A09

Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987

Typed fanzine page with a New English gig review, a three-question quiz box and a grainy photo of three people by a doorway
Fanzine page reviewing The New English at Le Beat Route on 23 February 1987, with a photograph captioned to say Joz, in the middle, had left the band.Full-size image
Type
Fanzine review
Date as printed
23.2.87
Date note
Printed in the review heading as 23.2.87 (the day’s second digit is slightly damaged but reads 3); 23 February 1987 was a Monday by calendar calculation, and the page itself was printed later because it also carries a review dated late March 1987.
Evidence
Contemporary document
Source tier
A: Contemporary primary document Sources: A09
Also named
Le Beat Route, Lost Chord, Bonaparte’s, Fight Back, Amebix, Sacrilege, Concrete Sox, Ripcord
Image credit
The review is unsigned. The page carries the sign-off “Nik”. The fanzine’s title is not shown.
Web copy
Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.

A typed fanzine page carrying a review headed “New English - La Beatroute 23.2.87”. The writer calls the band the liveliest of the night, notes wrong opening chords on “Sixteen” and says it was their tenth gig since October. A grainy photograph of three people by a doorway is captioned to say that Joz, the one in the middle, is no longer with the band, and a small competition box asks readers to name the band, where it comes from and who left it without a bassist. The same page holds reviews of another band, an editorial thank-you block and a small notice for a zine called Fight Back. A handwritten “Nik” signature sits under a different review, and the New English review itself is unsigned. A later review on the page is dated late March 1987, so the page was printed after the gig, and the zine’s own title is not visible.

the liveliest band out on the night

From the fanzine review of the 23.2.87 gig; the writer is not named on the review itself.

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

Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/