @user-vj6ye5to1m 23 дні тому

    I'm 29 but i miss these days which i never experienced

  • @GaryJRobinson
    @GaryJRobinson 3 роки тому +6

    One of those rockerbilly guys is an actor. He was in London Burning right?

    • @frankiehoskyn3948
      @frankiehoskyn3948 3 роки тому +1

      Yes you're right.

    • @GaryJRobinson
      @GaryJRobinson 3 роки тому +1

      @@frankiehoskyn3948 I remember seeing him in a UK gangster film a few years ago as well.

    • @Bromley68
      @Bromley68 3 роки тому +1

      Ross Boatman. I thought it was him too

    • @johncronin1082
      @johncronin1082 Рік тому

      Yeah thought he was an actor

  • @johnconaboy9461
    @johnconaboy9461 Рік тому +2

    Hahaha this has made me chuckle, the poor old skinhead who has been bared from all the old hostileries in Richmond, along with his mates, the Venue he refers to in association to the Mod theme every Wednesday and Sunday was Cheeky Pete's ...long gone unfortunately as I myself frequented it along with my friends I certainly have a different take on this, as the skinhead pricks who use to hang around that area weren't proper skinheads at all but glue sniffing racist thugs....on another note funny hearing the young Rockabilly talking about being jumped and given a good slap he is in fact the Actor Ross Boatman who is also a poker player ....what lovely times we had back then, glad I was born when I was
    .

    • @dazthemod69
      @dazthemod69 Рік тому

      I knew I'd seen his face before. Cheers.

  • @FHIPrincePeter
    @FHIPrincePeter 3 роки тому +8

    Is that Daly Thompson in the front row? Also listening to their accents makes me realise just how much London has changed .As this programme demonstrates it was a lot more diverse back then.

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 Рік тому

      Thats what I was thinking.

    • @richmck007
      @richmck007 14 днів тому

      Yep, he of athletics fame!

  • @richardikin
    @richardikin 2 місяці тому

    I've been finding that very, very, very few people remember the Futurist sub-culture from the early 80s.

  • @Speeeeed
    @Speeeeed 2 роки тому +4

    The Brits were (and are) a hell of a lot more articulate than the yanks.

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 3 роки тому +3

    1:50 Ross Boatman :) you then went on to be in Londons Burning and then, later, became a professional poker player :)

  • @kaj00rnitrodolski39
    @kaj00rnitrodolski39 3 роки тому +6

    Add subtitles to these videos. I am a non-British person, and I have to admit that the English spoken by ordinary English speakers is very different from the English that is shown on our British TV shows, and it is difficult to understand what these people have to say. This youtube channel is great, but please add subtitles

    • @rehan2118
      @rehan2118 3 роки тому

      where you from?

    • @kaj00rnitrodolski39
      @kaj00rnitrodolski39 3 роки тому +1

      @@rehan2118 I'm from the Poland

    • @sufcdavie3506
      @sufcdavie3506 2 роки тому

      This was filmed in the 80s. I doubt they’re going to add subtitles now

    • @garytwitchett9359
      @garytwitchett9359 Рік тому

      They are mostly Cockney's.

    • @KristVladic
      @KristVladic Рік тому

      Cześć .
      To co napisał Gary, część z nich mówi gwarą zwaną cockney.
      Reszta mówi swobodnie, no na pewno nie jest to podręcznikowy elegancki angielski tzw r.p.
      ... już nie mówiąc o posh-english..
      ....które to my Polacy słyszymy w BBC albo gdy wypowiada się rodzina brytyjska królewska .
      Pozdrawiam!

  • @jennytaylor3324
    @jennytaylor3324 3 роки тому +2

    Is it just my eyes, or is the guy at 1:49 the actor who played 'Derek' in the BBC's 'Mum'?

    • @TheStevenWhiting
      @TheStevenWhiting 3 роки тому +1

      Don't know but its Ross Boatman from London's Burning.

  • @idatekatemoss
    @idatekatemoss 6 місяців тому

    Is this where The Young Ones got that youth culture on tv scene from? Uncanny!

