SKINS AND PUNKS
Gavin Watson
Vice Books
Unless you are allergic to photo books, you should already have come across Gavin Watson’s first offering,
. This book offered an unparalleled and unsurpassed photographic record of growing up as a young skinhead on the margins of working-class Thatcherite Britain.
Well, we just put out his new book, , which offers a more intimate take on the same period of Gavin’s life. You get touching, amazingly shot images of skins having a go at fancy dress (or “costumes” to you yanks), rock and roll, punk, and eventually acid and ecstasy.
We had a word about it all with Gavin’s brother, Neville Watson, who features heavily in both books, but he didn’t really seem that fussed.
Vice: Do you remember the Superman fancy dress period? Was fancy dress a popular pastime?
Neville Watson: What about the pre-skinhead days, like the rockabilly phase? What do you think about that now?
What else did you get up to before you were a skin?
How do you feel about the skins days, looking back on them now? Any regrets or anything you miss?
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Well, we just put out his new book, , which offers a more intimate take on the same period of Gavin’s life. You get touching, amazingly shot images of skins having a go at fancy dress (or “costumes” to you yanks), rock and roll, punk, and eventually acid and ecstasy.
We had a word about it all with Gavin’s brother, Neville Watson, who features heavily in both books, but he didn’t really seem that fussed.
Vice: Do you remember the Superman fancy dress period? Was fancy dress a popular pastime?
Neville Watson: What about the pre-skinhead days, like the rockabilly phase? What do you think about that now?
What else did you get up to before you were a skin?
How do you feel about the skins days, looking back on them now? Any regrets or anything you miss?
Go here to buy a copy of . DO NOT GIVE WAY TO EVIL Lisa Kahane
powerHouse Books powerhousebooks.com LOST IN THE POST Kevin Boniface, Joanna Shaw, Christopher Shaw
Old Street Publishing White Dog Biz oldstreetpublishing.co.uk RAID PACE Better Off Dead betteroffdead.co.uk VANDAL SQUAD Joe Rivera
powerHouse Books NICHE HOMO 1 Self-released Vice Hollyoaks myspace.com/lonklonklonk BEIJING BUBBLES Fly Fast Records Beijing Bubbles fly-fast-records.com THE END OF LIVING THE BEGINNING OF SURVIVAL Dash Snow
CFA Berlin cfa-berlin.com SEX BEAT 1 Self-released Sex Beat myspace.com/sexbeat_london THE MAN WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES Alan Aldridge
Thames & Hudson The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics A Quick One, Captain Fantastic Goodbye Cream thamesandhudson.com DON’T TAKE YOUR LIFE – TRUE STORIES BY JUSTIN MAURER Justin Maurer
Future Tense Books futuretensebooks.com VARIOUS FOLK TALES VOL. ONE Eighty-Eight Shades Press Eighty- Eight Shades Of Grey INKY FINGERS 3 Handmade Dirtcheap Productions Inky Fingers Any Zine SugarApe. Any Zine
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