The negative comments I have read, lead me to type a few words. If you weren't there, what do you know. They are real people doing their thing. If it wasn't for these people, you wouldn't be here. A lot of todays people were created in the back seat of a Holden or Ford car.
Lobby Lloyd. Australia is a vibrant mix of people from all parts of the world. Young people arrived in Australia. You had to fight to find a place. Making music was the way. Music is a universal languge. What Greg did here is capture people; an envent in time. I remember hitch hiking in Warrandyte, and got a lift with Greg in his Ford Transit Van.
Like a Disco/Rave in Cal. in and we are all always loved, I am Pop Sharp and from Sacto Skins & Capitol of '85 & Lovin' it now claiming Sharpie in L.A. Ca.!
@gollymutt Canterbury and town hall sharps toughest in Sydney Yes as hard as it is to imagin Canterbury was once Aussie- thanks Gough you never asked us in a referendum about an irreversabel social experiment. Lets all suck a latte and be polotically correct
@zaphodtrillian - yeah Canterbury- Riverwood - Belmore. The rule to stay alive was never to catch the last East Hills train out of Town Hall where it wasn't unusual for 10-20 + sharps to hit the platform (and anyone on it) ..........pity the sharps weren't around a few years earlier when Little Johnny Howard went to Canterbury Boys !
grant gets around, although the ladies get their hair done by matilda. no two sharpie haircuts are ever alike, and i dares you to call them on it. each has its own personality and lifestyle. each takes care of its wearer with magical powers. and the shoes! more magical powers. the belt buckle? we don't get to see that. that is their kill zone. no one gets close to that bitch unless you want to test the magic.
I knew a few Town Hall Sharps in Sydney in 73/74 but was not my scene. When punk came along in 77, I ventured into that world and I wondered whether any sharps would be along for the ride. Only came across one person who had been part of the of the sharp scene, a girl called Cathi Corpse, a legendary early Sydney punk. Cathi ended up marrying an American Indian. Perhaps dope prevented sharps from making the transition to punk.
Hey u older sharpies, remember being bashed by SOUTHSIDE ROCKERS? in the 70's you gutless bastards.Including the Greensborough boy's.. Ask any Old sharpie about the major fight and hiding inflicted on them at Springie rock.(springvale Rockers dance in the 70's) Old Southsiders still rule the roost you connie cardiganed bastards.
Good on them i new some greensborough boys in 70 . 72 what a night at the hamburger shop was always something goin on againts the pigs. anyone who didnt have mates like that is probobly screwed up now . ya missed out.
Hilarious, not least of all because they are 10 years behind with the mini skirt, and the females are just as awful as the guys, they even move like them. Real bottom of the gene pool stuff. A lot of similarity with 2010 travellers in UK. too. Wonder why ?))
Awesome clip ,I have digitally enhanced this clip and use this in our show as part of Aussie history between sets. Onya Greg, Lobby and our mate Billy Thorpe.
In Sydney- sharpies were a social menace who were sole bent on bashing anyone with long hair & usually hung out in packs of 10-20 or more-& yes they were threatening for that reason. In Sydney 1969-1972 there were regular punch ups @ gigs & venues. Inner city-Enmore/Redfern & East Hills line-Panania sharps were tough & 2 B avoided @ all costs. As for "cultural impact" think Vandals & Rome ! The only redeeming factor 4 Sharpies is that they liked Lobby- Godfather of heavy rock!
@MalThorgan Glad I wasn't around in '74 then... anyway.. I find it funny that my mum was around in that day and age (she was 17), also, I wonder what these people who were sharpies who would be around 60 now think of what they did when they were young..
@TheLittlebighaha - bodgies,sharpies,surfies,bikers,skinheads-whatever,simply people grouping together 2 seek social identity & bonding through shared music,hairstyle or pastime,fueled by drugs or alcohol or both.
If you survive the Right of Passage then there's nothing 2 regret -- the sharps I knew (even became mates with a couple) were pretty much from working class school of hard knocks background-higher education wasn't a priority a higher wage at the factory was.
Love this tune. Like the Sharp look. Cross between Skinhead/Glam/Punk. We never had anyone with a mohawk in England untill the late 70s. I admit i don't know much about the Sharp look. When did this originate?
The nuckles game is a classic. A pain and learn game. Good for kids in car or restaraunt. Works with my family at Christmas time. Be gentle at first, and always remember to explain the purpose of the game.
..I didn't see much of an "insight" ..I just see a bunch of aussie kids from the '70s having a great time!! :0) ..brings back a shitload of memories from those days and some of the rock festivals that we had way back then..
This version of GOD by Lobby Lloyd & the Coloured Balls was recorded from live form the Sunbury festival '73
I have wore out my cassette tape of it, played it so much.....Summer Jam in 73 by Mushroom Records... - The incredible 18 minute guitar blowout instrumental GOD (an acronym of 'Guitar OverDrive'). This version of GOD was trimmed down to 10minutes when released on the 'Best of Ballpower' compilation CD.
There was also a very brief skinhead gang called the Bowies and they had hairstyles similar to David Bowie/ziggy stardust at that time (70s). The great thing about the Aussie skinhead movement was/is that it wasn't political. There was no left wing or right wing skins. It was just young working class people having a good time.
@ManFromMelbourne what does he say when he asked the last bloke "what doe ya do for a livin?"i play string guitar.......i didnt catch what he said...do u know?
Check it out !! all lean'n against an FJ at the start of the clip.
In Adelaide We had Sharpies, Sharkies, Surfies, Bodgies, and Rockers. I was a Rocker with a slick back - with a little bit Californian Poppy or Jockey club hair oil to do the job.
