Giovanni – I have spare copy of the Shadbolt/Shell Guide

Brilliant! I won't reveal the artist who did the cover painting – that can be a surprise for you.

I found a 1976 edition in a Christchurch bookshop, but by then the paintings of each region had been replaced with…

That sounds about right – when they did the last edition of the South Island volume (IIRC) Diana and her son Sam did the driving section over one summer.

I've heard they're doing a new version in a different format.

would you mind sending me your address again?

Aw, you... it's done. I had half a mind of posting it here, so that everybody could send me things.

The Mobil guides were by Diana and Jeremy Pope. They researched them in the Turnbull Library...

They also researched them by driving from one end of the country to the other and criss-crossing from one side to the other – one island at a time. And did it again for…

Giovanni – I have spare copy of the Shadbolt/Shell Guide (I discovered 4 of them in mint condition in the best 2ndhand bookshop in Oamaru
(which is simply known as The Best Shop by family, because it deals…

Jeremy Pope is an anti-corruption crusader and travel writer and is an officer of the NZ Order of Merit

Thanks for that, the things you learn at PAS. I found stuff in the Mobil guide about the area I grew up in that I wish I'd known back in the…

The word "nigger" was appropriated waaay back by black people as shorthand for "uppity nigger" which was once a pejorative term for someone who had ideas above their colour, but quickly became a term proudly used to describe someone who did not take shit from whitey.

Holy heck! That word…

That made me all nostalgic. When a small version of the Clark Family was doing the North Island/South Island roadtrip...

You were lucky! We drove without any map/s. Dad happily got lost. He seemed to think the US Navy gave him NZ driving cred.Now it seems I am pretty much…

On the subject of Christchurch being "English", I've just been reading The Shell Guide to New Zealand, a 1969 travel guide edited by Maurice Shadbolt. ('Tis my new favourite book).

Ohhh... can I borrow it when you're done?

That made me all nostalgic. When a small version of the Clark…

to find out what a New Zealand city of the future will look like, try Toronto

Auckland is about to get some of the worst features of their civic structure imposed on us at haste. Perhaps we get the urban and social form as a bonus?

On the subject of Christchurch being "English", I've just been reading The Shell Guide to New Zealand, a 1969 travel guide edited by Maurice Shadbolt. ('Tis my new favourite book).

Ohhh... can I borrow it when you're done?

In his essay on Christchuch he writes, "But typically English? Travel beyond the central city area and such an affectation…

Just thinking -umm, this is a provocative and necessary & overwhelmingly appropriate question, entirely relevant to the circumstances, and certainly should be considered in depth.
No.

Where did that come from, Dylan?

It's a weblog of some US academic... Erin O'Connor – not to be confused with the catwalk model who looks like a very young Helen Clark. I was really using it for the link to Harriet Beecher's Stowe's quote. I have also read it…

But being a patriotic Welsh B&B owner must be the job from hell.

I was refused a drink at a pub in Northern Transvaal once because the barman thought I was Indian.

In the late 70s, my parents stayed at a small B&B in Wales. The proprietor and his wife were surly and noncommunicative. After a day, as they were leaving the building, the…

I told him to “F off” in broad Kiwi, and he was extremely apologetic.

I can remember the one occasion I was ignored for being Pakeha.

How did you determine you were being ignored for being Pakeha? What was the context?

I can…

(That's from White trash: race and class in America by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz.)

Oh! I've met Annalee a couple of times, at Foo Cap in the US and here. She's cool. I knew she'd done science writing and is behind this place of geek worship, but I had…

The title of the piece is inspired: Nick Smith Is Shit.

A Dunedin artist did an excellent bust of Lockwood Smith in 1994 made out of horse manure. About twice life seze. Oh how we laughed!

sculpted Nick Smith out of shit

That explains a lot.
I can almost see how you could get the sculpture to walk and talk (although the mind boggles) but how did he get it so pasty white and red?

(That's from White trash: race and class in America by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz.)

Oh snap! But with footnotes. Awesome.

It gets in the way of the facts of poverty and alienation that affect people of all colors.

Urg, sorry – that's so wishy-washy and means nothing.

I am against the use of the N world and WT because all they do is remind people of their subjugation and/or economic…

I can see how you would think that Danielle, but no, not at all.

