FAQ: Skinhead (alt.skinheads) Frequently Asked Questions v0.76.1 - skinfaq.txt [2/3]
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lots of horns and maybe a Hammond organ --- that's the ska sound. [AMS]
Ska came to England with immigrants in the early 1960s. Known in the U.K. briefly
as ``Jamaican Blues,'' ska inspired the formation of the Blue Beat record company,
providing yet another name for the ska sound: `blue beat.' Ska gained popularity
in the U.K. with the `Mod' scene, leading to the residual association of small-
brimmed trilby (hats) and scooters with ska music. [HSBR] (For scooter talk,
check out the alt.scooter Usenet group.) [AMS]
Don't forget to check out into alt.music.ska and read the FAQ for more
information on Ska and it's relationship with Skinhead culture.
3.5: What is Oi!?
"Hey!"
(from cockney slang, a shortening of the greek 'oi polloi' or common people.)
Oi! is the label which Gary Bushell (a British journalist) gave to the late
seventies/early eighties streetpunk bands who refused to be a part of the plastic
punk (call it the ancestor of MTV punk) that was big at the time. Nowadays Oi! is
thought of as a melodic, old school type of punk but it was originally more of a
movement than a sound.
The grandfathers of Oi! are Sham 69. They were one of the first bands to take punk
to a level higher than just shock value. They used their music as a working class
protest.
The classic Oi! band is the Cockney Rejects (who were the first band to use the
chant oi! in their music). Their 'ruck n roll' attitude (we ruck n you roll)
pretty much sums up the oi! stance, non-political, working class, proud music.
A lot of bigger punk bands were also originally identified with the oi! movement
(i.e. the Exploited who as 'skinhead herberts' are on Oi! the Album).
Oi! is streetpunk, oi! is working class kids winning, oi! is punx and skins
together, oi! is oceans of beer and mountains of pride.....
Buy an Oi! comp and it'll change yer life. [OTF]
[written by Gerrard Lindsay (botb...@akula.com) of Bottom Of The Barrel.
http://www.akula.com/~botbskin/]
3.5.1 OI! IT'S JUST STREET-ROCK'N'ROLL!
"If punk was *real*, then Oi! was *reality*!"
-Laurie Pryor
"No mess. No fuss. Just pure impact..."
-Mick Furbank
Oi! is a melodic type of punk-rock which originated in Britain around 1980
and has since spread throughout the world. The forefathers of Oi! (Sham 69,
Menace, The Lurkers, Slaughter And The Dogs, Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer,
Angelic Upstarts, etc.) played what some of the smarter press of the time
dubbed, "real-punk" (i.e. punk-rock with a message/theme of "social
realism"). A lot of the press who courted the original wave of punk-rock,
wholly ignored or wrote-off what was soon to be called Oi! as "thug-rock,"
and thus insured unfair treatment of the genre right from the get-go.
Around 1980, bands like the 4-Skins (East London), Infa Riot (North London),
The Last Resort (Herne Bay), Red Alert (Sunderland), The Business (South
London) and Blitz (Manchester) began to pop-up all across Great Britain. This
phenomenon of strikingly similar-minded, yet unrelated bands was quickly
clumped together as "Oi!" by Sounds journalist Gary Bushell, taking the name
from the classic Cockney Rejects song, "Oi! Oi! Oi!" Bushell not only gave
Oi! its name, he compiled and gave the world the first Oi! compilation, "Oi!
The Album" (released by EMI injunction with Sounds magazine). "Oi! The Album"
-- though not a truly stellar record or even completely representative of the
Oi! genre of the time -- set the precedent for the compilation as an
important part of the Oi! movement, as witnessed by the release of countless
Oi!-focused compilations world-wide ever since its release. Musically, Oi! is
generally distinguished by anthemic melodies, terrace-style backing vocals
and a pace/tempo more suitable for pogoing and singing along, than
slam-dancing and stage-diving. Together with ska and reggae, Oi! forms the
musical focus of the traditional skinhead subculture, and together with
hardcore and classic punk-rock, it forms the musical focus of the punk
subculture.
The impact of the early '80s, English Oi! scene could be felt the world-over,
with Oi! bands and scenes popping-up globally, kick-started by bands like
Iron Cross in the U.S., Bohse Onkels in Germany, Komitern Sect in France,
Cobra in Japan, Nabat in Italy and so on. This is barely mentioning the huge
impact Oi! had on the U.S. hardcore scene, evidenced by such classic American
hardcore bands like Agnostic Front, 7 Seconds, Youth Brigade and Negative
Approach citing Oi! as a huge influence, as well as covering many brickwall
standards.
Sociologically, Oi! is a coalition of street-punks and skinheads, and
emphasizes working-class concerns and themes: labor, fighting, shagging,
drinking, pride, self-respect and generally having a laugh -- the "politics
of life" or the "politics of the street." Being rooted among the
working-class, street kids and the powerless, authentic and traditional Oi!
rejects the authoritarian and conservative politics of the extreme right as
well as the knee-jerk, reactionary politics of the extreme left.
***
Oi! is having a laugh and having a say.
Oi! is bigger than any uniform.
Oi! is sharp in brain and dress.
Oi! is you and me... Winning.
Oi! is thinking for yourself.
Oi! is pride and self-respect.
Oi! is the beat of the street.
Oi! is working class protest.
Oi! is youth eternal.
Oi! is youth enrage.
Oi! is a way of life.
***
Select major British Oi! bands (past and present) include:
Another Man's Poison, Anti-Establishment, Anti-Social, Attak, The Betrayed,
Blitz, Braindance, Boisterous, The Business, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects,
Combat 84, Condemned 84, Crashed Out, Criminal Class, Crux, The Ejected, The
4-Skins, The Gonads, Infa-Riot, Indecent Exposure, The Last Resort, Last
Rough Cause, Major Accident, The Oppressed, The Partisans, Pressure 28,
Prole, Red Alert, Section 5, Short'n'Curlies, Straw Dogs, The Strike &
Vicious Rumors.
Select major American Oi! bands (past and present) include:
The Anti-Heros (GA), The Authority (CA), Battle Cry (NY), The Bruisers (MA),
Boot Party (CA), Bootcamp (NY), Bottom Of The Barrel (NY), Chapter 21
(Chicago) Bovver Wonderland (CA), Broken Heroes (NJ), The Choice (CA), Forced
Reality (MA), Headwound (NJ), Iron Cross (DC), Immoral Discipline (DC),
Limecell (PA), Lower Class Brats (TX), Moonstomp (GA), Niblick Henbane (NJ),
90 Proof (TX), Oxblood (NY), Patriot (NC), The Press (NY), Pist'n'Broke (MI),
The Radicts (NY), The Service (WI), Stars And Stripes (MA), Stormwatch (DE),
The Templars (NY), The Toughskins (CA), U.S. Chaos (NJ), Those Unknown (NJ),
The Uprise (PA), The Wretched Ones (NJ) & Y.D.L. (NY).
