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@@graizie6270 thank you

What were the years for that scene ?

I was around for the original (and best) scene in the fifties. The "revival" scene was from 1976 until the late 80's. It started to dwindle after that but is still alive.

@@cooldaddy2877 I bet the whole Psychobilly scene didn't help matters.

To me it was alien to a fifties type music scene. They had more in common with Punks IMO.

@@cooldaddy2877 No Cross over

Did you not go the Squires in Catford where Tom DJ'd chickaboom! brilliant club in the 70s although the Downham Taven was ok too.

@@rockabillybrenda Sure did, The Squire, Black Bull, Old Tigers head, Northover, Laurie Grove Hall, St Hellier Arms. Great days

I knew Jamie Farquahar quite well, a nice bloke, its a shame we all moved our separate ways over time 😔

Thanks for your kind words. I am enjoying life and living in Italy.. Still spinning the winners!

Jay this was just another moment in time/life albeit a great one,so young and full of life most things were enjoyable music clothes and girls eh mate!today ha ha survival with a bit of fun every now and then for most people?Glad you are well Jaime,Italy huh nice one,we were the scouse lads from maida vale the two Tony's and Sean l did the markets in portobello and Camden ,you came back to our flat a few times ?mainly to shag a few of the girls we had on the firm at the time ,l think you were too pissed to get it together though ha ha,lots of love guys look after yourselves.

Mr @@jamesfarquhar1518 have you brought the 'hotrod' in Italy?

No it's with Rob Glazbrook much safer hands

What year was this? My 1st London club would've been Silks and by no means was a regular, I've seen photos of the weekender on the isle of Wight where Rochee and the Sarnos whipped the crowd to a frenzy then everyone destroyed their chalets (is that correct?). In Portsmouth there was a famous story from a night out at a club called Moose lodge where the bar was drunk dry and rockabilly's were found laying in the road and the 1st road traffic of the early morning had swerve to avoid the unconscious sad sacks! Of course I've got my own tales Rockin debauchery, I think we were lucky to have our own 50's with the influence of what was also around us as we grew up, Animal House, Cheech and Chong to name but a few launched a lifestyle for a 1000 ass-holes and I was proud to call some of them my friends!🤣

@@markjames8603 1983.

@@RockinRedRover Cool thanks,I was 16 so barely getting into pubs, by that time I'd seen The Jets and The Dynamite Band fronted by Ray Gelato (the look on the girls face when I asked for half fare! Well I was 15!), I missed The Stargazers when I was holiday in Cornwall with my parents, as soon as I was getting in pubs and getting served I discovered all the Rock n Roll, I think we had 5 local bands then, Robbie Knight was our DJ but I can remember Dave Crozier and Tony Thorpe too, we started a band cos everyone else was doing it, yep exciting times!

@@markjames8603 no probs, this was a year before I moved to west London for work when I was 22, but soon got to know some of these people at venues like Mouses Lunchtime club at Dingwalls etc. Fraid I can't place Robbie Knight, where was this ?. What band were you in ?.

@@RockinRedRover Portsmouth, Robbie even started a record shop, mostly repro but when you're starting out that what you bought, several bands actually, the first was called The Swampcats, rehearsed for a year and only played 3 gigs! The bassist now plays for LP and his Dirty White Bucks ( always dancing too, fantastic bopping and jiving style, many female admirers) I kept playing drums but nothing came of it then at 25 formed The Ricardos, played anywhere in the country for 40 quid for the 1st 2 years, then in 95 it took off, 1 week in 4 playing a foreign country, long weekends playing working men's clubs, we became the band we always saw ourselves as, confidence, playing as a unit, when we returned to Hemsby in 96 it was like playing to 2000 friends who were all in on the joke that we were 3 idiots just winging it, we kept going to 2000 then split, I then played with Paul (Owen) Dawkins, also with Mark Lee Allen after Paul's accident then returned to The Ricardos in 2012 for a few years. So Red Rover we must have some mutual friends? I'm the fella that dressed as Tom Ingram years ago at Hemsby for the fancy dress competition on the Sunday night, Moon has photos on Facebook!

How long did it last for ?

About 78-84 just the very best years,. Loved it.

It's still going strong where you been? Lol Rockabilly was around in 1977 in London. The 70s were the better years definitely! To much cross over in the 80s with that crap psycho.

