{ "meta": { "title": "Archive objects", "description": "Public metadata for each archive object and its cleared image files.", "language": "en-GB", "last_substantive_revision": "2026-11-06", "canonical_page": "https://thenewenglish.uk/research/", "file_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/archive.json", "count": 18, "notice": "Public export of The New English Archive. Crawler or download access is not a licence to reuse the material. Methodology and notes on sources: https://thenewenglish.uk/research/" }, "objects": [ { "id": "A15", "slug": "band-photograph-may-1986", "title": "The New English, May 1986", "type": "photograph", "type_label": "Photograph", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A colour photograph of three people sitting close together against a pale wall, from May 1986, the month the group took the name The New English. The person on the left wears dark glasses and a dark jacket, the one in the middle a white T-shirt and the one on the right a red cardigan. The picture has a soft, hazy finish around the edges, and it was used again as the cover image of the YouTube upload of Get Ready. It is the earliest photograph in the archive.", "body": [ "A colour photograph of three people sitting close together against a pale wall, from May 1986, the month the group took the name The New English. The person on the left wears dark glasses and a dark jacket, the one in the middle a white T-shirt and the one on the right a red cardigan. The picture has a soft, hazy finish around the edges, and it was used again as the cover image of the YouTube upload of Get Ready. It is the earliest photograph in the archive." ], "caption": "Colour photograph of the band in May 1986, the month the name The New English was adopted.", "date_text": "May 1986", "date_label": "May 1986", "date_provenance": "The date comes from the file title and date field on Wikimedia Commons.", "object_type": "Photograph", "mentions": [], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A15", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Author unknown, from The New English, on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Resized for the web.", "credit_links": [ { "label": "Source file", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_English_Band_May_1986.jpg" }, { "label": "CC BY 4.0 licence", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" } ], "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-may-1986/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-may-1986.md", "image": { "alt": "Colour photograph of three young people sitting close together, one in dark glasses, one in a red cardigan.", "width": 1716, "height": 1151, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-1716.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 322, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 644, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1716, "height": 1151, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-1716.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-1716.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-may-1986-1716.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A16", "slug": "band-photograph-october-1986", "title": "The New English, October 1986", "type": "photograph", "type_label": "Photograph", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A colour photograph of three people in a hallway, from October 1986, the month of the Tunnel Club show reviewed in this archive. The person on the left wears a red polo shirt with a jacket over one shoulder, a blond figure looks out from a doorway behind, and the person on the right wears a dark shirt and a wristwatch. The doorway setting is close to the picture printed with the Le Beat Route review, which names Joz as the one in the middle. It shows the band in its first months under the new name.", "body": [ "A colour photograph of three people in a hallway, from October 1986, the month of the Tunnel Club show reviewed in this archive. The person on the left wears a red polo shirt with a jacket over one shoulder, a blond figure looks out from a doorway behind, and the person on the right wears a dark shirt and a wristwatch. The doorway setting is close to the picture printed with the Le Beat Route review, which names Joz as the one in the middle. It shows the band in its first months under the new name." ], "caption": "Colour photograph of the band in a hallway, October 1986.", "date_text": "October 1986", "date_label": "October 1986", "date_provenance": "The date comes from the file title and date field on Wikimedia Commons.", "object_type": "Photograph", "mentions": [ "Tunnel Club", "Le Beat Route" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A16", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Author unknown, from The New English, on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Resized for the web.", "credit_links": [ { "label": "Source file", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_English_in_October_1986.jpg" }, { "label": "CC BY 4.0 licence", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" } ], "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-october-1986/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-october-1986.md", "image": { "alt": "Colour photograph of three young people in a hallway, one in a red polo shirt, one blond in a doorway behind.", "width": 966, "height": 755, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-966.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 375, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 750, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-960.jpg" }, { "width": 966, "height": 755, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-966.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-966.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-photograph-october-1986-966.