
Soho's Punk offers the best 50's style music, at latest club night Smash and Grab, to it's weekly offbeat and stylish inhabitants on the lookout for a swinging start to an evening. It's not only clubs making the 1950's culture popular again, it's seen across the high-street and down catwalks, downloaded onto our ipods, we watch it on our screens and want to live the life like james dean; rebels without causes. The 1950's marked the end of an era with the war over and a new, more liberated society emerging; the new 'teenager' now had more money to spend and more time to spend it. Music became a lifestyle with local record shops becoming the latest teenage haunts with youngsters listening to the likes of Elvis and Buddy Holly. The 21st Century bears many resemblances to the era; music and fashion are a lifestyle choice and as Jim Stark rebelled against his parents and the establishment, stars and teens today rebel against the media, conformity and authority . Amy Winehouse, for example, has single handedly brought the beehive back with a vengeance along with typically teddy boy drainpipe jeans; her voice even emulates the deep early rock 'n' roll sound of the 1950's and her rebellious lifestyle similar to that of Jim Starks. Rebellion is in so let's go back to black and put on our blue suede shoes!