Melbourne Sharpies

Rare 1974 insight to Sharpies in Melbourne.By Greg Macainsh. Lobby Lloyd and Billy Thorpe concert at the Melbourne Showgrounds

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[john walker]

God by the Wild Cherries

[Natália Carvalho]

I didn´t know about sharpies,but I discovered that many bands I've ever liked were part of this movement as the 69'ers and even AC / DC

[john walker]

I saw the 69ers at Sunbury in 1972, they were amazing live, their big song was Harry Rag!

[Antipodean33]

Where can i find more of this? Also is it correct it was the skyhooks dude who filmed it? Does anyone know of more footage from the 70s in Oz?

[john walker]

Search on Youtube for 'Songs from Australia and New Zealand'. This guy has heaps

[suzazza]

Yes! back in the days when Aussies could be anything they wanted to be. I was14 back then, wasn't into the sharpie seen but I was just a wee teen who was Skyhooks mad, mad, mad.

It's fun to look back on those times but I'm so glad I've grown up - in more ways than one

[john walker]

believe this was shot by the bass player from Skyhooks

[Antipodean33]

Ahh back in the day when Aussies had an identity all their own. We had sharpies surfies, rockers and bikers. Now we got blokes getting waxed and wearing moisturizer and bikers who were Armarni t shirts and name brand sunglasses. How i long for the old days

[Boobdepot1977]

Always wondered what Big Issue sellers did when they were young.

[gilfavor1river]

Back to 1966 then you see real street sharpies, not a band just a thing.

[staypress]

so it looks like these sharpies were ripping of the british Skins and suedeheads. The aussies have always been 3 years behind the UK even going back to the mid 60,s when they had a massive mod movement in 1966 which was 2 years after the UK mod movement

[rohan lacey]

What is this piece of music called??? I've played it 8 times tonight love it!!!

[shadyalan1]

Yeah...good memories..I used to hang around the City on Friday and Saturday nights and was a Mod !!!! I had hair then !!!!!

[P.J. Siegl]

Not too many bankers amongst ex-sharpies. They were very much a working class subculture. You'd get a few bankers amongst ex-punks, though, the latter having been, effectively, bourgeois sharpies.

[P.J. Siegl]

Punks were just bourgeois sharpies.

[mozzaok]

We called them "droogs", not sharpies, the sharpies were from the late 50's and 60's, and this was the 70's. Freaks and droogs did not mix much, freaks were into peace love and getting ratfaced, droogs were into getting pissed, fighting, slade, thorpey,and lobby loyd. Loyd was also appreciated by freaks, cause he was so damned talented, but we didn't go to his gigs much because the droogs were such knobs.