2nd, April 1977 Made In Britain images of the New Wave by the Sounds staff including Jonh Ingham, Eve & Giovani Dadomo, Jon Savage and Vivien Goldman. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Sounds Front Cover featuring Shane MacGowan and images of the New Wave in Sounds 2nd, April 1977, Pic by Ian Dickson. @shanemacgowan.bsky.social @jonsavage.bsky.social

Very pleased to receive a finished copy of this, the paperback publication of Neil Tennant’s lyrics for the Pet Shop Boys, with my introduction

📖 @faberbooks.bsky.social today publish the paperback edition of Neil Tennant’s book, “One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem”, with a new introduction by @jonsavage.bsky.social. It is now available in book shops and online stores.

#11 on @expectingrain.com - this interview with Irina Shtreis louderthanwar.com/jon-savage-e...

This is rarity. Enjoy it while it lasts

And here’s a picture of me wearing another Pollocks Riley print shirt taken by Sheila Rock in Caroline Coon’s place late 1977

Going through my attic found this great hand printed Bridget Riley shirt, bought from Pollocks Brixton High Road December 1976. Original photo by the great Ida Kar

11th March, 1978. Elvis Costello's album 'This Years Model' reviewed by Jon Savage. "he lets the outside world in" @jonsavage.bsky.social

RIP Country Joe ~ I spent an hour with him once, on the banks of Lake Erie. Nice man www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjFT...

Bought OTD in 1969: future classic, all time great pop/ rock album. Tunes, heaviness, concept masked by humour. Faves: the title track, Afterglow, Long Agos, Song of a Baker, Lazy Sunday, Mad John, the Journey

Announcing new Caroline True on Monorail today monorailmusic.com/product/jon-...

Found a copy of this wonderful album: fast proto acid bears with synth ragas, can’t beat it. 1982

James Williamson article Part Two by Jon Savage in Sounds 25th, February 1978. Pix by Mick Rock. @jonsavage.bsky.social

James Williamson interview by Jon Savage about the newly released album with Iggy Pop 'Kill City' and Pix by Mick Rock in Sounds 18th, February 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

If you follow me on the other side my old Twitter account is defunct. New one is @JonSavage258

New @mojomagazine.bsky.social contains my ten page article looking at UK Punk 1976 through ten photos - by Ray Stevenson, Sheila Rock, Kate Simon, Jonh Ingham and others, inc an unseen shot of the Clash in October 1976 by John Tiberi

An article on The Worst by Jon Savage in Sounds 11th, February 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Pere Ubu's album 'The Modern Dance' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 11th, February 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1972: very listenable soundtrack to an unmemorable film. Includes Indian drones, louche jazz and - my favourite track - Party Seacombe, a wonderful drifting summer of 67 instrumental that’s the brother to the Beatles’ Flying

Singles Page reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 4th, February 1978 including Brian Eno, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Residents and Iggy Pop. @jonsavage.bsky.social

With Peter Doig playing 45s at Sound Service, The Serpentine this week. Had a great time!

RIP Kenny Morris: original punk, Banshee drummer extraordinaire. I knew him well in the Banshees and was in touch with him recently about his memoir. Which I hope will be published. God bless you Kenny

Bought OTD in 1969: one of the first albums I ever bought. The whole thing is pretty great but I keep on coming back to the spooky ones: The End, End of the Night, The Crystal Ship

An article on Fanzines by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, January 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1972: under a quid, the early seventies were a great time to find sixties lps cheap. Not my favourite Kinks album - that’s Face to Face - as the harking back is a bit cloying, but some terrific songs: Walter, Johnny Thunder, Big Sky, Starstruck, plus the rock out Wicked Annabella

Bought OTD in 1970: my favourite Who album by miles. Fast funny sharp and on occasion, very psychedelic. Big hitters about (Armenia, Mary Anne, Odorono, Miles) but special appreciation for Our Love Was (those guitar parts) and Relax, proper vortex psych

This is fantastic: the Droids, French Synth group, playing their classic Do You Have The Force on RAI TV in 1978. We included this track on the Caroline True Do You Have The Force comp www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiYf...

Happy New Year !

Bought OTD in 1969; the second Pye album, still folky but edging towards inventive backings and droning psychedelia - Sunny Goodge Street, Jersey Thursday. Special mention for Sunny Day Reflection Song - with lyrics about the media’s spell and Shaun Phillips’ transcendent 12 string

Buzzcocks and The Worst's gig at the Roundhouse reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 24th, December 1977. Pic by Kevin Cummins. @buzzcocks.com @kcmanc.bsky.social @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1970: ground breaking systems/ minimal/ trance classic. One side is up and bubbly, the other A psychotropic drone. The vortex awaits - dive in

Bought OTD in 1968: their best and most psychedelic (the two may be connected). Sunshine is the ur-rock riff but Strange Brew and the menacing We’re Going Weong are its equal. Heavy psych on Brave Ulysses (Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest is blues and novelties .

Bought OTD in 1972: this was a total game changer - a very effective piece of popcult activism and a great listen. It opened up a whole swathe of 60s US pop that Brits had hardly heard and the sleeve notes offered the word Punk as a way out of early 70s stasis: ‘the relentless middle-finger drive’

Penetration article by Jon Savage and Pic by Rik Walton in Sounds 17th, December 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Sunset at Llanfairfechan pond

Bought OTD in 1972: great non-Pepper 1967 round up. Classic singles obvs but great lesser known songs like Baby You’re A Rich Man and Flying. MMT is an acid reflux classic and I Am The Walrus a wonderful damn-you-England hallucination. Wish they’d included It’s All Too Much, tho

Bought OTD in 1972: the outer limits of SF psych - blues based songs from the ex Oxford Circle transformed by sharp lyrics and the most hallucinogenic guitar. Consistent throughout with ambient drone ending - The Lemonaide Kid

Live At The Vortex album reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 10th, December 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Bought OTD in 1970: the Dead at their most whacked out and hermetic. St Stephen, Rosemary, What’s Become of the Baby - love it. Special mention for Mountains of the Moon, the perfect end-of-the-night song. Fantastic cover by Rick Griffin

Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 3rd, December 1977 including Talking Heads, Alternative TV and Slade. @jonsavage.bsky.social

OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu

The Ramones album 'Rocket To Russia' reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 26th, November 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social

26th, November 1977 an article on New Musick by Jane Suck, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic. Part 1 the Brian Eno interview. "Think it rather as 'texture', Sublimity." @jonsavage.bsky.social

Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature. @jonsavage.bsky.social

New Musick Part 2 by Sandy Robertson, Jon Savage and Hal Synthetic in Sounds 26th, November 1977 including Throbbing Gristle, The Residents and Kraftwerk @jonsavage.bsky.social @throbbinggristle.bsky.social @theresidents.bsky.social @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social @syntheticdreamspod.bsky.social

CTR on Bandcamp Daily - Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social & Erick Bradshaw for the piece - it's just great !" CTR doesn't just fill in the gaps in your record collection" LOVE it . HERE: daily.bandcamp.com/label-profil...

I wrote up the great CTR. Thanks to @jonsavage.bsky.social for fielding some questions.

OTD in 1976 I want to see the Sex Pistols for the first time. Notre Dame Hall, just off Leicester Square, being filmed for LWT. A media event - felt Warholian with the lights cameras and people wearing weird clothes acting out. I am at left back with the beret, moving in. Photo by Jonh Ingham

Going through some old photos, found this portrait photo by the Kate Simon in the Sounds office Long Acre late 1977