#4

Issue 4 was the first copy we sold for 10p in October 1982.

It was an unashamed effort at touting the band, a mistake I'd try never to repeat. As soon as I heard Martin Stephenson and the Daintees I knew our band was for fun.

There's no doubt any talent we had was with the pen not the microphone!

Issue 4 had a few gigs reviewed but it started the Roy Terre rock file which allowed Derek Anderson and I to interview Roddy Frame a week later. I was clearly enjoying this editorial role of getting pished and watching the world go by. Its not true that I went of with Stu the roadie while Dor'k got the interview. I heard those poetic words about 'just like june' being an existentialist woe is me.....

The issue contained a review of Kid Creole and the Coconuts from the playhouse gig and much more besides but what it really did was get us cranking them out every 2-3 weeks which certainly beat going to Uni. As 3rd year had just begun, clearly I was getting my head around what I was going to do, that or just sticking my head under the duvet as usual.
Just in case Life Support were not feeling insecure enough about playing our instruments, Hey! Elastica were also featured in issue 4, which menat we even lost out on the hairstyles!

 Not everyone did their hair....

..... in this photo there's a lovely 1982 syrup squeezing into the bottom of the frame

 The 1982 Dance Factory in Dundee was a great wee venue on the first floor opposite the Malmaison hotel in Union Street, before it moved to bigger venues as Stuart Clumpas got more and more of the bands to add Dundee to their UK tours.

Needless to say, Vile Rapport never managed to make it to Teasers in Dundee, never mind the Dance Factory.

Just as well because the ceilings were a lot lower than we were used to and I enjoyed a wee dance.....

Although when playing the Tayside Bar our biggest issue was the ashtrays!