DIZZY FOOTWORK - late late show 1985

dizzy footwork (1985 all ireland break dance/b-boy champions) on the worlds longest running chat show, THE LATE LATE SHOW.
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their appearance on the 6 0 clock news.
the feature was regarding their irish tour in conjunction with 1985 being the "world youth culture year"
dizzy footwork were sponsored by mars & puma, hence all the cool gear.
today, some of them now in their 40's have been known to bust a move from time to time...

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[djlaze1972]

i doubt it...,but i'll ask them, just for you (:

[djlaze1972]

i was a member of the "team city rockers" (ireland) from 85' - 90', and we were 10 times better than these guys.....,but not till 86'ish.

these guys were the first irish crew and were a lot older than us.

most of them are 45 + now......  (:

2 of them still dance...

[opportunityinchina]

these gusy have blatantly ripped off the legendary DizzyFootWork from Greater manchester.

[djlaze1972]

think of how stupid that sounds..........

there was no internet in 85', so unless your dizzy footwork were on BBC tv....., you're talkin shit!!!!

[SidelineInc]

Is Che Che dancing there?

[djlaze1972]

no, he had left the crew at that stage, but alan dunnigan is...........

[MayoforSam2012]

So this is what lads from Dublin used to do before dope and coke come to town.

[opportunityinchina]

@Jay1898 I grew up 'in' DizzyFootWork as their 8 year old mascot that pulled a mean windmill, backspin, head spin combo. I also was part of a younger crew in Rochdale called the Rock City Crew.

[ZiZu66]

@djlaze1972 being one of the original guys from Dizzy foot work from Rochdale in fact, we were on eastern eye, and I have uploaded the video, so check it out. So while there was no internet there were videos.

[westsidepossee]

@twiceborne Understand - but as per my previous email there is no need to bring up the racism u suffered in this vid. It is not relevant. We are talking about the name and whether these guys copied it or not....the racism that u suffered although not nice is not relevant to this vid. Hope this is more clear now.

[twiceborne]

@westsidepossee Are u serious bro? I wasnt being racist I was stating that we used to get called that by Racists . If you read the rest of the statement I say I'm proud that these Irish Brothers possibly took the name. Im not even convinced they did take the name , maybe we just came up with it at the same time.... And regarding racism it was pretty much a big part of the BBoying scene as we often had to fight skinheads and racists just to be able to dance....

[westsidepossee]

@twiceborne i can guess which member of dfw u are....do u really need to come out with all the racial shit??. no. why not just appreciate the fact that these guys maybe copied ur name and thats it. no need for the racials at all!!. so maybe u got some racist abuse at the time but this is not the forum to air those grievances.

[Jay1898]

@opportunityinchina seems like u are totally correct. i grew up with DFW - how do u know them?.

[deejaykrisp]

Dont remember Che Che being a Dizzy..Danny,Alan,Wally,Prof Z and .....Who??

Che Che was a Style Bandit!!

[deejaykrisp]

Dont remember Che Che being a Dizzy..Danny,Alan,Wally,Prof Z and .....Who??

Che Che was a Style Bandit!!

[deejaykrisp]

Dont remember Che Che being a Dizzy..Danny,Alan,Wally,Prof Z and .....Who??