on teh same subject...
In 4th year me and my friends really got into the skatepunk scene, playing together in a band, hanging out and skateboarding at the park after school. It was great to be unique, different from the rest of our peers - kev and sharon types unable to empathise with our anti vengaboys views and hardcore clothes.

However.

There was a group of kids two years above us who had got there first.

With a much cooler than thou thing going on, their green hair was spikier and attitude more punkier than ours. Their band was better, and their girlfriends nicer. We probably acted like little rasclaarts to be fair, and there was an intense rivalry between us all about who got to be the too cool for school punks and rule the studded belt hemisphere.

Time went on, we did band showcases with them, started going to the same bars and clubs even shared girlfriends, (though not at the same time.) An uneasy truce was in place.

That peace soon deteriorated and tensions began to flare up through individual arguments and rumours. People started backing their mates and the whole thing resurfaced.

Forward to a Saturday night upstairs at Edwards Rock Club. Everyone from the two groups are in there.

And it all kicked off. The bouncers threw most of us out on to the street where it turned into a free for all. No tickets or popcorn thank you very much everyone was in. The biggest of their group got clouted with a piece of brick by the hardest of our group. One of those Western bar saloon fights. Even the hanger ons were joining in, and girls catfighting.

My what a spectacle! Someone called the Old Bill and everyone split. We talked about it for months and it still flares up every now and then nine years later. Legendary!
( prem1um is full of life, Fri 10 Mar 2006, 12:59, Reply)