Were you a new romantic in the 80's?
I liked some of the music,but i wasn't one as such.
Which groups/singers did you like back then?

Ooh yeah, was a bit young though! had a wedge hair cut, a fringe coloured pink with food colouring or crazy colour when I could afford it, pixie boots from Rebina. Went to see Bmovie, Talk talk, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode. Apparently you could get in Rock City (Nottingham) for free if you dressed as a New Romantic!

I loved Culture Club and Paul Young back then. Never really liked Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet so had an agreement with a girl at school where she would buy Smash Hits and I'd buy No.1 magazine and I'd cut out and give her the Duran and Spandau pics and she'd cut out and give me the Paul Young pics.

I thought Depeche Mode and Soft Cell were a bit strange when they were around. Then again I was 14.

If we're talking 1981/2 then I was only 11, 12 or 13. Still, I owned at least two pairs of suede pixie boots and I loved them. It was a fashion I would have truly embraced had I been older.

I was jealous of my elder brother who was pubbing and clubbing around this time, especially the Limit (usually followed by a pizza at Barton's). I liked the look and sounds of modern romantic groups but the only group I was seriously into around this time was Altered Images (I know, I know).

Then in 1982 I got a Beatles 20 Greatest Hits LP and that was it. It was Beatles and solo Beatles all the way after that (and of course, buying guitars and forming groups and having a whale of a time).

As I was 13 at the height of the New Romantic movement I just missed out. By the time I was old enough to go clubbing in the mid 1980s the fashions had changed and it was all big hair and shoulder pads. No-one told me these were only supposed to be women's fashions.........:huh:

As I was 13 at the height of the New Romantic movement I just missed out. By the time I was old enough to go clubbing in the mid 1980s the fashions had changed and it was all big hair and shoulder pads. No-one told me these were only supposed to be women's fashions.........:huh:

Have you got a pic to show us? :gag:

i was only four by the end of the 1980s but i did have an asymetrical haircut and had rather large collars on my dresses.... does that count

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Deffo.......was a MASSIVE Durannie fan,Ultravox,Human League,Soft Cell and was WELL into Japan,David Sylvian was a god

i was and in some respects i still like the music,have seen omd,john foxx and human league this year.
would love ultravox,japan to reform and do some dates

i was only four by the end of the 1990s but i did have an asymetrical haircut and had rather large collars on my dresses.... does that count


Aren't graduates getting younger! :hihi:

I was the archetypal Smiths fan, vintage dresses and Doc Martens, backcombed hair in a high ponytail with straggly fringe and loads of ribbons and stuff in it. Lots of copper and brass bangles and strings of costume jewellery slung round my neck. I have absolutely no photos though, which is a shame, because I looked f'ing amazing.

Aren't graduates getting younger! :hihi:

I was the archetypal Smiths fan, vintage dresses and Doc Martens, backcombed hair in a high ponytail with straggly fringe and loads of ribbons and stuff in it. Lots of copper and brass bangles and strings of costume jewellery slung round my neck. I have absolutely no photos though, which is a shame, because I looked f'ing amazing.

oooops! i meant end of the 1980s! doh!

I never was one,
but perhaps should have been,
then I might hhave been,
a happier teen.

A bit of one - had jodpurs, pixie boots, ruffled shirts, rara skirts,head bands.

Also had a Toyah crimped phase and a human league flick. Also a Nich Heywood Arran jumper, highlights and flick. Also tried to be a little punk, but this was a step too far. Never quite did the adam ant thing though. Progressed to a back-combed cure fan for quite some time... too long really.

Nope. I was too young to be much of anything in those days. Although apparently I had a mullet circa 1987, as for some unknown reason girls at school reckoned I was a Jason Donovan lookalike! :loopy:

I didn't know where to be flattered or mortally insulted!

Oh I loved all the music. Have to say, it was a close call between Bob Marley's Legend and Soft Cell's Non Stop Erotic Cabaret for which album I listened to the most.

It was that time in life where i was trying it all out and not really being anything. properly..:rolleyes:(1981-1983)

I have a photo of me in a sweater dress with a scarf tied around my head trying to be all moody (I wanted to be Clare Grogan)

I used to love Adam Ant and have his posters on my wall
But i had a donkey jacket and loved Madness and Bad manners.

Then I'd also discovered the Jam... just as they were breaking up so had a parka and dogtooth skirt and the shoes... the music legacy that's lasted. :)

I also got mates with the bloke who ran our youth club disco and I was his little protege so he'd bring old sixties stuff to play me each week.So i loved Northern Soul and Motown and Doris Day weirdly!

But I loved soft cell, there was this older girl at Youth Club who was a massive fan and i wanted to be her. (1981 I was ten)

And of course all the other stuff championed by Smash Hits which was like a bible to teenagers then.

And I was going to marry Paul Young then.

So the answer is probably only on Thursdays, on Monday I was a mod, Tuesday a casual, Wednesdays a goth,....

Was a mod in early 80,s (NOT a moderator!!!) and had all the gear,parka with target on back,two tone trousers (loved em),trillby hat and piano keyboard tie (remember them?)
Remember when Madness released One Step Beyond,was like the first time i had sex it was THAT good lol

Nope. I was too young to be much of anything in those days. Although apparently I had a mullet circa 1987, as for some unknown reason girls at school reckoned I was a Jason Donovan lookalike! :loopy:

I didn't know where to be flattered or mortally insulted!which looney bin what that in then !!!