Boys Own Special – Uppers & Downers
Acid House Upper & Downers ’88

Uppers
Paranoid persons who insist that the hot dog man outside Phuture is a plainclothes bod.
Potty Freddie Boswell Haircuts
The Kicker Boot Revival
TV Pirates (Brookside’s Sinbad)
Mad Korean boxing judges pretending to be Leeds fans’
Michael Clark dancing in Celtic footie tops
Perfect Day T-Shirts
Casey Jones’ TV show
Barry Spectrum’s designer black eye

Downers
People sticking Amyl up your nose when you’re catching forty winks
Bandana clad banana heads
Converse (acid stereotype)
Total nonceswho let TV crews film in clubs and raves
Teds calling teds, teds
Network Seven yuppies
Plainclothes plod on dayglobarbour
Kerry Dixon
Boys Own t-shirts (well sad)
Going up to people and saying “what are you like?”

Top Buzz – The ’88 Chart
Blaze ‘If You Should Need A Friend’
Raul ‘Guitarra’
The Style Council ‘Shout It To The Top’
Koxo Club ‘Parade House’
Peter Black ‘How Far I’ll Go’
Kariya ‘Let Me Love You’
Gypsy Kings ‘DjobiDjoba’
A Guy Called Gerald ‘Voodoo Ray’
Turntable Orchestra ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’
Castle Beat ‘I Shot The Sheriff’

Top Ten Ted Chart
 Ted Moult – All Time Ted From Teddington
Superted – The Cartoon Bear – not Jay Strongman!
Tim Westwood – Yo Down By Law Ted
Showaddywaddy – Firmed Up Acid Teds
Ted Ray – Carry On Ted
Two Can Ted – Boy’s Own Ted
Jazzy M (AKA Vince Prince) – Sad Ted
Teddy Kennedy – Took Another Ted Driving
Teddy Maybank – Seventies Chelsea Ted
Teddy Pendergrass – Never Hitch A Lift With Teddy Kennedy