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Y.D.L. will fuck you up.

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Camera Silens – Réalité (French Oi! punk from Bordeaux, ’84)  They robbed a bank and stole 12 million francs in April ’88.

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UK82 punk rock; British hardcore/street punk – 2nd-wave (circa ’79–’84) punks sported more uniform choice, of highly customised black leather biker jackets—suffused with studs & spikes to obscurity, emblazoned with band logos, trimmed with vivid tartans and animal prints, chains and heavy-duty miscellany, button badges—and more outrageous, tall hairstyles (e.g., mohawks and variants of the style, Liberty spikes, &c.) in vibrant shades; studded & spiked accessories and outlaw biker/heavy metal influences; “bondage strides” or violently dyed “bleacher” jeans; Dr. Martens or high commando boots.

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The last pure underground youth movement. Industrial/hardcore techno, gabber, happy hardcore/dark acid techno aesthetics from ′90s Netherlands (Rotterdam Massive!)  —  source: gabbereleganza

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78/87 London Youth – Derek Ridgers  (From top-left, across: ) 1.  Kev-o’s girl 2.  “Smiler”  3.  “Cross me.” 4.  Shoreditch, ′79 bonehead. 5.  “Outside Charing Cross station, 1979” 6.  Shoreditch, ′79 bonehead (2.) 7.  Rubble (“Not well-heeled but steel toe-capped.”) 8.  Shoreditch, ′79 (“Not well-heeled but steel toe-capped.”)

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Quintessential British Oi!/bootboy basics from ’82. Crux/Crash split on No Future Records – reissued on VPR (Spain). 

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White Pride – White Pride [U.S. hardcore/hate punk, ’83] Is it bait? (Maybe.) Is it great? (Yes.)  “Watching all these "punk" documentaries and punk revisionism going on nowadays, you'd think punk was some leftist political party. They completely ignore the right-wing element that was also floating around hardcore back in the days. That's what happens when you let commies police your scene [...] AND they [White Pride] were one of the hardest-hitting punk bands. They burn holes through turds like the Dead Kennedys and T.S.O.L.”

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Skinhead isn’t an exhibition. 

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Código de Honor S/T cassette mini-album (Spanish Oi!/RAC/hatecore)

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Punk’77 – “No future and worth fuckall but shock value.”

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(From left:) Relief illustration from old Shakespeare book; press photo from The Boots & Braces Cult (1970), on original skinheads.

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A humble emulation of factions of the hard/gang mod, lemonhead or peanut, 1st-wave skinhead look, brolly and bovver boys.       From top-left, across:

Solovair 11-eyelet, steel toe-capped oxbloods—100% Made in England.

Original Levi’s Sta-Prest, in off-white hue. 

Brooks Brothers OCBD (Oxford cloth button-down), furnished with all the natty Ivy League attentions—and the elusive “roll” collar. Made in U.S.A.     (Alternatively, English interpretations of the Ivy Style staple, manufactured for the 2nd/3d-generation mods of the mid-’60s.)

1”< scarlet braces (clip-on), made in England. 

OCBD (detail)

Extra-firm Coke/bowler hat.

USAF MA-1 bomber jacket, in space blue nylon.

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Bleached Mohawk, prominent tattoos, Nazi iconography, thrashed denim, “Cambridge Rapist” T-shirt, studs & spikes, token safety pin. — Colin “Jock” of English street punk band [Charged] G.B.H* (the name inspired by then-bassist’s trial for grievous bodily harm.) 

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Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971)—based on Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel of the same name, “Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.”

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High Wycombe council estate toughs, circa  ’78–’85 — From Gavin Watson’s Skins and Skins & Punks archives.

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Original skinheads, up Coventry shopping precinct; Coventry, England – October 4th, ’69 — complete with razor side-partings and a Levi’s black leather trucker.