# The New English, May 1986

> A colour photograph of three people sitting close together against a pale wall, from May 1986, the month the group took the name The New English. The person on the left wears dark glasses and a dark jacket, the one in the middle a white T-shirt and the one on the right a red cardigan. The picture has a soft, hazy finish around the edges, and it was used again as the cover image of the YouTube upload of Get Ready. It is the earliest photograph in the archive.

- Type: Photograph
- Date: May 1986
- Subjects: The New English
- Image credit: Author unknown, from The New English, on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Resized for the web.
- Image source: [Source file](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_New_English_Band_May_1986.jpg); [CC BY 4.0 licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-photograph-may-1986/
- Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-photograph-may-1986-1716.jpg (1716 x 1151 px)

## Source note

This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-photograph-may-1986/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.

## Cite this item

The New English, May 1986. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-photograph-may-1986/