SUBURBAN WARRIORS - by Rebecca McLean 2003

Sharpies rule in the suburbs of Melbourne in the 70's.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Sharpies
• Youth Subculture

[456japan]

brilliant doco!!!

[RebeccaMcLean123]

@456japan Thank you - shot about 50 interviews with sharpies from Thomastown to Frankston to Paddington NSW - working on the longer version now shouldn't be long now ...

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[456japan]

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[matthk]

@RebeccaMcLean123 hmmm... Conte cardigans... I just don't know about that one! They did have those woeful clod-hopper shoes though. (then again, our ripple soled desert boots, brothel-creepers etc. weren't the funkiest footwear either!)

[matthk]

@bovverboots86 Well, that's just not true, as I grew up in inner-city Sydney The Blue Mountains and the coutryside in the '70s and there were Sharpies pretty much everywhere I lived.

They were the bane of my existence for much of my youth to be honest. My friends and I drifted between ska boys and mods, and the sharpies were always giving us grief.

The bulk of Sharpies seemed to be in the Western suburbs, but we came across a few around the beaches in The Shire too.

[bovverboots86]

@matthk

It started in Melbourne and it was unique to Melbourne. The interstate Sharpie thing only really got bigger later on but from what I have been told by various ex-Sharpies the Melbourne scene was quite unique in and of itself.

The only Sharpie crew from Syndey I had heard of came from Laperouse.... I'm sure there would have been others though.

[RebeccaMcLean123]

A longer doco is coming out soon - which includes late 60's and interstate Sharps! But let's face it - did the Blacktown Sharps wear Conte cardigans?

[matthk]

Why do Melbournians think it only happened here? We had sharpies all over Sydney too.