{ "meta": { "title": "Archive objects", "description": "Public metadata for each archive object and its cleared image files.", "language": "en-GB", "last_substantive_revision": "2026-11-05", "canonical_page": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/", "file_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/data/archive.json", "count": 14, "notice": "Public export of The New English Archive, a curated archive that is not an independent source. Records marked attributed_only carry their qualification and must be quoted together with it. Crawler or download access is not a licence to reuse the material." }, "objects": [ { "id": "A05", "slug": "tunnel-club-review", "title": "Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "This is one typed page from an unidentified fanzine, headed Reviews, with no masthead, issue number or publication date. The right-hand column reviews The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich on 28/10/86. The writer reports an audience of 25 on a wet Tuesday in an industrial setting, says The New English were by far the better of the two bands, and praises the riffs of a guitarist spelt Sharef. The rest of the page covers gigs by other acts. The page ends with a sign-off, ‘Nik’, and a handwritten note crediting the magazine’s artwork. The writer’s connection to the band is not stated. It is a contemporary account of one evening, not a setlist, and the zine’s title and issue remain unestablished.", "body": [ "This is one typed page from an unidentified fanzine, headed Reviews, with no masthead, issue number or publication date. The right-hand column reviews The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich on 28/10/86. The writer reports an audience of 25 on a wet Tuesday in an industrial setting, says The New English were by far the better of the two bands, and praises the riffs of a guitarist spelt Sharef. The rest of the page covers gigs by other acts. The page ends with a sign-off, ‘Nik’, and a handwritten note crediting the magazine’s artwork. The writer’s connection to the band is not stated. It is a contemporary account of one evening, not a setlist, and the zine’s title and issue remain unestablished." ], "caption": "A fanzine Reviews page with a review of The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, dated 28/10/86. The zine’s title is not shown.", "date_text": "28/10/86", "date_label": null, "date_provenance": "The date is printed in the review heading as 28/10/86 and the text calls it a ‘very wet Tuesday’, which agrees with the calendar (28 October 1986 was a Tuesday); it dates the gig, not the publication of the fanzine issue.", "object_type": "Fanzine review", "mentions": [ "The Third Man", "Tunnel Club", "Greenwich", "Blackwall Tunnel", "Bonapartes", "The Damned", "Blue In Heaven", "Liverpool Royal Court", "The Redskins" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A05", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Page signed off “Nik”. A handwritten note credits the artwork to an illustrator using an alias. The fanzine’s title is not shown.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "The New English were by far the best, with Sharef playing some brilliant riffs.", "attribution": "Unattributed fanzine reviewer, review of the 28/10/86 Tunnel Club gig; the page is signed off 'Nik' and the zine is unidentified." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed fanzine page headed Reviews; the right-hand column reviews The New English and The Third Man at the Tunnel Club.", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A14", "slug": "band-interview-first-page", "title": "Fanzine interview, first page", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "The first page of a typewritten fanzine interview with The New English, with no masthead or date visible. The introduction names Johnny Rasheed on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with drums supplied by a drum machine printed as “Sequestial”; a black bar hides a word before Shareef’s name. Short topic headings run down the page, from drum machines and the independent scene to Morrissey and Marr, television, alcohol, religion, racism, skinhead fashion and benefit gigs, with answers from Johnny and Shareef. A solid black panel carries a rotated slogan about being harder and more melodic than two famous groups, and a small photograph of two people sits at lower right. The page ends with a pointer to the next page. These are the band’s own statements, not independent criticism, and no date is printed.", "body": [ "The first page of a typewritten fanzine interview with The New English, with no masthead or date visible. The introduction names Johnny Rasheed on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with drums supplied by a drum machine printed as “Sequestial”; a black bar hides a word before Shareef’s name. Short topic headings run down the page, from drum machines and the independent scene to Morrissey and Marr, television, alcohol, religion, racism, skinhead fashion and benefit gigs, with answers from Johnny and Shareef. A solid black panel carries a rotated slogan about being harder and more melodic than two famous groups, and a small photograph of two people sits at lower right. The page ends with a pointer to the next page. These are the band’s own statements, not independent criticism, and no date is printed." ], "caption": "First page of a fanzine interview with The New English, naming Johnny Rasheed on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with a drum