... of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals Skinheads
They are foul-mouthed, violent and racist. They alienate as a deliberate act. Their music is menacing; their clothes functional - designed only for brawling and booting.
John, 'Brownie', 'Chubby' and Eddie -the subjects of this documentary film-are no angels either. As they move through the skinhead pads, dives and discos of inner London, they reinforce many aspects of the skinhead identikit: defiance, racism and a menace that erupts into the violent wrecking of a nightclub. But there is also John's intense poetry of despair, harsh gut music that owes nothing to art, and, above all, vitality - soured and perverted though it is -because there is no work and no hope of work.
Film cameraman KEVIN ROWLEY Film recordist RON KEIGHTLEY
Film editor RAY FRAWLEY Executive producer ROGER MILLS
Director TED CLISBY