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A05", "slug": "tunnel-club-review", "title": "Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "This typed fanzine page, headed Reviews, includes a review of The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich on 28 October 1986. The writer reports an audience of 25 on a wet Tuesday in an industrial setting, says The New English were by far the better of the two bands, and praises the riffs of a guitarist spelt Sharef. The rest of the page covers gigs by other acts, and it ends with a sign-off from Nik and a handwritten note crediting the magazine’s artwork. It is the earliest review of the band in the archive.", "body": [ "This typed fanzine page, headed Reviews, includes a review of The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich on 28 October 1986. The writer reports an audience of 25 on a wet Tuesday in an industrial setting, says The New English were by far the better of the two bands, and praises the riffs of a guitarist spelt Sharef. The rest of the page covers gigs by other acts, and it ends with a sign-off from Nik and a handwritten note crediting the magazine’s artwork. It is the earliest review of the band in the archive." ], "caption": "A fanzine Reviews page with a review of The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, 28 October 1986.", "date_text": "28/10/86", "date_label": null, "date_provenance": "The date is printed in the review heading as 28/10/86 and the text calls it a ‘very wet Tuesday’, which agrees with the calendar (28 October 1986 was a Tuesday); it dates the gig, not the publication of the fanzine issue.", "object_type": "Fanzine review", "mentions": [ "The Third Man", "Tunnel Club", "Greenwich", "Blackwall Tunnel", "Bonapartes", "The Damned", "Blue In Heaven", "Liverpool Royal Court", "The Redskins" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A05", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Page signed off “Nik”.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "The New English were by far the best, with Sharef playing some brilliant riffs.", "attribution": "Fanzine review of the Tunnel Club gig, 28 October 1986." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/tunnel-club-review/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/tunnel-club-review.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed fanzine page headed Reviews; the right-hand column reviews The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club.", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/tunnel-club-review-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A14", "slug": "band-interview-first-page", "title": "Fanzine interview, first page", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "The first page of a typewritten fanzine interview with The New English. The introduction names Johnny Rasheed on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with drums supplied by a drum machine printed as “Sequestial”; a black bar hides a word before Shareef’s name. Short topic headings run down the page, from drum machines and the independent scene to Morrissey and Marr, television, alcohol, religion, racism, skinhead fashion and benefit gigs, with answers from Johnny and Shareef. A solid black panel carries a rotated slogan about being harder and more melodic than two famous groups.", "body": [ "The first page of a typewritten fanzine interview with The New English. The introduction names Johnny Rasheed on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with drums supplied by a drum machine printed as “Sequestial”; a black bar hides a word before Shareef’s name. Short topic headings run down the page, from drum machines and the independent scene to Morrissey and Marr, television, alcohol, religion, racism, skinhead fashion and benefit gigs, with answers from Johnny and Shareef. A solid black panel carries a rotated slogan about being harder and more melodic than two famous groups." ], "caption": "First page of a fanzine interview with The New English, naming Johnny Rasheed on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with a drum machine.", "date_text": "No date printed", "date_label": "1987", "date_provenance": "No date is printed on the page; the scan label’s October 1986 is unsupported, and the page ends “or look at the next page!” while the apparent next page (A11) carries a review dated 2/4/87, which would put the issue in April 1987 or later if the two pages belong together.", "object_type": "Fanzine interview", "mentions": [ "Redskins", "Felt", "Morrissey and Marr", "Cherry Red", "C86 bands", "Primal Scream", "The Pastels", "Talulah Gosh", "Band of Holy Joy", "Ian Curtis", "Sylvia Plath", "Phil Ochs", "4Skins", "The Beatles", "Fulham", "London" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "reported", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A14", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "Johnny Rasheed (Bass and vocals)", "attribution": "The interview’s introduction." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-first-page/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-first-page.md", "image": { "alt": "Typewritten fanzine interview page with ruled topic headings, a black panel with a rotated slogan and a small photo", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-first-page-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A09", "slug": "le-beat-route-review", "title": "Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "A typed fanzine page with a review headed “New English - La Beatroute 23.2.87”. The writer calls the band the liveliest of the night, notes wrong opening chords on “Sixteen” and says it was their tenth gig since October. A grainy photograph of three people by a doorway is captioned to say that Joz, the one in the middle, is no longer with the band, and a small competition box asks readers to name the band, where it comes from and who left it without a bassist. The same page holds reviews of another band and a notice for a zine called Fight Back.", "body": [ "A typed fanzine page with a review headed “New English - La Beatroute 23.2.87”. The writer calls the band the liveliest of the night, notes wrong opening chords on “Sixteen” and says it was their tenth gig since October. A grainy photograph of three people by a doorway is captioned to say that Joz, the one in the middle, is no longer with the band, and a small competition