Well, perhaps all my history lecturers in my PhD programme in Houston were extra-specially-sensitive snowflakes and made that explanation up from scratch, but that's why, they explained, none of them ever used it.

The idea that…

IIRC, the US etymology of 'white trash' is pretty racist, because it implies that all black people are *already trash*, but the white folks need to be demarcated into trashy/not trashy.

I can see how you would think that Danielle, but no, not at all.

Etymology of "White Trash"

The…

Lyttleton for example has been preserved because it was poor & out of the way. Now it is valued for its Heritage and so the port workers move the other side of the hill to Woolston and the trendy middle classes move in.

Bryndwr…

I did a proper tutting and shaking of my head then went and got dinner and then I walked home.

Ah good on you. Like little Mr. Camopants who haunts my neighbourhood – you should see him do his balls down at the BP ATM when his benefit hasn't come…

O/T, but this new box set may be of interest:

Dolly Parton's story is mighty but it's never properly been told on record until this 2009 Legacy box set. Spanning 99 tracks over four discs, beginning with the early-'60s demo "Gonna Hurry (As Slow as I Can)" and running…

the more race-neutral term 'trailer trash'

Yeah, although speaking as someone with a lot of 'trailer trash' connections, I have spent *so much time* in double-wide trailers. Half our friends in Texas lived in them; half my family in Louisiana lived in them. I mean, they all have central air…

So Keir saw a swastika tatt when visiting a city of 375,000-odd souls and had to have a wee lie down afterwards? The poor dear.

No, Keir was going down the supermarket to get something to eat and saw a chap with a swastika tattoo and thought `what the fuck,…

IIRC, the US etymology of 'white trash' is pretty racist, because it implies that all black people are *already trash*, but the white folks need to be demarcated into trashy/not trashy.

For that purpose, the more race-neutral term 'trailer trash' is often used in its place.

(Of course, most people who use the term here don't do so within that particular historical framework, so the…

Discrimination against the poor is open and acceptable in New Zealand.

Agreed. I wish we had a stronger, pragmatic class analysis that wasn't so cloaked in archaic "comrade" overtones.

City Centre is still menacing and violent however

That's how it felt when I lived there – a sense of uneasy, suppressed violence bubbling beneath (swamp, anyone?). Reinforced by the stories I heard doing volunteer counselling work with men from many suburbs and backgrounds. And by experiencing the night crowds…

@Russell "white trash" is always used to refer to people from poor backgrounds, and that's why I have a problem with the term.

Just look at how the Cletus family is portrayed in The Simpsons – if that kind of portrayal was directed at any ethnic group, there would be…

I got people hitting me up for money and cigarettes in broad daylight.

It's the approachable stubble. :)

There was a skin-head riot/party with multipul arrests a
month or so back, just the southside of Tower Junction Riccarton/Addington area.

They're small in number and pretty much live in hiding untill they get 10 or more together.

Otherwise, I completely concur with you. I grew up here and HATED it, couldn't wait to get out. I was very surprised to find myself liking it…

In that case I feel slightly bad about joking about their slaughter. When was the last rabies scare? I was last in Bali in July. (Tahu Michi?) There were heaps of dogs around Ubud.

But I didn't…

stormfront.org.

WARNING!!!!

VERY NSFW

Or mental health

If you leave some Rammstein playing on the end of the pier the vigilant aryans might lemming themselves into the surf.

For those of you who enjoy laughing at Neo-Nazis I highly recommend stormfront.org.

After reading about Kyle and his gang yesterday, I wanted to know what sort of culture…

I hope they eat them all before my next visit.

They've mostly gone, culled after the latest rabies scare, in a rather brutal fashion. I saw huge piles of the poor things in our road (off the tourist track of course) and a truck with at least 50 dead dogs…

Just popping down to New Brighton with a boom box and the complete recordings of Webern.

If you leave some Rammstein playing on the end of the pier the vigilant aryans might lemming themselves into the surf.

Sunny Day and the strong cold breeze comes from the east.
Sunny Day & hot dry wind comes from the north west
Grey day bitterly cold wind cuts through you from the south.

Damn that's a good summary.

I'm all done with calderising myself

rofflenui

nowhere else in New Zealand have I encountered the sheer casual racism and homophobia of Christchurch

My experience differs. Enormously. Have you ever been in a rural service town?

Then you are not hanging out with my family. Which I think you should be thankful for.

