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Once were Sharps – The Colourful Life And Times Of The Thomastown Sharps

By Nick Tolewski & Dean Crozier

Take a trip back to Melbourne in the 1970s, to a time of ‘connies’, Staggers jeans, rat tails, and the people who wore them – the humble Sharpie.

“Once Were Sharps” opens a window on the Sharpie gang phenomena that swept Melbourne during the disco decade, honing in on perhaps the largest and fiercest of Melbourne’s Sharpie crews from the era, the Thomastown Sharps. Pieced together from first-hand accounts of the people who were there, “Once Were Sharps” takes a short, sweet, sometimes light-hearted look at Thomastown Sharp gang life and the moments (and fights) that defined them, from the gang’s inception through to their demise.

Price: $22

Mad, Mad, Mad – City Sharps

Mad, Mad, Mad is City Sharps exciting new EP. Also available on iTunes.

Tracks:

Drag racing
Fame
Start Living
(this is) Bullshit

Price: $10

Catch a Falling Star by Peter Haywood

When asked what it is about fame and celebrity that draws people so desperately to it, the record producer and songwriter Kim Fowley replied, ‘Inadequacy … it’s over-compensation for a crummy life, and you decide to have a fantasy life’.

So it is for Nicky Nova, a Bowie-obsessed young man growing up in Melbourne in the early 1980s. Nicky moves into a big, ramshackle share house in Lygon Street, Carlton, with a bunch of musician friends. He forms a band and dreams of becoming a world famous rock’n'roll star. But is the band as hell-bent on fame and fortune as their singer?

Loaded with pop culture references, Catch a Falling Star is part cautionary tale, part travelogue of a recent bygone era of skinny ties, leg-warmers and big hair. This is a post-punk story about friendship and betrayal, the impossible dreams of youth, and the compromises we must make in order to survive.

If you’ve ever put together a garage band and dreamed of bigger things; if you’ve lived through the bohemian grunge and fractious ego mix of the inner-suburban share house experience; if you have fond memories of the heady excesses of the 80s, you will love Catch a Falling Star.
Read more about Catch a Falling Star in the scrapbook

Price: $25

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City Sharps debut album: Suburban Sharp

City Sharps debut album: Suburban Sharp. Also available on iTunes.
See the City Sharps page for more information and a track listing

Price: $25

RAGE: A Sharpies Journal, Melbourne 1974 to 1980 by Julie Mac

A raw and real life story of Sharp as you’ve never read before. Follow Julie Mac and the Sharpies as they fight, punch and kick their way through their turbulent teenage years on the unsuspecting streets of Melbourne. It was a time when running from the cops, avoiding the ticket inspectors, drinking, spewing and rooting were all in a nights work, looking Sharp!
There will only be 250 copies with numbered book plates so be quick!

Price: $35