E5. Go, Go Where?
60m
A look at teenage culture in Melbourne in 1966. Features Normie Rowe, teenage attitudes to their parents and sex and Go-Set Magazine which had just begun publication. They interview Go Set editor Tony Shauble, fashion editor Honey Lee and photographer Colin Beard at the Go-Set offices in St Kilda. Go Set wanted teenagers to write in about the problems that faced the world today and the teenage view of the world. Shows a sixteen year old Lynne Randell in the recording studio recording "Going out of my Head", with Carole West in the control room. Shows an interview with Carole West who manages several singers and groups. She talks about how she manages artists and the publicity they get.
Says Melbourne is the pop capital of Australia "Melbourne is where the action is". Features several discotheques of the day and teenagers dancing there to live bands.
A men's hairdresser is shown giving a long hair haircut of the day. Teenage boys discuss what hair styles they want.
Myers of Melbourne is featured with their own Mod teenage fashion shop called "In Gear". Paddy McCartney of the Twilights signs autographs at the shop. The interview the manager of the shop who says they are trying to copy Carnaby Street in London in terms of teenage fashions.
The Twilights perform "Bad Boy" at the shop whilst Denise Drysdale is shown go-go dancing to the music.
Denise is then shown giving Go go dancing lessons to teenge girls at a school in Melbourne. The school fee is $1.20 an hour. Girls can expect to earn $10 a night as a go go dancer, although not all can get work.
Discotheques need to employ bouncers because of brawls that happen between the Sharpies and the Mods. A teenage mod is interviewed about the fights between the Sharpies and the Mods. Sharpies are kept out of teenage discotheques and dances. Sharpies usually wait outside the dances in the dark to pick fights with the mods. A Sharpie is interviewed about how they feel towards the mods and their fights with the