machine; no date is printed.", "date_text": "No date printed", "date_label": "Undated", "date_provenance": "No date is printed on the page; the scan label’s October 1986 is unsupported, and the page ends “or look at the next page!” while the apparent next page (A11) carries a review dated 2/4/87, which would put the issue in April 1987 or later if the two pages belong together.", "object_type": "Fanzine interview", "mentions": [ "Redskins", "Felt", "Morrissey and Marr", "Cherry Red", "C86 bands", "Primal Scream", "The Pastels", "Talulah Gosh", "Band of Holy Joy", "Ian Curtis", "Sylvia Plath", "Phil Ochs", "4Skins", "The Beatles", "Fulham", "London" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "reported", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, date not printed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A14", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "Johnny Rasheed (Bass and vocals)", "attribution": "Line-up statement in the interview’s introduction; the page’s own wording." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page.md", "image": { "alt": "Typewritten fanzine interview page with ruled topic headings, a black panel with a rotated slogan and a small photo", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A09", "slug": "le-beat-route-review", "title": "Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "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.", "body": [ "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." ], "caption": "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.", "date_text": "23.2.87", "date_label": null, "date_provenance": "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.", "object_type": "Fanzine review", "mentions": [ "Le Beat Route", "Lost Chord", "Bonaparte’s", "Fight Back", "Amebix", "Sacrilege", "Concrete Sox", "Ripcord" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "verified_primary", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "shareef-c", "joz" ], "source_id": "A09", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "The review is unsigned. The page carries the sign-off “Nik”. The fanzine’s title is not shown.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "the liveliest band out on the night", "attribution": "From the fanzine review of the 23.2.87 gig; the writer is not named on the review itself." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed fanzine page with a New English gig review, a three-question quiz box and a grainy photo of three people by a doorway", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A06", "slug": "reading-may-poster", "title": "Reading poster for 15 May", "type": "poster", "type_label": "Poster", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This is a bold black-and-white poster, cropped at the top, advertising New English on 15 May. A black panel gives the details: admission £3.50 from 9:00 until late, £2.50 before 10:00, and an address at 112 London Street, Reading. The very large lettering above the band name is cut off by the scan and cannot be read, so the poster does not itself confirm the venue’s name. No weekday or year is printed; 1987 comes from the label supplied with the scan and a later list. The billing reads New English rather than The New English, so the attribution rests on the name and the archive’s context. As an advertisement the poster shows a planned date, not that the concert happened.", "body": [ "This is a bold black-and-white poster, cropped at the top, advertising New English on 15 May. A black panel gives the details: admission £3.50 from 9:00 until late, £2.50 before 10:00, and an address at 112 London Street, Reading. The very large lettering above the band name is cut off by the scan and cannot be read, so the poster does not itself confirm the venue’s name. No weekday or year is printed; 1987 comes from the label supplied with the scan and a later list. The billing reads New English rather than The New English, so the attribution rests on the name and the archive’s context. As an advertisement the poster shows a planned date, not that the concert happened." ], "caption": "Poster for New English on 15 May, with admission prices and a Reading address. The top line is cropped and the year is not printed; 1987 is attributed.", "date_text": "15 MAY", "date_label": "1987 attributed", "date_provenance": "Day and month are printed (‘15 MAY’) with no weekday or year; the label supplied with the scan says May 1987 and a later list gives 15 May 1987, but nothing on the scan itself confirms the year (15 May 1987 was a Friday, which the poster cannot confirm).", "object_type": "Poster", "mentions": [ "Reading", "112 London Street" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "primary_with_context", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, date attributed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A06", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "NEW ENGLISH 15 MAY", "attribution": "Printed headline of the poster; the band is billed without 'The'." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster.md", "image": { "alt": "Black and white poster reading New English, 15 May, £3.50 or £2.50 before 10:00, London Street, Reading; top cropped.", "width": 1168, "height": 848, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-1168.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 348, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 697, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1168, "height": 848, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-1168.