Select major International Oi! bands (past and present) include:
Agent Bulldog (Sweden), The Bad Vultures (Japan), Becks Pistols (Germany),
Cobra (Japan), Crikey Crew (Japan), Discocks (Japan), Dose Brutal (Brazil),
The Fuck Ups (Norway), The Herberts (France), Impact (Canada), Klasse
Kriminale (Italy), Kohu-63 (Finland), Komitern Sect (France), The Magnificent
(Holland), Mata Ratos (Portugal), Nabat (Italy), Oxymoron (Germany), Pobel
Und Gesocks (Germany), The Pride (Holland), Sideburns (Japan), Snix (France),
The Stage Bottles (Germany), Die Lokalmatadore (Germany), The Vacant Lot
(Canada), Vanilla Muffins (Switzerland), Virus 27 (Brazil), Warrior Kids
(France), The West Side Boys (France), Zakarrak (Spain) & Zona A (Slovakia).
Other bands which move on the fringes of Oi! include:
The Adicts, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-Nowhere League, Barbed Wire, Blaggers ITA,
Blanks 77, The Blood, Casualties, Chron Gen, The Crack, Exploited, Frankie
Flame, Lurkers, The Macc Lads, Menace, 999, Oi Polloi, One Way System, Peter
and the Test Tube Babies, Toy Dolls, Red London, Redskins, Resistance 77,
Rose Tattoo, (early)7 Seconds, Sham 69, Slaughter And The Dogs, Splodge,
Stiff Little Fingers, Special Duties, The Suspects, The Swingin' Utters, Vice
Squad, The Violators & Youth Brigade.
Some Oi!-focused record labels (past and present) include:
Bird, Bleach, Bronco Bullfrog, Dim, Dojo, DSS, Force Majeure, GMM, Hammer,
Havin' A Laugh, Headache, Helen Of Oi!, Kickback, Knock-Out, Link, Oi!
Records, One By One, PunkCore, Scumfuck, Sta-Press, Step-1, S.P.E., Teenage
Rebel, Twins, Vulture Rock & Walzwerk.
Some related newsgroups are:
alt.punk, alt.punk.europe, alt.skinheads, alt.skinheads.arent.neo.nazis and
alt.skinheads.moderated
[written and compiled by Lee 69 (Sound...@aol.com) of
"Do A Runner!" 'zine. http://members.aol.com/SoundViews/doarunnr.html]
3.6: Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi!!!
On 6 Mar 1996, Gerrard A. Lindsay wrote:
ever notice how many 'skinhead' songs and songs about skins that there are in the
world?
for instance 'skinhead moonstomp', 'skinhead girl', 'skinhead jamboree', 'skinhead
speaks his mind', 'skinheads don't fear', 'moonhop in London', 'skinhead moondust',
'where have all the bootboys gone','bootboy',oi! oi! oi!,'skinheads in stapress',
'resort bootboys', 'bring back the skins', 'chaos', 'clockwork skinhead','boots n
braces','back with a bang','crucified' (by iron cross),'skinheads rule,ok', 'fresh
and burning','joe hawkins'......
From: am2...@swt.edu (Andy MacLaurin), flu...@nyc.pipeline.com (James F. Dugan),
skh...@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (Kali Holloway) (revised in v0.15 with corrections
from James F. Dugan)
As for lyrics, here are the complete lyrics for Suburban Rebels as taken from the
liner notes of The Business 1979-1989 on Blackout Records.
They're the sons and daughters of well off bankers
Tom Robinsons' army of trendy wankers
Flared blue jeans and anoracks,
With yellow streaks all down their backs
Who act so tough when [they're] on TV,
But trendy wankers don't scare me
Oi Oi Oi Chosen Few, (x2)
This is what we think of you
Suburban Rebels playing at reds
You would-be urban terrorists
You don't scare us with your badges and banners
You know fuck all about heavy manners.
You're the middle class kiddies from public school
Who write your slogans on toilet walls
Like Tony Benn's clones in plastic macks
You wave a hammer and sickle, never Union Jacks
Got lots of mouth when you're in a crowd
But when you're alone, you don't speak loud!
Of course, I have several versions, where the lyrics are changed but this is the
closest to an "official" version I've found. I also have the lyrics to Harry May,
Coventry, Shout it Out, No Emotions, Never Been Taken, Out in the Cold, Blind
Justice, Do a Runner, Another Rebel Dead, Welcome to the Real World, Frontline,
Mortgage Mentality, Handball, Smash the Discos, H-Bomb, Loud Proud and Punk, Real
Enemy, Product, and Saturday's Heroes, if anyone is particularly interested. I
may post them anyway, if I can scan them.
Jim Dugan
From: jow...@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Joellen Welch), Eric Coomer
(coo...@nuc.berkeley.edu), bae...@plains.nodak.edu (The Werewolf of London)
I was walkin' down the road with a dozen friends of mine
lookin' for some aggro, just to pass the time
we met a stupid hippy, he tried to run away
but I punched him in the nose, just to pass the time of day!
Great big boots
Great white laces
Jeans held up by
scarlet braces
get out of our way or get took for a ride
we've just go violence in our minds....
In article <15FEB96. 137772...@IBM.UTM.EDU>, Sylvia Rowe writes:
THE BROWN FIELDS OF BIRMINGHAM
(sung to Skrewdriver's version of "Green Fields of France")
1) Well how do you do, Mr. Bill Riccio
Tell me why did you do that damn HBO show
And look like a kook to the whole USA
We can read 'tween the lines that you're really gay
I see by his license he was only 19
When he joined the great call for the Riccio Army
And we hope you raped quick, and we hope you raped clean
Mr. Bill Riccio you are gross and obscene
Do you beat the meat slowly
Do you fuck young boys only
Do you play the skin flute as you butter them down
And did the boys play with your hairy asshole
And did the lads play with your big old fat roll
2) Did you leave a spot on his fair white behind
In his sore asshole is your memory enshrined
Although you should have died when you were 16
In that faithful butt you're forever unclean
Or are you a stranger without a name
Enclosed in your jail cell behind a glass frame
In an old wife beater tattered and stained
And faded to yellow from your putrid pit stains
(CHORUS)
3) Well the sun now it shines on your dirty ripped pants
As the vomit spots make your broken toys dance
And look how your sons can down a 12 and a 6
There's no gas, no barbed wire, but we wish you were nixed
And here at your compound it's still no-girls land
The countless young skinheads passed out in the sand
To your blind indifference to your fellow man
To a whole group of buys who were raped by your own hand
(CHORUS)
4) Mr. Bill Riccio, why'd you do that damn show
Do those that live here know why you did blow
And did they believe that they wished you're their dad
If they did then they're really demented and sad
The sorrow and suffering, the disgrace and the shame
You know how to give white power a really bad name
Mr. Bill Riccio, it'll never happen again
If it does we'll know who exactly to blame
(CHORUS)
Sylvia
Iron Mountain CHS, Tennessee
BRicha6796 (brich...@aol.com) writes:
Vulture Rock
POBOX 40687
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico
87196
And I think you have to send a dollar or something but it's the best Oi!
mailorder catalog that I know of with very decent prices.
