by Pug-In-Boots
The Velvetones' version of Symarip's 'Skinhead Girl', which was released as a single with a video featuring a girl with a shaved head, is the only version of the song to ever have a music video. It's also, as far as I know, the only version to add in new verses. Pretty cool for a band that weren't skinheads, and didn't even play skinhead related music: they were a swing band.
'Skinhead Girl' is one of the most-covered skinhead anthems. Here are links to covers by Bad Manners and The Oppressed. The other skinhead girl, reggae classic is Lloyd and Claudette's 'Queen of the World', one of my favourite reggae songs.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Bloodclot Faggots and Bald-Headed Women
by Pug-In-Boots
(pic taken from Spirit of 69)
During the skinhead revival of the eighties, it wasn't unusual for skinhead girls to crop or shave their heads. It was more common in the American hardcore scene, leading the Rastafarian Bad Brains singer, H.R, to wail at the gay frontman of Big Boys "We're in Babylon! This is holy Hell! San Francisco is Babylon! All these faggots and these bald-headed women running around!"
On the dvd Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 female skins with shaved heads can be seen in the audience.
[H.R] cursed them [Big Boys] and called Jah down to have their heads for being 'bloodclot faggots.' The next day, in the front yard of the house where we were staying, Darryl got into it with the female skinhead roadie of MDC, Tammy, saying her 'womb was barren,' that the Bible said she wasn't supposed to shave her head. (From American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush.)
Bloodclot is a Jamaican swear-word. Jamaican culture is notoriously homophobic - at the time the members of Bad Brains believed that to be proper Rastas they had to be homophobic. They have since apologised for and renounced their infamous homophobia of the early eighties.
Skinhead girls unfortunately (or fortunately) no longer shave their heads. If anyone has any photos of skinbyrds with shaved or cropped hair, please email them to me and I'll stick them on the blog. Today they usually stick to cropped short with fringe and bangs, or just neck or shoulder-length hair.
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(pic taken from Spirit of 69)
During the skinhead revival of the eighties, it wasn't unusual for skinhead girls to crop or shave their heads. It was more common in the American hardcore scene, leading the Rastafarian Bad Brains singer, H.R, to wail at the gay frontman of Big Boys "We're in Babylon! This is holy Hell! San Francisco is Babylon! All these faggots and these bald-headed women running around!"
On the dvd Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 female skins with shaved heads can be seen in the audience.
[H.R] cursed them [Big Boys] and called Jah down to have their heads for being 'bloodclot faggots.' The next day, in the front yard of the house where we were staying, Darryl got into it with the female skinhead roadie of MDC, Tammy, saying her 'womb was barren,' that the Bible said she wasn't supposed to shave her head. (From American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush.)
Bloodclot is a Jamaican swear-word. Jamaican culture is notoriously homophobic - at the time the members of Bad Brains believed that to be proper Rastas they had to be homophobic. They have since apologised for and renounced their infamous homophobia of the early eighties.
Skinhead girls unfortunately (or fortunately) no longer shave their heads. If anyone has any photos of skinbyrds with shaved or cropped hair, please email them to me and I'll stick them on the blog. Today they usually stick to cropped short with fringe and bangs, or just neck or shoulder-length hair.
Bloodclot Faggots is also the name of an Adelaide hardcore band.
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