Bahahahahahaha my brother and sister dance like this when a 70's song come on even at social events, they bring the house down, love the 70's in Australia
I was 14/15 back then, had the staggers jeans and the hair cut but not the attitude to be a sharpie, though my mum thought I,was uncontrollable. This has cracked me up 🤣🤣
As an American, I love Aussie 'subcultures'. Here in the States, and the UK, I rekon, a SHARP (sometimes referred to as 'SHARPIES) means something a bit different...I know Australian Sharpies pre-dated American S.H.A.R.P.S. (probably by 10-15 years?), but in the USA, a "S.H.A.R.P." is an acronym for "Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice" (opposite of "neo-NAZI" skinhead). My impression of Aussie Sharpies is that it was apolitical, and more of a style of dress and music? Either way I love Aussie culture and would love to visit, and maybe live there someday! Much love and respect to Australia from a life-long American. Also, Aussie movies and rock bands are somr of the very best! Any advice for a "Yank" wishing to move to Victoria someday?
you are right David.. Australia's Sharpies were nothing to do with S.H.A.R.P. and had no political agenda at all... it was all about mateship, fashion and music.. and youthful independence from mainstream society and their controls.
They'd punch on at the Aussie rules on a Sunday at Prahran where I grew up Prahran had a heavy Sharp Gang...a lot of street fighting legends...Some are in Chopper Read's book Chopper 1. Mad Archie was a leader. Chopper's mate. Yeah those girls went at it savage.
0:46 What on earth is that fossil doing at a kids rock concert? You'd never have seen the likes at a concert in the UK. Fair play to the old dude for putting on his Sunday best and getting down with the kids. I'd like to think some kind soul would have given him a micro dot or two 😨
Probably drove his grandkids to the concert, paid for them to get in, and decided to check it out for himself, or just to keep an eye on the kids. Of course, the grandkids would have sat elsewhere so as not to be embarrassed. Not cool ya know, to be seen with the oldies.
@@mjames4709 Just like the goons that drove to Canberra and parked there in tents for a week, then went home after achieving nothing but spreading pink eye around. 🤣🤣🤣
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I had to l got to :38 to check it out.. I really had a laugh out loud moment here in Salinas, California. Australia was way ahead of their time, California didn't get the Mullet until 10 years later.
@@AussieBamBam bro, the mullet's been around since medieval europe. and it's kinda hard to believe australians would go for alcohol free anythang, but i guess as long as they still had their cigarettes....
I was born 8 years later. But 30 years too late. Everyone looked awesome. The women. The dudes and their hair and clothes. Did i mention the women? But wow. Bring me back to here.
I was born, 2 years after this, and on the other side of the world (US), but 1970s Melbourne seemed like an awesome place and era to live in! As an American, I never new a whole lot about Aussie sub-cultures, or Aussie culture in general, but through youtube, I've been watching alot of Australian TV shows, documentaries to comedies (some old ones too, like Full Frontal, when Eric Bana was "Poida!" - hilarious!). Aussie movies are always good. Would love to visit the country someday, and maybe move there .I've always been a patriotic American, but our country is going to crap, and it scares me. If I were to move to another country, I think Australia would be my #1 choice. I've always heard Melbourne to be among the best cities in the world to live in. Definately would love to visit.
No way, Murray! Are you serious? These sharpies were just fugly as! I remember back in the day I wanted to dress like them and be like them, but I look back now and I'm glad Ma wouldnt let me! lol
@@deborahlubarski1353 yep David Stanley. You're welcomed any Time. Also watch the classics, like "Prisoner", or as it's known everywhere else 'Cell Block H." and "Wentworth" the new Version. Our old B/W Cop shows are Classics, 'Division 4','Homicide'..., I can go on and on there's so many... One Movie I always recommend is 'Monkey Grip' great Movie w/ great Music. Another great one a tad older 'Age of Consent'.The main Actors aren't Australian James Mason, A very, young Helen Mirren... Great old Movie. Not the most Realistic Film, but shows you how beautiful our Northern parts really were. Keep enjoying our Films, Music Shows and other. 🐾⚡🎵⭐🎶🐾
Jenning Walkirie Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool is one of the GOATs. It was a few years old by the time of this concert, released ?1970?, a slightly different era. Here’s the official music video - th-cam.com/video/oQfAZVsz6KM/w-d-xo.html. Daddy Cool were an awesome band,
+Sally Ally in 1974 some Sharpies copied the spiky hairstyle of David Bowie from his Pin Ups album cover... known among us Sharpies as the Bowie cut. It closely resembled our current hairstyle at the time but with colour and longer spikes on top, whereas ours was a crew cut top with longer tails at the nape of the neck
+Brookesy (AussieBamBam) I lived in Melbourne from 74-83 and always heard stories about the Frankston Sharpies... This is a great clip and I wonder where that guy is now with eyeliner on?