Still a slick back Rocker....Ha...! with an FJ....
@JiminyKracker Sharpies where themselves influenced by the ska, mod and skinhead cultures that came with british migrants. Mind that the skinhead culture in the day was way different and had jamaican rudeboy/british working class roots.
@jonaspv interesting, I always thought mods were more like rivals to Sharpies in Oz (sort of how it was Mods vs Rockers in UK), rather than influencing them
@jonaspv Its a miss conception that Skinheads only listened to Ska and reggae. Most Skinheads listened to heavier chart music. Rock music ect. Thats why Slade went with the Skinhead fashion at the time.
I even remember Greg McCainsh, he had some garage band out of Warrandyte. Young curly haired kid named "Shirley" singing up front, they were pretty good, played a lot out at the Research Hall Super Shows. Later became SkyHooks. Shite, the old days.
Strewtg Iowfutura and others. I used to hang out weekend nights on the trains with the Burrow Boys out of Greensborough. Back in 72, I was at Montmorency High back then, rude boy, long hair, funny how The Boys would let me hang with them on the trains. I guess it was the special smoking herbs I used back in those days! :-)
Love it, I grew up in Campbelltown NSW and was influenced by the Liverpool sharps, I still love the hairstyles, the look, I remember doing the dances, I was 12 when this footage was taken, bring back the 70's...
For more information on this culture including photos and memorabilia visit skinsnsharps website
Id like to reunite with 2 close friends from back then, Bill Sharp from Reservoir and Carol Dawson(maiden name) from Greensborough. They can contact me thru the above site
Im the guy with the Mohawk at 2:17, aged 16.A Frankston Sharp at the time, later that year a Melbourne Sharp. It was an amazing concert. It was called Summer Jam because the last band of the night was to be a compilation of various members from all of the concerts bands, on stage together in a massive jam session. Thats what drew over 1000 Sharpies from the suburbs of Melbourne to the one event, to be there when 2 of our Rock Icons Lobby Loyde and Billy Thorpe jammed together on stage
as you say Skins came later on in the late 70`s. some say designed by Mi5 to get rid of the labor govt in england, pave the way for thatcher and what we have now. skins fight and close down the clubs. too easy
The music`s an instrumental by the band Coloured Balls. They were a skinhead band in Melbourne in the early seventies. They started 5 years before English skinhead bands Sham 69 and Skrewdriver but the English and American music press don`t like people to know this fact that the first true skinhead band was an Australian band, The Coloured Balls. Track down their albums if you can find them.
not sure what you mean by "the first true skinhead band". my Dad played in The Coloured Balls and with Lobby before that band. they were a revolutionary band at the time, but they didn't align themselves with Skrewdriver and the likes of that crap that came after them.
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Have you noticed how how all the faces in the video look 1) ugly 2) inbred 3) redneck 4) lower class 5) dumb. i say thank god for today's society where more cultures have inter-bred so that melbourne now has a fresh metropolitan look as opposed to the first settlers look. Its amazing just how a few decades can change people's faces. Out with the old in with the new I say
I think you are exaggerating quite a bit. We don't need non-Europeans like you to try and change our race. If you want to see an ugly , hopelessly stupid and failed people , you need look no further than the African race.
Live and let live. Good music will become classics, just like the people that listened. A wonderful snippet of life for ever. Anger is a pure emotion that is powerful. Love is an emotion that is pure and poweful, no but's; no want's, is always there; has no ties or needs, love is always there.
This sensational period when music was raw, men were bare knuckle fighters and women loved being with them, was replaced with computer games, gang knifings and salivating feminists. Where did it all go wrong? Bring back the good old days.
LIFE IS SO SHORT GUYS Relax and smell the roses DONT BE ANGRY Forgive and forget :o)
IF NOT STABB THE FUCK OUT OF THE BASTARDS :o] yes I am an old Skin Head no brains but I made lots of money on the market before the crash LOL ;o) so get stuffed HE HE I MADE IT TO SOMEWHERE SAFE
haha thats a piece of old school australia but you can see how bygons change from sharpies to skinheads then to punks (roughly same era) metal heads now homie gangs splited up into ethnic devides hell bent on bashing each other on race crunulla is a prime example people of anglo exstraction vs the lebonese comunity to acheive what ?? nothing thats what eather way i enjoyed this footage its a piece of retrospective that i hope never getts deleted
lol... good to see the harsh classism that the UK prides itself upon dispersed when the immigrants came to Australia. I'm guessing that's because they would have eventually faded in to diverse culture we now have.
Pharmajoe comments about experiences with sharpies on trains. i remember they always seemd to be on the old 'red rattlers' running in and out of Princess Bridge Station. Always bulling some poor prick, including myself on one occasion.
But PYTHAGORAS is right.They always had to rely on numbers.
Singularly they were the most unremarkable specimens.
i think it was purely australian phenomenon. these kids used to be skinheads, when they migrated from UK to australia and then, they turned to sharpies.
Haha... This is the big bad sharpie gang I heard of when I was in Australia?? They look like fucking retarded Chernobyl mutants too self conscious to tell that journalist to fuck off...
Wouldn't last two seconds where I come from, but then again, maybe that's a good thing. I loved Melbourne!
Maybe thats why you love this hippieshit music i read on your profile.
Lobby loyd and Billy Thorpe is great stuff, and those Sharpies can be compared with Skinheads in Europe in the sixties and seventies (without the racism bullshit, and actually you also have Sharpskins here), always ready to fight, and never backdown.
bloody hell! what a joke, thats why our kids are nut cases because our grandparents are fucking sharpies! oh grandpa what did you do when you where young? oh well son you see!!!!!!! fuck off and go to hell.
