Goes deep into the heart of Britain’s New Romantics scene, tracing how a group of outsiders transformed London's under | dG1fclhGQzVGLXhSb2c
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00:00 I'm never going to fit in, so what's the point?
00:02 There's a feeling of something new happening.
00:05 Rejecting the old, I mean, it's the duty of every generation
00:09 to reject the old.
00:10 This is what I want to look like.
00:15 Kiss my arse.
00:16 It was like a celebration of life that ignored the misery
00:26 that was going on.
00:28 The level of education we had was the lowest you can get.
00:32 My parents were obsessed about you getting a career,
00:36 so I was like, "F*** you," and legged it to London.
00:42 It was quite anarchic and there was loads of drugs.
00:49 When you're living in the f***ing drain,
00:51 the best thing you can look forward to do is, like,
00:53 getting out the drain and dressing up and gorge.
00:56 Even if you're poor, you can look fabulous.
00:58 It could be somebody, a Hectoterian fetish robber,
01:08 sat with Elizabeth I.
01:10 It wasn't recognised for the kind of transgressive thing
01:12 that it was.
01:13 There was a kind of cultural divide.
01:17 And because people didn't have much money,
01:19 it was very much a sort of self-made image.
01:24 # I'm a little bit of a f***er... #
01:27 I think a lot of people expected to be big stars, you know,
01:31 but never quite got that.
01:33 And I look back at that time and realise how really fearless I was.
01:38 If it was really too much, they'd come up and punch you in the face.
01:43 Yes, the narrative of dressing up and showing off.
01:47 How wonderful!
01:48 What a life!
01:49 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
01:51 (MUSIC)
01:53 (upbeat music)
01:56 (audience laughing)