#British subcultures

[bassic-ally]

[phantomladyoverparis]

Goth Cruise (2008), dir. Jeanie Finlay

[x-heesy]

VIRGINIA TURBETT

documentation of the chaotic emergence of British subculture in the 70s

Virginia Turbett photographed punks, rockers, mods, skinnies and New Romantics.

Here comes Johnny Yen again

With the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine

He's gonna do another striptease

Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?

I've been hurting since I bought the gimmick

Something called love

Yeah, something called love

Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens

Well, I'm just a modern guy

Of course, I've had it in the ear before

'Cause of a lust for life

'Cause of a lust for life

I'm worth a million in prizes

With my torture film, drive a GTO

Wear a uniform, all on a government loan

I'm worth a million in prizes

Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk

No more beating my brains

No more beating my brains

With the liquor and drugs

With the liquor and drugs

Well, I am just a modern guy

Of course, I've had it in the ear before

'Cause of a lust for life (lust for life)

'Cause of a lust for life

I got a lust for life

I got a lust for life

Oh, lust for life

Oh, lust for life

A lust for life

I got a lust for life

I got a lust for life

Well, I am just a modern guy

Of course, I've had it in the ear before

'Cause of a lust for life

'Cause of a lust for life

Well, here comes Johnny Yen again

With the liquor and drugs, and the flesh machine

I know he's gonna do another striptease

Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?

Your skin starts itching once you buy the gimmick

About something called love

Oh, love, love, love

Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens

Well, I am just a modern guy

Of course, I've heard it in the ear before

'Cause of a lust for life (lust for life)

'Cause of a lust for life (lust for life)

I got a lust for life

Yeah, lust for life

I got a lust for life

Oh, lust for life

I got a lust for life

Yeah, a lust for life

I got a lust for life

A lust for life

Lust for life

Lust for life

A lust for life (lust for life)

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop

[songtwo]

my article ideas for a magazine i want to pitch to:

1. the “girlhood” trend that’s been all over the internet and how it’s seen as feminist and progressive but it’s just capitalism and consumerism in disguise reinforcing old gender roles with fancier words

2. the death of subculture and depoliticization of music and the rise of white feminism in music as opposed to music in the 70s-90s (basically like 3 of my posts but w an actual structure lol)

[a-a-a-anon]

the fact that the original fashion scenes of punk, metal, grunge, and emo look so different to post-mainstream commercialization, which is now like 90% black clothes for all of these counter culture aesthetics (at least in the public perception), makes me want to wear black less bc i feel like I'm buying into a manufactured image. lol.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE ART OF THE UK PUNK PORTRAIT -- WITNESS THE PASSAGE OF TIME THROUGH PUNK EYES.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a classic punk portrait of Tanya Rich (then age 19, I believe), c. 1979, former manager of DISCHARGE and one-time girlfriend of Roy "Rainy" Wainwright -- a portrait series 45 years apart! 📸: Wayne "Spike" Large.

"In 1979, I took a portrait of @tanyarichvo Following a formal photoshoot last week in Birmingham, we wanted to collaborate on the recreation of one of my all time favourite portraits. The original image has been used many times over the years and is one of my most successful images. Not only did we both want to re-capture that look on Tanya’s face in a contemporary style, but I thought it would be cool to use my exact same vintage Olympus 50mm f1.4 lens that took the original film negative all those years ago. It’s an iconic lens with a soft film like quality to it. With the help of modern technology, old lenses can be mounted onto new digital cameras to give that smooth cinematic look. With the expert help of @aliciakingvo to compare my original image to what I was seeing in the viewfinder, we managed to get the photo! I am delighted with the result."

-- WAYNE "Spike" Large (Leicester, UK punk scenester, now professional photographer)

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3384441386461034239 (Picuki 2x).

[steelycunt]

ten books 2 know me!

thank for you the tag @pancakehouse @fruity-individual @serethereal @rollercoasterwords !

-> skulduggery pleasant, derek landy.

starting with this one because this WAS my childhood i was. i never read percy jackson never read twilight read [redacted] and it wasnt even good but my dad thought id like these so he bought me the first skulduggery pleasant one day...oh man oh boy...these were. i was eight queuing up outside a whsmith with a schoolbag full of books for the author's booksigning...also he was so nice ta derek x

-> giovanni's room, james baldwin.

cannot get into this too much before i start wailing and biting and stuff but well. giovanni's room is my favourite book of all time i read most of it. last year in june laying on brighton beach while the sun was going down and i have never recovered from and will you bring me home again / yes. i'll bring you home again since and fear i never will. also! first james baldwin book i read who has come to be an author whose writing style i adore and carry in my mind whenever i try to write something myself.