As a young kid in Melbourne I remember the skins and sharps gangs very well - whenever a few of them would run anywhere wearing those built up shoes it sounded like a herd of Clydesdale horses in full gallop - there was always plenty of fights around the Flinders St station area.
The last of the sharpie gangs died out in Melbourne by the late 1970's and were eventually replaced in the city by newer gangs like the City Louts, Lebanese Tigers and the Turkish Lions.
@frontrowpig Might be before your time dude - I'm pushing 49 and they were around when I was in my late teens hanging around the old City Square when it used to have the fountain out front and the cafes & lounges inside - surprisingly some of the Louts were associated with members of the Lebanese Tigers & Turkish Lions.
Im the guy with the Mohawk at 2:17, aged 16.A Frankston Sharp at the time, later that year a Melbourne Sharp. It was an amazing concert. It was called Summer Jam because the last band of the night was to be a compilation of various members from all of the concerts bands, on stage together in a massive jam session. Thats what drew over 1000 Sharpies from the suburbs of Melbourne to the one event, to be there when 2 of our Rock Icons Lobby Loyde and Billy Thorpe jammed together on stage.
It was an awesome sight to see so many Sharps together in one place, and all came in good spirits with only one purpose, our common love of rock music. No one wore their gang identification so there wouldnt be any trouble, and a lot of new friendships were forged between Sharps from different suburbs and gangs, much to my benefit in future encounters.
For more information on this culture including photos and memorabilia visit skinsnsharps website
Id like to reunite with 2 close friends from back then, Bill Sharp from Reservoir and Carol Dawson(maiden name) from Greensborough. They can contact me thru the above site
I was there, pure Neanderthal rock lifestyle, it said a lot about how we were, very scary, i remember the violence, the mindless destruction, the gangs would live for the weekend where they'd travel to a suburb to beat the living daylights out of a perfect stranger for no particular reason, i never understood it? like a gang a prisoners on weekend leave fresh off the bounty, we're talkin ''Fight club'' with crocodiles, they couldn't be tamed, utter madness, fueled on alcohol and revenge.
Wow! I remember as a 12 year old in '74 coming into Spencer st with my schoolmates and being very wary of alll the sharpies in town, they were everywhere back then, this brought it all back! Fantastic! Thanks
An update....all of them now firmly ensconced in the suburbs, with 4 wheel drives and banking jobs.That was great....no-one dances like that anymore!!
According to an interview Lobby Loyde did for a book called "Top Fellas" written by Tadhg Taylor, when lobby`s band, The Purple Hearts, moved down to Melbourne in the 60s, skinheads and sharpies were turning up to his gigs at places like the Circle Ballroom in Preston. So there was definately Skinheads and sharpies in Melbourne during the 60s.
The Sharpies first appeared in about 1970: Preston, Northcote, Thornbury...their influence spread to the outer suburbs. The gang originated from Collingwood and Fitzroy and called themselves the Collingwood Boys...very sharp dressers. They'd even developed their own distinct dance styles, none of which the sharpies copied. The Collingwood Boys were mostly the sons of migrants workers and crims, dressed like movie stars - and were a real bad little bunch.
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melbourne sharpies huh...more like melboune Pussies. I can't tell you how many sharpies I fooked up back in the day ...and I've got the connie's to proove it.Oh yeah- Lobby Lloyd sucks!!
There is a lot of cack on the internet so thanks for posting the best entertainment I have seen in ages. Never heard of Lobby Loyde or Sharpies before but how good was that short film?! You can feel the atmosphere and the rebellious style.
Very odd.You can tell by their fashions and persona that these people were completely isolated from the rest of the world.What a horrid,violent place that must have been.The girl at 2.46 looks pretty but at some point she pulls a face which makes her look like an alien.Scary.
And the aussie bogan was born... lol!!
robdotcom71 3 days ago
The music by Coloured Balls in this is incredible...sounds like the Wipers...just almost ten years before them...amazing footage
gustavmarie 3 days ago
Mine was Long.
S.S.
AussieAmazingRock 1 week ago
this might explain why I was born in 75
pickypal100 1 week ago
sharpies ? ....Bluntys !!!
TheMichaelseymour 3 weeks ago
The negative comments I have read, lead me to type a few words. If you weren't there, what do you know. They are real people doing their thing. If it wasn't for these people, you wouldn't be here. A lot of todays people were created in the back seat of a Holden or Ford car.
eddie100 1 month ago
Lobby Lloyd. Australia is a vibrant mix of people from all parts of the world. Young people arrived in Australia. You had to fight to find a place. Making music was the way. Music is a universal languge. What Greg did here is capture people; an envent in time. I remember hitch hiking in Warrandyte, and got a lift with Greg in his Ford Transit Van.
eddie100 1 month ago
this bastards dances like chikens hhahaha
kentokie 1 month ago
@kentokie go back to school (ckickens) not fuckin chikens
MrBrabban2 1 week ago
Like a Disco/Rave in Cal. in and we are all always loved, I am Pop Sharp and from Sacto Skins & Capitol of '85 & Lovin' it now claiming Sharpie in L.A. Ca.!
vasvale1 2 months ago
Was that made by Greg Macainsh of Skyhooks fame?
Guess it must be... not a common name
kurvapicsa 2 months ago
@kurvapicsa Yes.
eddie100 1 month ago
Fuck people were skinny back then!
bpr154 2 months ago
@bpr154 Thats because everyone smoked back then
Mentorcase 2 months ago
Great footage! What's the film called?