Section 3.7: Skinheads Media List (v2.7 14SEP97) by d...@progeny.demon.co.uk
I've compiled a book and film listing, to expand upon
that which appeared in Stephen Martin's first version of the
FAQ. It is a bit lengthy, but of hopefully of interest
and value anyway, see what ya think!
Books and Films of interest to Skinheads; not necessarily
an exhaustive list or required reading/ watching. Neither
is this meant to be an indication of the quality of the
content!
* BOOK Information given, where possible:
Title
Author, year of publication, Publisher
ISBN, availablilty info, synopsis/comments
* FILM Information given, where possible:
Title
Lead Cast,
Director, Year of release, Country of production
Category & any release/availablilty info.
Additions, corrections, updates, comments and any detail
to fill the gaps welcome, please email me (d...@progeny.demon.co.uk).
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Section 1: Suppliers
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Try the following source for your quality gear:
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* ST Publishing
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at:
PO Box 12
Lockerbie
Dumfriesshire
DG11 3BW
SCOTLAND
United Kingdom.
ST (Skinhead Times) Publishing in the UK publish a large range of
these books and orders can be placed with them direct. They do not
have a telephone ordering service, nor do they accept credit/debit
cards.
If you want to know about titles and costs; drop them a line and
ask for a catalogue (I'm sure they'd also appreciate a stamped
addressed envelope or a little dosh).
NB: STP no longer publish the paper 'Skinhead Times' - it ceased being
produced back in 1995 and they no longer have any back copies either.
They do however publish a new 'zine style street mag called 'One
Eyed Jack'. Contact STP for details.
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* Visionary
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at:
http://www.state51.co.uk/uk/visionary/ or
ki...@visioncom.demon.co.uk
Suppliers of Alternative music videos, CD's and Vinyl. Uk based
with full online catalogue. You can order by credit card as well.
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Section 2: BOOKS
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Quoting the author and/or title and/or ISBN at your local bookshop
should be able to get you nearly all of the titles available. For
those out of print - you'll have to rely on book searchers or your
local 2nd Hand bookstores.
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Soccer (Football) Violence (Factual)
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Everywhere We Go - Behind the Matchday Madness
Dougie & Eddy Brimson, 1996, Headline Book Publishing
0747252254
Steaming In (Journal of a Football Fan)
Colin Ward, 1989, Pocket Books
0671853651
In Your Blood (Football Culture in the late 1980's & Early 1990's)
Richard Turner, 1990, Working Press
1870736079
**Out of print**
Among The Thugs
Bill Buford, 1991, Mandarin
0749313285
Bloody Casuals (Diary of a Football Hooligan)
Jay Allan, 1989, Northern Books
0905489411-1
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Novels/ Fiction
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The Football Factory
John King, 1996, Vintage
0099731916
One For The Road
Kid Stoker
Nightshift (Growing Up in and around Wigan Casino 1974-1981)
Pete McKenna, 1995, STP
England Belongs to me
Steve Goodman, Low Life (STP)
1898928002
Red London
Stewart Home, 1994, AK Press
1873176120
Saturdays Heroes
Joe Mitchell, Low Life (STP)
1898928053
The Complete Richard Allen Volume 1
(Skinhead, Suedehead, Skinhead Escapes)
Richard Allen (aka James Moffatt), 1992, STP
The Complete Richard Allen Volume 2
(Skinhead Girls, Sorts, Knuckle Girls)
Richard Allen (aka James Moffatt), 1993, STP
The Complete Richard Allen Volume 3
(Trouble for Skinhead, Skinhead Farewell, Top Gear Skin)
Richard Allen (aka James Moffatt), 1994, STP
The Complete Richard Allen Volume 4
(Boot Boys, Smoothies, Terrace Terrors)
Richard Allen (aka James Moffatt), 1995, STP
The Complete Richard Allen Volume 5
(Mod Rule, Punk Rock, Dragon Skins)
Richard Allen (aka James Moffatt), 1995, STP
The Complete Richard Allen Volume 6
(Glam, Teeny Bopper Idol, Demo)
Richard Allen (aka James Moffatt)
** due to be published by STP, date to be announced **
** The 18 individual Richard Allen novels were originally published in
** the 1970's by New English Library - all are now out of print.
Casual
Gavin Anderson, 1996, Low Life (STP)
1898928207
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Graphic Novels
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Skin
Milligan, McCarthy & Swan, 1992, Tundra
1858090008
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Photobooks
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Skins
Gavin Watson, 1994, STP
1898927057
Public Enemies
Leo Regan, 1993, Andre Deutsch
0233988300
Oi! The Photobook
A.H van der Sluys, 1993, Double Shot (Roermond, Holland)
NO ISBN
Cream of The Crops, A Skinhead Photobook
Mark Brown, 1997, Street Music Publishing
8460563677
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Reference - Skin, Ska & Mods
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You're Wondering Now (A History of The Specials)
Paul Williams, 1995, STP
1898927251
Skinhead
Nick Knight, 1982, Omnibus Press
0711900523
Total Madness
George Marshall, 1993, STP
0951849743
Spirit of '69 (A Skinhead Bible)
George Marshall, 1991, STP
0951849700
Boss Sounds (Classic Skinhead Reggae)
Marc Griffiths, 1995, STP
Skinhead Nation
George Marshall, 1996, STP
1898927456
Watching the Rich Kids
Arthur Kay, 1992, STP
**Out of print**
Skinhead Street Gangs
Loren Christensen
Bad Manners
George Marshall
**Out of print**
Mods
Richard Barnes
**Out of print**
Scooter Boys
Gareth Brown
The Two Tone Story
George Marshall, 1990, STP
0951849735
**Out of print**
Skinheads Shaved For Battle: a cultural history of American Skinheads
Jack Moore, 1993, Bowling Green (Ohio)
0879725826 (HB), 0879725834 (PB)
- This book has been termed "somewhat 'objective' in their
appraisal of White Power advocates" in the White Power FAQ,
and has been consistently derided by the members of
alt.skinheads. Stephen Martin (ig...@hooknladder.jammys.net).
Loud, Pround 'n' Punk - The Business
Garry Fielding, 1996
The Two Tone Book for Rude Boys
Omnibus Press
** Out of print**
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Alternative/Political
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Fuhrer-Ex
Ingo Hasselbach, 1996, Chatto & Windus
0701165367
- From the German book: 'Die Abrechnung: Ein Neonazi Steigt Aus'
by same author, 1993 by Aufbau-Verlag GmbH, ISBN: 3746670136
this version contains photos (the English version is text only)
Blood in the Face: "The Klu Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads
and the Rise of a New White Culture"
James Ridgeway, 1990, Thunders Mouth Press
1560250038
GAY SKINS: Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation
Murray Healy, 1996, Cassell
0304333247
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Reference - Punk
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Punk Diary (1970-1979)
George Gimarc, 1994, Vintage
009952211X
Sex Pistols File
Ray Stevenson, 1978, Omnibus Press
0860014649
Cranked Up Really High
Stewart Home, 1995, Codex
1899598014
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Section 3: FILMS
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Soccer (Football) Violence
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The Firm
Gary Oldman, Lesley Manville, Phil Davis
Alan Clarke, 1989, UK
* TV FICTION
Trouble on the Terraces
Narrated by Sean Bean
Allan Sharpe, 1994, UK
* VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
I.D.
