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Methodology and notes on sources: https://thenewenglish.uk/research/" }, "chunks": [ { "id": "home.hero.lead.1", "type": "homepage", "title": "hero", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s, built around Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#top", "source_ids": [ "A10", "A12", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.hero.lead.2", "type": "homepage", "title": "hero", "text": "This archive gathers their tickets, posters, fanzine pages and publicity sheets, with the album and videos that later appeared online.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#top", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.hero.lead.3", "type": "homepage", "title": "hero", "text": "Every item has its own page.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#top", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.glance.origin", "type": "homepage", "title": "Origin", "text": "Fulham, south-west London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.genre", "type": "homepage", "title": "Genre", "text": "Indie pop, moving towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A10" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.active", "type": "homepage", "title": "Active", "text": "1986 to 1988, with a reunion show in Bonn in 1990.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A07", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.lineup", "type": "homepage", "title": "Line-up", "text": "Johnny Rasheed (bass, vocals), Shareef C (guitar), Joz (vocals), Sara (drums).", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A09", "A12", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.recordings", "type": "homepage", "title": "Recordings", "text": "London 1987, an eleven-track digital album released on 2 January 2019, a 2001 CDr of the same title, and a track on the 2015 compilation 3am Radio England.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "B14", "B29" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.later", "type": "homepage", "title": "Later projects", "text": "Johnny Rasheed’s solo CD Inspiration (1993), The Internationalists and Those Meddling Kids.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B02" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.not", "type": "homepage", "title": "Not to be confused with", "text": "The New English Rock Ensemble, the 2005 album New English on Popster, or The New English Weekly.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B22", "B23" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band built around Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C. The two grew up in Fulham in the late 1970s and early 1980s and first met at the age of eight, in a “jumpers for goals” football match in Normand Park. Their songs told true stories of teenage love in the schools, parks and pubs of south-west London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "A08" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p2", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "The partnership began as a duo called Years of Backwater in December 1983. They played one gig at The Swan in Kingston upon Thames in July 1984 and stopped after trouble with their drum and bass machines. In May 1985 Johnny and Shareef regrouped with Dave Beech on bass and a Korg drum machine as The Fallen Idols, who recorded several demo tapes but never played live. The name The New English followed in May 1986.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "B02" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p3", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "Dave left soon after the change of name, and Johnny took over the bass. Joz came in as lead vocalist and left after three performances, and Johnny went back to singing. Demos continued with a Sequential Tom drum machine, which one interview prints as “Sequestial”. Sara joined on drums in April 1987 and left that September, after which the band played live with a drum machine again.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "B01", "A09", "A14", "A12" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p4", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "Their reference points came from the independent scene of the time, the world of the NME’s C86 cassette: Felt, Morrissey, the Redskins, the Woodentops, the Smiths and the Housemartins. “Kept me alive!” Shareef said of that scene, and Johnny said of Morrissey and Marr: “What those two blokes wrote in 1984 saved my life!” One interview page carried the slogan “Harder than the 4Skins, More melodic than The Beatles!” In a Reading preview, Johnny said the band wanted to lose the “Indie Pop” tag and move towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A10", "B32" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p5", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "A fanzine writer counted an audience of 25 at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich on a very wet Tuesday, 28 October 1986, and judged The New English the better band on the bill. At Le Beat Route on 23 February 1987, a review called them “the liveliest band out on the night”, recorded that this was their tenth gig since October, and ended with a question: “When are they coming up north I ask ?”", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p6", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "The band supported the Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, the latter at the Sir George Robey in Finsbury Park on 25 July 1987, and played the Wimbledon Festival that month. For Network East they recorded This Evening and Get Ready, and This Evening was broadcast. Their publicity offered bookers a tape and a video tape of the band. Tickets and posters add the ordinary details of a working band: £3 at the Rock Garden, a 10.30pm stage time at Zeeta’s in Putney, £2.50 before ten o’clock in Reading.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A08", "B01", "A03", "A04", "A06" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p7", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "Despite interest from independent labels, the band could not secure a recording contract and split in March 1988. They reunited for a single show with S.P.G. at the Bazooka in Bonn on 17 February 1990, playing a stripped-back Get Ready with guitar, bass and vocals only. The songs reappeared much later, when London 1987 reached digital platforms on 2 January 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [ "B02", "A07", "B03" ] }, { "id": "home.story.timeline.note", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "This timeline of The New English runs from 1983 to 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#history", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.members.