Sunday, August 27, 2006

Starting out as a Xeroxed fanzine with a staple in the top left hand corner. Named after the opening track on The Dictators Go Girl Crazy, the purpose was to uphold what’s good, pure and right in terms of rock’n’roll and the satellites thereof. Issue One came out on Saturday, April 2nd 1977, the same day The Damned played Stirling University.

This has nothing to do with any of the crap that devalues our namesake. DO NOT send anything with regard to setting course for spreadsheet stardom. Reckon your fare fits? Drop a line but not with unsolicited links.

PDFs
of print issues can be accessed here. The 3 page pilot, “0” from September 1976 (Eddie and the Hot Rods drawing on the cover) never survived (I don't have one). There were only 10 as I recall.

Rockin’ Bones is also here. 1 - 7 are the newsletter/zines from before the club was closed down. I tried to keep things going and opened it up to the emerging garage/rock n' roll explosion with No. 8 included The Nomads and Scientists. I didn't care to encourage the goth/psychobilly circus and it fizzled out after 12 issues. The LOTC was about the fans and the club's short lifespan (1980 - 1983) generated a lifetime of good faith.

Source material quality wasn't always good and not having access to an A3 scanner anymore didn't help. Much of the early NBT content is embarrassing (to me) but all part of the schlep. I started a tip sheet in 2020 for anybody that cared and those are listed below.









KNBT was an occasional attempt at rounding up a bunch of songs that might accompany whatever you're up to. That was until Mixcloud changed their rules. 













El Sotano Shows - RTVE3



Rock Writ Blether with Armen Svadjian


Muchas gracias to Simon Birrell for his assistance and patience with getting all this on here!

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