  • @alwaysbrokendown
    @alwaysbrokendown Рік тому +1

    One of those kids is an actor who was in londons burning/eastenders

  • @alanjones7040
    @alanjones7040 3 роки тому +1

    The guy at l.49 is an actor off London burning..

  • @tonyrobertson5402
    @tonyrobertson5402 2 роки тому

    Has anyone seen Kelly was here from 1980 I am trying to access this but can’t find it anywhere

  • @baldspice7190
    @baldspice7190 3 роки тому +3

    Is that Ross Boatman from London's Burning 01:49 ?

    • @farrington4918
      @farrington4918 3 роки тому

      It’s either him or a really good doppelgänger

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 3 роки тому +1

    1.48 A 16 year old actor Ross Boatman from London's Burning etc etc.

  • @trevorrandom
    @trevorrandom 3 роки тому +16

    The presenter pretending to be down with the kid's 🤣👍

  • @rollerpuss6874
    @rollerpuss6874 3 роки тому +2

    Bet most of these music fans are still the same today. Although nowadays the different genres are less likely to take lumps out of each other. I've heard first hand accounts from many back in the day 😳

  • @richmck007
    @richmck007 14 днів тому

    It’s July 2024 and I just watched this on Instagram.
    At over 60 now, I lived all that nonsense if that be the word to use, but when you compare it to today’s cultural melting pot, it was actually safer back then if you rolled with a group and styled yourself accordingly compared to nowadays.
    Much safer and better as had more imagination and better manners.

  • @flatlinerking
    @flatlinerking 3 роки тому +1

    Where can we find the whole episodes....?

  • @shampoo-supernova
    @shampoo-supernova 2 роки тому

    Kevin Medhurst from London's Burning at 1.49

  • @dazthemod69
    @dazthemod69 Рік тому +1

    Her at 5.00 sounds fun lol

  • @jimjones3126
    @jimjones3126 Рік тому +2

    Working class vs working class. It’s a shame

  • @West.Ham1964
    @West.Ham1964 3 роки тому +3

    4:47 the kind of plain jane middle class girl. Her opinions on society are quickly brushed off by the younf presenter who just wants to move on.

  • @richardtheeighth4431
    @richardtheeighth4431 3 роки тому +8

    LAMO, youth culture of the 1980s, those were the days that hold the secrets of our youth.🤣🤣🤣

  • @andhutch9113
    @andhutch9113 2 роки тому +1

    Nosin’ around

  • @kylewilliams5761
    @kylewilliams5761 3 роки тому +3

    It was "Casual" for me.!!!
    Never got a kick in.
    To worried about getting me Clobber dirty.!!!

  • @timpriddy349
    @timpriddy349 3 роки тому +2

    Vyvyan and spg shoulda been there......

  • @marklola12
    @marklola12 3 роки тому +1

    Strange now how back then it was seen as a big deal or issue if you had shaved head or coloured hair. while i love the 80s times are better now for people who are different and want to be different and freedom of expression. not perfect but it will never be for some people

  • @jemmajames6719
    @jemmajames6719 3 роки тому +2

    The lad at 1:56 he’s an actor can’t remember his name.

  • @koont666
    @koont666 3 роки тому

    Anyone spot the lad from minder?

  • @stev1963hit
    @stev1963hit Рік тому +1

    Even now still hate boneheads

  • @gazfire1322
    @gazfire1322 2 роки тому

    A very young Kevin from London burning

  • @johndobb4723
    @johndobb4723 3 роки тому +1

    I'm guessing it's in the very early 1980s, certainly no later than 84 🤔

    • @vcollins2163
      @vcollins2163 3 роки тому +2

      8/9/80 to be more accurate.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 роки тому

      Description says 1980.

    • @vcollins2163
      @vcollins2163 3 роки тому +1

      @@ajs41 if you look under the heading of this video it says that It was first shown 8/9/80.

    • @johndobb4723
      @johndobb4723 3 роки тому +2

      @@ajs41 my bad, I didn't notice the date because I was too busy sewing my Black Sabbath, Saxon, Motorhead, Deep Purple AC/DC patches on to my cut off denim jacket 🎸

  • @philjones6054
    @philjones6054 3 роки тому +1

    I loved the 80s nearly as much as I did the 70s.