PelicanGodOfJupiter 2 months ago
How are these geezza's. lmao. Sharpies in Melbourne
maximusattack 2 months ago
Tony Abbotts constituents
beachdude1962 2 months ago 6
Celibate Rifles put out a great song a few years back about the Syndey sharpies. Worth a listen. Called the Paddo Sharps
gollymutt 4 months ago
@gollymutt Canterbury and town hall sharps toughest in Sydney Yes as hard as it is to imagin Canterbury was once Aussie- thanks Gough you never asked us in a referendum about an irreversabel social experiment. Lets all suck a latte and be polotically correct
zaphodtrillian 1 month ago
@zaphodtrillian - yeah Canterbury- Riverwood - Belmore. The rule to stay alive was never to catch the last East Hills train out of Town Hall where it wasn't unusual for 10-20 + sharps to hit the platform (and anyone on it) ..........pity the sharps weren't around a few years earlier when Little Johnny Howard went to Canterbury Boys !
MalThorgan 2 weeks ago
grant gets around, although the ladies get their hair done by matilda. no two sharpie haircuts are ever alike, and i dares you to call them on it. each has its own personality and lifestyle. each takes care of its wearer with magical powers. and the shoes! more magical powers. the belt buckle? we don't get to see that. that is their kill zone. no one gets close to that bitch unless you want to test the magic.
americandiscocrash 4 months ago in playlist americandiscocrash's Favorited Videos
what hell
RedChannelBlue 4 months ago
" UP THE SHARPS "
TheFightwear 4 months ago
Meh. They look just as stupid as teenagers do today. LOOK AT THE MULLETS! MULLETS EVERYWHERE! I'm going to scrape out my eyes with a spoon now.
clintallen123 4 months ago
sharpies
tz1861289 4 months ago
this much dedication to the Sharpie marker is ludicrous
HellHammerX 4 months ago
Half of all those people in the crowd are in jail, other half are on the dole still popping out kids..
Gross!
MRMILO57 5 months ago
As an old Melb Rocker it brings back many memories of many hidings inflicted on those gutless turds..Especially those around Dandenong and Frankston.
1crankyvet 5 months ago
MOHAWKS in 1974!!! (2.19)
Amazing..... Is there any earlier evidence of mohawks in pop culture anywhere in the world?! (Apart from a few brutal US Viet Nam platoons)
marcusbondi 5 months ago
@marcusbondi I know! This is INCREDIBLE!!!
SKOTP69 5 months ago
I knew a few Town Hall Sharps in Sydney in 73/74 but was not my scene. When punk came along in 77, I ventured into that world and I wondered whether any sharps would be along for the ride. Only came across one person who had been part of the of the sharp scene, a girl called Cathi Corpse, a legendary early Sydney punk. Cathi ended up marrying an American Indian. Perhaps dope prevented sharps from making the transition to punk.
ninyae 6 months ago
Hey u older sharpies, remember being bashed by SOUTHSIDE ROCKERS? in the 70's you gutless bastards.Including the Greensborough boy's.. Ask any Old sharpie about the major fight and hiding inflicted on them at Springie rock.(springvale Rockers dance in the 70's) Old Southsiders still rule the roost you connie cardiganed bastards.
1crankyvet 6 months ago
When femininity reigned supreme. Peace and love baby!
Offdrive3 6 months ago
omg i know that bloke @2:20
2young2rocknroll 7 months ago
2:47
ecnalubma696969 7 months ago
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ecnalubma696969 7 months ago
Good on them i new some greensborough boys in 70 . 72 what a night at the hamburger shop was always something goin on againts the pigs. anyone who didnt have mates like that is probobly screwed up now . ya missed out.
gonnagotit 7 months ago
@gonnagotit Greensborough hamburger shop in the 70s, Ha ha! I remember.
GrumpSkull 7 months ago
@gonnagotit Chris cooked a good hamburger, but some people always stuff up a good night.
wombat3088 4 months ago
Sharpies hated anyone that was not a WASP. They were a racist bunch of bogans, I don't know why people glorify them. Arseholes.
Johnnystrychnine 7 months ago
@Johnnystrychnine you say that, but several of the first group were not WASPs and there was at least one Asian in the concert footage.
Zipgunn1 6 months ago
Hilarious, not least of all because they are 10 years behind with the mini skirt, and the females are just as awful as the guys, they even move like them. Real bottom of the gene pool stuff. A lot of similarity with 2010 travellers in UK. too. Wonder why ?))
ambertjeblue 7 months ago
Lol at all the whites. Reminds me of the 'salisbury rhodesia' video.
tothemax01 8 months ago
looks like the modern day AFL crowd!
hudstar2011 8 months ago
Melbourne scum!!
geckoexpress 8 months ago
Interviewer - "what do you do for a living?"
Grant - "Aw, I'm an apprentice hair dresser"
geordiewood 9 months ago
how fucken cool....
I remember in back in 82, at Sandringham station, they scared the shit outa me
Morthund 9 months ago
Awesome clip ,I have digitally enhanced this clip and use this in our show as part of Aussie history between sets. Onya Greg, Lobby and our mate Billy Thorpe.
billythorpetribute 9 months ago
Thats a sweet fucking insight
jaundicejarran 9 months ago
In Sydney- sharpies were a social menace who were sole bent on bashing anyone with long hair & usually hung out in packs of 10-20 or more-& yes they were threatening for that reason. In Sydney 1969-1972 there were regular punch ups @ gigs & venues. Inner city-Enmore/Redfern & East Hills line-Panania sharps were tough & 2 B avoided @ all costs. As for "cultural impact" think Vandals & Rome ! The only redeeming factor 4 Sharpies is that they liked Lobby- Godfather of heavy rock!
