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Pete Shelley at San Francisco airport, 1979
Pic by yours truly.
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OTD 1977: my headmaster sent this letter to mum after I told him I'd joined a punk rock group and was quitting school so I could go on the White Riot tour.
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May 1977: my headmaster sent this letter to mum after I told him I'd joined a punk rock group and was quitting school so I could go on the White Riot tour.
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May 1977: this is the letter my headmaster sent to mum after I told him I'd joined a punk rock group and wouldn't be coming back to school after the Easter holidays, because I was going on the White Riot Tour.
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Caught in the act: mum and dad washing my first Beetle (bought with Spiral Scratch money). Youngest sister at the back, checking tire pressures. 1979.
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Summer 1972: it's 75 miles to Rhyl, the Anglia's got a full tank of petrol and we're wearing our holiday clothes. So let's take a picture in the back yard before we set off for a week in a caravan.
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Goat in Austin Maestro. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 1991 🐐
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Pete would've been 65 today. Long before anyone (including himself) had heard of Buzzcocks, he was experimenting with the lockdown hairstyle.
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OTD 1977: Letter to mum from my headmaster. I'd just told him I was quitting school so I could go on the White Riot Tour with
@Buzzcocks
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March 1975: 14 year old schoolboy wins competition to meet his favourite band.
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OTD 1975: I met Slade at Manchester Odeon. I'd won a competition in the Manchester Evening News. They sent a taxi to pick me up from school and drop me back again. Couple of days later I got a letter from Brian Bint, the cinema manager...
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Discovered in a cupboard: my full set of 'What Do I Get?' badges, plus B-side
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This poster sold at auction today for £22,000
I had around a dozen of these left over from a flyposting trip around Mcr city centre in early July 1976. Went back to my parents house a few years years ago to retrieve them. Mum had binned the lot.
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OTD 1978: exactly 40 years since Buzzcocks supported Blondie in Belgium - that's the best excuse I've got for posting this photo again 😉
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Crulivig's K6 phonebox (Isle of Lewis). Super rare double half-width door option. Reserved for locations where strong winds blow regular full width doors clean off. AFAIK exclusive to the Outer Hebrides 📞
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Pete and his Starway guitar. Some call it the 'sawn-off' guitar. It wasn't sawn - I watched it snap clean in two when he threw it across the floor during a rehearsal in St Boniface's church hall, Salford (Aug '76). I don't have an explanation for the odd socks. Photo by
@KCMANC
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February 1975: that's me standing next to Noddy Holder. I was one of four school-kids who won a Manchester Evening News competition to meet Slade (they were promoting their new film, Slade in Flame). I was the only one who turned up in school uniform 👦
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Found a half decent vocalist for my new covers band. First up: 'Ever Fallen in a Whole Lotta Love'
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Preparing for one last job with the old gang... a celebration of Pete Shelley's life at the Royal Albert Hall on June 21st.
@Buzzcocks
will be joined by guest vocalists, plus
@the_skids
&
@penetrationband
🎤🎸🥁
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Car showrooms have reopened in Balallan, Isle of Lewis.
June 2020 🐔🥚
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OTD Dec 28th 1976 (my school xmas hols): we recorded Spiral Scratch at Indigo Studios, Manchester. Pete's dad came along to check if the £250 he'd loaned us was being well spent. He wasn't the only one wondering if Martin Hannet knew what he was doing:
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Scarista Post Office, Isle of Harris. 2.30am, December 22nd, 2010
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March 1975: 14 year old schoolboy wins competition to meet his favourite band.
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The biggest Harris Tweed lamp (post) shade in the world. Leverburgh, Isle of Harris.
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"Surviving Buzzcocks members"... sounds like we're all on fucking life support. Every day's a bonus! 🛌👴🎸🥁
Surviving Buzzcocks members and special guests are staging a tribute show for Pete Shelley
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Trabant discovered in the Democratic Republic of Point, Isle of Lewis.
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Buzzcocks first tour of the USA, September 1979: someone decided to waste our day off in Los Angeles by taking us to Disneyland. If you've never been, it's like a shit version of Blackpool.
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Today I was mostly making an almighty racket with my old band-mates Steve Diggle and Steve Garvey... last rehearsal prior to the Royal Albert Hall show. It was a blast! 🎤🎸🥁
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Would you buy a concert ticket off this man? Talcy Malcy (Shaftesbury Ave, 1979).
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On a street corner in Athy, County Kildare.
Along with Johnny Marr and Mani, I'm the 3rd Manchester lad with connections to the area to appear in the 'Made of Athy' music trail. We've all got parents who were born and brought up in the area. Something in the water 🇮🇪☘️🍻
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Bag for life: 40 years old today and it's still not fallen apart!
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Does it count as name dropping if the geezer's got the same name as you? 😉
Johnny Fuckin' Marr sounding ace at Glastonbury 🎸
Great hanging out with John Fuckin' Maher. Ace Buzzcocks drummer and Manchester boy.
@flyingmonkphoto
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OTD 1979: Buzzcocks and Joy Division play Edinburgh Odeon. This schoolboy's account of what he experienced that night is superb...