I need several carefully…

Live music I would applauded such a move, but the purpose of the canned classics is to move people on & it works.

Be back in a minute: Just popping down to New Brighton with a boom box and the complete recordings of Webern.

Anyone know where Kyle Chapman and his…

Sunny Day and the strong cold breeze comes from the east.
Sunny Day & hot dry wind comes from the north west
Grey day bitterly…

oh go on, st ephen, take another swing – you know you want to

nah, I'm all done with calderising myself...

"Much like the Classical Musak being pumped out to make sure no-one goes into the inner city businesses,"

Musak? They were playing Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet at Casual Mall yesterday.

Well I did read the bit where you deduced an awful lot about someone’s life from their hairstyle.

Please to quote, st ephen? I don't recall saying anything about hair, either in the article or on the thread, but I can't be arsed going back to check, and it could…

Speaking of Christs Col, the "Auckland Grammar Nazis" reminded me of far too many yobbos I encountered at that place. An inverse proportional relationship between the size of their wallets and their intellectualism.

That balls. There's plenty of artists and intellectuals from a CC background – including the guy who…

ChCh PAS readers all live within a suburb or two of the Uni
No they don't.

Right. Good to have that settled. Personally, if I had to live back in ChCh and Islander wouldn’t give me asylum on the Coast, I’d choose a nice multi-cultural ghetto near the uni. After…

I have a very long cleaver.

Okay, it's a pike.

Careful you don't accidentally gut him as well. Actually no, I withdraw that, swing wildly sir!

. . . worship a giant owl . . .

Like, Bohemian Grove style? Now that you mention it, there are an awful lot of stately redwoods around.

. . . nowhere else in New Zealand have I encountered the sheer casual racism and homophobia of Christchurch.

In the six…

I'm glad you are volunteering because I ain't going near those things, even with gloves.

I have a very long cleaver.

Okay, it's a pike.

To make it look like Christchurch, they opened on two skinheads.

Christ, that's priceless.

Worst thing about Christchurch? The orgy of fear-and-loathing self-congratulatory smugness that the mere mention of the place provokes. So Keir saw a swastika tatt when visiting a city of 375,000-odd souls and had to have a wee lie down afterwards? The poor dear.

Thanks for saying this. Saw more skinheads…

Shaking our heads won't achieve anything. Cutting his balls off, on the other hand...

I'm glad you are volunteering because I ain't going near those things, even with gloves.

Can't we go back to shaking our heads at Michael Laws?

Shaking our heads won't achieve anything. Cutting his balls off, on the other hand...

Rendang that does not look and taste like an Indian curry?

Satay Palace in Cuba St, Wellington, does a good one. The place itself looks a bit basic but their rendang is the best I've had.

Apart from my home made ones, of course...

Can't we go back to shaking our heads at Michael Laws?

Islander pefers the Rousseauian swamps of a dubious yesteryear to the continued existence of thousands of her fellow citizens, regardless of their potential to make this world a better place? Have fun, but don't expect to be taken seriously.

Here Here!

@Emma

indulge in their penchant for ritual sodomy…

OK, we get it – ChCh PAS readers all live within a suburb or two of the Uni, and gee there are some great noodle houses around now...

Demonstrably pretentious bullshit. On stilts.

st ephen & Keir Leslie – you've articulated it.
Which is why almost all of mine, and me,…

indulge in their penchant for ritual sodomy while dressed in 19th Century British naval uniforms on a full moon?

There is no way you're going to convince me that doesn't happen here.

Orang-orang Bali suka dan makan anjing juga. Tetapi mereka tidak menceritakan touris! Kemarin di Denpasar..

My number 2 chief hate in regards to Bali (after drunk Australians) is all the damn dogs everywhere. Especially around Ubud. I hope they eat them all before my next visit.

@Hilary & @just thinking

It's…

(Waltham Sydenham Wigram Brighton-on-Sea Linwood Riccarton Spreydon Are All In The South; It's Grim Down South)

Massive respect.

For those who didn't get the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtSdJaPCSI

JS – you point out that a lot of the poorer people in Wellington are out in Porirua and the Hutt. Fair point, but…

There has been a focus on cobble stones to beautify pedestrian areas. Pretty but these uneven surfaces exclude those who are unsteady on their feet, alzheimers, elderly, etc & so our new expensive…

We also went to Governors Bay (Shechocolate…

tapi kapan saya di Manado

Orang-orang Bali suka dan makan anjing juga. Tetapi mereka tidak menceritakan touris! Kemarin di Denpasar..