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "The two core musicians of The New English were Johnny Rasheed (bass, vocals) and Shareef C (guitar), with Joz and Sara in the line-up at different times and Dave Beech in the earlier project.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#members", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.johnny.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Johnny Rasheed sang and played bass, and also played acoustic guitar. Johnny took over the bass after Dave Beech left and returned to lead vocals after Joz. A fanzine interview lists Johnny on bass and vocals, and a Reading preview uses “singer/bassist” and quotes Johnny on the band’s direction. The kit was an Ovation acoustic guitar, a Cimar copy of a Precision bass and a Carlsboro amplifier. In 1993 came a solo CD, Inspiration.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#members", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A10", "B01", "B04" ] }, { "id": "home.members.shareef.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Shareef C played guitar, and both live reviews in this archive single out that playing: “brilliant riffs” at the Tunnel Club, where the name is typed Sharef, and “brilliant guitaring” at Le Beat Route. In a fanzine interview Shareef talks about the independent scene and an admiration for Lawrence of Felt and for Morrissey. The kit was a Fender Jazz, later swapped for an Eccleshall copy of a Gibson ES-335, played through a Peavey amplifier.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#members", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A14", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.joz.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Joz came in as lead vocalist after Dave Beech left and sang at three performances. A photograph on a fanzine page from 1987 shows Joz in the middle, with a caption saying Joz was no longer with the band.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#members", "source_ids": [ "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.sara.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Sara joined on drums in April 1987 and left that September. The name appears on a band publicity sheet beside a photograph of three people, under the booking details, and a drummer is on stage in the Wimbledon Festival photograph of July 1987.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#members", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A17", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.dave.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Dave Beech played bass in The Fallen Idols, the project before The New English, and left shortly after the change of name in May 1986.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#members", "source_ids": [ "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.live.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "The New English played clubs, colleges and festivals in London, Reading and beyond between 1986 and 1988, with a later show in Bonn.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#live", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A06", "A07", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.live.g01.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "The Tunnel Club was best known as Malcolm Hardee’s alternative comedy club. The New English shared the bill with The Third Man. A fanzine reviewer counted 25 people on a very wet Tuesday, at a pub and club on an industrial estate near the Blackwall Tunnel, and rated The New English “by far the best”.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#live", "source_ids": [ "A05", "B25" ] }, { "id": "home.live.g05.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "Le Beat Route was a Soho nightclub at 16 Greek Street, opened in November 1980, and the review heading spells it La Beatroute. The reviewer called The New English “the liveliest band out on the night” and the venue “a rather plush expensive night club”, noted wrong opening chords on “Sixteen” and recorded that this was their tenth gig since October.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#live", "source_ids": [ "A09", "B26", "B33" ] }, { "id": "home.archive.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "The New English archive holds eighteen items: colour photographs of the band, fanzine reviews and interviews, tickets, a band pass, posters, publicity sheets and two items for Johnny Rasheed’s solo appearances. Each item has its own page.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.archive.index.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "Every item in the archive has its own page with the scan and a description.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.archive.index.note", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "Items are broadly in date order.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.press.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "The press in this archive comes from fanzines and local listings sheets: live reviews, a review of a two-song demo and interviews about music and life in London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#press", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A10", "A11", "A13", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.press.zines.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "The Tunnel Club and Le Beat Route pages both carry a sign-off from someone called Nik and thank the same contributors. Pages from What’s Happening? and The Mighty Utterance! in Reading share one contact block, so one Reading publisher covered the band three times.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#press", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A10", "A11", "A13" ] }, { "id": "home.press.demo.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "A What’s Happening? review discusses a tape of Get Ready and This Evening. The writer hears “two sprightly pop songs”, compares the vocals with Lloyd Cole and Paul Weller, and notes that the brass sounds synthesised. It is a response to two recordings, not a general history of the group.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#press", "source_ids": [ "A13" ] }, { "id": "home.press.interviews.