Reece Dinsdale, Warren Clarke, Sean Pertwee, cameo by Phil Davis
Phil Davis, 1995, UK
* MOTION PICTURE
Hooligan '96
Narrated by Lesley Grantham
Sharper Image Productions, 1996, UK
* VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
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Mods & Skins
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Romper Stomper
Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott
Geoffrey Wright, 1992, AUSTRALIA
* MOTION PICTURE/ FICTION
- A cinematic masterpiece, one of only two films
which I have paid to see twice. - Stephen Martin
(ig...@hooknladder.jammys.net)
Quadrophenia
Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Toyah Wilcox, Sting, Phil Davis, Mark Wingett
Franc Roddam, 1979, UK
* MOTION PICTURE/ FICTION
Made in Britain
Tim Roth, Terry Richards, Bill Stewart, Eric Richard, Geoffrey Hutchings
Alan Clarke, 1982, UK
* TV FICTION
Meantime
Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Marion Bailey
Alan Clarke, 1983, UK
* TV FICTION
A Clockwork Orange
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Carlin
Stanley Kubrick, 1971, UK
* MOTION PICTURE/ FICTION
- This film is not available in UK in cinema or video due to
restrictions placed upon it by the Director.
Skinheads, The Second Coming of Hate
Chuck Connors, Barbara Bain, Jason Culp, Elizabeth Sagal, Brian Brophy
Greydon Clark, 1989, USA
* MOTION PICTURE/ FICTION
- "Skinheads: the Second Coming of Hate", is a nonsensical
film whose only reasons for existence seemed to be to add
to Chuck Connors' bank account, and to bolster the bruised
egos of jocks everywhere. - Stephen Martin
(ig...@hooknladder.jammys.net)
Skins - The Movie
Wings Hauser
Wings Hauser,,USA
* MOTION PICTURE/ FICTION
- Has anyone seen this piece of trash?? If you havent...dont
bother. What a load of bollocks. Its written by, directed
by, and stars one pratt named Wings Hauser. Where the fuck
did they dig up this guy??? Anyway.....obviously this guy
was beaten up by some skins and this movie is his fantasy
of what he wishes he could do if he actually had a set of
testicles. All I can say is save any money hiring it.
About the only good bit in it is the head skin's shirt,
and the room with the giant swastika painted on the floor
(if you're a neo-nazi). Save your money and forget it.
Deth (de...@magna.com.au)
World of Skinhead
Filming by Doug Aubrey
Alan Robertson & Doug Aubrey for Channel 4 Television, 1995, UK
* TV DOCUMENTARY
- George Marshall was consultant on this programme and it is
worth viewing alongside his book 'Skinhead Nation'. STP plan
to release this on video at some point - no details announced
as yet.
Skinhead Farewell
BBC, 1996, UK
* TV DOCUMENTARY
- This TV programme on the life of Richard Allen was transmitted
in the UK in March 1996. It is not available on video, nor is
it planned to be released.
American Skin
1996, USA
* MOTION PICTURE/ FICTION
- Elizabeth Marie Richardson (e...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu) writes:
American Skin is a piece of shit. First of all it's a bonehead
movie. Second of all, the sound and the cinematography is
horrible as well as the plot.
Oi! THE VIDEO (Part 1)
Visionary Video, UK
* HISTORY/ MUSIC
- Features Sham 69, Blood, Cock Sparrer, Angelic Upstarts,
Cockney Rejects, Splodge, Peter & The Test Tube Babies,
Toy Dolls, Business, Red Alert. Catalogue No: JE284 from:
http://www.state51.co.uk/uk/visionary/
Oi! THE VIDEO PART 2
Visionary Video, UK
* HISTORY/ MUSIC
- Features The 4 Skins, Blitz, Vicious Rumours, Oppressed,
Condemned 84, Section 5, Boisterous, Another Mans Poison,
Braindance, Last Restort, Argy Bargy, The Business.
Catalogue No: JE294 from:
http://www.state51.co.uk/uk/visionary/
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Punk
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Rude Boy
Ray Gange, The Clash, Sara Hall, Johnny Green, Terry McQuade, Liz Young
Jack Hazan & David Mingay, 1980, UK
* MUSIC FICTION
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Mary Millington, Liz Frazer, Malcolm McLaren, The Sex Pistols
Julian Temple, 1980, UK
* MUSIC FICTION
Sid and Nancy
Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Drew Schofield
Alex Cox, 1986, UK
* MOTION PICTURE/ BASED ON FACT
3.8: Magazine and Newspaper Articles About Skinheads
The Werewolf of London (bae...@plains.nodak.edu) writes:
Check out the Jan. 8th issue of the New Yorker magazine, there's a long article
(about 20 pages) by a former member of the German neo-Nazi movement. He has since
had a change of heart and wised up to the total bullshit that neo-nazis spew, and
now he gives talks at schools and stuff...I thought it was pretty interesting. His
name was Ingo Hassebruck (?? Something like that)
inked...@aol.com (Inkedsknhd) writes:
Check out the article in the new (April 1996) Esquire about "skinheads" in the
military! Once again, all skins are neo-nazis! So are guys with shaved heads!
Lets hear some positive stuff from military skins for a change.
"NY Times and ADL Slander Skins Again"
by the late Stephen Donaldson
June 28, 1995
Letter To The Editor
The New York Times
229 W. 43rd St.
NY NY 10036
The Times has once again (June 28) carried a one-sided report on
skinheads, which takes the fund-raising propaganda of one group, the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), at face value to give readers a totally
misleading impression of another group, skinheads.
If the Christian Coalition issued a report demonizing homosexuals
you would include a response from gays; if the Environmental Defense
Fund issued a report demonizing Western cattle ranchers you would try
to put it in perspective. Why does the Times thow the principle of
balanced news reporting out the window as soon as the word "skinhead"
is uttered?
First you take an already skewed ADL "Survey of Neo-Nazi
Skinheads" and then report its findings--not in quotations from an ADL
spokesperson, either--as applicable to all skinheads ("skinheads
remain....", "skinheads share...they read...they prefer....their
disposition" "American skinheads are organized..."). You might as
well take a report on "Right-Wing Militia Military Veterans" and then
continually tell your readers "veterans favor....; veterans
denounce...., etc." as if these militia members represented all
veterans.