You have to remember this was free entertainment as was Carols by Candlelight. Now they charge you a fortune. Make sure you're loaded if you ever go there.
That ain't dancin Sally!! 🙉 Top band though, top song! Coupla dads in the audience, looking a tad uncomfortable, wishing the ground would swallow them up! 👴
Not Sharpies here. Just a mixture of different groups. Was a Sharp right back in '65 Tailored clothes and hand made shoes (Italian) Very short cropped hair. The tail came to be after clockwork orange.along with platform soles. Definitely gang subculture. Very violent. such is life. These guys dress off the rack. No class. Little brothers and sisters of the real thing. Wish history would get it right.
How old were you then? What bands were cool ( to you) and what was the cool outfit to wear ? Was the dancing really anything like this or was it even similar?
These sharpies were the mixture of Sharpies and Stylists (Small Faces style) My day (1965+ I was 15 in 65) all clothes including shoes ,Tailor made.Pants wide legs 18 inch to 24 inch cuff, straight not flared (flags). Shoes anything made in Collingwood, Richmond and later kensington. Cusmano, Batsanis, Acropolis. Chisel toes then round and wide square toes with Cuban heels.Cardigans and jumpers Italian knits no stripes. Fine cable knits. Crestknit 3 button balloon shirts and Lee jeans (they were wider than Levis. You bought Levis way to big and they shrank otherwise you looked like some of the kids in your movie) Lee overalls also came in around 68. Jeans and crest knits were for casual. Tailored for dances.Three quarter length coats.Hair very short. Tails came around 69. Dancing was a form of rock and roll for couples and a line dance for large groups. Sometimes took up the full length of a hall. Pants could be checked or pinstripes.(not bright checks) houndstooth or prince of Wales. coats houndstooth as well as plain. Some of us wore detective style stetsons for a while. too easy to lose. Tattoos popular. The term Sharpie came because of the Sharp dress code. Mods were long hair and corduroy. Rockers leather jackets brush bag hair (Elvis). Lots of different music. Just look up mid 60"s. Still got a cardigan and pants(off the rack from Bachelors) Tailor made were usually 6 little tailors. pair of square toed Acropolis slip in too I think. Cardigans were usually maroon or Bottle green. Light blue and pale yellow made a show too.Like I said cable or plain. NOT half way up your back with stripes. The whole idea was to show class. Next gen also had the reputation of cuffing up old dero"s and ganging up. sharps would be in a gang but usually fought (picked fights) one up. some groups would send there smallest in to stir. When a fight was about to break out the bigger guys were on standby. Once in Oakleigh saw a whole street of picket fences stripped and used to attack the Oakleigh pub. Police squads were set up like the Bodgie squad previously. to hammer Sharps. No questions just Whack or locked up.Brawls in the city of 150 or more on weekends. Brawler vans or Bull wagons (Police) always working always full.Dance forums were usually Disco"s after a while sharps were kept out. Had one of their own in Degraves St. (At a loss for the name) Good days.Was still a code then. next gen lost it. Almost forgot the women. Short hair not necessarily boy style, neat. twin sets (cardigan/ jumper. Checked skirts, pleats, Tartan sometimes. If they wore pants it was often tartan. weren't scared to fight either. Bottle greens, Maroons, blues. Similar to the blokes.Some very good lookers too.
@@peterharris7773 my father now 73 was a rocker back then and has confirmed to me exactly what youve described in the melbourne 60's scene.I remember the sharpies from my youth and i bought up the subject recently and boy did he get stuck into them.Everything you said about them picking fights on 1 person and them being up to 6 he witnessed.There is confusion to the term sharpie,he has no respect for that 70's incarnation
That's strange, this is my post and I didn't delete it. I will look into it later. Your comment could not have offended anyone to report it, it was fine
@@peachyb1969 Done more than you, did 23 years in jail, ran Pentridge, author,Father, Painter. Go fuck and learn from Pentridge inmates , see what they say.