MalThorgan 9 months ago 6
@MalThorgan Glad I wasn't around in '74 then... anyway.. I find it funny that my mum was around in that day and age (she was 17), also, I wonder what these people who were sharpies who would be around 60 now think of what they did when they were young..
TheLittlebighaha 3 weeks ago
@TheLittlebighaha - bodgies,sharpies,surfies,bikers,skinheads-whatever,simply people grouping together 2 seek social identity & bonding through shared music,hairstyle or pastime,fueled by drugs or alcohol or both.
If you survive the Right of Passage then there's nothing 2 regret -- the sharps I knew (even became mates with a couple) were pretty much from working class school of hard knocks background-higher education wasn't a priority a higher wage at the factory was.
MalThorgan 2 weeks ago
not much has changed
thadopeman 11 months ago
rofl what a bunch of bogans
hjdutch 11 months ago 2
Get these guys back to kick the asses of foreign 'gangs' of shitheads!
astroboy0307 1 year ago
@astroboy0307 SHARP = Skin Heads Against Racial Predujice. Maybe they'd come back and kick your foreign anglo arse?
We can only hope.
perthpraxis 10 months ago
Love this tune. Like the Sharp look. Cross between Skinhead/Glam/Punk. We never had anyone with a mohawk in England untill the late 70s. I admit i don't know much about the Sharp look. When did this originate?
alanfacer 1 year ago
@alanfacer for more info and history on SHARPIES go Skins'n'Sharps website
AussieBamBam 11 months ago
Grant can do my hair any day. Sharpies show out in '74. Great tune by Lobby Lloyd Oi!
MrNottheword 1 year ago
@MrNottheword Gran
skel8tor 1 year ago
It was a counter culture 2 the hippie movement of the 60s. This in turn evolved into the punk rock movement of the late 70s
westnblu 1 year ago
2:41 = hotness. Dance fucking kills me, wot a riot.
clumpft 1 year ago
so was bon scott a sharpie? he kinda looked like one early on
Doctorfreek 1 year ago
I was probably 12 years old. and got punched by a guy 12 pick handles across.
That Is one of my memories. I layed down in a Valiant Charger.
eddie100 1 year ago
Nuckle is cool
eddie100 1 year ago
The nuckles game is a classic. A pain and learn game. Good for kids in car or restaraunt. Works with my family at Christmas time. Be gentle at first, and always remember to explain the purpose of the game.
eddie100 1 year ago
great picture of the age, imust say
eliusbanana 1 year ago
wow back in the days lol
lynette3064 1 year ago
Lol if i where a "shapie" and was an adult know and watched this i'd feel like shooting myself.
freakinslayer 1 year ago
Frankston Sharpies Rule! Ok!
bohobogan 1 year ago
..I didn't see much of an "insight" ..I just see a bunch of aussie kids from the '70s having a great time!! :0) ..brings back a shitload of memories from those days and some of the rock festivals that we had way back then..
Rob50strat 1 year ago
You can still get a really good Aussie Pizza at Sunshine Pizza. Fuckn oath!
Slynsmiley 1 year ago
I was in a few punch ups with Sharpies in Melbourne in the mid-sixties!!!!
debiedog1 1 year ago
badass mullets
AltamontKiller 1 year ago
Hideous!!
greasegunx 1 year ago
Michelle and ferrett from fast forward
mrsgritoli1 1 year ago
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what an ugly bunch
shaftsbury94 1 year ago
This version of GOD by Lobby Lloyd & the Coloured Balls was recorded from live form the Sunbury festival '73
I have wore out my cassette tape of it, played it so much.....Summer Jam in 73 by Mushroom Records... - The incredible 18 minute guitar blowout instrumental GOD (an acronym of 'Guitar OverDrive'). This version of GOD was trimmed down to 10minutes when released on the 'Best of Ballpower' compilation CD.
aussiemalaka 1 year ago 2
Bogan beginnings. Memmmmorieees!!
49barfly 1 year ago
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these guys r GAY!!!!!!!
braposo23 1 year ago
Nice VId
skinnymason 1 year ago
lol the more things change the more they stay the same.......
CurrentlyDisconected 1 year ago
There was also a very brief skinhead gang called the Bowies and they had hairstyles similar to David Bowie/ziggy stardust at that time (70s). The great thing about the Aussie skinhead movement was/is that it wasn't political. There was no left wing or right wing skins. It was just young working class people having a good time.
ManFromMelbourne 1 year ago
@ManFromMelbourne what does he say when he asked the last bloke "what doe ya do for a livin?"i play string guitar.......i didnt catch what he said...do u know?
456japan 1 year ago
@456japan 'apprentice hairdresser' - he cut their hair!
AussieBamBam 1 year ago
@AussieBamBam lol
genericgeorge 9 months ago
Went to several Thorpe and Lobby Lloyd Concerts. Interesting ! No ! Not There! Longer Hair Then!
71KAZA1 1 year ago
Check it out !! all lean'n against an FJ at the start of the clip.
In Adelaide We had Sharpies, Sharkies, Surfies, Bodgies, and Rockers. I was a Rocker with a slick back - with a little bit Californian Poppy or Jockey club hair oil to do the job.
