skin memories

[brasidas]

with the skin theme currently occupying Shane fans, do any forum members have any good skin stories to share? here's one of mine...

I only got a skinhead because Old man Dixon had given me a whopper back and sides that made me look like Barney Sumner when it wasn't cool to look like barney Sumner so i went to derek's (our local barber) and got a number 1 - seeing as i now had the haircut i thought i might as well go for the look and bought a big pair of parachute boots (steel toe capped, 120 eyes) and an MAI - this was the Oi era - and on my first mission into enemy 'scouse' territory (i live in a new town that's split 50/50 like Belfast but without a peace wall) we got legged across a road bridge and i had this gang of scals in their nice light stan smith trainers after me - it was like watching a spaceman getting ran by a firm of martians -or a deep sea diver trying to leg it from a giant squid - so heavy were my new boots. after turning a corner at approx 3 mph with blood curdling screams of 'get the wool' behind me I managed to dive over a hedge and stayed hidden there Nam style for 20 minutes while 'charlie' searched for me in the undergrowth. eventually they gave up and i realised that just having a pair of hardman boots and a hardman haircut didn't infact make you a hardman - something i didn't infact truly understand until 10 years, numerous slappings and several court appearances later.

new edition of swine magazine now up if anyone's interested www.swinemagazine.co.uk

[shanemeadows]

One of my best/worst Skin memories is when I was trying to prove myself as a grade one nutter to my sisters Skin boyfriend 'Pecker', Being 11 years old actually made it more difficult to be accepted as one of the boys as everyone saw me as a joke. Anything that was put in front of me was consumed whether it be Magic Mushrooms, Joints or a gallon of scrumpy (which stayed down for about 20 seconds before I chucked up) in the hope of validation, But I was finally accepted as miniture equal when I took the top of a scalding hot meat pie and (under orders) threw it in a rival Skinheads face. I then proceeded to tip a newspaper booth over (with the owner inside), before jumping on the bus back to Uttoxeter with my hero Pecker, who didn't stop laughing for about two weeks. What a lovely kid!

[Companero]

My only ‘Skins memory’ was from when I was nine or ten years old. My mum, dad and a couple of neighbours went to Hampton Court one Sunday for a leisurely walk around the gardens. There were various couple and families wandering around the grounds. There was a also group of four or five skin heads messing around in a slightly wooded area and one of them was in a wheelchair.

One of the other of the skinheads pushed the dude in the wheelchair down an embankment, full pelt. The wheel chair hit the ground and toppled over, with the skinhead that had been sitting in it, thrown out and he promptly rose to his feet and ran back over the embankment. Having recently seen a documentary on the phenomenon that is Lourdes, I turned to my mum and said “it’s a miracle!” to which she replied “It’s not a miracle sweetheart, it’s just a bunch of yobbos mucking around”.

Completely unimpressed with what they had witnessed, a girl that had been strolling about with her boyfriend told them that they were out of order, only for the whole mob to come over and beat the living shit out of both her and her fella – and they worked them over really badly. It wasn’t the most pleasant of spectacles but there’s a lesson here folks – if you see a group of people fucking around with wheelchairs, keep your mouth shut

[oifan]

do you mean memories as a skin or of something to do with skins as none of you are actually skins are you and theres no such thing as an ex skin its a way of life for life you may no longer wear boots or have a number 1 but you never stop being a skin.

[brasidas]

er, yeah Skin 4 Life mate - i've still got all me cock sparrar records but got into rick james about 6 months later - i even had his haircut and wore thigh high red levver boots infact tha's what i'm wearing now and it's 1/2 11 and the kids are in bed shhh - weren't Blitz from round Notts/Derbys?

[oifan]

new mills in derbyhire

[fatself]

Shane, can you clear up this fallacy...This is England ISN'T about the uprise of the Neo-Nazi skinhead commune?

correct?