A11

Interview in The Mighty Utterance!

Fanzine page with a typed band interview beside a grainy photo of two people, a Reading live review and a masthead below
Mighty Utterance! interview with The New English: Johnny on London, teenage love and the band name. A separate review on the page is dated 2 April 1987.Full-size image
Type
Fanzine interview
Date as printed
2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated)
Date note
No issue date is printed; the only date on the page is 2/4/87 on the Pressgang Club review, a Thursday as that review says the club runs on Thursdays, so the page cannot have been printed before 2 April 1987 and the October 1986 in the label supplied with the scan does not fit it.
Evidence
Contemporary document, details in conflict
Source tier
A: Contemporary primary document A11
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. The interviewer is not named.
Web copy
Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.

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. It may continue the interview page catalogued separately, but that is not established. 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, uncaptioned. Below the interview is a separate live review of two performers at a Reading club, dated 2/4/87, so the page cannot have been printed before April 1987. The band’s statements here are its own words and the writer’s enthusiasm, not independent criticism, and no issue date is printed.

We ARE the new english!

Johnny, answering the prompt about the band name; the band’s own words.

Source note

This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued here. 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/

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