[Sorry....talking about the partiality of certain parts of Indonesia to man's best friend as food, particularly the people of Manado and Bali (who don't admit it, amongst many things, to…

Thanks Gio, made my week.

I don't know why I said it was OT, it's in fact perfectly pertinent. It's got dates all over the place but nothing in Christchurch for a while by the looks.

But what really got me about New…

Marian Maguire

Wow.

Thanks Gio, made my week.

@Just thinking Thanks. I really should read more ChCh history. Enjoyed McNeish's 'Mckenzie' recently.

http://www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/catalogue/southern_capital.shtml

It is really good, about half of the Canty Uni History Lecturers contributed.

Christchurch History is very contested and slowly being rewritten.

Puari Pa that covered the Arts Centre to Town hall area of Christchurch, is being questioned as to its validity. That bones were being uncovered…

Rendang that does not look and taste like an Indian curry?

In Auckland, KKs in Greenlane seem to be about the only folks who can do one that would pass muster in your Warung Desa, tapi tak parkai RW.

Our use of artesian water is not sustainable at our current level of consumption, regardless of dirty dairying.

We need to harvest our own rainfall for domestic use and onsite composting. I'm no-where near that.

ChCh PAS readers all live within a suburb or two of the Uni

No they don't.

people from ChCh think they live in a city

And now you know what I think based on where I live...

They persist with the whole “first four ships” and “what school did you…

Do you know where you can get a decent Rendang that does not look and taste like an Indian curry?

Afraid I'm a vego, so can't really help there. The years I spent living within walking distance of the esteemed Istana in Freemans Bay rather spoiled me for NZ attempts…

Bagus! Do you know where you can get a decent Rendang that does not look and taste like an Indian curry?

@Joe It has been great to see Riccaton turning into our very own China/Korea town. I can finally get some Soju and vege dumplings at decent prices whenever I want!

Wouldn't know about that, Riccarton never did it for me but whatever rocks your boat. If you're into the local…

I see your Tosh and raise you 'We are putting down an ancient Maori house in one of our best suburbs. It will be quite out of keeping.'p238 Southern Capital Christchurch.

Our Council has two lefty types on it. Yani & Chrissie & a couple…

Keir — people often talk about the old boy culture or the old boys club in relation to Christchurch. I'm curious, how do you see this manifesting?

Well, you don't see it manifesting, that's the point. What good is a secret handshake if everybody knows about it?

To be honest,…

There is something different about Christchurch though. The locals there certainly think so. It’s our most parochial town in our most parochial…

-it is emphatically not just 'the business cimmunity': you're looking at a farming squatterarchy and entrenched political machine. You…

I'm sure I'd have something witty to say if I knew who Hatherley was.

This bloke.

the old boy culture

Keir — people often talk about the old boy culture or the old boys club in relation to Christchurch. I'm curious, how do you see this manifesting?

Because, apart from having had some great teachers, I haven't got any kickbacks from having gone to a private…

Something almost Hatherleyite

Gasp! I knew the man had a large following, but the throwaway adjectivisation is a whole nother level.

(And, I have a lovely original Sam Mahon work, courtesy my friend David Alexender: it's a tin, with a label like DoC dog tucker on the front, with a kakapo above the print. On the back is a description of contents: (something like)
"Snuff snuff snuffle…

Nice lumping there, btw. My youngest child attends Riccarton Primary. It's 30% Pakeha.

I am in fact well aware that Riccarton isn't the same as all the rest; likewise I dare say Harrogate isn't the same as Salford and Leeds. (Also, New Brighton is generally not known as Brighton-on-Sea and…

And just as Emma says, that's the little bit of Christchurch I see. Could be…

There is, absolutely a clear division between the lifestyles of the middle-class and the poor in Christchurch. But Is there not even more so in Auckland?

You say visible poverty is not a virtue. I agree. I was saying that calling middle-class Wellington city comparatively unified vs Christchurch while…

Meanwhile, Nick Smith and Rodney Hide get to 'review' ECan.

Yeah, about that... I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. This from a Christchurch artist.

(Very OT, but another Christchurch artist, Marian Maguire, is exhibiting in Wellington. Go see her work, dammit.)

