Do the monkey: Eastern Bloc boots for East End kids

We hope this article will shed light on questions you were always afraid to ask, for few topics are more divisive than monkey boots. However, Matt Crombieboy does not pretend that his stab at tracking the history of the boot is comprehensive. It’s just an attempt that heavily relies on word-of-mouth accounts – for few topics are more shrouded in mystery than the history of this fine footwear item. If you know more than he was able to find out, we’d encourage you to enlighten us.

December 26, 2017December 9, 2020 by Crombieboy Categories: Clobber, ReviewsTags: Bata shoes, Cebo boots, Dr Marten's church boots, monkey boots, NaNa monkey boots, skinhead monkey boots, Zuch boots 43 Comments

Zine review: Verbal #5

You’d have to go back quite some time to find proper skinzines like Hard As Nails, Zoot, Bovver Boot and the like. Back far enough, in fact, to the era before even the MP3 or dial-up modems.

Verbal, despite the aggro title, isn’t a ‘sussed skin’ zine in the vein of Hard As Nails, though it’s arguably as sussed as any of those earlier titles, and no one could deny that editor John King has more than earned his stripes as the novelist behind Skinheads and the Human Punk nights at the 100 Club, if not more.

December 18, 2017December 19, 2017 by Crombieboy Categories: Literature, ReviewsTags: Gary Bushell, Hard as Nails, Human Punk, John King, London Books, Verbal zine Leave a comment