#10

Deadbeat never sleeps and these are the original proofs with some sharper images from Hilay's drawings, colour photos and scans not messy ink copies, I mean charming thumb prints on the printed issues from 1983. The ones on eBay are authentic as I recognise my thumb print, although I've loaded these here if you want a DIY Deadbeat

Charlie Higson, aka Switch and the gang were at Teviot Row on the same night Tell me a Colour played Potterrow,

The Bluebells had just won their case against their Paris counterparts and were celebrating by playing Dundee's Dance Factory that February.

Evan Henderson sent Pop Wallpaper's three track tape with "Dreamt Myself Sober", "Struggle" and "it wasn't You" into Scottish Korner as did Glasgow band Lets get Dressed. We used all our 70 word vocabulary in reviewing them, with originality mentioned liberally and 'wait to see them live' before making any judgements, the usual catch all for fence huggers.

The Pastels were talking music, the Bearsden punk Festival, Dan Treacy and bitching beautifully about Set the Tone.

Hilary caught the Higsons after their Dundee Dance Factory gig, while the Deadbeats cartoon had poor Raymond being gazumped again by Luke Atme.

Auntie Lynne and Cath with their Happy Hints, were suggesting we all adopt a bee. Much cheaper to feed than a cat and no need to exercise like a dog. They're also very good at cleaning up after themselves, well except Vinny.....

Orange Juice released Rip it Up and the record company didn't need to send us a 12" copy, as we'd already written the review before it arrived, but we were grateful!

Big Country released Fields of Fire and we demonstrated our musicality by accusing it of being similar to Harvest Home. In later editions we'd talk about the band's unique sound, aye, every day's a school day.

The Swing Club were a superb Dundee band  who had ventured over to open the St Andrews Music Festival. They headlined with Scott Gowans and Aaga completing the bill.