New Wave News poster magazine, 1977
By the summer of '77 some companies had begun to try and cash in on the 'New Wave'. This is a poster magazine that was published by Felden Productions and features a number of articles and colour photographs of The Vibrators, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees etc. On the other side is a large poster of Johnny Rotten.
I thought this kind of thing was awful because it treated the punk bands like pop stars. I was used to reading about the new bands in fanzines that were produced by punks, and made-up of xeroxed pages that were stapled together. I certainly didn't want to see these bands in glossy colour magazines!
Having said that I did buy this magazine, but at least I didn't put the Johnny Rotten poster up on my bedroom wall.
Scanned from the original magazine.
New Wave News poster magazine, 1977
By the summer of '77 some companies had begun to try and cash in on the 'New Wave'. This is a poster magazine that was published by Felden Productions and features a number of articles and colour photographs of The Vibrators, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees etc. On the other side is a large poster of Johnny Rotten.
I thought this kind of thing was awful because it treated the punk bands like pop stars. I was used to reading about the new bands in fanzines that were produced by punks, and made-up of xeroxed pages that were stapled together. I certainly didn't want to see these bands in glossy colour magazines!
Having said that I did buy this magazine, but at least I didn't put the Johnny Rotten poster up on my bedroom wall.
Scanned from the original magazine.