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Are you a skin head? Do you folow the 60's movement or the later punk rock movement?

Fascinating that it started as a sub culture in london joining working class with the youth of the windrish predominately jamaicans...

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SW-User

I was a teenager during the punk era and it was an exciting time. I like the music from both periods but the skinhead got taken over by nasty politics.

Peppa · 31-35, F

@SW-User its such a shame isnt it... its seems if ever theres a rise in multicultural peace someone wades in and smashes it to smitherines...

SW-User

@Peppa It is, one of the best gigs I saw was the two tone package tour with The Specials, Selecter, and Madness. What a night!

Here's a skinhead favourite from the 60s

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC6Ot1MLP0]

And a punk favourite from the 70s

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EEPvXlTUnU]