Fwd: the final one

Another copy of the Rag many thanks to Gordon

August 1980 Rock Fest issue

So what were you doing in August 1980 - going to the nite club to watch the Ramones or Billy Connolly?

Thanks for this latest copy of the Rag - courtesy of Gordon Gurvan

The Midas Organ - Eric Browns turn

Roll back the clock to the meadows festival and then in August 1980 the real festival. 

I seem to remember the Cubs played the meadows festival in May that year but my thanks to Gordon Gurvan for some more great content from the summer I waved goodbye to Holyrood and fled fifth year for first year at St. Andrews - and the delights of the Dundee scene - the Dalry road venue is below - I believe it was known as Vietnam in its time as Edinburgh got more like trainspotters!

Great stuff in the rag #22

The penny drops as the mushroom rises! When drink was 35p a pint and protect and survive was £1.50. December 1980

Rag #22

How 1981 began with a price hike!

The Rag #18

Another great Regular music find from Gordon Gurvan find. Issue 18 was put out the month I left town for St. Andrews - read reminisce and roll a big fat one UB40 style (just joking) - Enjoy 

The Rag #22

Another piece of magic from Gordon at retroDundee and taysidebar - I'm loving the Shake gig at the Astoria for Edinburgh voluntary transport- back in December 1980 we needed benefit gigs from r a few things!

Talking of benefits - UB40 - owning your own label doesn't always work, unlike psychosis and dope, judging by their brotherly love these days,it seems smoking skunk for 40 years can make you the one in ten....

Reminisce & Read the Rag

Subject: The Rag #22

April gigs - monochrome set

Shame I'm off to Spain to do some walking drinking and eating

Edinburgh fanzine - pulsebeat

Thanks to Gordon Gurvan of retro Dundee for this classic fanzine from Stockbridge in April 1983 - any idea who wrote it ? Like Issue 12 of deadbeat we both agreed about the wild Indians !

Tayside Bar - Dundee

I'm a drinker in the TSB ( thistle street bar) in Edinburgh nowadays but back in the 80's and in particular 1982 to 1983 much of Deadbeat was written here.

Tayside Bar

Www.taysidebar.weebly.com

 I was the "luckiest citizen of all" as the Happy Family once sang. I even wrote a review of Tony Benn's Caird Hall speech here - a song for Europe - I called it - to be fair Brian sold the perfect Guinness and the Irish influence was all over the review. I digress the tayside bar has a new web admirer - Gordon "retro Dundee" Gurvan has built a fantastic website dedicated solely to the TSB - a proper social historian - thanks Gordon and enjoy everyone 

 here's the link that will take you to the Tayside Bar gig archive...

Tayside Bar

Just scroll down through and if the link doesn't work there are a couple of links on the main page of Retro Dundee.

Spanish stroll in April

An April camino sees me start in Barcelona and finish in Burgos on April 24th - if you fancy a walk there'll be hundreds as usual on the trail.

A big regret is missing the monochrome set over 14/4-15/4