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "One fanzine page lists the line-up and runs through short topics, from drum machines and the independent scene to Morrissey and Marr. A page from The Mighty Utterance! has Johnny on London, teenage love and the band’s name: “We ARE the new english! - The newest blood in this country... like the Normans in 1066!” On London, the advice was “I’d always recommend Whitechapel over Westminster, and East Ham over Ealing!”", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#press", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A11" ] }, { "id": "home.press.sound.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "In a Reading preview, Johnny says the band wanted to lose the “Indie Pop” label and compete with Rick Astley rather than Voice of the Beehive or All About Eve: “We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.” The piece quotes an earlier line calling the band “The only hope inspiring phoenix to rise from the ashes of Indie Pop”, which Johnny says Shareef did not like, and Johnny adds: “London is the worst place in the world for gigs.” It previews a show at St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November 1987.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#press", "source_ids": [ "A10" ] }, { "id": "home.press.tv.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "Network East was a BBC Two programme for Britain’s Asian communities, launched on 25 July 1987 and made at Pebble Mill in Birmingham. The band’s appearance that year was its first on national television. The line-up recorded This Evening and Get Ready for the programme, and This Evening was broadcast. A video of This Evening from the television studio is on YouTube.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#press", "source_ids": [ "B24", "B34", "A08", "A12", "B01", "Y06" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.album.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "London 1987 is an eleven-track album of about 35 minutes, released digitally on 2 January 2019 with a RipItUp Records credit. It is on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "B21", "B18", "B19" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.demo.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "Get Ready and This Evening, the two songs reviewed on a demo tape in What’s Happening?, are tracks 1 and 2 of London 1987.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "A13", "B05" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.album.p2", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "Get Ready and This Evening were recorded at Triple X Studios, North Acton, in 1987, and You Make My Day Shine at Cymbelline, Reading, in April 1988. The two Live in Bonn tracks come from the band’s 1990 concert at the Bazooka.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "Y02", "Y03", "Y04", "Y07" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.cdr.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "A limited CDr called London 1987 appeared on Jackfruit Music (JRJF004) in 2001, with fifteen tracks: Secretly I Wonder, This English Day, Sixteen, The First Time, Let’s Take a Walk, Secretly I Wonder (Oxshott Mix), Tufnell Park, I Rather Be Alone, This Evening, Get Ready, Kim, (You Make My) Day Shine, Zoot Suit, Get Ready (Live) and The Day After Tomorrow. Sixteen is the song named in the Le Beat Route review.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "B14", "A09" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.comp.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "The compilation 3am Radio England (28 February 2015, RipItUp Records) includes Alone (I’d Rather Be) by The New English and Hope (Freedom) by Johnny Rasheed.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "B29", "B30" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.videos.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "Eight videos of The New English and The Internationalists are on YouTube. Each one starts when you press play.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "Y01", "Y02", "Y03", "Y04", "Y05", "Y06", "Y07", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "home.later.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "After the main period of the band, Johnny Rasheed released a solo CD, Inspiration (1993), and played in two further groups, The Internationalists and Those Meddling Kids. The New English also reunited for a show with S.P.G. at the Bazooka in Bonn on Saturday 17 February 1990, a venue that was hosting bands in the city that year.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B02", "A07", "Y07", "B35" ] }, { "id": "home.later.inspiration.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "Inspiration is a solo CD by Johnny Rasheed on Jackfruit Music (JRJF001), recorded at Blockhouse Studios, Stratford, London, in April 1993 and released that May. Jezz Wright produced it and played drums and keyboards, and Guy Davis mastered it at SRT, Cambridge. Johnny sang and played acoustic guitar, with Shareef C on acoustic and electric guitars, Martin Lynch on bass, Simon Tarry of The Rileys on electric guitar, Robb Johnson on electric guitar, dobro, banjo and harmonica, George Whitfield of VOXPOP and Pressgang on accordion, Aubrey Braithewaite on piano and Gemma Townley of Blueboy and Sarah Records on cello. The founder of Twee.net later picked it out among five obscure indiepop releases worth hearing. A Reading poster and a Saturday running order record Johnny’s solo appearances.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B15", "B31", "A01", "A02" ] }, { "id": "home.later.internationalists.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "The Internationalists were an acoustic duo of Johnny and Shareef, formed in December 1991, who performed without bass or drums. They appeared on BBC Radio Berkshire in February 1992, were active through 1993 and gave their final live performance at Bracknell Festival in July 1997. A sixteen-minute video of that set is on YouTube.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B02", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "home.later.meddling.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "Between 1991 and 1993, Johnny played bass in Those Meddling Kids, who performed throughout south-east England.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B02" ] }, { "id": "object.A15.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "The New English, May 1986", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-may-1986/", "source_ids": [ "A15" ] }, { "id": "object.A16.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "The New English, October 1986", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-october-1986/", "source_ids": [ "A16" ] }, { "id": "object.A05.