Very true Nosher.
The skins were into Ska music ... black music.
Most Ska bands of the time had black and white musicians in the band.
I was 60 a couple of months ago and I was a rockerI remember watching the mods and rocker seaside riots on the news.
I'm 61 so just missed that side of life and instead arrived just in time to be a hippy.
Fortunately I was bigger and meaner looking than the bouncers cos I would have looked dreadful in a skirt!We had a club very similar but on four floors, bottom disco, ground, live group, members only floor, then serious gambling top floor mainly poker.
You definitely had to know the bouncers, unless you looked good in a skirt!
Hippies brought flairs into 'fashion'!
Hate flairs
I ain't arguing with you again!!!!Fortunately I was bigger and meaner looking than the bouncers cos I would have looked dreadful in a skirt!
I never saw any racial tension amongst young people in the seventies and eighties.I have a ska CD my son put together for me and I love it, as its been a few years since my ska days. It all mingles together nicely doesn't , like black and white, it was cool
Yeah my main late night hang out was a west Indian club in Moss Side called The New Reno Club... I couldn't remember the name for a moment there!
Dark low ceilinged basement thick with Maryjane aromas.
Upstairs was a different club which was called The Nile Club and casino.
Consisted of a very small bar and a room with huge round tables where some serious cash was gambled at cards.
Both places often suffered raids.
Great memories.
If you look at the really popular group, ub40, (wonder how they got their name?) they were a brummie group. Some great music.
Madness, they had their background from ska. Playing to the London mod scene.
We used to go the Top Rank in Liverpool, and we danced and mingled with everybody no matter what colour you were.
I loved them. We called them loons
Edit, loons were the flares, not the hippies
Bangs - were the soulers wide legged pants .I loved them. We called them loons
Edit, loons were the flares, not the hippies
Nearly as bad as hipsters, yuuuuuuuukkkkkk!
Sorry RRB! It was a rhetorical question.UB40, was an Unemployment benefits form - 40, some great music from UB40
I missed out on being a hippy - only 57I remember watching the mods and rocker seaside riots on the news.
I'm 61 so just missed that side of life and instead arrived just in time to be a hippy.
Fortunately I was bigger and meaner looking than the bouncers cos I would have looked dreadful in a skirt!
Red red wineUB40, was an Unemployment benefits form - 40, some great music from UB40
I missed out on being a hippy - only 57
Will amphetamine fuelled Wigan Casino be on it?The film 'Norther Soul' is on Sky movies soon. Music's good but films naff!
Drainpipes.... trousers that is...... guess my jeggings are similar they are so tight (or is that the size of my legs ;D)Didn't it all start with the teddy boys and, erm, another 'group'?
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