# Interview in The Mighty Utterance!

> A page of a fanzine interview with The New English in The Mighty Utterance!, a Reading fanzine whose hand-drawn masthead and contact block run along the foot of the page. Johnny answers short prompts headed London, Teenage Love and The New English, including what the band’s name means, and the writer closes with a paragraph noting Felt and Smiths influences and Johnny’s liking for the Redskins. A halftone photograph of two people sits at the top right. Below the interview is a separate live review of two performers at a Reading club, dated 2/4/87.

- Type: Fanzine interview
- Date: 2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated)
- Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed
- Also named: The Mighty Utterance!, Acorn Bookshop, Felt, The Smiths, The Redskins, Burial, Clive Pig and G.K. Wall, The Pressgang Club, Cap and Gown, Reading, Pop Records, Probe, HMV
- Image credit: The Mighty Utterance!, printed by Acorn Bookshop.
- Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.
- Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/
- Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px)

Excerpt: “We ARE the new english!” (Johnny in The Mighty Utterance!)

## Source note

This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.

## Cite this item

Interview in The Mighty Utterance!. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/