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/tunnel-club-review/", "source_ids": [ "A05" ] }, { "id": "object.A14.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Fanzine interview, first page", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-first-page/", "source_ids": [ "A14" ] }, { "id": "object.A09.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/le-beat-route-review/", "source_ids": [ "A09" ] }, { "id": "object.A17.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "The New English at the Wimbledon Festival, July 1987", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/wimbledon-festival-july-1987/", "source_ids": [ "A17" ] }, { "id": "object.A18.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Rock Garden band pass, 7 December 1987", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-band-pass/", "source_ids": [ "A18" ] }, { "id": "object.A06.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Reading poster for 15 May", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-may-poster/", "source_ids": [ "A06" ] }, { "id": "object.A10.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Reading preview in What’s Happening?", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-preview-interview/", "source_ids": [ "A10" ] }, { "id": "object.A03.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Rock Garden admission card, 7 December", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-ticket/", "source_ids": [ "A03" ] }, { "id": "object.A08.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Band publicity biography", "text": "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!”", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-promotional-biography/", "source_ids": [ "A08" ] }, { "id": "object.A12.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Publicity sheet with trio photograph", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/agency-publicity-trio/", "source_ids": [ "A12" ] }, { "id": "object.A13.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/demo-tape-review/", "source_ids": [ "A13" ] }, { "id": "object.A11.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Interview in The Mighty Utterance!", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-continuation/", "source_ids": [ "A11" ] }, { "id": "object.A04.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/zeetas-ticket/", "source_ids": [ "A04" ] }, { "id": "object.A07.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/bazooka-poster/", "source_ids": [ "A07" ] }, { "id": "object.A01.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/", "source_ids": [ "A01" ] }, { "id": "object.A02.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/", "source_ids": [ "A02" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.who", "type": "answer", "title": "Who were The New English?", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s, built around Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals) and Shareef C (guitar).", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-who", "source_ids": [ "A10", "A12", "A14", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.from", "type": "answer", "title": "Where were The New English from?", "text": "Fulham, in south-west London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-from", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A14" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.disambiguation", "type": "answer", "title": "Is this the same New English as other acts with that name?", "text": "No. This archive covers the late-1980s London band The New English and the later work of its members. Other acts and publications with similar names are separate, including The New English Rock Ensemble, the 2005 album New English on Popster, The New English Weekly and New English Review.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-disambiguation", "source_ids": [ "A06", "A09", "B22", "B23" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.active", "type": "answer", "title": "When was the band active?", "text": "The main period ran from 1986 to March 1988, and the band reunited for a show in Bonn on 17 February 1990.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-active", "source_ids": [ "B01", "B02", "A05", "A07" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.members", "type": "answer", "title": "Who were the members?", "text": "Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals), Shareef C (guitar), Joz (vocals) and Sara (drums). Dave Beech played bass in the predecessor project, The Fallen Idols.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-members", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.music", "type": "answer", "title": "What kind of music did they play?", "text": "Indie pop, with reference points including Felt, Morrissey, the Redskins, the Woodentops, the Smiths and the Housemartins. Johnny Rasheed later described a move towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-music", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A10", "A14" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.gigs", "type": "answer", "title": "Which performances are documented?", "text": "Fanzines reviewed the band at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on 28 October 1986 and at Le Beat Route, London, on 23 February 1987. Other dates include the Rock Garden, Zeeta’s in Putney, Dingwalls, the Wimbledon Festival and Reading. The full list is on the homepage.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-gigs", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A03", "A04", "A06", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.tv", "type": "answer", "title": "Did The New English appear on television?", "text": "Yes. The band appeared on the BBC Two programme Network East in 1987, its first national television appearance.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-tv", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A12", "B01", "B24" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.london1987", "type": "answer", "title": "What is London 1987?", "text": "London 1987 is an eleven-track digital album by The New English, released on 2 January 2019 with a RipItUp Records credit. It includes studio tracks and two live recordings from Bonn.