-> young mungo, douglas stuart.

not the first book i ever cried at but. first book i ever experienced disgusting full body sobs while reading and fierce competitor also for. my favourite book. had to reread so much of those final pages because i couldnt concentrate with all the crying and after that i am so excited to never have to experience the physical chest-aching worry that i did for the duration of reading this. also i think the very quiet way love is written here through. very trivial small things is something i loved very much and that has stayed with me!

-> wuthering heights, emily bronte.

read this when i was about eleven, and then again a few weeks ago with my mum (whose favourite book it is) and it was still so. absolutely sickening i just think its excellent xx and without it we wouldn't have kate bush's 1978 single wuthering heights so xx think on that xx

-> the autobiography of malcom x, alex haley.

when i was a child my younger sister joined a sunday league football team and my dad used to give her a tenner every time she scored a goal. to even things out since i refused to get up at the arsecrack of dawn to contract hypothermia on a frozen football pitch, he started giving me books exclusively on malcolm x to read and would give me a tenner every time i finished one. this one was the first i read and was indeed the first book that ever made me cry at the end xx

-> my brilliant friend, elena ferrante.

so many of these are recent reads because it was only jan 2022 that i made a genuine effort to get back into reading for leisure and mbf is no different but well. the way friendship is written here is just unhinged and incredible and the series in general so far has been. there is nothing like it i fear

-> the raven boys, maggie steifvater.

gansey unfortunately.

-> macbeth, william shakespeare.

okay i know i know but. when you are studying it in englit class for your gcse it might as well be a book innit. anyway of all the texts i did for english both at gcse + a level macbeth is still my favourite and probably the most effort i ever put into an english essay. special shoutout to frankenstein which i can enjoy in hindsight but unfortunately it fucked me on the exam so out of bitterness it doesnt get a place here x

-> the secret history, donna tartt.

i did inhale this book but also it gets a place purely for being my first exposure to donna tartt's writing and style in general which is so very distinctive and has. undoubtedly had an effect on me for better or for worse we shall one day see but for now. who can say!

-> foster, claire keegan.

it is a little pamphlet of a book at eighty six pages but. i read it just over a month ago and havent properly stopped thinking about it since it was just everything quiet + mundane + understated that makes my brain start sparking and whirring and. im bringing it on holiday in the summer so i can read it again in the appropriate season xx

tagging. but no pressure. @gaewaren @dykefever @emerqldv @fastasyoucan1999 @forlorngarden @writteninverses @boyjoan !!

[introspect-la]

FROM THE LONDON YOUTH PORTRAIT BY DEREK RIDGERS (2014)

[mysticdragon3md3]

[neopolitanica]

Doyenne of Punk

Vivienne Westwood, 1941 - 2022

[bassic-ally]

best scribble of the day~

[phantomladyoverparis]

Goth Cruise (2008), dir. Jeanie Finlay

[gothmusiclatinamerica]

Today’s video is doing something a little different and talking about a book: A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad by UC Riverside Media and Cultural studies professor Richard T. Rodríguez. This book discusses the lasting interest Latinos in the US have had in 1980s British post-punk bands. I don’t talk about everything covered in the book as to not spoil it for those of you who would like to read it, but I do emphasize some of the bigger points.

[gay-victorian-astronomer]

so I FaceTimed my parents for the first time since I cut my hair and my father was all “you know, I really don’t get the whole skinhead thing.”

my father is bald.

sir. what do you mean, you don’t get it??

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BEER-DRINKERS AND BLUE-HAIRED RAZORS – THE MANC PUNKS OF YORE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Manchester punks Jonah (blue hair) and John (yellow hair, publisher of this photo), Manchester, UK, c. mid 1980s, from the private photo collection of “John” via Flickr, a.k.a., “convergent_evolution.”

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/74495375@N07/albums/72157628918609179.

[bijoumikhawal]

you do realize that actual Scottish and Irish people have in fact, criticized how people talk about the Fae, and done so specifically on Tumblr

its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art