Sounds, NME and MelodyMaker - I bought them all.Great reads.We used to write off to all the different music journos and they would send us back publicity photos of our favourites - sometimes autographed!✌️👍
You've made my morning with this. Sounds issued the day before I was born! I always love these vids, but this one was especially fascinating for obvious reasons. Thank you so much for sharing, keep them coming - these are always great 🙂
August 28th 1978 was a significant date in rock'n'roll. Poor old Noddy Holder suffered a broken nose that evening at a gig in Porthcawl - seemingly not even mentioned in the gig listings - due to a fight with a bouncer. That incident made headlines two days later in the national press, and the bouncer ended up in jail! Still, Slade played a corker in Cleethorpes the next night. My mate and I saw our first gig three months later, Whitesnake/Magnum in Bournemouth. We must've missed that edition of Sounds, finding out that Jon Lord had joined Whitesnake a few weeks later. You've made me feel like a 17-year-old again!
@@TheVinylOrchard: We went to the show hoping to hear Purple songs, but Ain't No Love... made the biggest emotional impression on me - never forgotten. My mate's mum, who drove us back to North Dorset where we lived, told us that Magnum came out of the venue drinking beer and "looking cheesed off"! Maybe they'd sussed your disinterest.😅
I was also 17 at the time and I actually remember that issue very well, particularly the news about Jon Lord and the review of the new Boston LP by Geoff Barton (headline No more than an average feeling). I also remember the Commander Cody review and the headline Tanz their hides about a Tanz Der Youth gig. Why can I remember all of this but I can't remember what to buy when I do the shopping?
I used to have many of those old music papers, that one you had looked familiar so I may well have had that copy. I had a paper round and used to deliver them occaisionally, also NME and Melody Maker. I used to plaster my bedroom walls with those full page ads. Oh happy memories :)
Brilliant Chris, best music paper back in the day, especially with me being a punk, also liked a lot of oi (mr Bushell being the pioneer.....to start with), great to see this 😊
@stephenheffernan4163 no. I liked first wave of punk 76-78 and the new wave stuff of 79/80. But other than the ruts in 80 I’d moved on from punk by then. Not a fan of Oi at all. Could not stand cockney rejects and the like tbh
Hi Chris, this takes me back. Middlesbrough Rock Garden every Saturday night after watching the Boro, if they were playing at home. Every punk gig that is in that paper, I would have been there. 999, Punilux, Stranglers etc. Absolute nostalgic brilliance, Cheers.
Aww great reminiscence therapy Chris, and yeh for a Time Machine, I always felt we lost out on a lot of tours (up here in Scotland) as bands tended to play Glasgow, Edinburgh and maybe Dundee. I live in Fife so in between them all 😂, and travel back then was sketchy and pricey. Love these videos Chris.
@@patrickallen1628 yeh I saw the Jam, Clash, Smiths at the Caird Hall. One of the first gigs I went to was the Jam in Dec 1979, it’s a good venue. My actual first gig was the Skids at the Kinema Ballroom in Dunfermline, ticket was £1.50 😂😂
They had some great writers, all different -Dave McCullough, Garry Bushell, Geoff Barton, Sandy Robertson. I listned (mainly) to rock/metal stuff at the time but was really intrigued by The Fall and Swell Maps becuase of McCullough's articles and bought some fo their records subsequently. It's good to have your taste broadened and I still like a wide variety of music.
That's pretty much my experience of the broadsheet music press from mid 70s to late 80s. But, yes, Sounds had some really good writers. I liked the fact someone like Bushell could champion stuff like UFO and the Cockney Rejects@@craiggerrard5117
@ absolutely! I wasn’t their first mention in the weekly’s but it’s early, mentioning their appearance on the 10” Electric Circus album which was released just after they changed their name from Warsaw.
Sounds, NME and MelodyMaker - I bought them all.Great reads.We used to write off to all the different music journos and they would send us back publicity photos of our favourites - sometimes autographed!✌️👍
Sounds like a great plan!
You've made my morning with this. Sounds issued the day before I was born!
I always love these vids, but this one was especially fascinating for obvious reasons. Thank you so much for sharing, keep them coming - these are always great 🙂
@@georgeprior-vinylshowtell4934 jeez I was 17!! 😂
@@TheVinylOrchard Good era to be alive! I seriously need a time machine.
15 not 17. I was 14 in my favourite year for music 1977
August 28th 1978 was a significant date in rock'n'roll. Poor old Noddy Holder suffered a broken nose that evening at a gig in Porthcawl - seemingly not even mentioned in the gig listings - due to a fight with a bouncer. That incident made headlines two days later in the national press, and the bouncer ended up in jail! Still, Slade played a corker in Cleethorpes the next night.