box asks readers to name the band, where it comes from and who left it without a bassist. The same page holds reviews of another band and a notice for a zine called Fight Back." ], "caption": "Fanzine page reviewing The New English at Le Beat Route on 23 February 1987, with a photograph captioned to say Joz, in the middle, had left the band.", "date_text": "23.2.87", "date_label": null, "date_provenance": "Printed in the review heading as 23.2.87 (the day’s second digit is slightly damaged but reads 3); 23 February 1987 was a Monday by calendar calculation, and the page itself was printed later because it also carries a review dated late March 1987.", "object_type": "Fanzine review", "mentions": [ "Le Beat Route", "Lost Chord", "Bonaparte’s", "Fight Back", "Amebix", "Sacrilege", "Concrete Sox", "Ripcord" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "shareef-c", "joz" ], "source_id": "A09", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Page signed off “Nik”.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "the liveliest band out on the night", "attribution": "Fanzine review, 23 February 1987." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/le-beat-route-review/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/le-beat-route-review.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed fanzine page with a New English gig review, a three-question quiz box and a grainy photo of three people by a doorway", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/le-beat-route-review-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A17", "slug": "wimbledon-festival-july-1987", "title": "The New English at the Wimbledon Festival, July 1987", "type": "photograph", "type_label": "Photograph", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A colour photograph of The New English on an outdoor stage at the Wimbledon Festival in July 1987. A guitarist stands on the left, a player sings at the microphone on the right, and the drummer sits behind a kit at the back of the stage, in front of a white marquee, with rooftops and a summer sky behind. The amplifiers carry Union Jack stickers, and bunting runs along the front of the stage. It is the only photograph in the archive that shows the band playing live with a drummer.", "body": [ "A colour photograph of The New English on an outdoor stage at the Wimbledon Festival in July 1987. A guitarist stands on the left, a player sings at the microphone on the right, and the drummer sits behind a kit at the back of the stage, in front of a white marquee, with rooftops and a summer sky behind. The amplifiers carry Union Jack stickers, and bunting runs along the front of the stage. It is the only photograph in the archive that shows the band playing live with a drummer." ], "caption": "The New English on stage at the Wimbledon Festival, July 1987.", "date_text": "July 1987", "date_label": "July 1987", "date_provenance": "The month comes from the file title on Wikimedia Commons and the gig list, which gives 11 July 1987.", "object_type": "Photograph", "mentions": [ "Wimbledon Festival" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A17", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Rock Garden, from the Rolling Stone Archive, on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0. Resized for the web.", "credit_links": [ { "label": "Source file", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_English_Wimbledon_Festival_July_1987.jpg" }, { "label": "CC BY 3.0 licence", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" } ], "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/wimbledon-festival-july-1987/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/wimbledon-festival-july-1987.md", "image": { "alt": "Colour photograph of a three-piece band on an outdoor stage in front of a white marquee, with a drummer between two players.", "width": 1740, "height": 1151, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-1740.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 318, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 635, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1740, "height": 1151, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-1740.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-1740.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/wimbledon-festival-july-1987-1740.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A18", "slug": "rock-garden-band-pass", "title": "Rock Garden band pass, 7 December 1987", "type": "ticket", "type_label": "Ticket", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "A printed band pass for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, with the club’s logo at the top and the words Band Pass at the foot. The band name and date are filled in by hand: The New English, 7/12/87. It belongs to the same night as the admission card for Breakthrough I, and it gives the year of that show in full. Together, the pass and the card record both sides of the evening, the way in for the musicians and the way in for the audience. It is one of the smallest items in the archive.", "body": [ "A printed band pass for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, with the club’s logo at the top and the words Band Pass at the foot. The band name and date are filled in by hand: The New English, 7/12/87. It belongs to the same night as the admission card for Breakthrough I, and it gives the year of that show in full. Together, the pass and the card record both sides of the evening, the way in for the musicians and the way in for the audience. It is one of the smallest items in the archive." ], "caption": "Rock Garden band pass with The New English and 7/12/87 written in by hand.", "date_text": "7/12/87", "date_label": "7 December 1987", "date_provenance": "The date is handwritten on the pass as 7/12/87.", "object_type": "Band pass", "mentions": [ "Rock Garden", "Breakthrough I" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A18", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Rock Garden, from the Rolling Stone Archive, on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0. Resized for the web.", "credit_links": [ { "label": "Source file", "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Garden_Band_Pass.jpg" }, { "label": "CC BY 3.0 licence", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" } ], "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-band-pass/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-band-pass.md", "image": { "alt": "Cream Rock Garden band pass with The New English and the date 7/12/87 handwritten on dotted lines.", "width": 291, "height": 424, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-band-pass-291.