"No other city in the country has a public space equal to the botanic gardens.

Um, Cuba St?"

Ha – that's a good point, Ken.

Christchurch did not have, at least when I was growing up, anything like the cosy inner-city cafe district that Wellington City has. I think…

nowhere else in New Zealand have I encountered the sheer casual racism and homophobia of Christchurch

My experience differs. Enormously. Have you ever been in a rural service town?

Nice lumping there, btw. My youngest child attends Riccarton Primary. It's 30% Pakeha.

No other city in the country has a public space equal to the botanic gardens.

Um, Cuba St?

I dunno, while, yeah, hahaha let's all laugh at Christchurch is a bit dull, nowhere else in New Zealand have I encountered the sheer casual racism and homophobia of Christchurch. Nowhere else…

No other city in the country has a public space equal to the botanic gardens.

Beg to differ on this. While the Christchurch b. gardens may, as a recent Sri Lankan migrant put it, resemble something from a beautiful dream, so does the Auckland Domain. Apart from that, very much…

Lyall Bay! It's hardly Porirua, is it? As for Newtown, it seems to me to be increasingly,…

Come on, now. Central Wellington is the wealthiest constituency in the country. Virtually everyone is middle-class, or a student.

You wrote Wellington and central Wellington. I live halfway down Adelaide road, which is not exactly the Hutt. Also, Newtown, Lyall Bay... come on.

But not by a long shot?

Come on, now. Central Wellington is the…

Secondly, this

Wellington and Central Wellington are by-in-large middle-class only zones: all the "white trash," and the poor, uneducated and often disenfranchised and angry people live…

Sometimes I feel that Kyle Chapman – whose followers you can count on one hand – exists essentially as an excuse for a bit of bully-boy Christchurch bashing. Because nobody would even know these guys existed if it wasn't for the media's tendency to promote anything that helps solidify…

But still in the 90s I saw Maori Skinz in Christchurch. The thing is they were lost kids in or around their teens.

Punks used the swastika alot…

(With one exception, a very loud moron called Rocky, quite dark skinned, who used to parade onto stages chanting 'kill all blacks").

Oh god... shades of Dave Chappelle's black, blind Ku Klux Klan grand wizard...

He formed a dub-influenced group as soon as he left the Pistols.

And more than that. He convinced Branson, at some expense, to go with him to Jamaica as the Pistols ended, to sign acts for the once mighty Virgin Front Line label, which at one time was arguably, partially…

feel your flow

Easy to do when you're willing to

submit to God's chosen man

Have you committed to Brian Tamaki? Let us know – email

Isn't there some kid of law about asking your sons to "feel your flow"?

Oh good, it's not just me reading that and wondering how anybody could write it with a straight face.

I'm sure there's a Pastor somewhere kicking himself he didn't take up the vampire crusade before HBO.

Garth George has done a number on Pope Brian.

What scares me is the direct oath to him and the excuse to act to offend others in defense of Brian. That's a licence to kill.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10605956&pnum=0

Hide opens door to privatised water deals

I'm more worried about the discrepancy between levels of actual support and publicity of Act's whacko…

Eerily reminiscent of Vyvan on the Young Ones.

Roflnui.

Interestingly enough, the car right outside is a Mitsubishi Sigma. If these wackos practised what they preached, shouldn't it be a Ford/Holden/BLMC?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUz7SfFZQI4

Eerily reminiscent of Vyvan on the Young Ones.

Based on PAS representation,…

Suburb-wise it reminded me a bit of Lyall Bay, a bit sandy and rugged.

And windy as all hell sometimes.

Apparently South Brighton is the Brighton to be seen in, and has a good primary school, etc. Central and north are struggling a bit more.

But Blair and I went…

Need we say the C-word ... Conservatorium. And before you say it is a bout music, it's not.

http://canterburyheritage.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

http://soac.org.nz/

Cathedral Square's a godforsaken mess where only tourists dare tread

True, the Square has been an urban design money pit disaster for a good twenty years now. But two blocks over, Victoria Square is lovely. And you'd have to be entirely constructed from the reanimated corpses of property developers to…

The most lively `public' spaces in Christchurch…

I just despair of the city, and many of the people I know in it, who cling to this vision of Christchurch as "the English City".

cringe
For the Geographicly challenged... English Cities tend to be in England. I would also like to remind the residents of Dunedin that…

the creepiness of VR spiders.

