Margate's Hidden Youth Culture

Writer and former Margate resident Iain Aitch, is collecting and collating information, memories, stories, photos, memorabilia about youth culture in Margate entitled "Margate's Hidden Youth Culture" for an exhibition in Margate later in the year at the Turner Centre.
If you were a Skinhead, Mod, Scooterist, Punk, Rocker, Soul Boy, Biker, Casual, Bootboy or whatever and have a Facebook account,head over here https://www.facebook.com/margateyouthculture, like the page and add your memories to it. There is some good stuff already there but more is needed.
Share your history to make history.

Battle Of The Bands - Westcoast Bar - Margate

The Westcoast B.O.T.B. kicks off in the first week in February!
So get along there and support your favourites.
We will let you kinow which bands make it thru to the next round.
Voting conditions are set out below the dates.
Heres the weekly line-up:

Heat 1 – (feb 3)
Caemero
Dark Theory
...I.R.I.S (In retrospect i see)
My Third Leg

Heat 2 – (feb 10)
Cry Wolf
Running With Scissors
Save Target As
Wild Child

Heat 3 (feb 17)
The Deccas
Callous
Third Place Victory
The Self Titled

Heat 4 (feb 24)
ScreamDontWhisper!
After The Enclave
We Become Heroes
Then The Wave Came

Heat 5 (mar 3)
Tyrannosaurus Alan
Upon These Shores
The Godless Reds
Far From Relative

Heat 6 (mar 10)
Foreboding Ether
Antmonkey
Predicting the Fall
Alaska

Heat 7 (mar 17)
Dethrone Exodus
The Unanswered
Angra Mainyu
Who Needs Optimism

Heat 8 (mar 24)
Four What It's Worth
The Kicks
Midnight Carnival
Transcending the Flesh

Heat 9 (mar 31)
Shatterpoint
The Sunshine Bus
Archives
Zorzilla

Heat 10 (april 7)
A Thousand Lights
Yamaharahara
Chronos
OceanSkyLight

Semi-Final 1 - 9th April
Semi-Final 2 - 30th April
Play-Offs - 7th May
Finals - 28th May

Remember only paying customers can vote! Entry is £3 to all heat
semis, playoffs and finals are £4 entry.

1 VOTE per customer!
Voting takes place after the last band.
You have 10 mins to vote!
Then votes are counted and the winners announced.

The order of bands is selected at random on the night,
so make sure you get down early to see all the bands!

Tom / James / Jez / Eli - Westcoast

Jesus Fix - Dark Ages

Slideshow video of flyers "borrowed" from Jesus Fix Myspace
Put together because we felt there wasn't enough JF out there and more was needed.
More on the mighty Jesus Fix in february and new merch on the website when it opens. In the meanwhile

Jesus Fix - Dark Ages (Video Slideshow)

Hollywood Suicide - Fuck Right Off

From Kent and London - Hollywood Suicide were one of the best Psychobilly bands doing the rounds until recently. Their gigs were always good and in some quite obscure places too - one memorable one being in a cafe that was about 10 foot wide on the end of Margate pier. Pretty much playing to a wall for the set with audience members sctattered around the sides watching a quite energetic performance considering the space they had.
Their first and as far as im aware only CD album "Murder At The Prom" is a cracker and worth tracking down
The video below is from TJ's in Newport.