What is psychobilly?
THe easiest way to describe Psychobilly is to say it’s a mixture of Rockabilly and Punk. One of the best descriptions of Psychobilly has been written by Ted Polhemus in his book “Street Style”. Psychobillies From the book “Street Style”, written by Ted Polhemus (ISBN 0-500-27794-X). At first glance it is hard to imagine a more unlikely combination than Punk and Rockabilly, but the Psychobillies made a virtue of such apparent incompatibility. At the wonderfully named ‘Klub Foot’, the West London venue where the Psychobillies first came together as a subculture, their fusion of 1950s Americana and 1970s British Punk seemed both obvious and inevitable To make the connection one must forget the soft drizzle of sentimentality which in the end became all too typical of the Rockabillies (Elvis singing about Teddy Bears in Vegas) and go back to the angry, licentious snarf of their early days. From this perspective it is clear that the thumping beat, the in-your-face sexuality, the deliberate s