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-1168.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-1168.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A10", "slug": "reading-preview-interview", "title": "Reading preview in What’s Happening?", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "A spread from a Reading listings zine, with a What’s Happening? banner at lower right and an article on The New English in the left column. The article says the London band is coming down the M4 to play St David’s Hall on London Road on Friday 27th November, notes that the band has been grouped with the Indie Pop bands, and quotes singer and bassist Johnny Rasheed on wanting to lose that label and move towards soul pop. Shareef is described as the guitarist. The centre column is a gig calendar running from late November to early December, and the right column carries an interview with a different band, Yargo, so remarks there are not about The New English. The year is not printed; the weekdays fit 1987, among other years, and the band’s known activity points to 1987. The page advertises a date and does not prove the concert took place.", "body": [ "A spread from a Reading listings zine, with a What’s Happening? banner at lower right and an article on The New English in the left column. The article says the London band is coming down the M4 to play St David’s Hall on London Road on Friday 27th November, notes that the band has been grouped with the Indie Pop bands, and quotes singer and bassist Johnny Rasheed on wanting to lose that label and move towards soul pop. Shareef is described as the guitarist. The centre column is a gig calendar running from late November to early December, and the right column carries an interview with a different band, Yargo, so remarks there are not about The New English. The year is not printed; the weekdays fit 1987, among other years, and the band’s known activity points to 1987. The page advertises a date and does not prove the concert took place." ], "caption": "Reading listings zine spread previewing The New English at St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November, year inferred as 1987, with Johnny Rasheed on soul pop.", "date_text": "FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER", "date_label": null, "date_provenance": "The day and month are printed in the article; the year is not printed, and the weekday pattern across the listings (Friday 27 November with Monday 30th, Tuesday 1 December and Sunday 6 December) fits 1981, 1987 and 1992, so 1987 is inferred from the band’s activity and the Rick Astley remark, and the date is an advertised one rather than a confirmed performance.", "object_type": "Local listing and interview", "mentions": [ "St David’s Hall, London Road, Reading", "The Brilliant Corners", "Rick Astley", "Voice Of The Beehive", "All About Eve", "Melody Maker", "What’s Happening?", "Readifolk at the George Hotel", "Yargo", "Paradise" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, details in conflict", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A10", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "What’s Happening? The article has no byline.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.", "attribution": "Johnny Rasheed, quoted in the preview article; the band’s own description of its direction, not critical praise." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview.md", "image": { "alt": "Photocopied listings zine spread: band article at left, gig calendar in the centre, advert and What’s Happening? banner", "width": 1168, "height": 848, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 348, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 697, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1168, "height": 848, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A03", "slug": "rock-garden-ticket", "title": "Rock Garden admission card, 7 December", "type": "ticket", "type_label": "Ticket", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This is a printed admission card for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London. It reads ‘To see: The New English at Breakthrough I’, gives Monday 7 DEC, 7.30pm to 3am, and a special admission price of £3 to be paid at the door. The card says admission is not guaranteed, and the conditions printed down the right edge include an age limit of 18+, no refunds and no transfers. No year is printed. The weekday fits 1987 and the label supplied with the scan says December 1987, but the card does not confirm that itself. ‘Breakthrough I’ appears to be the name of the night. The card advertises an admission arrangement for a planned date; it does not show that the band played.", "body": [ "This is a printed admission card for the Rock Garden in Covent Garden, London. It reads ‘To see: The New English at Breakthrough I’, gives Monday 7 DEC, 7.30pm to 3am, and a special admission price of £3 to be paid at the door. The card says admission is not guaranteed, and the conditions printed down the right edge include an age limit of 18+, no refunds and no transfers. No year is printed. The weekday fits 1987 and the label supplied with the scan says December 1987, but the card does not confirm that itself. ‘Breakthrough I’ appears to be the name of the night. The card advertises an admission arrangement for a planned date; it does not show that the band played." ], "caption": "Rock Garden admission card for The New English at ‘Breakthrough I’, Monday 7 DEC, £3 at the door. The