You know you were a 'late' hippy/ heavy metal fan when....

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Sorry - can't relate to those other threads.... was anyone else like this in the 70's & 80's??

• Indian cotton tops and skirts (or with worn out jeans
• Patchouly oil
• Joss sticks
• genesis/ Led Zepplin/ AC/dc; all still goign strong/ Deep Purple
• Army surplus green jacket to wear on top
• leather boots
• embroidered denim jackets - some with tassles (I was the girl favoured by all the boys at the Youth club 'cos I could do the embroidered stuff on the back
• head-banging with long hair (girls and boys)
• black eyeliner
• and everyone drove a Citroen Dyane

WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT???????

Hmmm... seem to remember cotton 'grandad collar' shirts with denim waistcoats..
And all those leather strong necklaces with 3 china beads in the middle - oh and beady necklaces

IN fACT - all the stuff that's back in the shops now...

I fear I was not as sophisticated as you guys
queen
def leppard
aerosmith
van halen
david lee roth
quire boys
bon jovi [shame]
led zep natch
poison
motley crue
oh god the boys with the long hair and the make up....
anyone ever seen the film the decline of western civilisation the metal years?

leather 'string' necklaces...

Single tooth earrings.

oh i love this. and the jewellery! still have terrible weakness for heavy silver things.

Buffy that was my tape collection. Not into all the late new romantic stuff or goth.

Lots of silver bangles - yes, Spidermama I had the single tooth earrings too!

Wow, I can't believe how nostalgic I feel - haven't thought about all this stuff for yonks!

buffy you have riffled through my music collection and ledt out some of the heavier stuff so I will add it in.

Iron Maiden
Metallica
Slayer
Megadeth

Mo2!! The Handyside!!! I adored that place! Me dad gave me some money for clothes when I was 15 and was horified when I took him there to buy myself a Victorian tail coat which I wore with a black lacey petticoat/nightie type dress. He couldn't beleive the arcade 9or the people that hung out there - was that you . I was in Nivarna!

Fullmoonfiend.... hurrah! AT leats someone who knows what I'm rambling on about. I was thinking about it agina last night, and I can't believe how many happy memories that place conjures up0 for me (and no... I never smoked dope... )

It was just such a fun, relaxed 'hanging out' sort of place...

When would your have been there? Did you grow up in Newcastle??

I was born in n'castle! But moved to Yorkshire when I was 7. It would have been around 1985 when my dad moved back to jesmond, and I yo-yoed back and forth from Yorkshire to Newcastle between the ages of 15 and about 22 (er, around 1985 to 1992 !) I used to have my set route from Handyside to Attic (vintage clothes on Haymarket) to an Indian hippy shp on Haymarket and Pet Sounds (Near Eldon Square?) to buy Viz and 'cool' second hand records. God, thank you for a lovely nostalgia trip Did you go to the Mayfair ever?

oh - a few years after I'd have been there then... I'm determined to go and buy some patchouli oil again though....

I had a proper tailcoat too!!! . I thought I was unique, never mind.

Everyone's unique Skribble!
You probably looked much cooler than me though - I was stick thin and probably looked like a right t*t!

My dh is still such a hippy at heart that, if I want to , ahem, get him interested, I need only use a few dabs of patchouli and...[lacivious grin emoticom]
Oh and I still have a full length vintage afghan which I wear in the playground when I feel like confusing the yummy mummies (normally these days I'm very shy and dull style wise)

The Quireboys! Flipping heck, where do I start?? We were (ashamed to admit it now) Quireboy groupies and followed them around everywhere. Got to know them quite well, Cose came to stay with me at Uni after he got kicked out of the band. I spent years going for the steptoe look, skinny black jeans, satin shirt with pinstriped waistcoat and suit jacket with carnations and silk hankies sticking out of the pocket.

I probably looked pretty bad too as all my stuff came from charity shops, I even worked in oxfam for a while so I could get first pick .

loads of silver bangles and stinky leather wristbands.
really crimped hair (with underneath bit shaved off)
loads of black kohl
she sells sanctuary
DMs and tie-dyed leggings
Gaye Bykers On Acid
Ozric Tentacles
black microdots
bucket bongs
skirts made from bits of material Sellotaped together
Echo Beach

that was me!

and how could I forget...
slam dancing
pints of snakebite and black
Malboro Reds
poppers
speedballs
The Cure

Still use incense sticks, still listen to the same music ... but now have a chiropractor for my neck problems (seriously!) from the head banging, and am putting off booking a hearing test because that means that I'm properly old (after my usual Friday night out, I couldn't hear properly for over 24 hours, GP has said my hearing permanently damaged). My kids are fed-up having the subtitles on the TV (I am turning into my father!)

that's so funny - how old are your kids, TP?

Oh I want to party with you lot! Kindred spirits! (mine's a JD)

wow i remember drinking snakebites and smelling of trogg oil

Dinny - they are 21, 19 and 19. I tell people that they were from my dh's first marriage (except that he's only ever been married to me, poor love). How old are yours?

Also used to wear mini brass bells (poor bf, now dh was so embarrassed, but didn't tell me for years!)

Oh wow Mo2 you've just brought it all back to me. I grew up in Durham and a trip to Handyside Arcade was a real highlight.
We had a few 'hippy' shops in Durham, namely Mugwump and Meander and that's where I bought all my indian prints and joss sticks.
Boyfriend of the time was DJ at our local heavy metal disco - how cool was I?