Editing Psychobilly (section)

==Fashion and subculture==
[[File:Nekromantix 2011-08-13 06.jpg|thumb|right|The Nekromantix, shown here in a 2011 show, illustrate several aspects of psychobilly fashion, including shaved heads, pompadour hairstyles, and prominent tattoos.]]

According to Nate Katz, "in its early days, Psychobilly relied almost entirely on word of mouth to be spread throughout London... If your friends did not know of it [a band or gig], the odds were that you did not either."<ref name="furious.com"/> The then manager of [[The Meteors]], Nick Garrard, produced a magazine called 'Cat Talk' which was heavy on Meteors content & their new style of Psychobilly music. One of the band's original fans (Proff) produced gig flyers with a heavy horror/Frankenstein theme. Roy Williams of [[Nervous Records]] created a newsletter that would be passed around known as 'Zorch News', which allowed fans to keep up with psychobilly news that specifically related to bands involved with Nervous Records.<ref name="furious.com"/> "Despite being starved of the oxygen of mainstream music press attention for more than 25 years, psychobilly has thrived in the underground[,] building a network of fiercely loyal followers and producing a huge number of bands who each peddle their own brand of the genre."<ref name="amazon.com"/> [[Fanzine]]s are one of the ways the psychobilly scene created a social network, with ''Deathrow'' being the "...only long running psychobilly fanzine."<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1282427.Deathrow |title=Deathrow: The Chronicles of Psychobilly: The Very Best of Britain's Essential Psycho Fanzine Issues 1-38 |first=Alan |last=Wilson |date=October 1, 2006 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-90144-755-2 |via=[[Goodreads.com]] |access-date=September 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815184726/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1282427.Deathrow |archive-date=August 15, 2016}}</ref>

Psychobilly musicians and fans, who are sometimes called "psychos" or just "Psychobillies", often dress in styles that borrow from 1950s [[rockabilly]] and [[rock and roll]], as well as 1970s [[punk fashion]]s. Long "Old Mans" overcoats, army trousers, bleached jeans & Dr Martin Boots were all part of the early "Psycho" uniform along with band logo T-shirts. Heavily painted and studded leather jackets were also worn. This was topped off by a 1950s style quiff or flat-top, often bleached with shaved back and sides. Psychobilly band members of both sexes often have prominent [[tattoo]]s, often with a vintage theme.<ref name="Downey, 77"/> Psychobilly "tattoos followed the same general notions as band designs, being highly influenced by the same movies. Common tattoos were images of the macabre nature such as bats, skulls, gravestones, as well as the occasional pin-up doll and band logo."<ref name="furious.com"/> The goal of the psychobilly scene member is to "live fast, die young, and leave a (not so) beautiful corpse."<ref name=mcintosh />

Other aesthetic later influences include the [[scooterboy]] and [[skinhead]] [[subculture]]s, although not all performers or fans choose to dress in these styles.<ref name="Downey, 77"/> Scooterboy fashion includes [[flight jacket]]s, mechanic's jackets, and motorcycle jackets. "Skinheads brought in things such as [[Doc Martens]] and [[Flight jacket|pilot jackets]] ... [and] Punks brought in clothes such as the leather jacket and tighter clothing[;] Beneath the jacket was often a band T-shirt or a [[tartan]] shirt taken from rockabillies"<ref name="furious.com"/> Psychos often cut the arms off of their leather jackets, converting them into vests, and decorate the jackets with horror imagery or band logos.

[[File:Creepers shoes.jpg|thumb|right|A pair of "double sole" creepers shoes often worn as the fashion of psychobilly musicians]]

Men often wear [[brothel creepers]] or [[Dr. Martens]] [[boot]]s and shave their heads into high [[Wedge (geometry)|wedge]]-shaped [[Pompadour (hairstyle)|pompadours]] or [[quiff]]s, [[military]]-style crops, or [[Mohawk hairstyle|mohawks]].<ref name="Downey, 77"/> The Sharks song "Take a Razor to Your Head" articulated the early psychobilly scene's code of dress, which was a reaction to the earlier British [[Teddy Boy]] movement:<ref name="Downey, 77"/> Teddy boys had long, strongly-moulded greased-up hair with a [[quiff]] at the front and the side combed back to form a [[Duck's ass|duck's arse]] at the rear. The Shark's song said: "When your Mom says you look really nice / When you're dressed up like a Ted / It's time to follow this cat's advice / Take a razor to your head".<ref name="Phantom Rockers">{{cite AV media notes
| title       = Phantom Rockers
| others      = The Sharks
| year        = 1980
| type        = CD
| publisher   = [[Nervous Records]]
}}</ref> "Like most hairstyles of the 1980s, things were taken to the extreme. People [in the psychobilly scene] tried to get their hair as tall as possible and brought in streaks of strange colors."<ref name="furious.com"/>