No I haven't. I wonder if anyone has the edited version that was aired on TV too?

mouse @ 06.13

That sir is The Phantom aka Jaimie Farqhuar, Hot Rod player with Rochee and the Sarnos. He has scathing wit and methinks he was winding everyone around him well up, and succeeding too.

He's been and still on the scene for years.

almost, except Rockabilly, for the most part, always had drums. This is born out by actually listening to the music where 99% of Rockabilly records had drums. Many tracks called rockabilly are in fact R'n'R. Also, a lot of the music played at these dances were Jivers, Doowop, R'n'B, Swing etc....but all we here about is Rockabilly.

as a self confessed Hep Cat from the '70's/80's, I have to agree that the Teddy Boys were around before the Hep Cats. The Hep Cat style started with Elvis circa '53 while the Teddy Boys were around for about two year before that. The original Teddy Boys were listening to Hank Williams and Tennessee Ernie well before R'n'R hit Britain. My Dad and some other Teddy Boys used a café in Dublin that had Hank Williams 'Move It On Over' (1947) on the jukebox in '52. Now....tell me that aint a Rockabilly predecessor! Tennessee Ernie's Blackberry Boogie and Catfish Boogie was also known to the Teddy Boys. The Hank and Ernie influence largely came from Ireland, along with other country orientated music. Many of the earliest Teddy Boys were actually Irish, both in Dublin (as early as '51) and in London. This is a point that is usually overlooked in history. It is also thought that the Dubliners were responsible for the 'Riverboat gambler' style of waistcoat often worn by early Teddy Boys. The main reason why the Hep Cat style developed in Britain in the late '70's was because we had a new interest in '50's music by a new young generation who regarded the Teddy Boys at the time as caricatures of the originals. By that I mean they had turned into Showaddywaddy camp versions of themselves (bright drapes, too tight trousers, sideburns down to their chins, hair past the collar, tattoos, large belt buckles, overly thick soled brothel creepers etc). The Teddy Boy had become a laughing stock and the funny thing is that these Showaddywaddy types were the original Teddy Boys and should have known better, but somewhere along the line they let their style slip. NONE of them looked like that in the '50's. Original Teddy Boys looked cool and dapper (a bit like the guy in this film with the grey streak). Teddy Boys had no 'new' music to listen to by the late '70's and so stuck with the R'n'R classics. When the 'new' Rockabilly/Jive/R'n'B stuff came out they were older and too stuck in their ways to change. Teddy Boys were actually well used to Rockabilly music although it was never called that. To them, and everybody else, it was just R'n'R. Early concerts by Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, the Beatles and Vernon Taylor played a fair share of Rockabilly type music. The first Billy Fury album had a lot of Rockabilly on it. Early Elvis tracks, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent and others were regularly listened to in the '50's by Teddy Boys....it was just called R'n'R that's all!

Cool Daddy some excellent points in your reply and a lot nearer to the truth than the guys in the tv show (although I knew a fair few of those guys). Our group in Southend crossed from Teds into the Rockabilly scene in 1976 and were frowned upon by the older Teds and many young guys followed our lead in the early days of the rockabilly scene. Many of the points you raise about 70’s Teds being an embarrassment and a laughing stock were what pushed us into wearing box jackets and pegs and wearing a flat top way before Flip or Mac Curtis ever entered these shores. Most of the guys in the tv clip were more enamoured with being on tv rather than being able to think logically and answering the questions. Our inspiration in the mid 70’s was the music and dress style of “the Hillbilly Cat” along with old b&w films and tv shows. The music that inspired us was rockabilly and even stuff like Hawkshaw Hawkins that was played by teddy boy dj’s in the pier bar and queens hotel in Southend

@@51cliff agree with you 100%. That's the same reason I became a Hep Cat. Glorious days indeed.

@@cooldaddy2877 What was the years of the Hep Cat scene in 70s/80s.

You have kinda answered it yourself. To be more precise, it started in 1976 and lasted through the 80's before slowly dwindling away in the early 90's.

goffer43 it's the 6 o clock show with Michael Aspel, Paula Yates and Janet Street Porter I believe on London Weekend Televistion. . The Tube was Channel 4 and showcased bands.