Suzanne Reilman Mid 70s. Early 70s were still still hippie-era low-slung flares. But by 74 everyone was in those high waisted Staggers, with the little tab at the back and bum-freezer tops. Deadly uncomfortable.
No, we had nothing to do with those 2 groups you mentioned, but seeing as you asked - SHARPIES were a 1960s/1970s rebellious youth subculture that was unique to Australia. Although often reviled, history shows that Sharpies were very instrumental in liberating the youth of the future from the constraints of society, paving the way for teenagers to have a voice and to no longer be ignored. The dancing, well that's another story. TH-cam it
Brookesy - Pete Brookes Thanks for the insight! My Dad was in the late 60’s growing in the UK what they called a Skinhead. Not the racial type as people associate the term with.
Kerry Matthews the original skinheads weren't racist it was working class Britain , unfortunately the national front Neo nazis infiltrated the rudeboy/oi/skinhead subculture in the 1980s and tainted it .Australian Sharpies were kinda street punks in a way but 1970s Aussies style .Some of the sharpies were in gangs and were pretty rough blokes ,suburb vs suburb type deal. Those guys were more like skinhead/hooligans type .
@@goldenerafanatic4042 So you're even younger than I am. And you're trying to bleat about missing "white Australia". Leave off. 🤣 You weren't even a twinkle in your old man's eye, when the white Australia policy was abolished. What a DH 🤣
I'm more embarrassed that Aussie kids nowadays are too busy trying to be too much like American kids.. all trying to look the same, singing the same sad commercial music, etc.
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Thank Christ for the Sharpies - everyone else looks like they are waiting for a train!
They were probably stoned. Pot was big in the seventies..
eso the older dudes in suits and cardigans ...
@@marhar1172 Nah, the potheads were boring. We preferred a drink and a good old sharpie dance :D
Maybe they think it’s NRL’s Manly Warringah’s footy theme song.
Most likely still serving prison sentences 😅😅
Still watching in Cambodia
2021
I used to dance like this in 1975 when i was15 in Collingwood Melbourne and now I'm 62 …. i miss those cool days !!!! just being free and innocent
Same.
So many boxes ticked. I’ll be watching this. More than once over a long period. A keeper.
Looking back at this so many good memories, arrived in Melbourne as a wide eyed 12 year old from Europe, absolutely fell in love with it...
That's 💯 Percent Ferret 👍🇦🇺👍
Now I know where Magda got her sharpie comedy routine!!
Magda was a Sharpie in her youth, so she was also poking fun at herself as Michelle 🙂
Far out I was reading your comment just as Magda popped up in an Uber eats ad before the start of the video. What a coincidence lol
@@MichaelCorleone654 Ha Ha !!
That’s it!
Not to mention Ferret at 1.55! 🤩
40 years ago this year!
Ross is still doing the Eagle Rock!
Great piece of Australian anthropology. Hideous and brilliant.
Melbourne bogans are off the chart.
First gen bogans!
proto bogans
Personally I don't like anyone from Melbourne. Just sayin...yeah sure hot chicks are ok by me till I get bored of em..I spose
@@areyashore working on the bogan skills eh mate
@@areyashore
As if you're pickin up hot chicks, anywhere. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Made me smile remembering my mum and aunties going hard sharpie dancing!! ❤❤❤ it!!
Magnificent!! Had older siblings ahhh the memories treads, connies & camel toe for days 👏👏👏👏
I had treads which I kept well into the 90’s. So comfortable to wear.
40 years ago this year!
Ross is still doing the Eagle Rock!
Not anymore :( rip
Love this! Brings back loads of Memories.
Hilarious. Melton South is still like that.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I still dance like a Sharpie 😂😂
God bless them at least they look like their having fun
Bahahahahahaha my brother and sister dance like this when a 70's song come on even at social events, they bring the house down, love the 70's in Australia
Great piece of Australian anthropology. Hideous and brilliant.
Not to mention a good laugh for us to look back on lol
This concert singlehandely changed the course of the Bangladeshi climate, lawls!