If you turn the 'walk bounce' up to maximum it can be quite perky.

Minor point, but people tend to underestimate the creepiness of VR spiders.

I assure you that I don't, ergo there is no way in HELL I'm clicking on that link.

But then I forced myself to remember that, despite spending all my time in those places, that's not my city.…

we might give you a picture of a spider, then a VR spider

Minor point, but people tend to underestimate the creepiness of VR spiders.

The old boys would have you believe it's theirs but I can tell you there is a strong current for social good (yes they are mutually exclusive) in Christchurch.

Oh, yes, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

I just despair of the city, and many of the people I know…

Christchurch is multifaceted.

The old boys would have you believe it's theirs but I can tell you there is a strong current for social good (yes they are mutually exclusive) in Christchurch.

Important point. We tend to think of Christchurch at the establishment level — but, as you say, there…

Siouxsie Sioux, of Siouxsie and the Banshees, caught conjunctivitis after gob landed in her eye.

Joe Strummer got glandular fever after he swallowed it.

Yum.

Can I just say that I loved webweavers' little trip(s) down memory lane?

Me too. I've never enjoyed a pointed take-down more.

Oh ewwww. I think reason number two (number one being: born in 1974) why I could never have been a true punk was the... crustiness.

Heh... and I could have been a Bright Young Thing for no other reason than because the clothes were nice. (The witty banter while bombed…

Front row for Elvis Costello & The Attractions in 1978

O HAI: I totally hate you. :)

of course the inevitable hairdo full of gob. Actually, pogoing around under a rain of spit was something we all got used to – it was sometimes even quite refreshing in a twisted sort…

Cathedral Grammer exists on both sides of Chester St West and has gates at either end of the Street which are closed during school hours. The obvious extention of this is the closure of the Street for the benefit of a Private School.…

The old boys would have you believe it's theirs but I can tell you there is a strong current for social good (yes they are mutually exclusive) in Christchurch.

The various colours have always been on display and the streets are very much a contested space. From…

I might also recommend 'This is England' as a DVD hire for a slow night.

The film is centred on young skinheads, and is set in England in July 1983. The film illustrates that the skinhead subculture, whose roots are associated with Jamaican culture (especially ska, rocksteady, and reggae music),…

There are times when I miss the place. The resurgence of Messrs Chapman and friends quite cures that.

Last weekend, quite a number of my friends were in Christchurch, and were tweeting all kinds of fun things. Museum! Arts Centre! Gallery! Sun! It made me rather homesick. But then I…

helllppp – how do I embed it?? I still haven't figured it out!

Just paste in the URL

Carry on.

the Clash's indomitable self-mythology

Which is why they kind of, sort of... annoy me a little bit. It all seemed so terribly po-faced...

(That being said, I've watched the recent documentaries with interest, and I like a lot of their songs. And Sandinista is awesome.)

Note: 'Should I Stay Or…

Look! Another great blast from the past video – with some of my favourite ever lyrics:

And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk…

Caleb, you've got it completely and totally the wrong way round.

As someone who was actually *there*, partaking fully in the 70's British punk scene, I can tell you that it was most definitely NOT skinhead and NOT racist and NOT all-white. In fact a…

Now we know one of the reasons.

There are times when I miss the place. The resurgence of Messrs Chapman and friends quite cures…

Only White Man in the Hammersmith Palais.
Gawd I used to love this.

You've gotta admit, writing that song was a huge leap in the dark- it's weird because the whole song questions the Clash's indominitable self-mythology and somehow strengthens it. Jon Savage's book devotes a whole page to that…

The film is centred on young skinheads, and is set in England in July 1983. The film illustrates that the skinhead subculture, whose roots are associated with Jamaican culture (especially ska, rocksteady, and reggae music),…

Punk pretty much stopped being good when some shaven oafs decided it was white music.

Strength through oi.

Steve B – the old NB pier had slot machines up until the early 1960s:

I only went…

UK release compiled by DJ Don Letts…

I'm with you: Caleb's wrong.

The first-wave British punks liked reggae because it was seen as an outsider music. There was reggae played between bands at punk gigs — Don Letts was the DJ at one of the original punk clubs, The Roxy, and subsequently made his feature debut with…