Thursday, 28 March 2024
Met a great guy David in the cask and barrel tonight
Back in the day he screen printed and pasted up the anti nazi league posters that went up all over town in 1980, give or take a year. HQ in Picardy place will always get a name drop and David could have a book coming out in the next 12 months regailing us with the great gigs of the time. He was at most of them and as a Fanzine it couldn't be better for Deadbeat to report on these things.
Fingers crossed for publication before Christmas and this is a time we all love to get nostalgic about and David's novel will be right up our street here at sunny Deadbeat, where we never miss a beat...
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Hi Alan, Thanks for your brill post, yeah it was great talking to you in the Cask and Barrel on Thursday night. It was really interesting talking to you about Deadbeat Fanzine and the Scottish/Edinburgh bands of the late 70's and early 80's. My mate and I were involved in the Edinburgh RAR/ANL in 1978 to about 1981 when we were teenagers and we helped design and screen print the infamous Edinburgh Carnival Against The Nazis, at Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh, Saturday August 5th 1978 poster at the TUC office at Picardy Place and then bill post them around Edinburgh and in particular the City centre in the weeks leading up to the Carnival. I kept a copy of the poster at the time and still have it hanging on my wall - This was the Carnival where The Clash were meant to headline but unknown to the band Bernard Rhodes had said to RAR/ANL they were coming but the band didn't know so they never turned up even though The Clash is on the poster. However other bands such as Aswad, Monos, Valves, Scars, Freeze, Deleted did play. Due to it's iconic design and the fact The Clash are on the poster but never actually played and due to it's rarety (not many original posters still exist), the poster is quite valuable. There was an photo exhibition at the Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow a few years ago just before covid by a photographer who took photos of ANL demos and gigs etc in London in the late 70's and memrobilia of Scottish ANL/RAR and the poster was reproduced to promote the exhibition. I did go to the exhibition and spoke to the manager of the gallery to say I had been involved in the design etc of the poster and he informed me that the main organiser of the Scottish ANL/RAR in the 1970's (I remember him from the time he use to make speaches at fund raising gigs etc Paul something I have forgotten his surname) had sold a copy of the poster for several thousand pounds. I think there are now copies floating about after that exhibition but I know my one is an original where as copies seem to be very colourful compared to my one which has faded especially the yellow colour over the decades. Hope to catch up with you again Alan at the C&A or via your Deadbeat blog/site.
ReplyDeleteThanks David, great story, catch again next time I see you in the Cask, Al
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