Thought of Laurie Pike tonight out of nowhere, had a look online to see what i would have seen her in and then discovered that episodes of Manhattan Cable are on Youtube.
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Loved Manhattan Cable!
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Phenomenal!
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Iâd forgotten iâd posted this, just re-watching it now, a sad story but respect to Mr Spin for keeping his memory alive.
Just listening to the intro of the mix there and Paul, Stu and now MC Duke all gone. R.I.P.
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Iâm going to go out on a limb and say itâs actually Steve Hillage.
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This clip has some great footage of the Sharpies (or Sharps) - a subculture in Australia in the mid 60âs until the mid 70s amongst working class kids mainly based in Melbourne, with smaller groups in Sydney and Perth. Sharpies were a mix of Suedehead/Smoothies with some Glam Rock fashion elements thrown in for ggod measure. Enemies of the Mods and general trouble makers, this clip shows the (frankly ridiculous) Sharpie dance in full effect.
"With their tight-fitting cardies, blunt-toed boots, hip-hugging jeans and close-cropped heads, sharpies stalked 1970s Melbourne like androgynous bovver boys. A uniquely Australian youth movement, giving sidelong nods to mod and glam but beholden to neither, sharpies were as tough as they were pretty â both the boys and the girls. They may have worn earrings and platform boots, but as former sharpie and current Oz rock legend Angry Anderson puts it, âthey were tough kids from tough fucking areasâ.
The term sharp, or sharpie, was coined in Australia in the 1950s to describe well-dressed, working-class, mostly immigrant troublemakers. By the '60s a new kind of sharp was frequenting Melbourne nightspots â kids in baggie woollen pants, V-neck jumpers and Cuban heels, dancing to the Purple Hearts (who featured sharpie hero guitarist Lobby Loydeâ). It wasnât until the early 1970s that sharpies became a mass movement. The haircuts got wilder, the trousers both tighter and more flared, the knitwear tighter, and sharpies multiplied by the thousands.
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interesting - i donât know if THE âsharpâ thing traveled overseas and caught hold in the west coast of the US, but when i was growing up, there was a large youth culture of âsharpsâ - SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice.
portland was always institutionally racist, and in the early-to-mid-80âs there was a concerted effort amongst the organized white supremacist organizations on the west coast to get an establishment WP foothold in our town. everything hit a critical peak with the murder of mulageta seraw - after that racist skins splintered, and out came the SHARPs - basically the same same bovver boys but slightly multi-cultural - looking for street fights wherever they may be found. not surprisingly, those folks made up a strong percentage the attendees of ska or soul shows of that era, and a fair amount of punk stuff too (though by that time, a lot of local punk moved from hardcore to corny slap-bass funky punk, and few skins from either side were interested in that).
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They are unrelated - Iâm aware of the later S.H.A.R.P. movement, but this was a much earlier subculture with the name derived from the clothing style, not any political ideology. As far as I know, the Australian Sharpies werenât at all racially or politically motivated.
âThe Thomastown Sharps were all different nationalities. They had all religions, races⌠it was all mixed. A lot of the ethnics had been in Thomastown for 20 years. The rest of the city was still getting used to the influx of migrants that arrived in the 50s and 60s, but Thomastown had racial harmony.â
Aussie Sharpies didnât listen to reggae or ska - strictly heavy boogie blues rock and some glam stomp.
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So Ready !
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Went down a rabbit hole on my day off work watching this guys drive around clips⌠Not like the others Hoods and Gangs clips, this guy is interesting and very funny ⌠some of the Motels he visits are very oddâŚ
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Love that. Is there a new album due?
Edit: itâs called âSo Readyâ. Thought you were anticipating a new album.
Still love that YamWho rework of Sky Can You Feel Me.
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Who knew Iâd be a sucker for this type of content. Creepy and strangely fascinating.
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Lol the bit around 4 mins in when he goes look how cute the little cabins are,1 minutes later wtf is this placeâŚlol AC looks a right shit holeâŚ
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Itâs from his 2019 album jimmy lee which I think centers around his brother and addiction so is a very personal reflection. Itâs a great LP I think on a par with Instant Vintage
https://www.discogs.com/master/1599595-Raphael-Saadiq-Jimmy-Lee
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Randomly dug that out recently. Totally forgot it has an instrumental on the other side and was thinking there was something wrong with my memory until I turned it over.
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Still stands up now. Such a lush mix.
It sounds incredible
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