Friday 4 August 2023

beat girl


am i the last to know?  all those times at the stockport vintage village scooter rally full of fat anything but modernists (apart from a handful of beautiful old dandies) with their xxxl parkas full of patches of groups they've forgotten stood against everything they've turned into .... as we sneered and played impressions records when they asked if we'd got any "mod music" it turned out one of those patches was even more astoundingly amazingly revolutionary than they (and me) could ever have imagined... and the wankers would've hated it... 

that beat girl beat logo ... the girl pictured dancing with prince buster... brigitte bond... a trans woman...

how absolutely wonderful

gawd how i wish i'd known all those years ago

how absolutely wonderful


she even had a record out on blue beat... this is the b-side...

brigitte bond - oh! yeah baby

all this revelationary/revolutionary news is all down to the amazing work of miss upsetter... watch and learn dear hearts...

https://youtu.be/A7RNzArsQx8

(still can't get the enbed thing to work... bugger)

oh and seeing as it's you here's the beat off the c81 cassette...

the beat - twist and crawl (dub)

x

8 comments:

davyh said...

Issue with hypertext! (great lost Fall song)

davyh said...

That's amazing

ally. said...

what's a hyper text?
and isn't it just... watch the video it's great

davyh said...

Watched the whole thing: extraordinary - and what amazing research. Untold stories eh? x

PS: Google security check out - “Choose an identity” lol

mr.kenneth said...

goodness .... I had NO idea ... that is brill!
there's a painting of mine, sitting in my sister's garage that I did back in 1980 with many many many stencils of her silhouette from the photo dancing on many many levels of floors - sort of Escher sort of not - all in hot pink greys, blacks and whites. x

Camp Freddy said...

Well that is quite extraordinary! The old fat gammon ‘Mods’ would rage. Love it x

PC said...

I never knew the origin of the Beat girl, what an amazing photo. Just read her Wikipedia entry, fascinating story. I own one of the movies she appeared in on DVD, Herostratus, I'll need to fast forward through it and find her.

ally. said...

when the rabid panic fuckers scream social contagion history like this is ever more essential... trans rights now!