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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 – The Colourful Life And Times Of The Thomastown Sharps by Nick Tolewski & Dean Crozier opens a window on the Sharpie gang phenomena that swept Melbourne during the…

Mad, Mad, Mad i is NOW available on iTunes & iPeace along with the Suburban Sharp CD, also available from Skins ‘n’ Sharps online store and Vicious Sloth from the 27th of June.

Some impotant dates:

• Wednesday 29th June City Sharps will be interviewed on the Kev Lobotomy Show on 3PBS (7-10pm);
• Sunday 3rd

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Catch up with old and new sharpie (family) mates at a yearly event to reminisce and celebrate our infamous sharpie movement.

Thomastown’s book Once Were Sharps and City Sharps new CD will be available. Put on your drinking platforms and Connies – Beer Delux (Fed’s Square)has over 300 types of beer!

See our Facebook page for details and RSVP

Julie Mac has reviewed the new book available in the Skins ‘n’ Sharps store: Catch a Falling Star.
Read her review at Hungry Heart Cafe @ Flinders Street Station

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…

For a generation, Sharpies had been forgotten until they gradually re-appeared in the media and the arts – Greg Macainsh’s sharpie footage on the ABC series Long Way to the Top, Rebecca McLean’s short movies, Larry Jenkins and Peter Robinson’s photo exhibition and the release of Top Fella’s. After the two successful Skinsnsharps exhibitions in 2006 and 2010, the old…

The City Sharps page has been updated with some more information about the band and the lyrics for all the songs on the album.

Since the skinsnsharps exhibition, I have been busy spreading Sharpie love at Melbourne’s Federation Square book market. I meet interesting people and get to talk about Sharpies, treads, connies, Rose Tattoo and La Femme ALL day!

A fellow bookstall holder was reporter for JUKE music magazine in the 70s and he didn’t look impressed when I told him…

An insight into the highly acclaimed and best selling book, RAGE: A Sharpies Journal, Melbourne 1974 to 1980, written 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…

Here’s clip to stir up all old Sharpies and their dance. This was preformed by a local band and it’s a great send up. The clip will give you a laugh and shows the fun side of it. It’s a crackaaa! Well done boys.