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-london1987", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "Y03", "Y04", "Y07" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.records1980s", "type": "answer", "title": "Did the band release a record in the 1980s?", "text": "No commercial release from the 1980s appears in this archive. The band recorded demos, including a two-song tape reviewed in What’s Happening?. A CDr called London 1987 followed in 2001 and the digital album in 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-records1980s", "source_ids": [ "A13", "A12", "B14", "B03" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.listen", "type": "answer", "title": "Where can I listen to The New English?", "text": "London 1987 is on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal. Links are in the Recordings section of the homepage, with eight videos on YouTube.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-listen", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "B21", "B18", "B19" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.inspiration", "type": "answer", "title": "Is Inspiration a New English album?", "text": "No. Inspiration is a 1993 solo CD by Johnny Rasheed on Jackfruit Music, with eight songs and Shareef C on guitars.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-inspiration", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B15" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.internationalists", "type": "answer", "title": "What was The Internationalists?", "text": "The Internationalists were an acoustic duo of Johnny and Shareef, formed in December 1991. They played Bracknell Festival in July 1997.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-internationalists", "source_ids": [ "B02", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.videos", "type": "answer", "title": "Are there videos of the band?", "text": "Yes. Eight videos are on YouTube and can be played from the homepage.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/#q-videos", "source_ids": [ "Y01", "Y02", "Y03", "Y04", "Y05", "Y06", "Y07", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "song.S01", "type": "song", "title": "Get Ready", "text": "Get Ready is track 1 of London 1987 and appears again as track 10 in a live version recorded in Bonn. A fanzine review of a two-song tape discusses it with This Evening, and the studio version was recorded at Triple X Studios in North Acton in October 1987. The band recorded it for the BBC Two programme Network East, and at the Bazooka in Bonn played it with guitar, bass and vocals only.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/get-ready/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "A13", "Y04", "Y07", "B01", "B02", "B14" ] }, { "id": "song.S02", "type": "song", "title": "This Evening", "text": "This Evening is track 2 of London 1987. A fanzine review of a two-song tape discusses it with Get Ready and likens the vocals to Paul Weller in his In The City period. The song was recorded at Triple X in North Acton in 1987, and the BBC Two programme Network East broadcast it.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/this-evening/", "source_ids": [ "A13", "B01", "B02", "B05", "B14", "Y02" ] }, { "id": "song.S03", "type": "song", "title": "Alone", "text": "Alone is track 3 of London 1987 and runs for 2 minutes 47 seconds. The 2001 CDr lists it as I Rather Be Alone, and the 2015 compilation 3am Radio England as Alone (I’d Rather Be), at 2 minutes 53 seconds.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/alone/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "B14", "B29", "B30" ] }, { "id": "song.S04", "type": "song", "title": "Secretly I Wonder", "text": "Secretly I Wonder is track 4 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 54 seconds. The 2001 CDr track list opens with it and carries it again at track 6 as Secretly I Wonder (Oxshott Mix).", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/secretly-i-wonder/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "B14" ] }, { "id": "song.S05", "type": "song", "title": "The Day After Tomorrow", "text": "The Day After Tomorrow is track 5 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 58 seconds. It closes the fifteen-track list of the 2001 CDr. A YouTube video of the song gives the version as recorded in 1998 and labels the film as the band playing at the Wimbledon Festival in July 1987.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/the-day-after-tomorrow/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "B14", "Y01" ] }, { "id": "song.S06", "type": "song", "title": "You Make My Day Shine", "text": "You Make My Day Shine is track 6 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 47 seconds. Two videos carry recording places: Cymbelline in Reading in April 1988, and, for the 99Mix, New Rising Studios in Essex on New Year’s Day 1999. The 2001 CDr lists it as (You Make My) Day Shine.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/you-make-my-day-shine/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "B12", "B14", "Y03", "Y05" ] }, { "id": "song.S07", "type": "song", "title": "This English Day", "text": "This English Day is track 7 of London 1987 and returns as track 11 in a live version from Bonn that runs for 4 minutes 31 seconds. The 2001 CDr track list has it second, after Secretly I Wonder.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/this-english-day/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "Y07", "B14" ] }, { "id": "song.S08", "type": "song", "title": "Let’s Take a Walk", "text": "Let’s Take a Walk is track 8 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 55 seconds. It is fifth on the 2001 CDr track list, where the title is printed Let's Take A Walk.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/lets-take-a-walk/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "B14" ] }, { "id": "song.S09", "type": "song", "title": "Tufnell Park", "text": "Tufnell Park is track 9 of London 1987. At 2 minutes 30 seconds it is the shortest track on the album. It is seventh on the 2001 CDr track list.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/tufnell-park/", "source_ids": [ "B05", "B14" ] }, { "id": "song.S10", "type": "song", "title": "Sixteen", "text": "Sixteen is named in a fanzine review of the Le Beat Route show on 23 February 1987, where the writer notes wrong opening chords at the start of the song. It is third on the 2001 CDr track list.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/sixteen/", "source_ids": [ "A09", "B14" ] }, { "id": "song.S11", "type": "song", "title": "The First Time", "text": "The First Time is track 4 of fifteen on the 2001 CDr London 1987, released on Jackfruit Music with the catalogue number JRJF004. The title is not on the 2019 digital album.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/the-first-time/", "source_ids": [ "B14", "B05" ] }, { "id": "song.S12", "type": "song", "title": "Kim", "text": "Kim is track 11 of fifteen on the 2001 CDr London 1987, released on Jackfruit Music with the catalogue number JRJF004. The title is not on the 2019 digital album.