I love the way they are dancing in this video (it's the way I love to dance)
I was 14/15 back then, had the staggers jeans and the hair cut but not the attitude to be a sharpie, though my mum thought I,was uncontrollable. This has cracked me up 🤣🤣
Shazza and ferret from fast forward doing their dance ha ha ha 😂 😆
As an American, I love Aussie 'subcultures'. Here in the States, and the UK, I rekon, a SHARP (sometimes referred to as 'SHARPIES) means something a bit different...I know Australian Sharpies pre-dated American S.H.A.R.P.S. (probably by 10-15 years?), but in the USA, a "S.H.A.R.P." is an acronym for "Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice" (opposite of "neo-NAZI" skinhead). My impression of Aussie Sharpies is that it was apolitical, and more of a style of dress and music? Either way I love Aussie culture and would love to visit, and maybe live there someday!
Much love and respect to Australia from a life-long American.
Also, Aussie movies and rock bands are somr of the very best!
Any advice for a "Yank" wishing to move to Victoria someday?
you are right David.. Australia's Sharpies were nothing to do with S.H.A.R.P. and had no political agenda at all... it was all about mateship, fashion and music.. and youthful independence from mainstream society and their controls.
But then why r they called HARPIES? did they think their style was sharp?
Australian Sharpies were called that because they dressed "Sharp".
Any advice ,yeah bring a burka.
Sharpies were sort of pre punk from memory. You didn’t want to run into any of them around Hornsby NSW in the mid 70’s. Always up for a scrap
I love this video but if I had come across any of those girls I would have kept well out of there way.
They'd punch on at the Aussie rules on a Sunday at Prahran where I grew up
Prahran had a heavy Sharp Gang...a lot of street fighting legends...Some are in Chopper Read's book Chopper 1.
Mad Archie was a leader.
Chopper's mate.
Yeah those girls went at it savage.
Omg I love these chicks
Hilarious this was my parent's youthful era & city. They were 19 & 20 then, and my dad had the same hair and build as Ross Wilson (the singer).
Great memories,WOW.
0:46 What on earth is that fossil doing at a kids rock concert? You'd never have seen the likes at a concert in the UK. Fair play to the old dude for putting on his Sunday best and getting down with the kids. I'd like to think some kind soul would have given him a micro dot or two 😨
A microdot!!! 😂😂😂
Ditto 😂😂😂
Probably drove his grandkids to the concert, paid for them to get in, and decided to check it out for himself, or just to keep an eye on the kids. Of course, the grandkids would have sat elsewhere so as not to be embarrassed. Not cool ya know, to be seen with the oldies.
@teledine You left out one thing - he would have met Dot at a dance !!
if you look at 2:24 it looks like he’s there with his cool looking kids. probably to keep em safe from bloody sharpies.
what a great dad!
🤣Cheers mate it cracked me up
I can see the cool Melbourne Uni students sitting there and being cool
They were probably out in the streets protesting some bullshit.
@@mjames4709
Just like the goons that drove to Canberra and parked there in tents for a week, then went home after achieving nothing but spreading pink eye around. 🤣🤣🤣
0:38 the queue for the toilets.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I had to l got to :38 to check it out.. I really had a laugh out loud moment here in Salinas, California. Australia was way ahead of their time, California didn't get the Mullet until 10 years later.
Funniest comment on the post. LOL
since this is from australia you can be guaranteed not only are alot of these people drunk but either way yer guaranteed to see tons of mullets.
This was a non alcohol event and 15 years before the mullet hair style... these are the Sharpie haircuts.
@@AussieBamBam bro, the mullet's been around since medieval europe.
and it's kinda hard to believe australians would go for alcohol free anythang, but i guess as long as they still had their cigarettes....
All those teenagers are sixty and seventy now how strange
I think that the scenes where the crowd look like they were waiting for a train, were clip segments taken at intermission.
The Blunties were there too doing the spaz dance flapping around having fits!
Viva the '70s !
Good on the old pensioner for going to the concert. Probably had no idea what it would be like. Beats sitting in a nursing home 😁
yes its Alan Pentland aka Ferret the sharpie .
Pure. Adrenaline by that. Time guess 70ies
NOW LISTEN!!!
Who is stepping out
Oh we're steppin' out
I'm gonna turn around
Sharpie girls were terrifying!! 😂
The Sharpies used to scare us kids in Penrith in the early 1970s.
Yeah I lived in Auburn. Same reaction
Town Hall Sharps !! Us waxheads from nthn beaches had a natural enmity@@glenchapman3899
Kinda reminds me of mick jagger dancing when he forgets what to do :)
I was born 8 years later. But 30 years too late. Everyone looked awesome. The women. The dudes and their hair and clothes. Did i mention the women? But wow. Bring me back to here.