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 291, "height": 424, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-band-pass-291.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-band-pass-291.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-band-pass-291.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A06", "slug": "reading-may-poster", "title": "Reading poster for 15 May", "type": "poster", "type_label": "Poster", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This bold black-and-white poster advertises New English on 15 May 1987 at 112 London Street, Reading, the home of the Paradise Club. A black panel gives the details: admission £3.50 from 9:00 until late, or £2.50 before 10:00. The very large lettering above the band name is cut off by the scan. The billing reads New English without the The, as it does in some of the fanzine pieces. Reading was an important town for the band, with shows, a local listings sheet and a fanzine that covered it more than once.", "body": [ "This bold black-and-white poster advertises New English on 15 May 1987 at 112 London Street, Reading, the home of the Paradise Club. A black panel gives the details: admission £3.50 from 9:00 until late, or £2.50 before 10:00. The very large lettering above the band name is cut off by the scan. The billing reads New English without the The, as it does in some of the fanzine pieces. Reading was an important town for the band, with shows, a local listings sheet and a fanzine that covered it more than once." ], "caption": "Poster for New English on 15 May 1987, with admission prices and a Reading address.", "date_text": "15 MAY", "date_label": "15 May 1987", "date_provenance": "Day and month are printed (‘15 MAY’) with no weekday or year; the label supplied with the scan says May 1987 and a later list gives 15 May 1987, but nothing on the scan itself confirms the year (15 May 1987 was a Friday, which the poster cannot confirm).", "object_type": "Poster", "mentions": [ "Reading", "112 London Street" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "primary_with_context", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A06", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "NEW ENGLISH 15 MAY", "attribution": "Headline of the poster." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-may-poster/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-may-poster.md", "image": { "alt": "Black and white poster reading New English, 15 May, £3.50 or £2.50 before 10:00, London Street, Reading; top cropped.", "width": 1168, "height": 848, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-1168.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 348, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 697, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1168, "height": 848, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-1168.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-1168.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-may-poster-1168.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A10", "slug": "reading-preview-interview", "title": "Reading preview in What’s Happening?", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "A spread from a Reading listings zine, with a What’s Happening? banner at lower right and an article on The New English in the left column. The article says the London band is coming down the M4 to play St David’s Hall on London Road on Friday 27 November 1987, notes that the band has been grouped with the Indie Pop bands, and quotes singer and bassist Johnny Rasheed on wanting to lose that label and move towards soul pop. Shareef is described as the guitarist. The centre column is a gig calendar, and the right column carries an interview with a different band, Yargo.", "body": [ "A spread from a Reading listings zine, with a What’s Happening? banner at lower right and an article on The New English in the left column. The article says the London band is coming down the M4 to play St David’s Hall on London Road on Friday 27 November 1987, notes that the band has been grouped with the Indie Pop bands, and quotes singer and bassist Johnny Rasheed on wanting to lose that label and move towards soul pop. Shareef is described as the guitarist. The centre column is a gig calendar, and the right column carries an interview with a different band, Yargo." ], "caption": "Reading listings zine spread previewing The New English at St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November 1987, with Johnny Rasheed on soul pop.", "date_text": "FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER", "date_label": "27 November 1987", "date_provenance": "The day and month are printed in the article; the year is not printed, and the weekday pattern across the listings (Friday 27 November with Monday 30th, Tuesday 1 December and Sunday 6 December) fits 1981, 1987 and 1992, so 1987 is inferred from the band’s activity and the Rick Astley remark, and the date is an advertised one rather than a confirmed performance.", "object_type": "Local listing and interview", "mentions": [ "St David’s Hall, London Road, Reading", "The Brilliant Corners", "Rick Astley", "Voice Of The Beehive", "All About Eve", "Melody Maker", "What’s Happening?", "Readifolk at the George Hotel", "Yargo", "Paradise" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A10", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "What’s Happening?", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.", "attribution": "Johnny Rasheed in What’s Happening?" }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-preview-interview/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-preview-interview.md", "image": { "alt": "Photocopied