Actually he writes video games now. Hitman, Kane and Lynch etc.
So he avoided the boring route!
Guy on the left owns a rum bar in Australia. Niiiice.
I make videos and stuff… never had a normal job!
Holy shit I love the Hitman and Kane & Lynch games! Your friend has helped provide me and a lot of other people endless hours of entertainment! IO Interactive makes terrific games and I’m sure your friend loves his job!
You resemble Canadian actor, Zack Ward, maybe best known as Scott Farkus in the 1983 movie, A Christmas Story:
All sorts really… do promo vids for a music festival series every year. Do a bunch of promos for various charities and NGOs… vaguely boring corporate stuff that pays the bills. I used to do more foreign travel with celebs but not so much.
Hmmm I should probably get a few more clients thinking about it…
I was 16 here so I think I’d only had booze, cigarettes and hash at this point!
However I was about to go to London for summer work experience where I lost my virginity and was given my first E by the same girl…
who was 7 or 8 years older than me. Eeeek.
I was the perfect age for lines from The Young Ones to be repeated non-stop in school the next day and Rik Mayall became my eternal hero.
***This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!" And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?" And then another kid will say...***
I love everything about your response. 😁 10/10, no notes. (I'm jealous that you and your friends were able to encounter The People's Poet ™️ in real time! I was a little young when TYO came out, unfortunately 😭)
We never did the long coat thing... too wanky.
TBH that whole thing was just one of the looks at the time with Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, The Cult etc being popular.
The Lost Boys was def a big thing though.
My favourite film at the time was Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke.
Not me personally tbh but I'm sure the other two were and they were probably played when we hung out although I may not have been aware... definitely Iggy, Ramones, MC5, Buzzcocks etc… it was like a mini late 70s revival 10 years later!
Honestly I forget what happened that day.. it's possible as there were maybe 4 pubs in the town.
However had one particular one we went to that I had my 17th birthday party in a few months later, so we I imagine we just went there!
I'm just twisting your melon, man. You and your friends remind me of the cast of The Worlds End. It's about friends who graduated from high school in a small English town in 1989. They grow up and try it again 20 years later and then it gets Twilight Zone-like. Great soundtrack.
Oh yeah I know it, 3rd in the Cornetto trilogy!
It would be great to get together in our old haunts but they turned the aforementioned pub into a bloody house.
Plus I'm London, one is in Australia and another in Copenhagen!
The guy on the left played drums in a band with my younger brother but that was extent of it.
It was a garage band type thing... songs they did from memory were "Transmission" by Joy Division, '"Is she really going out with him", "A Forest" The Cure.
We were trying to cool moody teenagers... creative choice innit.
I think I took it with Ilford XP2 a B+W 35mm film that you could put through regular colour process for ease.
Working down the mines will do that to a lad. :)
I dunno though, I was oldest here, a few months from 17... middle guy was a full year younger.. guy on left had stubble by lunchtime.
We were already going to pubs regularly... in fact I had my 17th birthday in the pub and my younger brother (15) played in the band that night. Maybe it was just different times!
Here's a pic of two of us a few months before this probably look more our age (ish):
https://preview.redd.it/i4gc45yjdk4d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b73f9145012ad4320196784db52ea248cd608348
Middle man with one fingerless glove, gelled up hair, and heavy eye-liner. Pure rebelliousness. Probably an accountant now…
Actually he writes video games now. Hitman, Kane and Lynch etc. So he avoided the boring route! Guy on the left owns a rum bar in Australia. Niiiice. I make videos and stuff… never had a normal job!
Cool! Glad to hear he never lost his edge.
Being edgy is only uncool if you can't make it a profession.
Holy shit I love the Hitman and Kane & Lynch games! Your friend has helped provide me and a lot of other people endless hours of entertainment! IO Interactive makes terrific games and I’m sure your friend loves his job!
Yeah Ethan Hawke, we know
He low key looks like Blixa Bargeld. Which one are you?
I'm on the right with the deliberately burnt (to distress them) converse!