I was born, 2 years after this, and on the other side of the world (US), but 1970s Melbourne seemed like an awesome place and era to live in!
As an American, I never new a whole lot about Aussie sub-cultures, or Aussie culture in general, but through youtube, I've been watching alot of Australian TV shows, documentaries to comedies (some old ones too, like Full Frontal, when Eric Bana was "Poida!" - hilarious!). Aussie movies are always good. Would love to visit the country someday, and maybe move there .I've always been a patriotic American, but our country is going to crap, and it scares me. If I were to move to another country, I think Australia would be my #1 choice. I've always heard Melbourne to be among the best cities in the world to live in. Definately would love to visit.
No way, Murray! Are you serious? These sharpies were just fugly as! I remember back in the day I wanted to dress like them and be like them, but I look back now and I'm glad Ma wouldnt let me! lol
David Stanley - Always welcome brother. And I could see why you would want to escape Trumps America!!
@@deborahlubarski1353 yep David Stanley. You're welcomed any Time. Also watch the classics, like "Prisoner", or as it's known everywhere else 'Cell Block H." and "Wentworth" the new Version. Our old B/W Cop shows are Classics, 'Division 4','Homicide'..., I can go on and on there's so many... One Movie I always recommend is 'Monkey Grip' great Movie w/ great Music. Another great one a tad older 'Age of Consent'.The main Actors aren't Australian James Mason, A very, young Helen Mirren... Great old Movie. Not the most Realistic Film, but shows you how beautiful our Northern parts really were. Keep enjoying our Films, Music Shows and other. 🐾⚡🎵⭐🎶🐾
@@mimipavlovsky Age of consent is a fantastic film
SHARPIE!!!
Smack..in the head at the back! Move ffs
Took the 9.05 from Franga
Can someone tell me how dancing like a eagle took off plz? like were did it come from ( america ?
This song has arithm u can't just stay still..
Jenning Walkirie Eagle Rock by Daddy Cool is one of the GOATs. It was a few years old by the time of this concert, released ?1970?, a slightly different era. Here’s the official music video - th-cam.com/video/oQfAZVsz6KM/w-d-xo.html. Daddy Cool were an awesome band,
That is 100% Ferret
Half of the people like statues the ones moving about look like their having a fit😂🤪
love the connie,where can i get me one please ?
Not sure Conte's makers were Italian.
In Balaclava Sam's made them
Shapies got them custom made.
Why they got called a Conti Cardigan.
lol the old digger in the suit, likely in his 70s, he would've had some stories about old Australia
He was only 38
Probably thinking, "I fought in the Battle of Passchandaele" for this ...?".
@@maddyg3208 😅 That's what I was thinking. I like his suit.
People at the end looked like they were having a blast! 🙄
1:53 That has got to be Ferret from Fast Forward.
Hi..do you know if the Concert For Bangladesh in Sydney...or nearby..was filmed?..Id love to see Jeff st John & Wendy Saddington who played.
the girl at 0:56 in blue jumper is sooo cool !!
Looks like she's swatting flies
Do the Sharpies look like David Bowie to anyone else?
+Sally Ally
in 1974 some Sharpies copied the spiky hairstyle of David Bowie from his Pin Ups album cover... known among us Sharpies as the Bowie cut. It closely resembled our current hairstyle at the time but with colour and longer spikes on top, whereas ours was a crew cut top with longer tails at the nape of the neck
+Brookesy (AussieBamBam) I lived in Melbourne from 74-83 and always heard stories about the Frankston Sharpies... This is a great clip and I wonder where that guy is now with eyeliner on?
David Bowie was an unde-cover Sharpie!
lol
nope\
We often laugh at styles we once thought were cool. Do they cry?
Struth!! the shiela at 0:46 is a 10/10
1:24 is that mick jagger!@@##
Defo ferret at 1:53 lol classic .
You know that was my first reaction as well.... ha ha.
A+ for fashion, D- for dancing
Sharpies mate
The dancing is wicked
What became of old mate @ 1:24 ? with the glam makeup around his eyes..
Note the very small TAA branding unlike today .
someone lost a shovel
Who brought their grandaddy
@0:47 that old guy has probably post away by now & the hot lady behind him is some somebody’s granny
Ferret at 1:54!
The dancing is so horrible you have to watch it
MarvelDcImage ...'TIS abysmal! Thought I was the only one with this opinion...:)!