listings zine spread: band article at left, gig calendar in the centre, advert and What’s Happening? banner", "width": 1168, "height": 848, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 348, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 697, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1168, "height": 848, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A03", "slug": "rock-garden-ticket", "title": "Rock Garden admission card, 7 December", "type": "ticket", "type_label": "Ticket", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This printed admission card for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London, reads “To see: The New English at Breakthrough I”, for Monday 7 December 1987, 7.30pm to 3am, at a special admission price of £3 to be paid at the door. Breakthrough I was the name of the night, and the card’s conditions run down the right edge, including an age limit of 18 and no refunds or transfers. The Rock Garden was a basement music venue at The Piazza, Covent Garden, and the card’s design runs its name down the left side in red and grey.", "body": [ "This printed admission card for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London, reads “To see: The New English at Breakthrough I”, for Monday 7 December 1987, 7.30pm to 3am, at a special admission price of £3 to be paid at the door. Breakthrough I was the name of the night, and the card’s conditions run down the right edge, including an age limit of 18 and no refunds or transfers. The Rock Garden was a basement music venue at The Piazza, Covent Garden, and the card’s design runs its name down the left side in red and grey." ], "caption": "Rock Garden admission card for The New English at “Breakthrough I”, Monday 7 December 1987, £3 at the door.", "date_text": "Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am", "date_label": "7 December 1987", "date_provenance": "Weekday, day and month are printed as Monday 7 DEC, and the band pass for the same night gives 7/12/87.", "object_type": "Ticket", "mentions": [ "Rock Garden", "The Piazza, Covent Garden, London", "Breakthrough I" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "primary_with_context", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A03", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "THE NEW ENGLISH at \"BREAKTHROUGH I\"", "attribution": "Printed on the Rock Garden admission card." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-ticket/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-ticket.md", "image": { "alt": "Cream Rock Garden admission card for The New English at ‘Breakthrough I’, Monday 7 DEC, 7.30pm to 3am, £3.", "width": 635, "height": 322, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 243, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-480.jpg" }, { "width": 635, "height": 322, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A08", "slug": "band-promotional-biography", "title": "Band publicity biography", "type": "promotion", "type_label": "Publicity sheet", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A one-page typed biography of the band, with a vertical New English logo down the right-hand edge. It says the two members grew up in Fulham, first met aged eight at a mass football match in Normand Park, and describes a later meeting at a Redskins gig at The King’s Head, in a sentence partly covered by a black bar. It says the band had already made its first national television appearance on Network East, and describes the lyrics as honest stories of teenage love in South West 6. It closes with a slogan: “Songs to hum now and forever!”", "body": [ "A one-page typed biography of the band, with a vertical New English logo down the right-hand edge. It says the two members grew up in Fulham, first met aged eight at a mass football match in Normand Park, and describes a later meeting at a Redskins gig at The King’s Head, in a sentence partly covered by a black bar. It says the band had already made its first national television appearance on Network East, and describes the lyrics as honest stories of teenage love in South West 6. It closes with a slogan: “Songs to hum now and forever!”" ], "caption": "Band publicity biography describing a Fulham childhood, a first national television appearance and songs about teenage love.", "date_text": "NETWORK EAST - [day clipped]/9/87", "date_label": "1987", "date_provenance": "The sheet carries no date of its own; the only date is for the Network East appearance, printed with the day clipped at the left edge and ending “/9/87” (September 1987 on UK day/month order), so by its own wording the sheet was written on or after that appearance.", "object_type": "Publicity sheet", "mentions": [ "Fulham", "Normand Park", "The Redskins", "The King’s Head", "Network East" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A08", "source_tier": "B", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "Songs to hum now and forever!", "attribution": "Band publicity biography." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-promotional-biography/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-promotional-biography.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed publicity biography of The New English with a vertical band-name logo and black bars covering two names", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-promotional-biography-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A12", "slug": "agency-publicity-trio", "title": "Publicity sheet with trio photograph", "type": "promotion", "type_label": "Publicity sheet", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A one-page publicity sheet, part handwritten and part typed, prepared to promote The New English for bookings. A grainy photograph shows three people outdoors beside a low wall, with the handwritten names Sara Hewes, Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C around it. Bookings are directed to an agency, A C Promotion, in Liverpool. The handwritten text says the band had supported The Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, played