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Indie Documentary Review – Tramps!

It often happens that you see something and it dawns on you that Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness wasn’t so unusual after all. One of the first articles I wrote for RunPee was a documentary about a skateboard park and the people who were still using it forty years after it was built. It was called Rom Boys: 40 Years Of Cool and the reason I was thinking of it was that I was a young teacher working across town from that park and surrounded by every teenage boy in the school carrying a skateboard. 

Recently I was sent another documentary, set around the same time, and set around the same place. While I was watching it I was thinking “I know that place” or “I remember them” and similar things. The documentary was called Tramps! and tells the story of the movement known as the New Romantics. Now, despite what it might at first sound like, I was never a real follower of the New Romantic movement. Anyone who knows me will know that I struggle to make the effort to shave more than once a week; there’s no way that I would be applying Mondrian themed makeup.

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I Just Packed A Bag…

I did go out to clubs; back then I was a regular on the dance floors of many West End and Central London venues. I was more enthusiastic than competent but I was young and virtually indestructible. I would combat the inevitable hangovers with a call into the local newsagents. I’d pick up a copy of The Guardian, a pint of milk, a can of full fat Coke (diet hadn’t been invented back then), and a packet of Marlboro. All four would have been sampled by the end of the bus ride to the school I was working at and I was approaching normality. 

I won’t deny that being early twenties, doing a reasonably well paid job, and living in a big city was a hell of a life style and there are plenty of times when I’m reminded of those days and have to have a quiet five minutes reminiscing. Did Tramps! encourage any of those periods of reflection? To be honest, not really. But the reason why is that it showed me that there was a lot more to the New Romantic movement than I’d realised. As I alluded to earlier, it wasn’t really my scene. I knew some of the music and thought that was it. 

…And Legged It To London

It turns out that the music was more of an effect of the movement rather than the cause of it. People like Boy George, Marilyn, and Steve Strange were all pivotal in the New Romantic movement way before anyone had heard of Culture Club, Visage, or any of the other bands who were on the periphery of the scene. The root of the movement was art, fashion, and design. Early days saw the burgeoning popularity of a Tuesday night “Club For Heroes” mean that Steve Strange and Rusty Egan had to open a larger venue in Covent Garden called Blitz; one of the early names for the movement was The Blitz Kids.

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I’ve been using RunPee for a few years now and it’s basically a requirement of going to the movies for me. The best part of course are the “pee times” that give you cues, synopses and times for when you can pee without missing the most important parts of the movie. There is also information about the credits- length, extras and if there are any extra scenes at the wayyy end. Super helpful to just know that it is or isn’t worth staying. There is a timer function that will buzz your phone when it’s a good time to pee. I also appreciate that the app is very conscientious about it being an app you use in a theater- dark background, all silent alarms etc. I will always enjoy the experience of the theater even if I could watch things at home- but I’ve even used it at home to check for things like after credit scenes or other information too.

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Steve Strange was the doorman at Blitz and he had a strict policy of refusing entry if you weren’t dressed creatively or subversively enough to blend in with the people he’d already allowed in. This was also a period of grant assisted university education; everyone had the right to higher education. Thanks to this, I was the first person in my family to get a degree. Other people went to the various art colleges which were popping up in London, it seems a lot went on to form the aesthetic that became the New Romantics. Kevin Hegge has made a fascinating and informative film. 

Movie Grade: A+

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