19 November 1979: London’s white skinhead ska exponents were back on home territory with rock-steady styles and tuneful pleasurable humourStudents of modern tribal ritual would maintain been well advised to spend the weekend in Camden Town’s seediest sauna,the Electric Ballroom. Fresh from their reported triumphs on the two-tone tour, London’s white skinhead ska exponents insanity were back on home territory, or every skinhead in town seemed to be there to welcome them. Just before the band came on they indulged in a strange ceremony of saluting,chanting and banging their heads together, and once a suitable number of braincells had been destroyed they started careering through the crowd, and pleasurable-naturedly knocking people over. Pork pie hats,braces and no shirts and no hair, were much in evidence.
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Source: theguardian.com