Thanks Gordon, retrodundee.blogspot.com to the rescue again with some of the best issues, obviously because from #5-#14 our main base was the stage or stage door of Dundee's Dance Factory! What a great issue this was for us, so much going on and so many pints tucked away at the Tayside Bar. Like every issue at the time we always felt it could be better if we spent more time editing but there was always another gig or party to go to. So we slammed it out and said 'will do better next time', we never did do better we just did...what we did!
Outstanding issue with Davie Weddell and the (not so) Happy Family!
Haysi Fantayzee's "Battle hymns for Children Singing" was released as was the Revillos "Attack"
U2 were playing the Caird Hall and Fad Gadget were playing night Moves. Someone called Madonna had just released "Everybody" while the Fun Boy 3 had released "Tunnel of Love", U2's WAR was also on its way.
I found myself interviewing Brian Sinclair of the Tayside Bar and the next thing I've spent all that week's Deadbeat 10p's on Guinness and toasties!
I'm a half full kinda guy and I think Brian was too, he must've been to let us play so often.
I never realised just how good a venue the TSB was until, like many others, I was long gone. We all go on about nostalgia in a guilt free world, but let's not beat about the bush, it was there and then it wasn't.
We used to give Brian our £5 or in my case as many 10p's as the jar had, but at the end of the day nobody was waving a charity jar in Groucho to help Brian keep it open.
It just shows you, as I thought I was quite militant shouting at the South African Ambassador coming to St Andrews to address the Tory party in 1981, shame on them, but I wasn't militant at all. My favourite venue shut and I had moved on.
Get you with your new hair style and no TSB.
I don't know the reason the bar shut but if it was a lack of support ( no pun intended Life Support fans) I'm suitably ashamed. Whenever venues disappear they rarely get replaced and many promoters never get the respect they deserve for trying to earn a living putting bands on. Ironically it's probably easier to put a 76-86 band on nowadays than it was back then. It's all about the demographic!
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