Punk rockers.

darkdubh

Growing up in the 80's they were always an exotic sight as I'm from the country.Whenever You'd see them with their gear and hairstyles it was like seeing visitors from another planet or something.Nowadays a lot of what constituted the punk image has entered the mainstream such as piercings and You even see footballers with mohicans now.Anyone else have memories of them from back in the day?

vektarman

I remember the day I had my scooter smashed up by punk rockers in O'Connell Street in Dublin, wellll I'm exagerrating a bit, my vespa got away lightly, my pals scooters came off worse. There's a great book by Gary O'Neill with lots of pics of Dublin's youth and street culture from the 1950's to the 80's. I'm in there somewhere..

darkdubh

vektarman wrote: »

I remember the day I had my scooter smashed up by punk rockers in O'Connell Street in Dublin, wellll I'm exagerrating a bit, my vespa got away lightly, my pals scooters came off worse. There's a great book by Gary O'Neill with lots of pics of Dublin's youth and street culture from the 1950's to the 80's. I'm in there somewhere..

I was leafing through old issues of Magill Magazine in the libary a couple years ago and there was an article by Gene Kerrigan circa 1981 about Dublin punks.I'm pretty sure the pic of three lads on the cover was from that.

vektarman

darkdubh wrote: »

I was leafing through old issues of Magill Magazine in the libary a couple years ago and there was an article by Gene Kerrigan circa 1981 about Dublin punks.I'm pretty sure the pic of three lads on the cover was from that.

That was a good article by Gene Kerrigan, yep that's the day I was there when the punk rockers attacked...

darkdubh

vektarman wrote: »

That was a good article by Gene Kerrigan, yep that's the day I was there when the punk rockers attacked...

There was something like that mentioned in the article,punks knocking over mods mopeds.Were You one of the mods?

Wicklowrider

I remember about '78, coming home through Cornelscourt on the bus. The bus broke down and we all got off to wait for another. One of the passengers was a punk I knew to see. He had the bright red mohican, probably the biggest mohican I ever saw, the safety pin in his nose with the chain from it to his ear,torn leather biker jacket and kilt with bondage chains. He was trying to thumb a lift without success and giving out hell that drivers had no manners and wouldn't give him a lift....

vektarman

darkdubh wrote: »

There was something like that mentioned in the article,punks knocking over mods mopeds.Were You one of the mods?

I was one of those mods, I was 'elected' to look after the scooters while the rest of them went off, needless to say I didn't do much when 25 to 30 axe and hammer wielding punks decided to entertain themselves by smashing up our scooters....

Gene Kerrigans piece in McGill told of the calm and cool indifference of the couple of mods there iirc, in reality I was sh*tting myself

darkdubh

I did a bit of quick googling and lo and behold heres a link to the article.Theres no pics unfortunatly.

http://www.politico.ie/?option=com_content&view=article&id=5320

r3nu4l

Great thread! Thanks for sharing the memories folks.

Must look out for that book by Gary O'Neill now.

darkdubh

vektarman wrote: »

I was one of those mods, I was 'elected' to look after the scooters while the rest of them went off, needless to say I didn't do much when 25 to 30 axe and hammer wielding punks decided to entertain themselves by smashing up our scooters....

Gene Kerrigans piece in McGill told of the calm and cool indifference of the couple of mods there iirc, in reality I was sh*tting myself

I don't suppose You know Nathan Slattery aka Johnny Helicopter?

vektarman

darkdubh wrote: »

I don't suppose You know Nathan Slattery aka Johnny Helicopter?

I never knew that was his real name, we only knew him as Johnny Helicopter.:)

darkdubh

vektarman wrote: »

I never knew that was his real name, we only knew him as Johnny Helicopter.:)

I know him through his involvement in am-dramatics.He's a pretty colourfull character.Supposedly drove on a moped from Cork to Dundalk dressed as Batman.:)He has his own website to publicise his acting career.
www.nathanslattery.com

darkdubh

On the subject of punks heres an interesting thread from a couple of years ago.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055935633