year is not printed; 1987 is attributed.", "date_text": "Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am", "date_label": "1987 attributed", "date_provenance": "Weekday, day and month are printed (‘Monday 7 DEC’) but no year; the label supplied with the scan says December 1987 and 7 December fell on a Monday in 1987 (not in 1986 or 1988), so 1987 is a consistent attribution but not a printed fact.", "object_type": "Ticket", "mentions": [ "Rock Garden", "The Piazza, Covent Garden, London", "Breakthrough I" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "primary_with_context", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, date attributed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A03", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "THE NEW ENGLISH at \"BREAKTHROUGH I\"", "attribution": "Printed on the Rock Garden admission card, beside the label 'to see'." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket.md", "image": { "alt": "Cream Rock Garden admission card for The New English at ‘Breakthrough I’, Monday 7 DEC, 7.30pm to 3am, £3.", "width": 635, "height": 322, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 243, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-480.jpg" }, { "width": 635, "height": 322, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A08", "slug": "band-promotional-biography", "title": "Band publicity biography", "type": "promotion", "type_label": "Publicity", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A one-page typed biography issued as band publicity, with a vertical New English logo down the right-hand edge. It says the two members grew up in Fulham, first met aged eight at a mass football match in Normand Park, and describes a later meeting at a Redskins gig at The King’s Head, in a sentence partly covered by a black bar. It claims the band had been together about eight months and had already made its first national television appearance on Network East, giving a date that ends “/9/87” with the day clipped by the scan edge. The lyrics are described as honest stories of teenage love in South West 6. This is the band’s own promotional wording, not independent coverage, and the sheet carries no date of its own.", "body": [ "A one-page typed biography issued as band publicity, with a vertical New English logo down the right-hand edge. It says the two members grew up in Fulham, first met aged eight at a mass football match in Normand Park, and describes a later meeting at a Redskins gig at The King’s Head, in a sentence partly covered by a black bar. It claims the band had been together about eight months and had already made its first national television appearance on Network East, giving a date that ends “/9/87” with the day clipped by the scan edge. The lyrics are described as honest stories of teenage love in South West 6. This is the band’s own promotional wording, not independent coverage, and the sheet carries no date of its own." ], "caption": "Band-issued publicity biography for The New English, undated, describing a Fulham childhood, a first national television appearance and songs about teenage love.", "date_text": "NETWORK EAST - [day clipped]/9/87", "date_label": "After September 1987", "date_provenance": "The sheet carries no date of its own; the only date is for the Network East appearance, printed with the day clipped at the left edge and ending “/9/87” (September 1987 on UK day/month order), so by its own wording the sheet was written on or after that appearance.", "object_type": "Publicity sheet", "mentions": [ "Fulham", "Normand Park", "The Redskins", "The King’s Head", "Network East" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Band publicity", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c" ], "source_id": "A08", "source_tier": "B", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "Songs to hum now and forever!", "attribution": "Slogan near the end of the band’s own publicity text." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed publicity biography of The New English with a vertical band-name logo and black bars covering two names", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A12", "slug": "agency-publicity-trio", "title": "Publicity sheet with trio photograph", "type": "promotion", "type_label": "Publicity", "category": "photographs-publicity", "category_label": "Photographs and publicity", "summary": "A one-page publicity sheet, part handwritten and part typed, prepared to promote The New English for bookings and labelled here as band publicity rather than press. A grainy photograph shows three people outdoors beside a low wall. Handwritten names read Sara Hewes, Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C, but nothing on the sheet says which name belongs to which person, and the first two names sit directly below the booking line. Bookings are directed to an agency, A C Promotion, in Liverpool. The handwritten text claims the band had supported The Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, played the Wimbledon Festival and recently appeared on Network East. A typed question-and-answer section gives the band’s own views on music, the indie scene and politics. No date or year is printed.", "body": [ "A one-page publicity sheet, part handwritten and part typed, prepared to promote The New English for bookings and labelled here as band publicity rather than press. A grainy photograph shows three people outdoors beside a low wall. Handwritten names read Sara Hewes, Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C, but