the Wimbledon Festival and recently appeared on Network East. A typed question-and-answer section gives the band’s views on music, the indie scene and politics.", "body": [ "A one-page publicity sheet, part handwritten and part typed, prepared to promote The New English for bookings. A grainy photograph shows three people outdoors beside a low wall, with the handwritten names Sara Hewes, Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C around it. Bookings are directed to an agency, A C Promotion, in Liverpool. The handwritten text says the band had supported The Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, played the Wimbledon Festival and recently appeared on Network East. A typed question-and-answer section gives the band’s views on music, the indie scene and politics." ], "caption": "Band publicity sheet with a trio photograph, handwritten booking details for A C Promotion and a typed question-and-answer section.", "date_text": "No date printed", "date_label": "1987", "date_provenance": "No date or year is printed; the sheet says only “so far this year” and “recently appeared” on Network East, and the label supplied with the scan attributes it to 1987, which A08’s September 1987 Network East date makes plausible but does not prove.", "object_type": "Publicity sheet", "mentions": [ "A C Promotion", "The Brilliant Corners", "Frank Chickens", "Wimbledon Festival", "Network East", "Woodentops", "The Smiths", "Housemartins", "Redskins", "N.M.A.", "Soup Dragons", "Shop Assistants", "Mighty Lemon Drops", "Felt", "The Pastels", "Red Action" ], "mask_note": "One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c", "sara" ], "source_id": "A12", "source_tier": "B", "solo_item": false, "credit": "A C Promotion.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "We play Indie-pop like eg Woodentops, Smiths, Housemartins", "attribution": "The band’s publicity sheet." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/agency-publicity-trio/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/agency-publicity-trio.md", "image": { "alt": "Publicity sheet with a photo of three people by a wall, handwritten names and booking details, typed questions and answers", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A13", "slug": "demo-tape-review", "title": "Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "A page from a Reading listings zine whose title, What’s Happening?, runs vertically down the left margin, with a demo review headed The New English in the right-hand column. The reviewer discusses a two-song tape, “Get Ready” and “This Evening”, calling them sprightly pop songs full of the excitement of new love. The vocals on the first are likened to Lloyd Cole and on the second to Paul Weller in his In The City period, the brass is described as obviously hi-tech, and a closing line points to Otis Redding’s “My Girl” as a comparison for the feeling in the music.", "body": [ "A page from a Reading listings zine whose title, What’s Happening?, runs vertically down the left margin, with a demo review headed The New English in the right-hand column. The reviewer discusses a two-song tape, “Get Ready” and “This Evening”, calling them sprightly pop songs full of the excitement of new love. The vocals on the first are likened to Lloyd Cole and on the second to Paul Weller in his In The City period, the brass is described as obviously hi-tech, and a closing line points to Otis Redding’s “My Girl” as a comparison for the feeling in the music." ], "caption": "Demo review of The New English in the What’s Happening? zine, covering the songs Get Ready and This Evening.", "date_text": "No date printed", "date_label": "1987", "date_provenance": "No date or year is printed; the news column lists dates from 9 March to 5 April without a year, which puts the issue in early spring of an unstated year, and the label supplied with the scan attributes it to 1987.", "object_type": "Demo review", "mentions": [ "What’s Happening?", "Lloyd Cole", "Paul Weller", "Otis Redding", "The Brilliant Corners", "After Dark Club, Reading", "Joe Louis Walker", "The Gathering", "Robbed In Rome", "The Cell", "Cemetery Rehearsal Studios", "Hattons" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "primary_with_context", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A13", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "What’s Happening?", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "Two sprightly pop songs that bounce along", "attribution": "Opening words of the demo review." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/demo-tape-review/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/demo-tape-review.md", "image": { "alt": "Zine page with a news column, a vertical What’s Happening? title and a typed demo review headed The New English", "width": 873, "height": 606, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-873.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 333, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-480.jpg" }, { "width": 873, "height": 606, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-873.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-873.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/demo-tape-review-873.