Still a slick back Rocker....Ha...! with an FJ....
fjbutch 1 year ago
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
S.H.A.R.P
SDGVISION 1 year ago
@SDGVISION Australian Sharpies were NOT affiliated with the S.H.A.R.P. movement in any way, the names are purely coincidental.
bullshitdetector101 1 year ago
Fascinating. It seems sharpies influenced later Skinheads, Punks and even Bogans
JiminyKracker 1 year ago
@JiminyKracker Sharpies where themselves influenced by the ska, mod and skinhead cultures that came with british migrants. Mind that the skinhead culture in the day was way different and had jamaican rudeboy/british working class roots.
jonaspv 1 year ago
@jonaspv interesting, I always thought mods were more like rivals to Sharpies in Oz (sort of how it was Mods vs Rockers in UK), rather than influencing them
JiminyKracker 1 year ago
@jonaspv Its a miss conception that Skinheads only listened to Ska and reggae. Most Skinheads listened to heavier chart music. Rock music ect. Thats why Slade went with the Skinhead fashion at the time.
alanfacer 1 year ago
cuantos jóvenes en celo veo aqui.
eltiempodestruyetodo 1 year ago
Think I prefer the 80's Skinhead Style
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
WEISSKRAFT 1 year ago
I even remember Greg McCainsh, he had some garage band out of Warrandyte. Young curly haired kid named "Shirley" singing up front, they were pretty good, played a lot out at the Research Hall Super Shows. Later became SkyHooks. Shite, the old days.
kcarter1999 1 year ago
Strewtg Iowfutura and others. I used to hang out weekend nights on the trains with the Burrow Boys out of Greensborough. Back in 72, I was at Montmorency High back then, rude boy, long hair, funny how The Boys would let me hang with them on the trains. I guess it was the special smoking herbs I used back in those days! :-)
kcarter1999 1 year ago
Love it, I grew up in Campbelltown NSW and was influenced by the Liverpool sharps, I still love the hairstyles, the look, I remember doing the dances, I was 12 when this footage was taken, bring back the 70's...
kejarusitwy 1 year ago
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For more information on this culture including photos and memorabilia visit skinsnsharps website
Id like to reunite with 2 close friends from back then, Bill Sharp from Reservoir and Carol Dawson(maiden name) from Greensborough. They can contact me thru the above site
AussieBamBam 1 year ago
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Im the guy with the Mohawk at 2:17, aged 16.A Frankston Sharp at the time, later that year a Melbourne Sharp. It was an amazing concert. It was called Summer Jam because the last band of the night was to be a compilation of various members from all of the concerts bands, on stage together in a massive jam session. Thats what drew over 1000 Sharpies from the suburbs of Melbourne to the one event, to be there when 2 of our Rock Icons Lobby Loyde and Billy Thorpe jammed together on stage
AussieBamBam 1 year ago
Grew up in this era, and recognize a load of people in it... mostly city sharps and king street..
Marg, geoff (Wormy), John, Mary-Ann, Joe, Neil (Cheezle),Titch,Bobby, still in contact with most....
Had plenty of Friday night run in's with Williamstown Sharps.
I don't have the Contie or the pinstripes or the Spagana shoes any more... though I do carry lots of fight scars...Hahaha
lowfutura 1 year ago
So this is where the bogan came from
jamesarongray 1 year ago
as you say Skins came later on in the late 70`s. some say designed by Mi5 to get rid of the labor govt in england, pave the way for thatcher and what we have now. skins fight and close down the clubs. too easy
progbean 1 year ago
The music`s an instrumental by the band Coloured Balls. They were a skinhead band in Melbourne in the early seventies. They started 5 years before English skinhead bands Sham 69 and Skrewdriver but the English and American music press don`t like people to know this fact that the first true skinhead band was an Australian band, The Coloured Balls. Track down their albums if you can find them.
ManFromMelbourne 1 year ago
not sure what you mean by "the first true skinhead band". my Dad played in The Coloured Balls and with Lobby before that band. they were a revolutionary band at the time, but they didn't align themselves with Skrewdriver and the likes of that crap that came after them.
Coldacre 1 year ago
its coz skrewdriver are not skinheads
antwanswan1 1 year ago
ehh nah your wrong coz the the first true skinehad band was porbly symarip
antwanswan1 1 year ago
thanks for the answer.
v0zka 1 year ago
Greatest thing I've ever encountered. I wish I was around back then.
toecutterr6 1 year ago
Makes you wonder where are they now?
Not a very "politically correct" world then.
Wonder how many have lung cancer?
Footy, Meat Pies and Holden Cars too!
penfloyd 2 years ago
I like the music, anyone know it title?
v0zka 2 years ago
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Have you noticed how how all the faces in the video look 1) ugly 2) inbred 3) redneck 4) lower class 5) dumb. i say thank god for today's society where more cultures have inter-bred so that melbourne now has a fresh metropolitan look as opposed to the first settlers look. Its amazing just how a few decades can change people's faces. Out with the old in with the new I say
evensteven66 2 years ago
I think you are exaggerating quite a bit. We don't need non-Europeans like you to try and change our race. If you want to see an ugly , hopelessly stupid and failed people , you need look no further than the African race.
MonkeyMagic88 2 years ago
ha ha ha
freecloudgirl 1 year ago
christ...how naff...
0ut0fn0thingdrumer 2 years ago
Live and let live. Good music will become classics, just like the people that listened. A wonderful snippet of life for ever. Anger is a pure emotion that is powerful. Love is an emotion that is pure and poweful, no but's; no want's, is always there; has no ties or needs, love is always there.
eddie100 2 years ago
It is OK for kid's to experiment and grow
Government law should not have have any part.
I'd like to thank you Greg, for giving a lift to me and my friends back in Warrandyte, VIC.
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nesomai 2 years ago
This sensational period when music was raw, men were bare knuckle fighters and women loved being with them, was replaced with computer games, gang knifings and salivating feminists. Where did it all go wrong? Bring back the good old days.