In fact, the ADL has accepted the preposterous claims of extreme
right groups to the skinhead tradition---which actually began among
Jamaican blacks in the 1960s, not "in England two decades ago"--and
given them currency because having a scary enemy helps the ADL raise
money. In so doing they are actually helping the Nazis by giving them
legitimacy among working-class youth. Traditional skinheads denounce
these imposters as "boneheads" who have no respect for the long
tradition of racial integration which in fact has characterized the
skinhead movement. Anyone who has attended skinhead music events in
New York City can see for themselves that black, Hispanic, Oriental and
Jewish skinheads are common. Nationally and internationally
traditional working-class skinheads far outnumber the boneheads,
financed by wealthy right-wing patrons, who are trying to steal a proud
tradition.
All the "skinzine" publications I have seen are determinedly
non-rascist, and the main one in New York, "No Escape," is edited by a
black skinhead. So is "Carry No Banners," the leading Midwestern
skinzine. The ADL report may have "found no discernible national
skinhead organization in the United States," but they either didn't do
much research or deliberately omitted traditional skinheads, since they
omitted the nationally organized non-rascist United Front organization,
now headquartered in Ohio. Maybe they couldn't handle the UF's
racially integrated logo.
Traditional skinheads often proclaim that they have been
crucified by the sensation-seeking mass media. As a former newspaper
reporter, I like to defend good papers like The Times. But you
continually prove their point. As a responsible paper, you should be
talking with real skinheads, especially here in New York where you are
published, and report the truth, not just the ADL's propaganda. Why
don't you talk to someone from SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice
(SHARP), which has chapters around the nation and in New York, for
example?
[The writer reported on alternative music for a number of publications,
including Maximum Rock & Roll, New York's Under the Volcano, and, in
1994, the Skinhead Times, under the name "Donny the Punk".]
3.9: What about 'zines?
The following are Skinhead/Ska/Punk/Oi! 'Zines which are
APOLITICAL and NON-RACIST.
Do A Runner! (Oi!/Street-punk 'Zine)
P.O. Box 23523
Brooklyn, NY 11202-3523
USA
email: Sound...@aol.com
internet: http://members.aol.com/SoundViews/doarunnr.html
$2(US)/$3(World) for issue #1
$3(US)/$4(World) for issue #2
Issue #3 due out Fall 1997.
All rates in US funds.
L'ERE BETE fanzine
C.P. 27501
Laval, Quebec
HYG 4YZ
Canada
fax: (514)686-7613
email:lere...@geocities.com
internet: http://netrover.com/~ricky/lerebete/
Contact for prices.
Oink! Skinzine
PO Box 46
Cresskill, NY 07626
USA
tele: (201)801-5515
email: avi...@intac.com
internet: "The Skinternet" http://www..intac.com/~avidday
$2(US)/$3(World) for issue #3
$3(US)/$4(World) for all issues afterwards (each include a 7")
All rates in US funds.
Teenage Warning! (Street Music 'Zine)
* Ordering from Europe:
Marcos Mari Brown
Apartado de Correos 1474
07800 Ibiza (Baleares)
Spain
1.50 Pounds/5DM/15FF/$3 or 300 Pesetas per issue
* Ordering from rest of the World:
Johan Van Mieghem
Postbus 46
9050 Ledeberg 1
Belgium
$4 per issue
email: bull...@arrakis.es
internet: http://www.arrakis.es/~bullfrog/zine.htm
All rates in the above currencies. Accept
cash (registrated letter) or IMO (International
Money Order). No cheques, or eurocheques.
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Other 'Zines
vox...@nyc.pipeline.com (Michelle Chen) writes:
Alright. It's time to spam for my zine. My zine doesn't have very much to do
with skinheads, I'm afraid, but spamming for my zine is more productive than
posting up Jews4Jesus propaganda (wink, wink). I'm currently getting ready to spit
out another fun-filled issue of Inverted Magazine. The 3rd issue is a split issue
put together by me and a kid in Chicago named Brian (for those of you on IRC,
that's Briangeek--yes, meeting zine geeks over IRC is pathetic), who runs big*geek
zine. I'm sure you'll find it entertaining, and if not, you will at least have
plenty of other reasons not to like me after reading it. Oh, and for those of you
who read the second issue, I did NOT rip anything off of the Lashout website this
time. If you would like to subscribe, send a stamp to this address:
Inverted Magazine
c/o Michelle
75 Grand St. #2E
New York, NY 10013
Yes, that is my home address. I invite you all to come to my house and kick my
ass if you think you did not get what you payed for (though, I'm sure my zine is
worth around 32 cents).
Thank you for your time.
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White Power (possibly defunct)
Rampage: A Skinhead Voice
P.O. Box 19
Coalville
Leicester LE67 1DS
England
SledgeHammer: The Voice of the White Nations,
by the Northern Hammer Skins
P.O. Box 428
Gatineau Quebec, J8P 7A1 Canada
$25.00/yr. (12 issues) in Canada
$30.00/yr. U.S.
$35.00/yr. Overseas
All rates are in Canadian funds
3.10: Are there any Skinhead homepages or other Internet resources?
Skinheads On The Internet/The Lashout home page
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lashout/skns.html
Traditional Skinhead
http://pages.prodigy.com/NY/quintskinhead/
Skinheads Rule...OK?!
http://www.op.net/~lambreta/
The American Skinhead Page
http://edlab-www.cs.umass.edu/~mmelillo/
SPiRiT 69's Home Page!
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1741/
Monkey Boots - A Traditional Skinhead Page
http://www.zebra.net/~mdjones/page_monkey_boots.html
Bottom Of The Barrel
http://www.akula.com/~botbskin/
Oi! the FAQ
http://www.akula.com/~botbskin/whatoi.html
Stephen Martin's FAQ-lette "Dear Doc Martin"
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aj759/
Bronco Bullfrog Homepage (home of Teenage Warning! 'zine)
http://www.arrakis.es/~bullfrog/
The Skinternet (home of Oink! Skinzine)
http://intac.com/~avidday/index.html
Do A Runner! (Oi!/Street-punk 'Zine)
http://members.aol.com/SoundViews/doarunnr.html
L'ERE BETE fanzine
http://netrover.com/~ricky/lerebete/
BSSC Home Page
http://www.StudioJohnMStafford.com/BSSC_Home_Page.html
Snag's Homepage
http://www.worldramp.net/~snag/
Razors in the Night
http://www.users.interport.net/~sed/
Stormwatch (storm...@gnn.com) Homepage
http://members.gnn.com/stormwatch/stormwatch.htm
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Personal Homepages
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Stephen "Donny" Donaldson (spr...@ix.netcom.com) Homepage
http://www.igc.apc.org/spr/.
