At the Great Skinhead reunion Brighton we celebrate the entire history of the Skinhead Subculture at the birthplace in 1964 , when the Mods and Rockers made national news having a punchup on Brighton beach. Those young Mods became Peanuts, then Skinhead aggro boys and creating a whole new subculture, peaking in 1969. The music they adopted was the Jamaican off beat Ska sound freshly arrived in the UK and being produced here. The clothing styles, The Dr Marten boots from the Griggs family in Northampton, Levis and Ben Sherman button down shirt, a mix of American Ivy League worn by the Astronaughts and the feel good Hollywood stars on Saturday morning cinema. The the hyper cool cut Italian 3 button suits, Vespa Lambretta Scooters,. The Morris Mini Cooper cars from the Italian Job 1969 .
After the first wave burned out, due to young peple always moving forward and rebelling against the elder brothers. Long haired Bootboys, Glam replaced the Skinheads … Until 1976 Punk Rock exploded and in 1978 saw the rebirth of the Skinhead. This time coming from the football terraces and hard working class inner city areas of Britain . Street punk with a strong anti system, anti authorty attitude , fighting the class system . In 1979 a new wave of music was unleashed which blended that Punk attitude with Ska music on a DIY label from Coventry called 2Tone, which was the first wave of mixed racial musicians to make it big in UK. Bands like The Specials, Bodysnatchers, Madness and Badmanners took Skinhead to the main stream and had major success, to create the biggest boom in youth subculture history, singing about the real working class life of Britain as a depressed broken state, but with some great fun danceable tunes, which became an escape for unemployed teenage Britain.
In 1980 Punk fought back. the Art School punks were being replaced by a harder edged social commentary set of bands being formed on the council estates . This was coined as Oi music by Sounds magazine, who put out a set of compilation albums that championed Punk and Skinhead bands . Attitude and aggro the order of the day. Working class pride the forefront . This attitude and voice of society has since then spread the world, where young disenfranchised people from many cultures have connected, to becoming truly a worldwide subculture, or style music and attitude, from countries Britain, Germany, USA and all over western Europe, the far east of Philippines, Indonesia, to Latin America and Australia. We in Brighton celebrate it all.
You dont have to be an active Skinhead to attend, we are a very friendly event, with no aggro at all. Come listen to the sweet sounds of Ska from noon til midnight, and live bands from 6pm
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