EvaOnVideo 2 years ago 3
'women loved being with them' ...
yeah, women could get enough of the bad quality sex and poor treatment of that era.
BiancaHvidore 2 years ago 4
I am now nostalgic for something I didn't know existed until two weeks ago! Did Bon Scott come from this crowd?
pebbypoo 2 years ago 3
Back then I was 15, and pushing. Experimenting and living just only, managed to become me.
I am still growing, the journey has taught me a lot.
Love
eddie100 2 years ago
I say the music in this clip is great.
I do enjoy it a lot.
skinhead5 2 years ago
3:00 Safari police?
RizzoTheRat121 2 years ago
Its all about being PISSED OFF Who wasnt
I wish I was 15 Again Knowing What I know Now
I would tell myself to relax and enjoy the ride
LIFE IS SO SHORT GUYS Relax and smell the roses DONT BE ANGRY Forgive and forget :o)
IF NOT STABB THE FUCK OUT OF THE BASTARDS :o] yes I am an old Skin Head no brains but I made lots of money on the market before the crash LOL ;o) so get stuffed HE HE I MADE IT TO SOMEWHERE SAFE
I was in the ghetto now in the suburbs :o)
so fuck off :o)
MbootwoKcoonie 2 years ago
SHUT THE FUCK UP
sugahealzz 2 years ago
haha thats a piece of old school australia but you can see how bygons change from sharpies to skinheads then to punks (roughly same era) metal heads now homie gangs splited up into ethnic devides hell bent on bashing each other on race crunulla is a prime example people of anglo exstraction vs the lebonese comunity to acheive what ?? nothing thats what eather way i enjoyed this footage its a piece of retrospective that i hope never getts deleted
paul
2bergulosis 2 years ago
lol... good to see the harsh classism that the UK prides itself upon dispersed when the immigrants came to Australia. I'm guessing that's because they would have eventually faded in to diverse culture we now have.
fkthewhat 2 years ago
Well done on the fisticuffs PYTHAGORAS.
I hated these dickheads.
Pharmajoe comments about experiences with sharpies on trains. i remember they always seemd to be on the old 'red rattlers' running in and out of Princess Bridge Station. Always bulling some poor prick, including myself on one occasion.
But PYTHAGORAS is right.They always had to rely on numbers.
Singularly they were the most unremarkable specimens.
vinorob 2 years ago 2
SHARPIES ROCK!
geophoto12 2 years ago
Some of those Melbourne Sharps were mean bastards, had a few run-ins back then, on the trains at times also in Box Hill.
Nothing serious, a few punches thrown, they were ok but yes, they were like skins but without the nazi racist bullshit, they were ok.
Loved Lobby Loyde, still do.
pinsAU 2 years ago
My old man told a story of getting belted on the train to Yarraville once. Lobby is cool
pharmajoe990 2 years ago
I remember a bunch of these retarded nitwits in theThomastown area of Melbourne. Envisioned themselves as some sort of 'gang'.
They were all pointless shit. Hence their extinction.
vinorob 2 years ago
I remember the Thomo Sharps too .
I punched up their leader @ Lalor high school @ night in front of 40 kids .
They were all weak as shit , thats why they were in a gang .
PYTHAGORAS101 2 years ago
bogan central
toltec19 2 years ago
Intense.
EverydayJayn 2 years ago
Fascinating stuff!
Wilthomer66 2 years ago
interesting, was it only in australia? or europe as well?
streetmusicdefrance 2 years ago
i think it was purely australian phenomenon. these kids used to be skinheads, when they migrated from UK to australia and then, they turned to sharpies.
RosoMC 2 years ago
Haha... This is the big bad sharpie gang I heard of when I was in Australia?? They look like fucking retarded Chernobyl mutants too self conscious to tell that journalist to fuck off...
Wouldn't last two seconds where I come from, but then again, maybe that's a good thing. I loved Melbourne!
MattyJames25 2 years ago
hahahahahahahahaha your so tough man.
musiciseverywhere1 2 years ago 3
Maybe thats why you love this hippieshit music i read on your profile.
Lobby loyd and Billy Thorpe is great stuff, and those Sharpies can be compared with Skinheads in Europe in the sixties and seventies (without the racism bullshit, and actually you also have Sharpskins here), always ready to fight, and never backdown.
Drink and make fun.
Tonyp68 2 years ago 2
the indians are taking over
Ramble1212 2 years ago
theyre trying to take over
embce 2 years ago
bloody hell! what a joke, thats why our kids are nut cases because our grandparents are fucking sharpies! oh grandpa what did you do when you where young? oh well son you see!!!!!!! fuck off and go to hell.
raymondo2000 2 years ago
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yeh today the sharpies are replaced with indian gangs prowling the streets
Ramble1212 2 years ago
As a young kid in Melbourne I remember the skins and sharps gangs very well - whenever a few of them would run anywhere wearing those built up shoes it sounded like a herd of Clydesdale horses in full gallop - there was always plenty of fights around the Flinders St station area.
The last of the sharpie gangs died out in Melbourne by the late 1970's and were eventually replaced in the city by newer gangs like the City Louts, Lebanese Tigers and the Turkish Lions.
troyonplanet 2 years ago
Drago lead the lebanese Tigers
lowfutura 1 year ago
@troyonplanet West side sharps were still around in the early 80's City louts??? Never heard of 'em.
frontrowpig 1 year ago
@frontrowpig Might be before your time dude - I'm pushing 49 and they were around when I was in my late teens hanging around the old City Square when it used to have the fountain out front and the cafes & lounges inside - surprisingly some of the Louts were associated with members of the Lebanese Tigers & Turkish Lions.
troyonplanet 1 year ago
Im the guy with the Mohawk at 2:17, aged 16.A Frankston Sharp at the time, later that year a Melbourne Sharp. It was an amazing concert. It was called Summer Jam because the last band of the night was to be a compilation of various members from all of the concerts bands, on stage together in a massive jam session. Thats what drew over 1000 Sharpies from the suburbs of Melbourne to the one event, to be there when 2 of our Rock Icons Lobby Loyde and Billy Thorpe jammed together on stage.