Tomas Willis, "The Ska FAQ guy"
to...@cae.wisc.edu or tomas@F18?-???.net.wisc.edu
ken d barr (jr...@acpub.duke.edu) homepages
For the band No Cover (formerly Kenny Jones)
http://www.duke.edu/~jrb11/kenjones.html
A Ska page
http://www.duke.edu/~jrb11/viskasity.html
Bootboy (boo...@airmail.net) For vit musik
http://web2.airmail.net/bootboy/nordl.htm
SkabOi! (skad...@tiac.net) homepage on the web
http://www.tiac.net/users/skadadle/skadadle.html
Schroedinger Cat's (sc...@panix.com) homepage
http://cognac.resnet.upenn.edu/~scat
"AudioWhore, M.D." (man...@cs.tufts.edu) homepages
http://www.tufts.edu/~mlo/audiowhore.html
http://www.tufts.edu/~mlo
Mac (cmmor...@oxblood.compulink.co.uk) skinhead www page
http://members.aol.com/skinheaduk/
Graham Wilson (gra...@dircon.co.uk) homepage
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~grahamr
MAILING LISTS
ska-list:
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Tomas Willis (to...@cae.wisc.edu) writes:
Hey ska fans everywhere --- are you interested in a ska/rude boy-rude girl/
skinhead mailing list? I got a note from Skarlos, in Puerto Rico, and he says:
I am thinking of starting a listserve list for ska+rudeboys+skinheads. Something
less political than alt.skinheads but a bit more than alt.music.ska. What do you
think?
I think a mailing like this would allow for more focused discussions on some
specific topics than Usenet has seen, so I support the effort. Rude lifestyles,
skinhead history and musical roots are likely topics. If _you_ want to get
involved with this mailing list, contact Skarlos at car...@eart.com (Carlos A.
Rivera), [that's mailto:car...@eart.com for you WebBrowsers] or just use your
newsreader to reply to this message. Send your mail to Skarlos, not me. Thanks..
oi-list:
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Lee 69 of "Do A Runner!" Oi!/Street-punk 'Zine maintains the oi-list.
You can reach him by email (Sound...@aol.com) or visit the homepage
http://members.aol.com/SoundViews/doarunnr.html
3.11: Skinheads and Education
TBD
3.11.1: Skinheads in the Classroom
TBD
3.12: Skinhead Jokes
On 13 Feb 1996, Stephen Donny Donaldson wrote:
Q: There's a skinhead, a punk, and a rudeboy in the back seat of a car. Who's
in the front seat?
A: A cop.
From: tony testa <test...@duq3.cc.duq.edu>, Feb-14-96 14:58
how many skins does it take to change a lightbulb?
11-one to do it and ten to back him up
Richard Collins wrote:
There was a three story apartment building in California. On the first floor
lived some skinheads. On the second floor lived some punks. On the third floor
lived some hippies. On day a big earthquake hit and the building was toppled to
the ground. Who survived?
The skinheads, they were at work!
"Dominic Green" (demoni...@cix.compulink.co.uk) writes:
The New York Police Department expressed concern yesterday at the number of
Hairless Vagrant Youths hanging around underpasses, dark alleyways and latrines
holding Personal Computers with the intent to Maim and Rob. One such unhirsute
youth was questioned by reporters:
Our Man In Brooklyn: 'So, Dave - can I call you Dave?'
Dave: 'That's me name.'
OMIB: 'So, Dave, you - hit people with this Personal Computer thing?'
Dave: 'I do. Ram the screen down straight over their ead. IBM PC's works best,
then the ole ead goes right down the cathode tube. Macintoshes only works on
folk with small eads, like Children and Creationists.'
OMIB: 'But...why don't you just...hit them. With your hands?'
Dave: 'I'm a child of the Information Age.'
A fellow I know was over in England for a while and sent this back:
Bonnets, Spanners, and Boots... by Mel Pheasant
The language here is quite different. It's almost the same, but enough to make it
unintelligible if you are listening to someone speaking slangily in a pub, after
having a few. I'm putting together a glossary for myself:
chip 'o larter - a little sausage used for garnish
(not a guy from Ireland)
bonnet - car hood
boot - car trunk
gateau - cake
prawns - shrimp
yorkshire pudding - not pudding at all, but a full coarse meal
minced meat - not a meal at all, but a desert
bangers and mash - disgusting sausage in something or other
clotted cream - unknown, but apparently quite popular
oxtail soup - unfortunately, what you'd think
sweets - deserts
crisps - chips
chips - fries
lunch - usually the meal around noon
dinner - usually the meal around noon
supper - usually the meal around noon
(note no clear word for evening meal)
tea - a fictitious break around 4pm that no one
seems to take
high tea - late night snack I think
low tea - no reference to this, perhaps Sat. morning
tea after a big party?
takeaway - takeout food
drizzle - rain
sleet - rain
rain - rain
blustery - rainy
showers - rain
mist - rain
gales - wind and rain, don't even bother with an
umbrella
fog - slower rain
wind - rain coming in at a slight angle, just
under the umbrella
wet - rain, but they aren't sure what kind, or
a mixture
damp - fog, with some drizzle and rain, perhaps
showers
stormy - blustery rain, with wind
cold front - rain
warm front - rain
occluded front - rain
sun - occasional light poking through the clouds
light - thin clouds with drizzle or rain
dark - think clouds, with any kind of rain
patchy - different kinds of rain, with thin cloud
patches
clear - not describing the sky, but perhaps "rain
clear across England"
weather - rain
dry - the weather man's been on the wagon
widget - strange things put in beer cans to get it
to foam properly
beer - beer
pint - beer
ale - beer
bitter - beer
lager - beer
cider - horribly strong beer/cider
draught - beer
half - a weenie glass of beer
stout - beer you can't see through
real ale - beer made the old way
cheers - like aloha, means almost anything, like hi,
bye, please, thankyou, excuse me, excuse me
for farting, a toast, thanks for the toast,
thanks for stepping on my foot, thanks for
spilling beer on me, thanks for holding the
door open, etc.
sod - "sod it", an expletive suitable for use in
front of youngsters
mate - Canadian equivalent of "guy", American "man"
dodgey - what you'd think, actually, just applied to
more things
fag - cigarette
faggots - large meatballs
First UK Tranlation Guide by an anonymous person:
In this first attempt, I'm going to try a phrase-translation guide to talking in
the UK:
"A hurricane came by and flattened my house, and whisked away all my children and
worldly belongings" translates to "we had a bit of a wind".
"The idea was so stupid we laughed it out of the meeting room" translates to "It's
not on".
"This soup is so aweful you couldn't even stick a goddamned knife through it"
translates to "It's a bit stodgy".
"Two hundred bored fishermen, unable to fish because of bad weather, beat the crap
out of each other and busted up a lot of commercial property" tranlates to "there
was a bit of a rumble at the pub last night".