It's so awful it's compelling.. They must have been on some real good gear
I think it's a grand mal seizure, actually
Not even in time
I think they're stopping every now and again because they're getting stitches
The start of boganism as we know it. Hoping there's earlier footage....
*so how's Bangladesh getting on these days …*
Probably still over populated and wanting money from western countries.
You have to remember this was free entertainment as was Carols by Candlelight. Now they charge you a fortune. Make sure you're loaded if you ever go there.
Well, Carols by Candlelight IS for a good cause, too, don't forget.
I can see alot of turtle neck tops being wore
Graduates of the Alf Stewart dance academy. Shake a tail feather,you flaming galaahs!
I was born '79 so these guys are my parents generation. Goddamn this is embarrassing to watch. Give me Disco any day....
That ain't dancin Sally!! 🙉
Top band though, top song!
Coupla dads in the audience, looking a tad uncomfortable, wishing the ground would swallow them up! 👴
1:53 ....no , its Ted Bundy
Now we have eshays 😂
Not Sharpies here. Just a mixture of different groups. Was a Sharp right back in '65 Tailored clothes and hand made shoes (Italian) Very short cropped hair. The tail came to be after clockwork orange.along with platform soles. Definitely gang subculture. Very violent. such is life. These guys dress off the rack. No class. Little brothers and sisters of the real thing. Wish history would get it right.
I want more details about The Real Thing. Please go further into detail about the ways of the original style.
How old were you then? What bands were cool ( to you) and what was the cool outfit to wear ? Was the dancing really anything like this or was it even similar?
These sharpies were the mixture of Sharpies and Stylists (Small Faces style) My day (1965+ I was 15 in 65) all clothes including shoes ,Tailor made.Pants wide legs 18 inch to 24 inch cuff, straight not flared (flags). Shoes anything made in Collingwood, Richmond and later kensington. Cusmano, Batsanis, Acropolis. Chisel toes then round and wide square toes with Cuban heels.Cardigans and jumpers Italian knits no stripes. Fine cable knits. Crestknit 3 button balloon shirts and Lee jeans (they were wider than Levis. You bought Levis way to big and they shrank otherwise you looked like some of the kids in your movie) Lee overalls also came in around 68. Jeans and crest knits were for casual. Tailored for dances.Three quarter length coats.Hair very short. Tails came around 69. Dancing was a form of rock and roll for couples and a line dance for large groups. Sometimes took up the full length of a hall. Pants could be checked or pinstripes.(not bright checks) houndstooth or prince of Wales. coats houndstooth as well as plain. Some of us wore detective style stetsons for a while. too easy to lose. Tattoos popular. The term Sharpie came because of the Sharp dress code. Mods were long hair and corduroy. Rockers leather jackets brush bag hair (Elvis). Lots of different music. Just look up mid 60"s. Still got a cardigan and pants(off the rack from Bachelors) Tailor made were usually 6 little tailors. pair of square toed Acropolis slip in too I think. Cardigans were usually maroon or Bottle green. Light blue and pale yellow made a show too.Like I said cable or plain. NOT half way up your back with stripes. The whole idea was to show class. Next gen also had the reputation of cuffing up old dero"s and ganging up. sharps would be in a gang but usually fought (picked fights) one up. some groups would send there smallest in to stir. When a fight was about to break out the bigger guys were on standby. Once in Oakleigh saw a whole street of picket fences stripped and used to attack the Oakleigh pub. Police squads were set up like the Bodgie squad previously. to hammer Sharps. No questions just Whack or locked up.Brawls in the city of 150 or more on weekends. Brawler vans or Bull wagons (Police) always working always full.Dance forums were usually Disco"s after a while sharps were kept out. Had one of their own in Degraves St. (At a loss for the name) Good days.Was still a code then. next gen lost it. Almost forgot the women. Short hair not necessarily boy style, neat. twin sets (cardigan/ jumper. Checked skirts, pleats, Tartan sometimes. If they wore pants it was often tartan. weren't scared to fight either. Bottle greens, Maroons, blues. Similar to the blokes.Some very good lookers too.
Chill Bro
@@peterharris7773 my father now 73 was a rocker back then and has confirmed to me exactly what youve described in the melbourne 60's scene.I remember the sharpies from my youth and i bought up the subject recently and boy did he get stuck into them.Everything you said about them picking fights on 1 person and them being up to 6 he witnessed.There is confusion to the term sharpie,he has no respect for that 70's
incarnation
Why were my comments deleted ?! Not cool !
