Cruel Crew

Born in the eighties

Being born in the eighties I thought was definitely the right time to be growing up. Well at the time, you do don’t you. The benefits of being the younger generation is that those older ones around you are forever envious that they didn’t have what you have around when they were growing up and there is this feeling that you are ‘it’ right now. Well, twenty-something years later things have definitely changed. Growing up in the eighties was awesome: More

Language, Innit

I don’t know what it is about today’s youth culture, but it would seem that anyone under the age of about 18 wants to sound like they’re black and live in the ghettoes and its middle class kids who are the worst offenders of this alleged crime. My friend lamented that language is changing for the worse and that today’s teenagers don’t know how to speak or write properly thanks to text speak.

I thought back to my teenage mobile More

Ploughed

I was fourteen when I first started riding BMX. Every day, straight after school, my friends and I would head on down to the cul-de-sac behind the school, where the dirt jumps were, a barren peice of land that used to be dedicated to a large storage unit. That place was our secret paradise. Secret at least, until the word got out and cars started appearing. Lots of cars, and it was becoming too much.

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London’s Pacemakers

As far back as any historian will tell you, fashion was set by those with money, the aristocracy, and ever royalty. That was up until the bright young things of the 1920’s, it had all changed, all of a sudden fashion was a distinctive part of youth culture and trends were set by the young. During the 20th century in London, from music to the reinvention of the scooter the young came back with a new cultural importance.

Saying that, class and money is always a factor. And from this was created subcultures. Subcultures concerning things that you do like skateboarding, the music that you listen to like Goth rock, or even where you live (east end boys and west end girls).

That’s what it’s all about, a new youth culture, a new world.