Rockabilly in the 80s: Marc Rondeau

*Video: rockabilly in the 80s: marc rondeau Speaker: Marc Rondeau. Running time: 7 minutes Transcript: [0:08] For me, getting involved in the 50s or the rockabilly scene, I suppose, started from about the age of 10 years of age. I instantly liked the music that my mother had on 45, which included Elvis, Eddy Cochrane, [...]

Skinheads in the 80s: Penny Newlove

*Video: skinheads in the 80s: penny newlove Speaker: Penny Newlove Running time: 6 minutes Transcript: [0:08] I used to hang around with punks in about 1980, mid-1980, at the Civic, and various other places, and I ran into an old friend who used to be a punk who said, ‘Oh come down to the Sussex.’ [...]

Mods in the 80s: Beccy Connell, Sara Wichall, Gary Hosie, Jonathon Browne and Kirstin Sibley

*Video: mods in the 80s: beccy connell, sara wichall, gary hosie, jonathon browne and kirstin sibley Speakers: Beccy Connell, Sara Wichall, Gary Hosie, Jonathon Browne and Kirstin Sibley Running time: 9min Transcript: Beccy Connell: [0:08] It started in England in the early 1960s, I guess. A bunch of working class, mainly boys, I’ve got to [...]

Metalheads in the 80s: Robyn Way, Michael Sarantos, Kylie McLaren and Michael Keating

*Video: metalheads in the 80s: robyn way, michael sarantos, kylie mclaren and michael keating Featuring: Robyn Way, Michael Sarantos, Kylie McLaren and Michael Keating Running time: 6 minutes Transcript: Robyn Way: [0:07] I got into heavy metal round about 1983, 84, I think. That would have been around the time that Iron Maiden toured with [...]

Hip hop in the 80s: Spice

*Video: hip hop in the 80s: spice Speaker: Spice Running time: 6 minutes Transcript: Spice: [0:08] I’m known as Spice. Basically because…. It’s a tag I gave myself in the early ’80s, I think around ’85 or ’86. I was actually known as Kandy before that – which was a name given to me by [...]

Hip hop in the 80s: Rosano Martinez

*Video: hip hop in the 80s: rosano martinez Speaker: Rosano Martinez Running time: 7.36 minutes Transcript: Rosano Martinez: [0:09] I’d say it sort of started in the inner-west and also the east, eastern suburbs. But the eastern suburbs aren’t the way we see them now. At the time most of the people in the eastern [...]

Punks in the 80s: Jane Dambrauskas, Susan Sunandar and Mark Ritchie

*Video: punks in the 80s: jane dambrauskas, susan sunandar and mark ritchie Speakers: Jane Dambrauskas, Susan Sunandar and Mark Ritchie Running time: 8 minutes 30 seconds Transcript: Jane Dambrauskas: [0:08] I suppose it was late 1979 when I was at school, just before I left school, I had seen the Sex Pistols on television and [...]

Goths in the 80s: Jodie Meidling, Rachel Black, David Kendall

*Video: goths in the 80s: jodie meidling, rachel black, david kendall Speakers: Jodie Meidling, Rachel Black and David Kendall Running time: 11 minutes Transcript: Jodie Meidling: [0:08] I think I became a Goth when I was about 13. And the reason that I became a Goth was because I lived in the western suburbs of [...]