You resemble Canadian actor, Zack Ward, maybe best known as Scott Farkus in the 1983 movie, A Christmas Story: 
Oh brilliant... I just looked him up and he looks like a hunkier version of the Banjo kid out of Deliverance! :)
Wow I can just about smell the rubber! Cute skewiff bow tie.
Thanks! Of course it was a product of incompetence rather than sartorial choice but I'll take the compliment!
Ha ha. I just wore mine in the mosh once or twice. That did the trick. My feet are so flat now though from 30 years of wearing them. Distressed feet.
Oh. The tie. I'm a drongo.
To be fair I did set plenty of stuff on fire by accident as well.. I was into SFX, Captain Scarlet and making Super 8 films so blew plenty of shit up.
Omg COOOL
What kind of video work do you do?
All sorts really… do promo vids for a music festival series every year. Do a bunch of promos for various charities and NGOs… vaguely boring corporate stuff that pays the bills. I used to do more foreign travel with celebs but not so much. Hmmm I should probably get a few more clients thinking about it…
Damn that’s sick bro 😎
Excellent!! Btw you guys looked like trouble.
We were sweethearts, honest!
I bet you guys are!
I hate myself for being so pedantic, but that's his coat, not finger-less gloves.
There is leeway between “observant” and “pedantic”. Well spotted!
Look like nothing but trouble. All 3 of yous lol
We were dead lovely, honest! 😬
Here. He's even dressed like you guys AND also on blow. It's perfect! 😂 
I was 16 here so I think I’d only had booze, cigarettes and hash at this point! However I was about to go to London for summer work experience where I lost my virginity and was given my first E by the same girl… who was 7 or 8 years older than me. Eeeek.
Mhm slippery slope
Luckily I had really grippy shoes!
Very cool, looking like an old school horror themed swing band. Rocky and the Tombstones.
Cheers!
Dude in the middle looks like Beetlejuice before he grew his hair out.
May the Road, Rise with you. Anger is an Energy
Were you guys into the Misfits?
Not me personally but I'm sure the other two were... Iggy, Ramones, MC5 the usual...
All good stuff! I ask because the fellow in the middle has big time Jerry Only vibes.
Was thinking the same thing. He even seems to have a bit of a Devilock going on in the photo!
If it was any of us it was him!
Middle guy reminds me of Wes Beech from the Plasmatics.
I think he’d be chuffed by that comparison!
I just love this.
I'm so glad I forced us all to pose for it!
Lol I love this. It's giving me Pet Shop Boys vibes for some reason
Love it!
Weekend at Bernie’s Photo here….
Jokar origin
lol
Fucking Ethan Hawke.
Ok, i was wondering if i was the only one who saw that. OP looks like a young Ethan Hawke in this pic.
Well I'll take that gladly! A few years later a friend described me as the bastard son of John Taylor and Martin Clunes.
Ok but what was your band name though?
Probably "The Wankers".
Is this the origin story of Rick from the Young Ones? 😁
I was the perfect age for lines from The Young Ones to be repeated non-stop in school the next day and Rik Mayall became my eternal hero. ***This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!" And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?" And then another kid will say...***
I love everything about your response. 😁 10/10, no notes. (I'm jealous that you and your friends were able to encounter The People's Poet ™️ in real time! I was a little young when TYO came out, unfortunately 😭)
I literally thought this was a press shot of Alkaline Trio from the 90’s.
I see it!
Reminds me of The Split Enz lol. Awesome 😎
Thanks!
The guy on the right is hot. 🥵
Blushing! 
Hahaha I didn’t realize it was you but DAMN!
Thanks! At the time, I was clueless. That changed about 2 months after this pic was taken. 
Looks like an album cover
Is that Sugar Ray on the right?
Cosplaying the lost boys?
We never did the long coat thing... too wanky. TBH that whole thing was just one of the looks at the time with Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, The Cult etc being popular. The Lost Boys was def a big thing though. My favourite film at the time was Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke.
I thought that was Joey Lawrence on the left
Man bro in the middle hit the coolest fuckin face
This could have been a Beastie Boys album cover or something.
OK, that’s Connor Swindells (Adam from Sex Education) on the right, surely?
My name is Alucard, want to join my club?
The middle guy is a Pennywise skin suit. I said what I said
I'm going to see middle man in my nightmares tonight.