nothing on the sheet says which name belongs to which person, and the first two names sit directly below the booking line. Bookings are directed to an agency, A C Promotion, in Liverpool. The handwritten text claims the band had supported The Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, played the Wimbledon Festival and recently appeared on Network East. A typed question-and-answer section gives the band’s own views on music, the indie scene and politics. No date or year is printed." ], "caption": "Band publicity sheet with a trio photograph, handwritten booking details for A C Promotion and a typed question-and-answer section; it is undated.", "date_text": "No date printed", "date_label": "1987 attributed", "date_provenance": "No date or year is printed; the sheet says only “so far this year” and “recently appeared” on Network East, and the label supplied with the scan attributes it to 1987, which A08’s September 1987 Network East date makes plausible but does not prove.", "object_type": "Publicity sheet", "mentions": [ "A C Promotion", "The Brilliant Corners", "Frank Chickens", "Wimbledon Festival", "Network East", "Woodentops", "The Smiths", "Housemartins", "Redskins", "N.M.A.", "Soup Dragons", "Shop Assistants", "Mighty Lemon Drops", "Felt", "The Pastels", "Red Action" ], "mask_note": "One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Band publicity", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed", "shareef-c", "sara" ], "source_id": "A12", "source_tier": "B", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Not recorded. The sheet names A C Promotion for bookings, and no photographer or designer is named.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "We play Indie-pop like eg Woodentops, Smiths, Housemartins", "attribution": "The band’s own answer to the first typed question on its publicity sheet; self-description, not independent criticism." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio.md", "image": { "alt": "Publicity sheet with a photo of three people by a wall, handwritten names and booking details, typed questions and answers", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A13", "slug": "demo-tape-review", "title": "Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "A page from a Reading listings zine whose title, What’s Happening?, runs vertically down the left margin, with a demo review headed “The New English” in the right-hand column. The reviewer discusses a two-song tape, “Get Ready” and “This Evening”, calling them sprightly pop songs full of the excitement of new love. The vocals on the first are likened to Lloyd Cole and on the second to Paul Weller in his In The City period, the brass is described as obviously hi-tech, and a closing line points to Otis Redding’s “My Girl” as a comparison for the feeling in the music. The review also quotes lines from the lyrics, which are not reproduced here. The left column is a news item about Reading gigs. The review has no byline or date, and the year is not printed.", "body": [ "A page from a Reading listings zine whose title, What’s Happening?, runs vertically down the left margin, with a demo review headed “The New English” in the right-hand column. The reviewer discusses a two-song tape, “Get Ready” and “This Evening”, calling them sprightly pop songs full of the excitement of new love. The vocals on the first are likened to Lloyd Cole and on the second to Paul Weller in his In The City period, the brass is described as obviously hi-tech, and a closing line points to Otis Redding’s “My Girl” as a comparison for the feeling in the music. The review also quotes lines from the lyrics, which are not reproduced here. The left column is a news item about Reading gigs. The review has no byline or date, and the year is not printed." ], "caption": "Demo review of The New English in the What’s Happening? zine, covering the songs Get Ready and This Evening; no byline or date is visible.", "date_text": "No date printed", "date_label": "1987 attributed", "date_provenance": "No date or year is printed; the news column lists dates from 9 March to 5 April without a year, which puts the issue in early spring of an unstated year, and the label supplied with the scan attributes it to 1987.", "object_type": "Demo review", "mentions": [ "What’s Happening?", "Lloyd Cole", "Paul Weller", "Otis Redding", "The Brilliant Corners", "After Dark Club, Reading", "Joe Louis Walker", "The Gathering", "Robbed In Rome", "The Cell", "Cemetery Rehearsal Studios", "Hattons" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "primary_with_context", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, date attributed", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A13", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "What’s Happening? The review has no byline.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "Two sprightly pop songs that bounce along", "attribution": "Opening words of the demo review; the reviewer is not named." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review.md", "image": { "alt": "Zine page with a news column, a vertical What’s Happening? title and a typed demo review headed The New English", "width": 873, "height": 606, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-873.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 333, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-480.jpg" }, { "width": 873, "height": 606, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-873.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-873.