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Re: anyone interested at looking at old punk rock pictures from dublin, check this ou great photoes. would make a great book

thanks to everyone for their comments. great memories of a carefree time when the most important things were finding the strongest hairspray, searching chemists for Robert Smith's brand of lipstick, checking RPM records for new cure bootlegs etc. Cheers

A couple of songs from one of the most underrated bands ever. The Sound "Red Paint" The Sound "Total Recall"

at the Shelbourne Hotel I remember would-be stagedivers placing chairs around the dancefloor and diving over the heads of the dancers narrowly missing the chandaliers hanging ominously overhead. Was anyone down at the City Arts Centre in 91? It was like a sauna down on the dancfloor.

Whats the point in getting all hot under the collar about it? That "scenester fashion freak stuff" was great if you were a teenager in the Eighties, whether you were a goth, a punk, a curehead, a metaller, a mod, a skin etc. The cureheads were one of the few, and indeed last, youth subcultures...

back in the day the two subgenres were distinct. Cureheads backcombed their hair to look like Robert Smith and wore those big hitop basketball shoes and could be seen shuffling around on the dancefloor. Goths generally felt superior and liked flailing their arms and legs about in dramatic style...

Using a tooth brush to backcomb your hair sounds a bit mad. A normal comb did the job better. What about the Abbey mall, the Pierot club, mcGonagles on Thursday nights...Were these cure-head haunts? Did anyone see the cure in 1981 at the Trinity May Ball? Apparently a gang of Dublin's punks...

In the early nineties i was a cure-head which meant a lot of backcombing, baggy black jumpers, and misapplication of make up. I remember going to the cure days in the City Arts Centre and Shelbourne Hotel. But by the early nineties the cure-heads were a dying race. Does anyone remember where...