# The New English Archive > A curated archive of photographs, gig documents, interviews and recordings from The New English, a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Last substantive revision: 6 November 2026. This archive is about the band The New English (also written New English on two surviving documents). London indie pop band of the late 1980s with Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C. Not The New English Rock Ensemble and not the 2005 album New English on Popster. Unrelated to language courses, schools or magazines with similar names. The digital album London 1987 has a catalogue release date of 2 January 2019. Inspiration (1993) is credited to Johnny Rasheed, not to the band. ## Start here - [Homepage as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.uk/index.md): the story, musicians, live history, press, recordings and later projects - [Archive index as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/index.md): every document with its type and date - [Methodology as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.uk/research/index.md): how to read this archive, notes on dates, source tiers, biographies and the source register - [Questions and answers](https://thenewenglish.uk/questions/index.md): direct answers with sources - [About this archive](https://thenewenglish.uk/about-this-archive/index.md): credits, images and rights - [Songs](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/index.md): every song with its versions, mentions, videos and gigs - [Timeline](https://thenewenglish.uk/timeline/index.md): gigs, recordings and documents from 1983 to 2019 ## Archive documents - [The New English, May 1986](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-may-1986.md): Photograph, May 1986. - [The New English, October 1986](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-photograph-october-1986.md): Photograph, October 1986. - [Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/tunnel-club-review.md): Fanzine review, 28/10/86. - [Fanzine interview, first page](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-first-page.md): Fanzine interview, 1987. - [Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/le-beat-route-review.md): Fanzine review, 23.2.87. - [The New English at the Wimbledon Festival, July 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/wimbledon-festival-july-1987.md): Photograph, July 1987. - [Rock Garden band pass, 7 December 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-band-pass.md): Band pass, 7 December 1987. - [Reading poster for 15 May](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-may-poster.md): Poster, 15 May 1987. - [Reading preview in What’s Happening?](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/reading-preview-interview.md): Local listing and interview, 27 November 1987. - [Rock Garden admission card, 7 December](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/rock-garden-ticket.md): Ticket, 7 December 1987. - [Band publicity biography](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-promotional-biography.md): Publicity sheet, 1987. - [Publicity sheet with trio photograph](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/agency-publicity-trio.md): Publicity sheet, 1987. - [Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/demo-tape-review.md): Demo review, 1987. - [Interview in The Mighty Utterance!](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/band-interview-continuation.md): Fanzine interview, 1987. - [Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/zeetas-ticket.md): Ticket, 11 February 1988. - [Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/bazooka-poster.md): Poster, 17 February 1990. - [Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster.md): Poster, 11 March 1995. - [Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order](https://thenewenglish.uk/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order.md): Running order, Undated. ## Songs - [Get Ready](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/get-ready.md) - [This Evening](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/this-evening.md) - [Alone](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/alone.md) - [Secretly I Wonder](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/secretly-i-wonder.md) - [The Day After Tomorrow](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/the-day-after-tomorrow.md) - [You Make My Day Shine](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/you-make-my-day-shine.md) - [This English Day](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/this-english-day.md) - [Let’s Take a Walk](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/lets-take-a-walk.md) - [Tufnell Park](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/tufnell-park.md) - [Sixteen](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/sixteen.md) - [The First Time](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/the-first-time.md) - [Kim](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/kim.md) - [Zoot Suit](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/zoot-suit.md) ## Gig pages - [Tunnel Club, Greenwich, 28 October 1986](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1986-10-28-tunnel-club.md) - [Le Beat Route, London, 23 February 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-02-23-le-beat-route.md) - [Paradise Club, Reading, 15 May 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-05-15-paradise-club.md) - [Wimbledon Festival, Wimbledon, 11 July 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-07-11-wimbledon-festival.md) - [Sir George Robey, Finsbury Park, 25 July 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-07-25-sir-george-robey.md) - [St David’s Hall, Reading, 27 November 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-11-27-st-davids-hall.md) - [Rock Garden, London, 7 December 1987](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1987-12-07-rock-garden.md) - [The World at Zeeta’s, Putney, 11 February 1988](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1988-02-11-the-world-at-zeetas.md) - [Bazooka, Bonn, 17 February 1990](https://thenewenglish.uk/live/1990-02-17-bazooka.md) ## Data - [facts.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/facts.json): Source-backed statements with their citations. - [entities.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/entities.json): The band, its musicians and separately represented later projects. - [timeline.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/timeline.json): Dated events with date precision and citations. - [gigs.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/gigs.json): Performance records with dates, venues and citations. - [releases.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/releases.json): Releases with correct artist credits, dates and track metadata. - [sources.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/sources.json): Public source register with tiers and citation locations. - [archive.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/archive.json): Public metadata for each archive object and its cleared image files. - [graph.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/graph.json): JSON-LD graph of eligible entities, releases, recordings and videos. - [changelog.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/changelog.json): Real content changes and their dates. - [videos.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/videos.json): Catalogued video uploads with descriptions and citations. - [answers.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/answers.json): Direct answers to common questions, with sources. - [chunks.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/chunks.json): The archive text split into citable chunks with source links. - [source-tiers.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/source-tiers.json): The A to E source tier scale and the sources in each tier. - [songs.json](https://thenewenglish.uk/data/songs.json): Songs with their versions, streaming links, mentions in the archive, videos and gigs. ## Optional - [Full text](https://thenewenglish.uk/llms-full.txt): all of the above in one document - [Sitemap](https://thenewenglish.uk/sitemap.xml): canonical HTML pages