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/kim/", "source_ids": [ "B14", "B05" ] }, { "id": "song.S13", "type": "song", "title": "Zoot Suit", "text": "Zoot Suit is track 13 of fifteen on the 2001 CDr London 1987, released on Jackfruit Music with the catalogue number JRJF004. The title is not on the 2019 digital album.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/zoot-suit/", "source_ids": [ "B14", "B05" ] }, { "id": "gig.G01", "type": "gig", "title": "Tunnel Club, Greenwich, 28 October 1986", "text": "A fanzine review dated 28/10/86 covers a bill of The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich. The writer counted 25 people in the audience on a very wet Tuesday and rated The New English the better of the two bands. The Tunnel Club was Malcolm Hardee’s alternative comedy club.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1986-10-28-tunnel-club/", "source_ids": [ "A05", "B25" ] }, { "id": "gig.G05", "type": "gig", "title": "Le Beat Route, London, 23 February 1987", "text": "A fanzine review headed New English - La Beatroute 23.2.87 calls the band the liveliest on the night and the venue a rather plush, expensive night club. The reviewer notes that Shareef played the wrong opening chords to Sixteen, and records that this was the band’s tenth gig since October. Le Beat Route was a Soho nightclub at 16 Greek Street.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-02-23-le-beat-route/", "source_ids": [ "A09", "B26" ] }, { "id": "gig.G06", "type": "gig", "title": "Paradise Club, Reading, 15 May 1987", "text": "The New English played the Paradise Club in Reading on 15 May 1987. The poster for the night prints admission of £3.50 from 9:00 until late, or £2.50 before 10:00, and names no other acts.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-05-15-paradise-club/", "source_ids": [ "A06", "B01" ] }, { "id": "gig.G08", "type": "gig", "title": "Wimbledon Festival, Wimbledon, 11 July 1987", "text": "A colour photograph shows The New English on an outdoor stage at the Wimbledon Festival in July 1987, in front of a white marquee, with a guitarist, a singer at the microphone and a drummer. The band’s publicity sheet lists the festival among its appearances. A video of The Day After Tomorrow is labelled as film of the band at the festival.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-07-11-wimbledon-festival/", "source_ids": [ "A17", "A12", "Y01", "B01" ] }, { "id": "gig.G09", "type": "gig", "title": "Sir George Robey, Finsbury Park, 25 July 1987", "text": "The New English supported Frank Chickens at the Sir George Robey in Finsbury Park on 25 July 1987. The band’s publicity sheet lists Frank Chickens and the Brilliant Corners among the acts it had supported.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-07-25-sir-george-robey/", "source_ids": [ "A12", "B01" ] }, { "id": "gig.G14", "type": "gig", "title": "St David’s Hall, Reading, 27 November 1987", "text": "A Reading listings zine previews the show, saying the London band The New English are coming down the M4 to play St David’s Hall on London Road on Friday 27th November. Johnny Rasheed, named as singer and bassist, says the band want to lose the indie pop label and move towards soul pop. Shareef is named as the guitarist.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-11-27-st-davids-hall/", "source_ids": [ "A10" ] }, { "id": "gig.G15", "type": "gig", "title": "Rock Garden, London, 7 December 1987", "text": "An admission card reads To see: The New English at Breakthrough I, for Monday 7 DEC, 7.30pm to 3am, at a special admission price of £3 paid at the door. A band pass for the same night carries The New English and the date 7/12/87 in handwriting. The card gives the venue as the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-12-07-rock-garden/", "source_ids": [ "A03", "A18" ] }, { "id": "gig.G17", "type": "gig", "title": "The World at Zeeta’s, Putney, 11 February 1988", "text": "A pre-printed admission card for The World at Zeeta’s, headed Presents Live, has The New English, Thurs 11th Feb and onstage 10.30pm written in by hand. The card prints the club’s hours as Monday to Saturday, 9pm to 2am, with a smart casual dress code. Entry with the card was £2.00 from Monday to Thursday and £3.00 on Friday and Saturday.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1988-02-11-the-world-at-zeetas/", "source_ids": [ "A04" ] }, { "id": "gig.G18", "type": "gig", "title": "Bazooka, Bonn, 17 February 1990", "text": "A handwritten poster in German and English bills S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK) at the Bazooka on Saturday, 17 February, presented by A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv. It calls the night the one and only European date and dedicates it to the memory of The Redskins. The album London 1987 includes two tracks recorded live in Bonn, Get Ready and This English Day.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1990-02-17-bazooka/", "source_ids": [ "A07", "B02", "Y07", "B05" ] }, { "id": "fact.F001", "type": "fact", "title": "name", "text": "The band’s name appears as The New English on two tickets and on the agency publicity sheet.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A03", "A04", "A12" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F002", "type": "fact", "title": "style", "text": "Band publicity and interviews describe the music as independent pop, and a Reading preview records Johnny Rasheed talking about a move towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A10" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F003", "type": "fact", "title": "live_review", "text": "A review dated 28 October 1986 covers The New English at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on a bill with The Third Man.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A05" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F004", "type": "fact", "title": "live_review", "text": "A review dated 23 February 1987 covers New English at Le Beat Route, London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A09" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F005", "type": "fact", "title": "instrument_roles", "text": "A contemporary interview names Johnny Rasheed as bass player and vocalist.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A14" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F006", "type": "fact", "title": "instrument_roles", "text": "A contemporary interview names Shareef as the guitarist, and the publicity sheet gives the name Shareef C beside the trio photograph.