That's strange, this is my post and I didn't delete it. I will look into it later. Your comment could not have offended anyone to report it, it was fine
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Thank fuck UK had punks. Sharpies but amaze me. God bless Chopper Read.
Chopper Read was nothing but a big mouth wannabe. 🤣🤣🤣
He never did half the things he bragged about supposedly doing.
@@peachyb1969 Done more than you, did 23 years in jail, ran Pentridge, author,Father, Painter. Go fuck and learn from Pentridge inmates , see what they say.
LOL what was that old Geezer doin' there ?
He probably was the transport for his family members
I'd say he is a Dad
They must of had good drugs back in the day.
sharpies were involved when kangaroo bites skinhead
...ugh....those early 70s high-waisted pants....
Suzanne Reilman Mid 70s. Early 70s were still still hippie-era low-slung flares. But by 74 everyone was in those high waisted Staggers, with the little tab at the back and bum-freezer tops. Deadly uncomfortable.
Loved em!
Remember the high waist look. It lasted until about 1980 . Obviously at its height of fashion when this clip was made.
What are "sharpies" and what's up with that dance style?
Are they like sharps in America? Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice?
No, we had nothing to do with those 2 groups you mentioned, but seeing as you asked - SHARPIES were a 1960s/1970s rebellious youth subculture that was unique to Australia. Although often reviled, history shows that Sharpies were very instrumental in liberating the youth of the future from the constraints of society, paving the way for teenagers to have a voice and to no longer be ignored. The dancing, well that's another story. TH-cam it
Brookesy - Pete Brookes Thanks for the insight! My Dad was in the late 60’s growing in the UK what they called a Skinhead. Not the racial type as people associate the term with.
They were sort of influenced by skins but nah they were different
Kerry Matthews the original skinheads weren't racist it was working class Britain , unfortunately the national front Neo nazis infiltrated the rudeboy/oi/skinhead subculture in the 1980s and tainted it .Australian Sharpies were kinda street punks in a way but 1970s Aussies style .Some of the sharpies were in gangs and were pretty rough blokes ,suburb vs suburb type deal. Those guys were more like skinhead/hooligans type .
Rubbish people then, no doubt most have come to a sticky end since. Though, can anyone tell us about the old bloke wearing a suit among the audience?
Definitely not like the sharpies I remember from that time in Melbourne!
No me neither. The Thomo Sharps were very formidable back in the day.
Weird
It was a Melbourne thing....
There were some in Sydney and Perth also, apparently.
Maybe not as common as in Melbourne, but they were elsewhere as well.
Wonder if any of them look back at it now and think "geez I looked silly". What on earth made them think that was cool.
Ummm...its was very cool and great fun. We thought we were the bees knees! 😅🤣😂
What the hell!!! That's dancing? hahahaha So ridiculous
How is it ridiculous? Perhaps some of the new dancing is as well. At least they were out there doing something and not sitting on their arse.
They weren’t sharpies
What were they then, if not genuine Sharpies?
I miss white Australia 🇦🇺
Awwwww you poor old thing 🤣🤣🤣
@@peachyb1969 I’m 40
@@goldenerafanatic4042
So you're even younger than I am.
And you're trying to bleat about missing "white Australia".
Leave off. 🤣
You weren't even a twinkle in your old man's eye, when the white Australia policy was abolished.
What a DH 🤣
@@peachyb1969 the country was still majority white in the first 20 years of my life, and should always stay a majority white country
Some in the audience look very confused by the ridiculous “dancing” 😂 looks like they’re dancing like monkeys or having some spasm
I’m embarrassed that that’s part of our folklore
I'm more embarrassed that Aussie kids nowadays are too busy trying to be too much like American kids.. all trying to look the same, singing the same sad commercial music, etc.
Cockroaches on acid😂
So the sharpies are like the transgenders of today.
Let me know if I was supposed to laugh at that comment.
Such a shoddy, lame live performance.
I though it was ace
SHARPIE!!!
So the sharpies are like the transgenders of today.
Didn't know transgenders punched on with everyone they met.
should have an R after the G so yur face would be kissing the concrete FFace
You couldn't even come up with an original comment, Joshua.
Gotta steal someone else's lame comment.
What a loser. 🤣🤣🤣