My mate and I saw our first gig three months later, Whitesnake/Magnum in Bournemouth. We must've missed that edition of Sounds, finding out that Jon Lord had joined Whitesnake a few weeks later.
You've made me feel like a 17-year-old again!
I was at that whitesnake/ magnum gig in Bournemouth. I’m from Poole. Went to winter gardens loads
@@TheVinylOrchard: Great, wasn't it? I have a tape of the gig in quite good quality.
@BanalayerPete1972 I’ve seen Magnum a couple of times. Always as support. Thought they were crap. Love early whitesnake however.
@@TheVinylOrchard: We went to the show hoping to hear Purple songs, but Ain't No Love... made the biggest emotional impression on me - never forgotten. My mate's mum, who drove us back to North Dorset where we lived, told us that Magnum came out of the venue drinking beer and "looking cheesed off"! Maybe they'd sussed your disinterest.😅
I was also 17 at the time and I actually remember that issue very well, particularly the news about Jon Lord and the review of the new Boston LP by Geoff Barton (headline No more than an average feeling). I also remember the Commander Cody review and the headline Tanz their hides about a Tanz Der Youth gig. Why can I remember all of this but I can't remember what to buy when I do the shopping?
I used to have many of those old music papers, that one you had looked familiar so I may well have had that copy.
I had a paper round and used to deliver them occaisionally, also NME and Melody Maker. I used to plaster my bedroom walls with those full page ads. Oh happy memories :)
My walls were the same!
Hi Chris again just great memories! And as I've said before music not all boxed into different genres! Better days 👍
Love the memories these papers evoke Ian
Back in the day this was the only way to get info for gigs,releases,& to see what groups looked like b4 mtv & internet,highlight of the wk
I really looked forward to getting every issue. Cheers Thomas, Chris
Hi Chris loving the nostalgia what people wouldn’t give to see joy division in their prime have a brilliant rest of your week STEVE
Some of those concerts!!! Bring me a time machine! Cheers Steve
Brilliant Chris, best music paper back in the day, especially with me being a punk, also liked a lot of oi (mr Bushell being the pioneer.....to start with), great to see this 😊
Bushel was a big fan of Oi. I jumped ship around this time
@TheVinylOrchard not your choice of music?
@stephenheffernan4163 no. I liked first wave of punk 76-78 and the new wave stuff of 79/80. But other than the ruts in 80 I’d moved on from punk by then. Not a fan of Oi at all. Could not stand cockney rejects and the like tbh
Hi Chris, this takes me back. Middlesbrough Rock Garden every Saturday night after watching the Boro, if they were playing at home. Every punk gig that is in that paper, I would have been there. 999, Punilux, Stranglers etc. Absolute nostalgic brilliance, Cheers.
I love trawling through the old papers. Takes me right back
Aww great reminiscence therapy Chris, and yeh for a Time Machine, I always felt we lost out on a lot of tours (up here in Scotland) as bands tended to play Glasgow, Edinburgh and maybe Dundee. I live in Fife so in between them all 😂, and travel back then was sketchy and pricey. Love these videos Chris.
Love looking through them and wishing I was back then! Cheers Andy
@@patrickallen1628 yeh I saw the Jam, Clash, Smiths at the Caird Hall. One of the first gigs I went to was the Jam in Dec 1979, it’s a good venue. My actual first gig was the Skids at the Kinema Ballroom in Dunfermline, ticket was £1.50 😂😂
Sounds was a great read back then, particularly the articles by Dave McCullough, a very early champion of The Fall.
For me , it was the best one!
They had some great writers, all different -Dave McCullough, Garry Bushell, Geoff Barton, Sandy Robertson. I listned (mainly) to rock/metal stuff at the time but was really intrigued by The Fall and Swell Maps becuase of McCullough's articles and bought some fo their records subsequently. It's good to have your taste broadened and I still like a wide variety of music.
That's pretty much my experience of the broadsheet music press from mid 70s to late 80s. But, yes, Sounds had some really good writers. I liked the fact someone like Bushell could champion stuff like UFO and the Cockney Rejects@@craiggerrard5117
@craiggerrard5117 I love a wide range of stuff too. Cheers Craig
Early Joy Division article there you seemed to miss.
Oops sorry. Easy to miss stud when you are trying just to aim the camera! 😂
@ absolutely! I wasn’t their first mention in the weekly’s but it’s early, mentioning their appearance on the 10” Electric Circus album which was released just after they changed their name from Warsaw.
In those days both Teachers and pupils could read but not now.
Would disagree
Wow, mick farren! There's a na.e to contour with😂
That copy looks to have had a hard life,,,,but still it's a survivor. Wonder how many others have these. I do have a stack of very early Face mags tho
Remember face. I have a fair few of these papers