This is one of the most intriguing videos I have seen on the youtube so far. A rare film about a lost subculture called Sharpies. Being a Sharpie meant that you had a status between being a skinhead and a rock & roll fan, if I’m correct. It is intriguing to me because I see much of my youth in it. The film is shot in 1974, I was 1 at that time, but some years later, while being a teenager, me and my friends had also serious mullets. So the faces and vibe in this clip remind me somehow vividly of home. Tough and violent but at the same time very safe and peaceful in a way, like some sort of mullet-utopia.
Man, just look again: the shoes at 0:20, the guy at 1:15 or that odd dancing at 2:25…
Who cut yer hair? Grant.
Who cut yer hair? Grant.
Who cut yer hair? Grant.
Totally brilliant combined with the music of Lobby Lloyd.
Note: The Sharp with the mohawk on 2:17 minutes, commented on our post.
[...] look at a very obscure subculture from 1974. Mickey Tilburg writes: It’s a rare film about a long lost subculture called the Sharpies. Being a Sharpie [...]
I like them Sharpies!
heel cool
I’m the guy with the Mohawk at 2:17, aged 16. A Frankston Sharp at the time, later that year a Melbourne Sharp. It was an amazing concert. It was called ‘Summer Jam’ because the last band of the night was to be a compilation of various members from all of the concert’s bands, on stage together in a massive jam session. That’s what drew over 1000 Sharpies from the suburbs of Melbourne to the one event, to be there when 2 of our ‘Rock Icons’ Lobby Loyde and Billy Thorpe jammed together on stage. It was an awesome sight to see so many Sharps together in one place, and all came in good spirits with only one purpose, our common love of rock music. No one wore their gang identification so there wouldn’t be any trouble, and a lot of new friendships were forged between Sharps from different suburbs and gangs, much to my benefit in future encounters.
For more information on this culture including photos and memorabilia visit skinsnsharps website
I’d like to reunite with 2 close friends from back then, Bill Sharp from Reservoir and Carol Dawson(maiden name) from Greensborough. They can contact me thru the above site