New Wave Outpost Forum

Hi,
I am writing a novel set in Seattle's new wave teen dance club scene of 1983-84, and I'd love to hear your stories--what you listened to, what you saw, what you wore! Even if you didn't live in Seattle I would be interested in hearing your recollections of 1983-84.

hexicon@yahoo.com

Aah... Skoochies. Big hair, bad clothes, Cee Farrow's "Should I", the Beastie Boys showing up after they finished their opening set for Madonna, clove cigarette stink, Randy Schlager DJing, older girls (I was 14), Feargal Sharkey in concert, UB40 in conc

Beatschool, I'm intrigued! I do remember a few boys in skirts. Do you want to tell me what the skirt looked like and from whom you got it?

P.S. You're not one of Icky Ricky's boys from the Harbor, are you?

hexicon,

do you remember another seattle club called "the monastery". I never went but remember hearing other teens talking about it. If i remember right the semi-mainstream went to Skoochies and the much weirder kids (bat cavers?) went to the Monaste

SwampThing, this is the progression as I remember it:

In the summer of 1983, the underage dance club Tonight's The Night, on Mercer Island, began sponsoring New Wave nights on Fridays, Sundays, and, in the summer, Wednesdays. By the fall of 1983 I a

Your dress really depended on what crowd you ran with.
My friends and I were all preps and some (a few) "fringe" wavers.

How did we dress? Well like preps! [;)]

Our uniform was easy, once you figured out the dress code.
Casual but almost dress sla

Jimbo, that's interesting. What part of the country was this? In our group extreme preppiness in males, especially chinos and a tie, sometimes going into the two-tone "ska" look you describe, was one way guys proclaimed they were "Wave." (The real prepp

hexicon,

You nailed it. Good luck on the book!

[quote]Originally posted by hexicon
[br]Beatschool, I'm intrigued! I do remember a few boys in skirts. Do you want to tell me what

[quote]Originally posted by hexicon
[br]Beatschool, I'm intrigued! I do remember a few boys in skirts. Do you want to tell me what

I was reading what Jimbo wrote about how he dressed and thought I'd throw my own two cents in.

My friends and I always dressed in a way that guaranteed a response from the more close-minded Tacomans (okay, almost all of them). My poor dad nearly had a

[quote]Originally posted by hexicon
[br]Jimbo, that's interesting. What part of the country was this? In our group extreme preppine

We listened to KROQ 106.7 FM exclusively unless we were at Zuma beach then we could get 91X (English language broadcast out of Mexico). They both played pretty much the same stuff. Further inland you could not get 91X at all. It was just too far away. [:(

Thanks everyone; keep them coming! I'd like to hear from some of the girls.

Hex -

Are you still in the Seattle area? If so, I have a large group of friends from my youth still in the area that would be happy to volunteer their memories for you.