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Still a common sight in Tiree: tarred felt, hipped roof with rounded ridge - all about keeping your lid on in the windiest part of the UK. Slightly outward leaning chimneys lessen the likelihood of the stacks falling inward and destroying the roof. Design based on experience.
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1980: got this kit brand new from the Premier factory in '78. Used on Love Bites and A Different Kind of Tension. Sold it to Happy Mondays late 80s. Last I heard it's still around, somewhere near Madchester.
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March 1975: I was one of four school kids who won a Manchester Evening News competition to meet Slade. They were doing the rounds to promote one of the best films ever made about the music biz 🔥🎬
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January 1977: I delivered a copy of Spiral Scratch to a 'fan' who lived nearby. I cycled round. I was invited in by his mum. A week later this letter appeared in NME. Sometimes wonder what happened to the miserable kid holed up in his bedroom, curtains drawn?
#BuzzcocksScrapbook
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It's that time of year again 😀 🎅🎄
Lewis's department store, Manchester, 1977
Photo by
@KCMANC
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New York, 1979: I was about to take a picture of the Trash and Vaudeville rock 'n' roll boutique in St. Mark's Place, but the kids hanging out next door insisted I photograph them instead.
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OTD Dec 11th, 1977: Roundhouse, London - Buzzcocks biggest gig to date. Support bands: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Penetration and The Worst. H&H combo perched on beer crates, home-made drum riser I helped my dad make, jumpers for goalposts etc...
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The kids are alright. Where are they now? St. Boniface Hall, Lower Broughton, Salford, August 1976. Photo by Phil Mason.
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Manchester punk group Buzzcocks in a mini-bus, 24th November 1977. L-R: singer Pete Shelley, drummer John Maher, bassist Steve Garvey and guitarist Steve Diggle. Maher is holding a set of stickers with the slogan 'Be a nuisance, insist on Formica'.
Photo by Kevin Cummins
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OTD 1977: second day of the Another Music In A Different Kitchen recording sessions at Olympic Studios. Photo by Jill Furmanovsky - taken in the studio's kitchen. Another of Jill's kitchen pics is on the album cover.
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Thank you and good night! 💥💥🎸🥁
Closing shot from Granada TV's documentary 'B'dum B'dum'. Filmed at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall, July 21st 1978 📺
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Discovered in a cupboard.
I was far too cool to put it on display, so it got wrapped up and stashed away. 44 years later I'm gonna find a spot on the wall for it 😎
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Buzzcocks did a short tour of the USA in November 1980: Amherst, Willimantic, Long Island, NY, Rhode Island & Boston. Some of my 'on the road' photos from the back seat of the van...
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May 1979: Pete Shelley, Lee Brilleaux, Hugh Cornwell and a bear. Loch Lomond Rock Festival, Cameron Wildlife Park. 🐻💩🌲🌳
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Thanks for the birthday greetings everyone! Gives me an excuse to share this pic again 😉🎂
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August 1976: rehearsing in St Boniface's church hall, Salford - just down the road from our original rehearsal space (Howard's basement flat). The move was suggested by one of Howard's neighbours.
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@ruxxnaqvi
@BradfordMuseums
@bradfordmdc
@visitBradford
@bestofbfd
@MarcDavenant
@YourWullie
@GrimArtGroup
@bfdcityoffilm
Scarista, Isle of Harris
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Bays of Harris Tourist Information office recently doubled its seating capacity. That high back Mastermind knock-off is the newcomer.
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Eriskay Football Club, Outer Hebrides.
Recognised by Fifa as one of eight unique places to play the game in the world.
@EriskayFC
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Found 'em! Haven't seen these in about 20 years. 2 years worth of
@Buzzcocks
related music press cuttings from Sounds, NME, Melody Maker and Record Mirror. Starts with our first ever review - supporting the Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, July '76. More to follow... 🤓
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Another picture from Ness that isn't part of my exhibition at Comunn Eachdraidh Nis... a little further up the road from CEN is Ness Post Office. At the time I took this (Jan 2011), it was the 3rd most north-westerly Post Office in the EU. The other two are/were also in Ness 📬
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"One of the greatest collections of short, sharp songs by any band, ever." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
According to Q Magazine
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Spiral Scratch revisited...
1976 & 1978: on the steps of the Robert Peel statue, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester.
2012: round the back of Manchester Apollo
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Released OTD in the USA, 1979.
My original IRS copy - complete with 'Not for Resale' notched top corner.
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Took this photo in December 2016. Drove past today and did a double-take. The tree's still there but the house has gone. Bays of Harris.
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Did this short interview with Radio 4's PM programme earlier this evening:
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OTD 1979: Buzzcocks and Joy Division at Edinburgh Odeon. This schoolboy's hand-written account of the night is brilliant! 🧒🗒️✍️
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Royal Albert Hall last night... reckon I had the best seat in the house 😉
@Buzzcocks
@porteranddavies
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OTD 1978: Buzzcocks and The Slits play Croydon Greyhound. Captain Sensible turned up. So did a top-hatted John Lydon - fresh back from Jamaica following the Pistols split. After the gig, Nora (Ari-Up's mum/future Mrs Lydon) took us to her gaff in Chelsea for drinks and nibbles.
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