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WORD YOU ARE JUST WRONG.
Posted by Rab100 on 6 February 2012 - 5:20pm.
The Buzzcocks at the RAR gig in Victoria Park? The Clash headlining? Do your homework. Clumsy!
I saw, X-Ray Specs, Steele Pulse, The Clash and finally at the top of the bill The Tom Robinson Band!
Very, very poor - I think you need to do some lines.
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well said.
Sometimes i think "Word" should go have the rigorous fact-checking like the "New Yorker" is said to have. Idiotic calumnies like the above ("were were there in the trenches, journalist sonny-Jim")are to be expected in less august music magazines, but we have higher standards of integrity. Otherwise we'll have punk being a rebellion against Thatcher (not Jim Callaghan), big 70s rock bands ceasing to exist after 1977 (Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton are still here, Stackridge and Van der Graaf generator were pushed out), and people only dancing after the introduction of Ecstasy (heard of Mods and Motown?). I have read all of these dim propositions in theoretically informed 'music' journalism written by school-leavers.
Luckily...
...the punks didn't manage to get John McLaughlin (who fled to Sao Paolo, Brazil, with the 412 chords they didn't need)...
Christ...
That's bloody awful. Other opinions etc.
Well, it's not all bad
On the plus side it stops after nine minutes.
twas an ANL show
not RAR too, wasn't it?
You could be right.
I have badges and various fanzine type things from the day, from both ANL and RAR.
Wrong show, wrong bands
At around that time, there were more low-budget shows put on for the *real* kids on the street, not the toff Jeremys whose daddies could bankroll them afford to see megastars like The Clash and TRB.
So - cos I am from the street - I saw Steele Pulse and was more than surprised at the Little White Bull Hitmaker's change of direction. This was only trumped by the appearance of X-Ray Specs, a co-existing contemporaneous tribute band fronted by Plastic Bagg.
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It was free. You just turned up to Victoria Park.
Sorry - I was making a joke
Using the lingo of the time.
I was also being sarcastic. Basically, if you're going to have a go at the mag - your argument is undermined by getting the band names wrong.
Hmmm, Sarcasm.
You are clearly a very funny man. I think misspelling a band's name hardly undermines my point, that The Word got the line up of a seminal punk/protest gig incorrect.
It'll always happen
And we'll always be a lot less happy about it than you are when it does. Someone mentioned the New Yorker earlier as the yardstick to go by, and they're right... but they have 66 staff writers, 31 other senior editorial roles, 17 people devoted entirely to fact-checking, and 19 copy editors. We have a full-time editorial staff of two. We could fact-check, double-check and triple check every contribution as the New Yorker do, of course, but we'd never make deadline.
Sorry about the mistake.
Fair enough Rab
All the best.
May as well get all the errors out of the way here...
The lady pictorially referred to (twice) as the Danish PM in the Borgen review in the new issue is not Sidse Babett Knudsen, but Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, who plays a TV journalist. And I've only seen one episode!
Can I just say
That I'm really enjoying having both this thread and "WORD - YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR NOW" both next to each other in Recent Topics.
It makes me feel like i'm in some wonderful parallel universe where Word magazine is an aggressive, confrontational organ, run by a pair of devil may care firebrands and specialising in flagrant provocation of its readership.
This blog/messageboard
has gotten very, ahem, 'lively' of late.
If you think this is lively
Wait until next month when Geri Halliwell & Steps are on the front cover!
Joking aside, I am really looking forward to reading the Gaga piece. I'm not a huge fan of her music, but then I don't think that is the case for some of the past cover stars too & I have been an avid reader since issue 3.
Keep up the good work etc. etc.
a pedant writes
It's X-Ray Spex not X-Ray Specs
no need to be
sarcastic about it ;-)
Another pedant writes
And it's Steel Pulse.
I don't know if I'm missing a point here but...
... re: the OP, Buzzcocks (no 'The') and The Clash very definitely did play in a park in east London circa 1978. It may not have been a Rock Against Racism gig and it may not have been Victoria Park, but there was a gig featuring Buzzcocks and The Clash. And Patrik Fitzgerald. I know, I was there.
I was in a band at the time and vividly remember being jealous of John Maher's tub thumping skills, and I recall The Clash playing 'Tommy Gun*' before it was released as a single.
We haven't received the latest edition in the Colonies yet so I don't actually know what you're talking about, but that never stopped me before.
* it could have been 'English Civil War.'