Sky Arts ,Worlds greatest Basslines .28/11/25

[Leonard Smalls]

1 minute ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Some of us sewed badges on

Lawks!

As I was a skint yoof I used to sew zips into my tesco jeans that I'd dyed black and purple and made into drainpipes. My needlework wasn't very good, but it was meant to be DIY punk! I even made my own bumflap out of a particularly vile green acrylic tartan material then scrawled "Slits" on it in fluorescent orange paint. 

By contrast, mine and Swamp's mate (the only other school punk) had a rich dad who bought him a pair of real bondage trousers from XClothes, and real leather jacket with Ruts painted on it... We always sent him to the bar.

[Frank Blank]

14 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Some of us sewed badges on (and embroidered!) our own jackets!

 

Ponce.

[Misdee]

18 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Some of us sewed badges on (and embroidered!) our own jackets!

 

39 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I remember when I was a young punker in school (there were 3 of us!) all the other lads (cos girls weren't into music, obvs! 😁) had pristine denim jackets their mums had sewed assorted heavy rock band patches onto... And they'd confidently assert that Cozy Powell was the best drummer in the world, bar none.

Needless to say, they'd never heard of Billy Cobham... 

Those embroidered denim jackets with patches now on display as artefacts at the V&A Fashion Museum. Quite fitting, I thought to myself when I saw that, considering that so many of the blokes that wore them at the time looked like Vikings and Anglo Saxons.