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A11", "slug": "band-interview-continuation", "title": "Interview in The Mighty Utterance!", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "A page of a fanzine interview with The New English in The Mighty Utterance!, a Reading fanzine whose hand-drawn masthead and contact block run along the foot of the page. Johnny answers short prompts headed London, Teenage Love and The New English, including what the band’s name means, and the writer closes with a paragraph noting Felt and Smiths influences and Johnny’s liking for the Redskins. A halftone photograph of two people sits at the top right. Below the interview is a separate live review of two performers at a Reading club, dated 2/4/87.", "body": [ "A page of a fanzine interview with The New English in The Mighty Utterance!, a Reading fanzine whose hand-drawn masthead and contact block run along the foot of the page. Johnny answers short prompts headed London, Teenage Love and The New English, including what the band’s name means, and the writer closes with a paragraph noting Felt and Smiths influences and Johnny’s liking for the Redskins. A halftone photograph of two people sits at the top right. Below the interview is a separate live review of two performers at a Reading club, dated 2/4/87." ], "caption": "Mighty Utterance! interview with The New English: Johnny on London, teenage love and the band name.", "date_text": "2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated)", "date_label": "1987", "date_provenance": "No issue date is printed; the only date on the page is 2/4/87 on the Pressgang Club review, a Thursday as that review says the club runs on Thursdays, so the page cannot have been printed before 2 April 1987 and the October 1986 in the label supplied with the scan does not fit it.", "object_type": "Fanzine interview", "mentions": [ "The Mighty Utterance!", "Acorn Bookshop", "Felt", "The Smiths", "The Redskins", "Burial", "Clive Pig and G.K. Wall", "The Pressgang Club, Cap and Gown, Reading", "Pop Records, Probe, HMV" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed" ], "source_id": "A11", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "The Mighty Utterance!, printed by Acorn Bookshop.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "We ARE the new english!", "attribution": "Johnny in The Mighty Utterance!" }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-continuation/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-continuation.md", "image": { "alt": "Fanzine page with a typed band interview beside a grainy photo of two people, a Reading live review and a masthead below", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/band-interview-continuation-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A04", "slug": "zeetas-ticket", "title": "Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February", "type": "ticket", "type_label": "Ticket", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This pre-printed admission card for The World at Zeeta’s, a club in Putney, is headed Presents Live. The band name, the day and the stage time have been filled in by hand: The New English, Thurs 11th Feb, onstage 10.30pm. The printed text gives the club’s opening hours, a smart-casual dress code and entry prices with the card of £2.00 from Monday to Thursday and £3.00 on Friday and Saturday. The show fell in February 1988, in the last weeks of the band’s main period, and the club’s address on Upper Richmond Road runs along the foot of the card.", "body": [ "This pre-printed admission card for The World at Zeeta’s, a club in Putney, is headed Presents Live. The band name, the day and the stage time have been filled in by hand: The New English, Thurs 11th Feb, onstage 10.30pm. The printed text gives the club’s opening hours, a smart-casual dress code and entry prices with the card of £2.00 from Monday to Thursday and £3.00 on Friday and Saturday. The show fell in February 1988, in the last weeks of the band’s main period, and the club’s address on Upper Richmond Road runs along the foot of the card." ], "caption": "Red-printed Zeeta’s club card with The New English, Thurs 11th Feb 1988 and 10.30pm written in by hand.", "date_text": "THURS 11th FEB (handwritten); Onstage 10-30PM (handwritten)", "date_label": "11 February 1988", "date_provenance": "Weekday, day and month are handwritten (‘THURS 11th FEB’) with no year; the archive attributes the card to 1988 and 11 February was a Thursday in 1988, but a later chronology gives 10 February (a Wednesday in 1988), so the performance date stays unresolved.", "object_type": "Ticket", "mentions": [ "The World at Zeeta's", "Zeeta's, Putney, London SW15" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A04", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/zeetas-ticket/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/zeetas-ticket.md", "image": { "alt": "Red-printed card from The World at Zeeta’s with The New English, Thurs 11th Feb and 10.30pm handwritten in.", "width": 628, "height": 447, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-628.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 342, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-480.jpg" }, { "width": 628, "height": 447, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-628.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-628.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/zeetas-ticket-628.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A07", "slug": "bazooka-poster", "title": "Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February", "type": "poster", "type_label": "Poster", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This handwritten, photocopied poster in German and English promotes a bill of S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK) at the Bazooka on Samstag, Feb. 17th 1990, with entry at 6 and the words “one and only European date”. It names the presenters as A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv, and a dedication to the memory of The Redskins runs across the top. The poster carries a photocopy of two guitarists on stage and a school-style portrait of a child. It is the record of the band’s reunion show in Bonn, the source of the Live in Bonn tracks on London 1987.", "body": [ "This handwritten, photocopied poster in German and English promotes a bill of S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK) at the Bazooka on Samstag, Feb. 17th 1990, with entry at 6 and the words “one and only European date”. It names the presenters as A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv, and a dedication to the memory of The Redskins runs across the top. The poster carries a photocopy of two guitarists on stage and a school-style portrait of a child. It is the record of the band’s reunion show in Bonn, the source of the Live in Bonn tracks on London 1987." ], "caption": "Handwritten poster billing S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK) at the Bazooka, Bonn, Saturday 17 February 1990.", "date_text": "SAMSTAG FEB. 17TH 20.