AussieBamBam 2 years ago
It was an awesome sight to see so many Sharps together in one place, and all came in good spirits with only one purpose, our common love of rock music. No one wore their gang identification so there wouldnt be any trouble, and a lot of new friendships were forged between Sharps from different suburbs and gangs, much to my benefit in future encounters.
AussieBamBam 2 years ago
For more information on this culture including photos and memorabilia visit skinsnsharps website
Id like to reunite with 2 close friends from back then, Bill Sharp from Reservoir and Carol Dawson(maiden name) from Greensborough. They can contact me thru the above site
AussieBamBam 2 years ago
Great website - vividly remember the Miller shirts with the gold thread, fur lined Lumber Jackets, ultra tight Staggers jeans & treads shoes.
Haven't seen some of that stuff in decades.....
troyonplanet 2 years ago
Oh the fucking West street Sharpies shall live on ...in memory
auntyjack75 2 years ago
First time I have ever seen that,
looked like a great time to be in, so many girls everywhere too LOL.
I wont knock the scene just beacuse of that, let alone some sun for a change,
its was like watching a film about skins from another planet.
The same, but not the same.
But I did enjoy seeing the video, so cheers for that.
Kamel
kamelskin 2 years ago
If Angus Young was a Sharpie, does that mean he doesn't like blacks or Jews? Or was Angus just the type of person to rebel and be wild?
cojoiscrazy 2 years ago
@cojoiscrazy Mate didnt you see the asian Sharp? I remember a few black sharps too
frontrowpig 1 year ago
I was there, pure Neanderthal rock lifestyle, it said a lot about how we were, very scary, i remember the violence, the mindless destruction, the gangs would live for the weekend where they'd travel to a suburb to beat the living daylights out of a perfect stranger for no particular reason, i never understood it? like a gang a prisoners on weekend leave fresh off the bounty, we're talkin ''Fight club'' with crocodiles, they couldn't be tamed, utter madness, fueled on alcohol and revenge.
pbainbridge 2 years ago
Wow! I remember as a 12 year old in '74 coming into Spencer st with my schoolmates and being very wary of alll the sharpies in town, they were everywhere back then, this brought it all back! Fantastic! Thanks
blackie67 2 years ago
An update....all of them now firmly ensconced in the suburbs, with 4 wheel drives and banking jobs.That was great....no-one dances like that anymore!!
trickynic66 2 years ago
at the risk of over-doing it...,Palamino Pizza
Morthund 2 years ago
I love the lad at 1.33...he's all like
"yeah....lets all rock hard as fuck....I cant believe this is actually happening"
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JakeStarstorm 2 years ago
According to an interview Lobby Loyde did for a book called "Top Fellas" written by Tadhg Taylor, when lobby`s band, The Purple Hearts, moved down to Melbourne in the 60s, skinheads and sharpies were turning up to his gigs at places like the Circle Ballroom in Preston. So there was definately Skinheads and sharpies in Melbourne during the 60s.
ManFromMelbourne 2 years ago
Lobby loyde and the coloured balls were at Broadmeadows town hall concert
lowfutura 1 year ago
Astonbrock, an earlier comment said that it was GOD by the wild cherries but probably lobby lloyd's version. LL played with the Wild Cherries
kitwalker5 3 years ago
Thank you very much! : )
astonbrock 2 years ago
thanks mate...I seem to recall Fugazi doing a nice cover of the same melody some years later, too
Morthund 2 years ago
shit...I just remembered that its not Fugazi
it was the bloody Psychos that covered it..my mistake
Morthund 2 years ago
Awesome. PS, does anyone know the name of the L Lloyd track in the background?
astonbrock 3 years ago
I dont give a fuck what anyone says...
the blonde sharpie girl at 2.48 is good lookin'
yeah she pulls a face.. so what!
she looks great!
what a babe!
stipplestar 3 years ago 3
Well Gosh !
Rodowsky 3 years ago
The Sharpies first appeared in about 1970: Preston, Northcote, Thornbury...their influence spread to the outer suburbs. The gang originated from Collingwood and Fitzroy and called themselves the Collingwood Boys...very sharp dressers. They'd even developed their own distinct dance styles, none of which the sharpies copied. The Collingwood Boys were mostly the sons of migrants workers and crims, dressed like movie stars - and were a real bad little bunch.
123666555 3 years ago 2
Who cut yer hair? Grant? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
marshallarts101 3 years ago
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melbourne sharpies huh...more like melboune Pussies. I can't tell you how many sharpies I fooked up back in the day ...and I've got the connie's to proove it.Oh yeah- Lobby Lloyd sucks!!
RAM71 3 years ago
There is a lot of cack on the internet so thanks for posting the best entertainment I have seen in ages. Never heard of Lobby Loyde or Sharpies before but how good was that short film?! You can feel the atmosphere and the rebellious style.
purvisg1 3 years ago
Very odd.You can tell by their fashions and persona that these people were completely isolated from the rest of the world.What a horrid,violent place that must have been.The girl at 2.46 looks pretty but at some point she pulls a face which makes her look like an alien.Scary.
Umskiddy 3 years ago