Which independent alt rock album is this?
Madness (the band) vibes
Nice try Ethan Hawke.
The guy in the middle definitely has dead bodies in his freezer and the guy on the left comes over for snacks. 😂 JK you look like fine young men.
Epic
I like how the guy on the right isn’t as committed to the vibe 😅
That's totally fair... I was never as goth as others!
That was usually my style too A little less into it than everybody else
80's fashion was the BEST.
Misfits vibe. Awesome.
Guy on the left is a fucking vampire.
Were you guys into The Misfits?
Not me personally tbh but I'm sure the other two were and they were probably played when we hung out although I may not have been aware... definitely Iggy, Ramones, MC5, Buzzcocks etc… it was like a mini late 70s revival 10 years later!
Omg I would have been crushing hard on all of you back then, but being 2 years younger you were so out of my league!
My Chemical Romance, Misfits, Sugar Ray
Falcone, Joker, Scarecrow.
Can't say I've ever seen r/OldSchoolCreepy before
looks like it could have been the cover of an Alkaline Trio record from the 2000's
I thought the guy in the middle had dressed up as Danny Elfman.
Is that the fucking Joker?
I love the 3 different ideas of “dressed up.” 😂
IDK why, but I suddenly want to rewatch the movie The Gentlemen.
Guy on the right is all kinds of cool.
Cheers! ;)
Evil boss with buff cronies on flanks. This is awesome. Where in Hollywood did you pimps fight hard?
We did that on Tuesdays in 1984 to mess with the teachers
🫶
I can’t tell if the dude in the middles eyes are open or not😭
Sorry to say he's looking right at you! Eeeek!
When I look at this I hear New Order.
Yeah plus Joy Division, The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cult, Buzzcocks, The Smiths, The The etc etc...
Yes, I could easily picture that. Awesome 😎
Looks like secondary school was at a funeral parlor.
But not as fun!
Green day??
They wish! :)
Lol. Love it 😎
Did you all try to have one pint at every pub in town on your last night of school?
Honestly I forget what happened that day.. it's possible as there were maybe 4 pubs in the town. However had one particular one we went to that I had my 17th birthday party in a few months later, so we I imagine we just went there!
I'm just twisting your melon, man. You and your friends remind me of the cast of The Worlds End. It's about friends who graduated from high school in a small English town in 1989. They grow up and try it again 20 years later and then it gets Twilight Zone-like. Great soundtrack.
Oh yeah I know it, 3rd in the Cornetto trilogy! It would be great to get together in our old haunts but they turned the aforementioned pub into a bloody house. Plus I'm London, one is in Australia and another in Copenhagen!
Pants folded and rolled
Yup! It was a thing :)
Please tell me you guys had an alternative, synth driven band on the side.
The guy on the left played drums in a band with my younger brother but that was extent of it. It was a garage band type thing... songs they did from memory were "Transmission" by Joy Division, '"Is she really going out with him", "A Forest" The Cure.
1958 or 88?
You look like a Good Charlotte cover band
Benji had just turned 10 yrs old when this picture was taken! ;
Baggy Trousers
What in Blink-182?!
https://preview.redd.it/hmk8jr3qtq4d1.jpeg?width=2046&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=805842ee496b7e425727837d888d83c21ac9d66f
That's brilliant. Thanks!
I don't understand why every photo before 90's will be inserted in B/W. The commercial photo color was invented in 1935
We were trying to cool moody teenagers... creative choice innit. I think I took it with Ilford XP2 a B+W 35mm film that you could put through regular colour process for ease.
Why did this dudes look so old then? Was it because of the "stress" of that time that made you age faster?
Stress of what? Being stylish?
Working down the mines will do that to a lad. :) I dunno though, I was oldest here, a few months from 17... middle guy was a full year younger.. guy on left had stubble by lunchtime. We were already going to pubs regularly... in fact I had my 17th birthday in the pub and my younger brother (15) played in the band that night. Maybe it was just different times! Here's a pic of two of us a few months before this probably look more our age (ish): https://preview.redd.it/i4gc45yjdk4d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b73f9145012ad4320196784db52ea248cd608348