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.

Ted Carroll is billed as the support act for a ‘Party with the Sex Pistols’. ‘Eddy [sic.] and the Hot Rods play three days later

God Bless Little Bob and all who sailed with him, the Marquee was no doubt set ablaze that night with the Bishops and the Rockets adding to a ‘punk R&B’ frenzy

The Stranglers described as ‘genuine acid-punk rockers’, I wish that label had stuck

101’ers . . . RIP

A gig where my world took a new turn

Chas de Whalley’s world stays on track . . .

‘Roll on death and let’s have a bash at the angels’

– Generation X

When the teen pop magazines eventually picked up on Generation X they turned it into a set of life style tips with The Who, The Birds and The Toggery Five as their models

Huddersfield *Daily Examiner* (December 1, 1964)

After You’ve Gone blog has some background on the term ‘generation x’ [HERE] and on the book itself [HERE]

Before Billy Idol’s mob took the name there were at least two other combos, one in Kent the other in Cornwall, who adopted the name and attempted to breakout of village halls

A Kentish Express columnist looks no further than to her darling boy’s school band, Generation X, for this February 1967 piece.

‘Generation X the title of a paperback which detailed the wild youth of the 1960s: a rock band of the 1970s . . .’ Bolton *Evening News* (December 20, 1977)

Clipped pages from Generation X on the rear of The Clash’s debut single

The 1964 American edition, published by Fawcett, uses a reversed and cropped image of rockers and policemen on a Margate street corner. The original below is reproduced in Johnny Stuart’s essential Rockers! (1987)