3.13: Skinhead Short Stories (fiction/non-fiction)
"Saturday Night Aggro? Hardly..." by The Werewolf of London
Saturday night aggro? Hardly...this is kinda funny...last night I was
downtown with my roommate and another friend. I just wanted to kick back
and have a beer and relax after my return trip from Winnipeg (aka Cool
Canadian City),anyways, the three of us are walking up the street about
10 PM minding our own business and
heading for the bar. Well, as we're waiting to cross the street this
jock-boy with a backwards baseball cap turns in front of us and yells out
the car window "Hey faggots! Who does the sucking and who does the
fucking?" and sped off. This brought a finger salute from all three of us
and a wish for a beer bottle to throw. Well, we see him turn the corner
and go up the next block . We decide to have some fun, mainly because he
was in the car with three girls, probably trying to impress them with how
hilarious he was. We speed-walk up the block and round the corner just as
he's turning into the parking lot of the bar. He sees us heading for him,
turns the car around and speeds off down an alley along the railroad tracks
and rounds the corner. We follow after after him and round the next
corner to
see them sitting in another parking lot, nervously waiting. I was the
first to spot them and pointed at them. He's now facing three pissed off
older guys marching shoulder to shoulder straight at his car with
determined looks on their faces. He rolls down the window and screams
"What the fuck is your problem?" to which my buddy yells "Come here,
punk!" One of the girls in the back shrieks "Leave us alone!" and I yell
"We want him, not you." We're almost up to the car and my roommate
yells at him "Hey, talk shit to us now." He gives us a terrified look,
rolls up the window and punches the accelator, leaving in a cloud of dust
and spun gravel while we chase him down the street for a block. Hey, we
wouldn't have hurt him, we just wanted to scare him a bit and teach him a
lesson about yelling out car windows at strangers. I guess he realized
that it's no longer funny when they call your bluff and come for you.
Well, if anything he turned chicken in front of the three girls and lost
some face there. Saturday nights can be fun :)
"Ah, College" by Zach Archer
Tonight me compose music! Yes! Due tomorrow! Song for piano and pretty
female singer! Fuck! Shit! I am neither piano player nor pretty female singer!
Stupid poem by Lord Byron! Make sound good! Unga boop boop be doop! Throw
in a few gratuitous "Oi!"s. Hmm. What's this chord? C#, D, Eb all at same
time! It's perfect! I'm a fucking genius! Anything sounds good at this
hour! Herald me a fucking intellectual and buy me a yacht. I like
fire! Drank lots of coffee. Let me _emphasize_ that. Drank LOTS of
coffee. Hope can fall in sleep-coma soon.
Hmm, let's stay up and finish this fucking project that's been due for 10
weeks oh come on I mean I had other things to do and besides I don't like
poetry it's stupid anyway TEEEEA-CHER why can't I write a SYMPHONY with
parts for people shooting rifles I've always wanted to do that. At the
end they point the rifles at the conductor and maim 'em! Ha ha, a stupid
pretentious music gimmick! Staying up after sleeping three hours was
GOOD idea! I can feel it in my veins! I can feel it wanting to come up
through my mouth! Met a skinhead downtown, said he was passing through.
Him: "WAnna get a beer?" Me: "Uh... no, I have to go finish.. uh... I'd
rather not talk about it." ARGH. Too much pizza is a bad thing. Need go
home, soak in neighbor's hot tub. Calgon, take me away! Need to bust
heads. Cop followed me around, wanted to kick in his headlights. Almost
did. Well, not really. Mmm. Unga. So, is stupid music thing done? FUCK
NO. Wrote for 6 hours today, 6 hours the day before that, put it in
computer, using horrible MIDI software that crashes every time you
play.. an accidental. Sounds like total shit!
LifelessBorgPerformance{tm}! Underwater oboe sound replaces pretty
female singer! Oh come on just give me ten MORE weeks I swear I can
write for symphony or something cool like that just no more FUCKING
PIANO MUSIC. Rain is wet! Remember when I did the music for that
play? And I had three weeks, or actually two, because I got really
sick? Why does this ALWAYS HAPPEN???!! This could have been really
cool music. It's incomprefuckinghensible. And so am I. Actually, I'm
not nearly as fucked up as I'm pretending to sound... Maybe I'll just go
burn down a church and piss a pentagram on the pavement, maybe it'll be
linked to a satanic conspiracy and get in the papers and we can re-kindle
the Jesus Crusades, right here in Californica. Hot shit.
Where's the Fighin' Jesus when you need him?
3.14: What is the best dark beer?
Michael Rosencrantz (ro...@interport.net) writes:
Good dark ales--
Brooklyn Brown (very very good)
Newcastle Brown Ale
Brooklyn Chocolate Stout
Old Peculiar
McEwan's Scotch Ale
Guinness
Anything I brew myself (except that batch last summer, you know the one I'm
talking about)
Good dark lagers--
I don't really like lager, but here's a few:
Shiner Bock
Celebrator (cool little plastic goat tied to the bottle)
Richard Collins writes:
The best dark beer (stout actually) is Guinness hands down. If stout is a little
too thick for you try a porter or lager. And don't overlook Beck's Dark, I know
it sounds common but it is really decent stuff. Personally I'll take a stout any
day but if it is darker than a cup of Denny's coffee I'll drink it!
From: LAHC Student <stu...@mail.SDSU.edu>
I don't think it is dark beer, but I like it (Killians). I think they have red and
dark brown. If you haven't already tried it, I suggest you do.
Joellen Welch (jow...@lynx.dac.neu.edu) writes:
Harpoon Stout. Ya can't get it just anywhere, though...
Liz Lopez (parad...@earthlink.net) writes:
Simple,
Boddingtons, *the* best Northern Bitter. Brewed in Strangeways. As always, the
Mancs do it the best!
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Moonstomper wrote:
Hrm...It's not the best dark beer, but my favorite dark beer is Yuengling Porter,
brewed in (I believe) Pottsville, Pennsylvania. It's apparently America's oldest
brewery, and during prohibition, they made ice cream to stay afloat. The reason
it's my favorite is that it's good when you don't want something as heavy as
guinness, but it's still definitely a dark beer, and also, it's relatively cheap,
and it was readily available in supermarkets that didn't carry much good dark beer.
(In other words, the only other real option was Beck's, which cost more).
Unfortunately, I can't get it up here in Mass., cuz it's a small brewery, and
they already have trouble meeting all the demand. "sigh*
Cheeky Princess (leah_r...@bc.edu) writes:
King K of the Allstonians wanted me to post this too: You are right about
Yuengling being America's oldest brewery and I agree that they make some
excellent Gevvy's namely the lager and their black&tan is outstanding. But
alas, I've not had the porter yet. Even though it is a brown ale, Newcastle
is by far better than Becks. I could probably score some of the porter from
my future father-in-law who turned me onto Yuengling last year when I visited
in Allentown, PA. Let me know through this address. I'm getting some anyway,
when he comes up to Boston for our (Cheeky's & my) wedding.
ro...@mail.utexas.edu (rokester) writes:
P.S. A good dark beer is Ziegen Bock Amber, Brewed right here in TX
J A Dare writes:
Here's my two cents. Stouts RULE, okay?! Thus the following....
3.14.1: Guinness Extra Stout
TBD
Fredrick Thornell writes:
Did I tell you what happened when they tried serving Guinnes at the bars
at school? They had to stop. They run things non-profit and even without
enough margin to make a zero-budget if the cans aren't left behind to be
recycled (1/13 dollar a can...)
And what does a tech student who has just had a Guinnes do? Of course
he opens the can to see what the little bubble gizmo in the bottom look
like. They only got back like 10% of the Guinness cans...