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F007", "type": "fact", "title": "photo_caption", "text": "A photograph caption identifies Joz as the person in the middle and records that Joz had left the group.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A09" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F008", "type": "fact", "title": "drum_machine_reference", "text": "A contemporary interview credits the drums to a machine it calls Sequestial.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A14" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F009", "type": "fact", "title": "influences_discussed", "text": "A contemporary interview names Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins among the band’s reference points.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A14" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F010", "type": "fact", "title": "demo_review_tracks", "text": "A demo review discusses two songs, Get Ready and This Evening.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A13" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F011", "type": "fact", "title": "network_east_appearance", "text": "Two band publicity sheets claim a Network East television appearance. One gives a date ending /9/87 and the other gives no date.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A12" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F013", "type": "fact", "title": "name", "text": "The publicity sheet gives the handwritten name Sara Hewes beside a trio photograph. A later account names the drummer Sarah Hughes. The archive uses Sara while the difference is unresolved.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A12", "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F014", "type": "fact", "title": "advertised_zeetas_date", "text": "A ticket advertises The New English at The World at Zeeta’s on Thursday 11 February, with a year of 1988 attributed by the archive. A later chronology gives 10 February 1988.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A04", "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F015", "type": "fact", "title": "advertised_reading_date", "text": "A preview advertises The New English at St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November, and the year 1987 is inferred from the weekday and the band’s activity. A later list gives 23 November 1987.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A10", "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F016", "type": "fact", "title": "solo_poster_date", "text": "A poster advertises a free solo appearance by Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar, Reading, on Saturday 11 March. A handwritten year appears to read 1995, while the label supplied with the scan says 1993. The weekday agrees with 1995.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F017", "type": "fact", "title": "active_period", "text": "A later account gives the main New English period as 1986 to 1988.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F018", "type": "fact", "title": "origin", "text": "A later account gives Surrey as the band’s origin. Band publicity separately describes Johnny and Shareef growing up in Fulham.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B01", "A08" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F021", "type": "fact", "title": "reported_predecessor_role", "text": "Later accounts identify Dave Beech as the bassist in The Fallen Idols, a predecessor project.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F022", "type": "fact", "title": "recording_release", "text": "London 1987 is catalogued as an eleven-track digital album with a release date of 2 January 2019 and a RipItUp Records credit.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F023", "type": "fact", "title": "solo_release", "text": "Inspiration is catalogued as a 1993 solo CD by Johnny Rasheed on Jackfruit Music, with eight listed songs.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B04" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F024", "type": "fact", "title": "german_poster", "text": "A handwritten poster bills S.P.G. and The New English on Saturday 17 February at the Bazooka. A later account places the show in Bonn. The archive attributes the poster to 1990, which agrees with the weekday. A YouTube upload note dates a live recording at the Bazooka, Bonn, to March 1990.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A07", "B02", "Y07" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F025", "type": "fact", "title": "publicity_support_claims", "text": "The agency publicity sheet claims that the band supported Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A12" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F026", "type": "fact", "title": "wimbledon_festival_claim", "text": "The agency publicity sheet names the Wimbledon Festival among the band’s appearances.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A12" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F027", "type": "fact", "title": "rock_garden_ticket", "text": "A ticket advertises The New English at the Rock Garden on Monday 7 December, admission £3. The year 1987 comes from archive context and agrees with the weekday.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A03" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F028", "type": "fact", "title": "reading_poster", "text": "A poster advertises New English at a Reading venue on 15 May, with the year 1987 attributed by the archive.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A06" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F030", "type": "fact", "title": "reported_activity", "text": "A later account reports an acoustic duo called The Internationalists from December 1991, with a Radio Berkshire appearance in 1992 and a Bracknell performance in 1997.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B02" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F031", "type": "fact", "title": "reported_lineup", "text": "A later account lists Those Meddling Kids as a separate early-1990s band in which Johnny Rasheed played bass.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B02" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F033", "type": "fact", "title": "alternate_name", "text": "The band name is shortened to New English on a Reading poster and in the heading of a Le Beat Route review.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "A06", "A09" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F034", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "Get Ready: Triple X Studios, North Acton, London, October 1987, according to the YouTube upload note.