    • @kamrankhan-lj1ng
      @kamrankhan-lj1ng 3 роки тому +1

      Not quite, but almost. And this from one who had his childhood in the 80s.

    • @vcollins2163
      @vcollins2163 3 роки тому

      I had my teenage years in both decades and the 80's were better for me.

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 Рік тому

      Chart music got good from 1977-1982/83

  • @mrlotusmic
    @mrlotusmic 3 роки тому +3

    We have certainly moved on....

    • @LR_84
      @LR_84 3 роки тому +3

      Not for the better

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 роки тому +3

      We've become less diverse and more conformist since 1980 in every way apart from innate characteristics like skin colour.

  • @theward2425
    @theward2425 2 місяці тому

    Everyone had cockney accents back then 😂

  • @joanne26
    @joanne26 3 роки тому +4

    I had left school in May 1981 and was never a Mod or a Punk but i loved the music and fashion back then.
    What was Youth Culture in the 80's - to me social norms of children, adolescents and young adults.
    Today its called CANCEL CULTURE. Guardian reading, champagne sipping, oyster eating SNOWFLAKES, the Me Too Campaign, Millennials and Lefty

    • @NOTODIVERSITY123
      @NOTODIVERSITY123 2 роки тому +1

      True statement ....you do sound like Alex bellfield 👍🤣🤣

    • @joanne26
      @joanne26 2 роки тому

      @@NOTODIVERSITY123 Yes I know
      Alex has kept me sane over the last 14 months since Covid messed up the human race and the world has gone bonkers
      I gave up on mainstream media MAY 2020

  • @Pantherking916
    @Pantherking916 Рік тому

    Tell a Hells Angel how to dress & where to go & see what happens. . . .

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres 3 роки тому +4

    Ah, the 1980's..
    Yooth kulcha.
    Yooth fashn.
    🤔
    And my favourite,
    Yooth a Joyce.

  • @AchtungEnglander
    @AchtungEnglander 3 роки тому +1

    er....rock on.

    • @chrisr5499
      @chrisr5499 Рік тому +1

      Love A Matter of Life and Death

  • @LeighRichards27
    @LeighRichards27 3 роки тому +1

    Fraid the so called 'mod revival' of 1980 was a phenomenon almost entirely manufactured by a youth hating media. All it basically involved was a few parka wearing young people from london's suburbs riding down to brighton on lambrettas on bank holiday weekend and kicking a few deck chairs over. Trust me by 1980, outside of a few towns in southern england like merton and woking, you would have struggled to find a mod or modette even if you looked for one

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 3 роки тому +7

      What about the Jam and their fans?

    • @yvettemoore1228
      @yvettemoore1228 3 роки тому +4

      It all exploded when Quadrophenia came out.

    • @richymenezes1524
      @richymenezes1524 3 роки тому +5

      There was mods eveywhere 😎..

    • @nsoul8469
      @nsoul8469 2 роки тому +5

      Waaaaay off the mark there, there were still loads about where I lived.

    • @jamescorlett5272
      @jamescorlett5272 Рік тому +1

      Alot of the Mods turned Casual - a natural progression I suppose but things turned much more violent .

  • @sarjim4381
    @sarjim4381 3 роки тому

    Being an American, I have no idea what most of these kids are saying. I don't know if that's a good thing.

    • @bootchop88
      @bootchop88 3 роки тому

      takes one to know one

    • @sarjim4381
      @sarjim4381 3 роки тому

      @@bootchop88 Holy shit! Did you have to think a long time before you came up with that or did it just pop out?

    • @manfromanywhere
      @manfromanywhere 3 роки тому +1

      Weird - English isnt even my first language and I understand it fine. Maybe to do with what one's used to I guess.

    • @sufcdavie3506
      @sufcdavie3506 2 роки тому

      Not hard to understand. They’re speaking English

    • @fukcensorship9395
      @fukcensorship9395 2 роки тому

      Im from the states and I understand them just fine

  • @kamrankhan-lj1ng
    @kamrankhan-lj1ng 3 роки тому +2

    First 😉

  • @beautifulspirit7420
    @beautifulspirit7420 3 роки тому +1

    The presenter's accent/voice is sooo nasily. It sounds like he needs his adenoids removed.