This is an addendum to the post on Bizzarre and Rock On [HERE].

To help me pull together material and ideas for a forthcoming Ugly Things article on Eddie and the Hot Rods, I took a trawl through copies of Time Out, 1976. Hidden in the listings and reviews were a few gems and a three-page piece by Giovanni Dadomo (February) on London’s vintage record shops that adds a bit of gristle to the bones of my post.

Ted Carroll charts the beginnings of his Rock On shop and market stalls and the move into book publishing and record production. Dadamo describes Chiswick’s label’s first stars, the Count Bishops, as ‘punk R&B’ a term the magazine’s music editor, John Collis, was happy to echo in his description of Eddie and the Hot Rods when he reviewed their debut single, ‘Writing on the Wall’.

Dadomo doubles down on punk when he explains how the vintage shops have expanded their offering from golden oldies, rockabilly and Elvis discs to cover the beat boom era as well as catering to the ‘dole-financed punk fanatic’ – the great lost figure in received punk rock histories

One of Malcolm Harrison’s superlative illustrations for *Time Out* while working for NTA (Nicolas Thirkell Associates). I lead with it here as it better sets the tone for what follows than the dull cover used to plug Dadamo’s story.

The Rock On advert puts ‘punk’ into the mix between 60’s beat and surf . . .

The Rock n Roll Revival still had considerable traction throughout 76

I earlier ran Eve Dadomo’s photograph of Johnny Rotten that Time Out published in its listings (August 1976) and here’s a couple of the evergreen Crazy Cavan, while below are some of the punk pacesetters

Formed out of the ashes of Ducks Deluxe, the Snakes were led by Nick Garvey. Robert Gotobed was their vocalist, who later sat behind the kit in Wire. The Snakes had a top single on Dynamite/Dynamo out of Holland. The Flamin’ Groovies ‘Teenage Head’ and Jerry Byrne’s much covered ‘Light’s Out’ formed the disc’s top deck and its flip.