3.14.2: Murphy's Irish Stout
TBD
3.15: Do Skinheads use drugs?
TBD
3.16: Skinhead Scenes?
Susan Monaco (smo...@essential.org) wrote:<P>
I'm curious about the skinhead scene. What do you guys generally think
about drugs, sex, food, women, where whites should live, your place in
society, and attitudes toward the law?
smd (wond...@eden.com) writes:
Drug use is to a certain extent a matter of personal choice. Too much of
anything can suck the life right out of you. Sex. Case in point: it's
gotten out of hand, and we're catching hell for it. Food? What a dumb
question, who doesn't like to eat?
Women? I like them. I'm marrying one soon. White people? They manage
to live everywhere, like roaches. That'll never change. My place in
society? Eternal rake. Law? Well one hand I don't like to see little
children fondled and old ladies stabbed, I know what it's like to spend
14 hours in jail at a time for utterly silly bullshit. The law is
forever a necessary evil. It's our worst best friend, generally a tool of
the ruling class.
PJRmovie (pjrm...@aol.com) wrote:
Okay, here goes it again:
If anyone knows anything about any skins, scooters, mods or even a
rockabilly scene in Italy, please let me know. My friend is moving to
Florence in September and desperately is seeking some good people to hang
with.
smd (wond...@eden.com) writes:
This probably isn't helpful, but I'll spill my guts regardless. I was
there in december and had the full range of the "skinhead experiences".
People think you're a Nazi, people pick fights with you in nightclubs,
you meet good old fashioned traditional skinheads (in this case at the
Vatican, the police don't trust you, et cetera. I saw two pieces of good
grafitti "Mods Rule, ok?" and "Punx and Skins: El Grupo Fred Perry". I
had alot of fun. Beware that the flight jacket is a fashion staple, like
the trend of blue jeans. EVERYONE wears them. They don't really mean
much. At the same time the clash between neofascists and
lefties/anarchists is pretty eminent amongst the young. Lots of young
people walking around with the fascists insignias. Lots of battles of
propaganda through spray paint and poster. It's an old battle,
and I'd stay out of it. Okay, that's about it. There are cool people,
it may take a while, but they're out there. If you can afford to have a
good time there, it's an alright place.
Fredrick Thornell writes:
Heh... Well, over here shaving your head is a bad idea if you're not 6
ft. 5, 200 lbs (or non-kaukasian). We've got hoards of gangs made up of
16-yr. old ex-yougoslavian muslims and/or arabs who are basically just
braindead racist dickheads walking around trying to find someone
swedish-looking to beat up to show how tough they are (only ten against
one or so, gotta admire them...). Then they spend a lot of time bitching
about how everyone who's not them is _sooooooooo_ 'racist' since everyone
hates them (which is true, but not very racist IMO) and doesn't
'respect' them... I feel really sorry for all the nice refugees/immigrants
who live here, who have to put up with seeing their contrymen being like
that and suffering from the effects of it.
Anyway, if you're not big enough to be a threat _and_ shave your head,
you can wear a t-shirt with a crossed over swastika and "nasi's fuck off"
printed on it. They are too clueless to realise what it means. You get
beaten up none the less. I don't think even you would be safe.
I'm so goddamn tired of all the racism here, both the 'normal' one and
the 'reverse'. It ruins a lot!
The Werewolf of London writes:
Yep..it's official, i have deemed Winnipeg, Manitoba to be on Marc's
Official List of Cool Places. I just returned from an overnight jaunt up
there...and not only did I find a kick-ass music store with tons of Oi
and Ska (I picked up Oi! The Main Event CD) , I also found a store with a
sale on Docs, no 3-hole oxbloods steelies :( but i did snag a pair of
black 3-holers for $89 Canadian...damn good price in my book...
Scariest part was that =:0 ...I actually got laid again...this is getting
wierd...twice in one month? I'm afraid that the polar ice caps are going
to shift pretty soon...such unusal activity must be a prediction of
something big about to happen...gotta love those Canadian women...:)
Yep...Winnipeg is cool...
3.17: DONT WANNA BE A VICTIM: SKINHEADS (PART ONE)
by Donny the Punk
(may be reprinted freely)
Skinhead! The very word breathes flames. To most of the
population, which has heard of skins only thru the mass media,
"skinhead immediately conjures up lurid pictures of Nazis, the Ku Klux
Klan, ignorant gangs, a disciplined corps of mindless terrorists, the
young storm troopers of the Fourth Reich. Many react with visceral
revulsion, disgust, even blind hatred. To skins themselves, the term
evokes pride, a sense of honor, a feeling of tribe and family and
affectionate brotherhood. Mixed in for both skins and their enemies
are images of macho violence, flight jackets, drunken brawls, gang
rituals, nationalism or patriotism, soccer fans, beer, oi! punk rock
music, British youth cults, Doc Martens boots, "braces (suspenders),
ska music, and the working class. And above all, the short haircut
with its film images of convicts and soldiers.
In the years ive been writing this column, i dont think i have
ever attempted a more difficult subject than skinheads. Ive written
on oi! and on ska music, both of which heavily involve skins, and over
two years ago i promised id eventually write a column on skinheads.
In the last issue i described my joy at a NYC skinhead show, but until
now ive shied away from tackling this complex and usually
misunderstood subject head-on.
Crucified for Your Skins
I started out as a newspaper and Associated Press reporter, so i
am not one of those folks who blame the press for everything. But i
certainly have never seen any group of people as viciously, callously,
and systematically slandered and misrepresented, without any attempt
at a balanced or objective presentation, as the skinheads. Their treatment,
violating all the professional standards i was ever taught, is a black mark
indeed on the record of American journalism. For the sake of sensationalism
(which a gullible public rewards with greater sales and ratings), the mass
media, whether TV, film, newspapers, or magazines, has been holding up
neo-Nazi and rascist boneheads as skinheads, accepting their claim to that
term at face value. The trad(itional) skins, who are the vast majority and who
do not generally recognize the boneheads as true skins at all, rarely show up
in the media at all. The most outrageous journalistic errors are committed at
will, and nobody cares. Why?
Skins are mostly working-class, and few of the media bigwigs have
ever known one. Skins dont move in the power circles of the media,
they dont mean much to heavy advertisers, and they have no big lobbies
and well-connected law firms to make noises when the media mistreats
them. Also as a side effect of a powerless working-class background,
skins are not brought up with the idea that efforts should be directed
towards changing the system. And by now the skinhead stereotype has
become so well ingrained as a bogeyman of the media that most skins
feel it is hopeless to even try to change things, abandoning the field
and concentrating on personal contacts at the grass- roots. It still
hurts, tho, when ignorant people everywhere hate you for a Nazi at the
mere sight of a shaved head; all the more so when youve got the scars
from fighting the real Nazis.
In the United States, a major culprit is the Anti-Defamation
League, which is headquartered in NYC and normally fights anti-Jewish
discrimination, but which each year produces, distributes, and
publicizes a report holding up "skinheads as tools of the neo-Nazi