[overwritten digit]0 UHR", "date_label": "17 February 1990", "date_provenance": "Weekday (German ‘Samstag’), month and day are handwritten but no year is given; 17 February was a Saturday in 1990, which agrees with the label supplied with the scan, so 1990 is a consistent attribution but not a printed fact.", "object_type": "Poster", "mentions": [ "S.P.G.", "A.C. Promotions", "Bazooka kollectiv", "Bazooka", "The Redskins" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A07", "source_tier": "B", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Presented by A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "ONE AND ONLY EUROPEAN DATE", "attribution": "Wording on the poster." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/bazooka-poster/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/bazooka-poster.md", "image": { "alt": "Handwritten poster for S.P.G. and The New English, Samstag Feb. 17th, im Bazooka, with a photocopied photo of two guitarists.", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/bazooka-poster-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A01", "slug": "johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster", "title": "Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster", "type": "poster", "type_label": "Poster", "category": "later-projects", "category_label": "Later projects", "summary": "This typewritten poster advertises a free evening with Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar in Reading on Saturday 11 March 1995, with an 8pm start. A hand-drawn box labelled The Free Box sits above the details, with a black-and-white print along the top edge. It is one of two items in this archive from Johnny’s solo appearances. The poster names Johnny alone, with no support acts, and gives the bar’s address in South Street. Admission was free, and the drawing inside the box carries the words Yum and Eat Me.", "body": [ "This typewritten poster advertises a free evening with Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar in Reading on Saturday 11 March 1995, with an 8pm start. A hand-drawn box labelled The Free Box sits above the details, with a black-and-white print along the top edge. It is one of two items in this archive from Johnny’s solo appearances. The poster names Johnny alone, with no support acts, and gives the bar’s address in South Street. Admission was free, and the drawing inside the box carries the words Yum and Eat Me." ], "caption": "Poster for a free Johnny Rasheed evening at MacDevitt’s Bar, Reading, Saturday 11 March 1995.", "date_text": "SATURDAY 11th MARCH...8pm", "date_label": "11 March 1995", "date_provenance": "Day and month are printed (‘SATURDAY 11th MARCH’); the year is a faint handwritten pencil note reading 1995 at the lower left, which agrees with the weekday (11 March was a Saturday in 1995 but a Thursday in 1993, the year in the label supplied with the scan), although the annotation’s author and date are unknown and the owner has not confirmed it.", "object_type": "Poster", "mentions": [ "MacDevitt's Bar", "Reading", "The Free Box" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "disputed", "entity_ids": [ "johnny-rasheed" ], "source_id": "A01", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": true, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed poster for Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar, Reading, Saturday 11th March, with a drawn box marked The Free Box.", "width": 1168, "height": 848, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 348, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 697, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1168, "height": 848, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A02", "slug": "johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order", "title": "Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order", "type": "programme", "type_label": "Programme", "category": "later-projects", "category_label": "Later projects", "summary": "This printed sheet headed Saturday is laid out as a timetable, with a scale from 12.00 to 11.00 and ruled boxes for the acts of the day. Johnny Rasheed is the first act named, in a box just after the 3.00 mark, followed by Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner and Karen Grace. Two earlier boxes read Ask at Sound Desk. The lower left corner of the sheet is trimmed and held with tape. It is a working document from the day itself, and it places Johnny’s solo set on a bill of five acts.", "body": [ "This printed sheet headed Saturday is laid out as a timetable, with a scale from 12.00 to 11.00 and ruled boxes for the acts of the day. Johnny Rasheed is the first act named, in a box just after the 3.00 mark, followed by Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner and Karen Grace. Two earlier boxes read Ask at Sound Desk. The lower left corner of the sheet is trimmed and held with tape. It is a working document from the day itself, and it places Johnny’s solo set on a bill of five acts." ], "caption": "A printed Saturday running order listing Johnny Rasheed with four other acts.", "date_text": "SATURDAY (heading only; no date or year printed)", "date_label": "Undated", "date_provenance": "Nothing is printed except the weekday heading ‘SATURDAY’; the label supplied with the scan says 1993, but no year, event name or venue appears on the scan to confirm it.", "object_type": "Running order", "mentions": [ "Uncertainty of Passion", "Moonboot Oz", "Spooner", "Karen Grace" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "reported", "entity_ids": [ "johnny-rasheed" ], "source_id": "A02", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": true, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "credit_links": [], "license_url": null, "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-06", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order.md", "image": { "alt": "Printed Saturday running order listing Johnny Rasheed, Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner and Karen Grace.", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.uk/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.jpg" } ] } } ] }