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y04" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F035", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "This Evening: Triple X, North Acton, London, 1987, according to the YouTube upload note.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y02" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F036", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "You Make My Day Shine: Cymbelline, Reading, April 1988, according to the YouTube upload note.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y03" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F037", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "You Make My Day Shine (99Mix): New Rising Studios, Essex, New Year’s Day 1999, according to the YouTube upload note.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y05" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F038", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "The Day After Tomorrow: the upload note reads “this version recorded 1998” and “Playing at Wimbledon Festival July 1987”.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F039", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_live", "text": "Get Ready (Live): Bazooka, Bonn, Germany, March 1990, according to the YouTube upload note. The poster in this archive gives Saturday 17 February.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y07", "A07" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F040", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_live", "text": "Bracknell Festival, July 1997, with the upload note “The New English aka The Internationalists”.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "Y08" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F041", "type": "fact", "title": "catalogue_entry", "text": "Discogs lists a CDr called London 1987 credited to New English, Jackfruit Music JRJF004, 2001, fifteen tracks. The entry is user-submitted.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B14" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F042", "type": "fact", "title": "catalogue_entry", "text": "Discogs gives Inspiration the catalogue number JRJF001 and credits Shareef C on guitars. The entry is user-submitted.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B15" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F043", "type": "fact", "title": "network_east_songs", "text": "The line-up recorded This Evening and Get Ready for Network East, and This Evening was broadcast.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B01" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F044", "type": "fact", "title": "lineup_history", "text": "Dave Beech left shortly after May 1986, Joz sang at three performances, and Sara played drums from April to September 1987.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B01" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F045", "type": "fact", "title": "compilation", "text": "Alone (I’d Rather Be) by The New English is on the 2015 compilation 3am Radio England.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B29", "B30" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F046", "type": "fact", "title": "solo_release_detail", "text": "Inspiration was recorded at Blockhouse Studios, Stratford, in April 1993, produced by Jezz Wright, with Shareef C, Martin Lynch, Simon Tarry, Robb Johnson, George Whitfield, Aubrey Braithewaite and Gemma Townley.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B15" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F047", "type": "fact", "title": "recommendation", "text": "The founder of Twee.net named Inspiration among five obscure indiepop recommendations.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json", "source_ids": [ "B31" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "bio.50", "type": "biography", "title": "Biography, 50 words", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals) and Shareef C (guitar) grew up in Fulham and played together from 1983. The main period of the band ran from 1986 to 1988, and the digital album London 1987 followed on 2 January 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/research/#bio-50", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A14", "B01", "B03" ] }, { "id": "bio.100", "type": "biography", "title": "Biography, 100 words", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s, with Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals), Shareef C (guitar), Joz (vocals) and Sara (drums). Fanzines reviewed them at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on 28 October 1986 and at Le Beat Route, London, on 23 February 1987. They supported the Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens and appeared on the BBC Two programme Network East. The main period ended in 1988. Johnny Rasheed’s solo CD Inspiration appeared in 1993, and the eleven-track digital album London 1987 on 2 January 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/research/#bio-100", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A08", "A09", "A12", "A14", "B01", "B03", "B04" ] }, { "id": "bio.250", "type": "biography", "title": "Biography, 250 words", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C grew up in Fulham, first met as children and began playing together as Years of Backwater in 1983, then as The Fallen Idols with Dave Beech on bass. The name The New English followed in 1986. Johnny played bass and sang, Shareef played guitar, and the line-up also included Joz on vocals and Sara on drums. Their reference points included Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins.\n\nFanzines reviewed the band at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on 28 October 1986, when the writer counted an audience of 25, and at Le Beat Route, London, on 23 February 1987, when the reviewer called them the liveliest band of the night. Both reviews praise Shareef’s guitar playing. The band supported the Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, played the Wimbledon Festival and appeared on the BBC Two programme Network East in 1987. A Reading preview has Johnny talking about a move towards soul pop.\n\nThe main period ended in March 1988, and the band reunited for a show with S.P.G. at the Bazooka in Bonn in February 1990. Johnny and Shareef went on to the acoustic duo The Internationalists, and Johnny released the solo CD Inspiration in 1993. A CDr called London 1987 appeared in 2001, and the eleven-track digital album of the same title followed on 2 January 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.uk/research/#bio-250", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A10", "A12", "A14", "A05", "A09", "B01", "A07", "B02", "B03", "B04", "B05" ] } ] }