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Just want to know about the Skinhead scene in London from when the revival started to when it died out.I mean not all must have went the Casual route and it could be about Sham fans,West Ham and the Football route or even the Bonehead and the Punk/Skin crowd or and not forgetten the ScooterSkins and Trojans.Any help emoticon
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I think tom is your man for this one tubby ....I had given up the skinhead/ska bit by the time I got back to London about late 85-86 and was more into scooterboy/Psychobilly sounds, before finally calling it a day in the early nineties .......Me mate greg was a skin and Jeff the Fish could tell you more on the sussed skinhead side of things in the early 80s. Alot of the skins turned casual and got into the whole footie violence bit, more than youd realise to be honest ....some took up the scooters full time, I used to see alot of skins in the Klub Foot in the late 80s ........I Think but the time 89/90 arrived the skinhead scene had all since dissapeared from the street of London ........

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Iam looking more like from 1978-1984 and if any where after i think it would of been in the Scooter scene.It's funny but when there was a National Scooter rally in the north east at Whitley Bay in 1989 there was a load of Skins and everyone didn't seem that old and the scene seemd quite big but the same rally in 1990 everyone seemed quite old and to me there wasn't as many people at the rally and in a nutshell it seemed a totally different scene from the one before(iam now going on about the Scooter scene so sorry if a i have strayed abit) emoticon
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Its funny and alot of people on here refer to the skins of the 80s as boneheads ....alot of them rode scoots....I wasnt aware of this until lately but a fair few of the Nomads scooter club were skins, as were quite a few others in London at the time in the mid/early 80s ....I remember being in Morecambe in 85 which was my first English rally....I lived in southern Ireland and attended the rallies there from 83-and through the nineties, but I remember drinking with a load of skins from the north east who came down in a transit ...there must have been about 15 of em, the main bloke was about 20 stone and had a cross shaved into his head ......he looked ferocious, but looked after this mob like a father .....he was a genuinely nice bloke..........I think though that 89-90 the whole skinhead thing was coming to a closure.

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As Kev said, my dad or Tom is your best bet. As far as I know he didn't go on any rallies though. Obviously I will let him answer himself.
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Is Oxo your dad Suedehead 89.
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Its funny and alot of people on here refer to the skins of the 80s as boneheads ....alot of them rode scoots....I wasnt aware of this until lately but a fair few of the Nomads scooter club were skins, as were quite a few others in London at the time in the mid/early 80s ....I remember being in Morecambe in 85 which was my first English rally....I lived in southern Ireland and attended the rallies there from 83-and through the nineties, but I remember drinking with a load of skins from the north east who came down in a transit ...there must have been about 15 of em, the main bloke was about 20 stone and had a cross shaved into his head ......he looked ferocious, but looked after this mob like a father .....he was a genuinely nice bloke..........I think though that 89-90 the whole skinhead thing was coming to a closure.



I knew the Nomads in the early eighties and they wouldnt have thanked you then for calling them skinheads.They were scooter boys and I can recall a couple of times they united with Mods against skinhead gangs (and casuals).Of course after '84 I couldnt tell you what they morphed into but pretty sure it wasnt skins.
As for skinhead gangs ,had more then a few fights with them both in London and at the coast.
I think some people like to define the two
A.)"sussed skins" in other words skinheads that know their heritage and how intertwined it is with Mods ie suits/scooters/etc and..
B.)your ignorant,glue sniffing,boots up to the knee,bonehead emoticon that you used to see around in the early eighties.

To be honest when it came to confrontation I dont remember anyone saying "But I'm a sussed skin ,I'm a sussed skin"It used to be us and them.
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Im referring to some of the Nomads as skins on Say-so to be honest Blocky ......I post on another site and a few of the blokes on there were either in the nomads or were often in their company .......and reportedly were skinheads !!

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sorry not Blocky ...............RTB !! emoticon

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sorry not Blocky ...............RTB !! emoticon



No problem Kev.
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