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-873.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A11", "slug": "band-interview-continuation", "title": "Interview in The Mighty Utterance!", "type": "press", "type_label": "Press", "category": "press-interviews", "category_label": "Press and interviews", "summary": "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.", "body": [ "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." ], "caption": "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.", "date_text": "2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated)", "date_label": "After 2 April 1987", "date_provenance": "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.", "object_type": "Fanzine interview", "mentions": [ "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" ], "mask_note": "Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged.", "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, details in conflict", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english", "johnny-rasheed" ], "source_id": "A11", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "The Mighty Utterance!, printed by Acorn Bookshop. The interviewer is not named.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "We ARE the new english!", "attribution": "Johnny, answering the prompt about the band name; the band’s own words." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation.md", "image": { "alt": "Fanzine page with a typed band interview beside a grainy photo of two people, a Reading live review and a masthead below", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A04", "slug": "zeetas-ticket", "title": "Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February", "type": "ticket", "type_label": "Ticket", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This is a pre-printed admission card for The World at Zeeta’s, a club in Putney, headed Presents Live. The band name, the day and the stage time have been filled in by hand: The New English, Thurs 11th Feb, onstage 10.30pm. The printed text gives the club’s opening hours, a smart-casual dress code and entry prices with the card of £2.00 from Monday to Thursday and £3.00 on Friday and Saturday. No year is written. The archive attributes the card to 1988, when 11 February was a Thursday; a later chronology gives 10 February instead, a Wednesday that year. The card shows an advertised booking and an unresolved date, not a confirmed performance.", "body": [ "This is a pre-printed admission card for The World at Zeeta’s, a club in Putney, headed Presents Live. The band name, the day and the stage time have been filled in by hand: The New English, Thurs 11th Feb, onstage 10.30pm. The printed text gives the club’s opening hours, a smart-casual dress code and entry prices with the card of £2.00 from Monday to Thursday and £3.00 on Friday and Saturday. No year is written. The archive attributes the card to 1988, when 11 February was a Thursday; a later chronology gives 10 February instead, a Wednesday that year. The card shows an advertised booking and an unresolved date, not a confirmed performance." ], "caption": "Red-printed Zeeta’s club card with The New English, Thurs 11th Feb and 10.30pm written in by hand. No year is given; 1988 is attributed and the date is disputed.", "date_text": "THURS 11th FEB (handwritten); Onstage 10-30PM (handwritten)", "date_label": "1988 attributed", "date_provenance": "Weekday, day and month are handwritten (‘THURS 11th FEB’) with no year; the archive attributes the card to 1988 and 11 February was a Thursday in 1988, but a later chronology gives 10 February (a Wednesday in 1988), so the performance date stays unresolved.", "object_type": "Ticket", "mentions": [ "The World at Zeeta's", "Zeeta's, Putney, London SW15" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, details in conflict", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A04", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket.md", "image": { "alt": "Red-printed card from The World at Zeeta’s with The New English, Thurs 11th Feb and 10.30pm handwritten in.", "width": 628, "height": 447, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-628.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 342, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-480.jpg" }, { "width": 628, "height": 447, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-628.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-628.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-628.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A07", "slug": "bazooka-poster", "title": "Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February", "type": "poster", "type_label": "Poster", "category": "posters-tickets", "category_label": "Posters and tickets", "summary": "This is a handwritten, photocopied poster in German and English promoting a bill of S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK). It names the presenters as A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv, gives the venue as the Bazooka (‘Im Bazooka’), and states Samstag, Feb. 17th, an evening start time, entry of 6 and ‘one and only European date’. A dedication to the memory of The Redskins runs across the top. The poster carries an uncaptioned photocopy of two guitarists on stage and a school-style portrait of a child; neither is identified. No year or city is printed. The weekday fits 17 February 1990, the year in the scan label, and later accounts place the show in Bonn. It is an advertised bill, not proof that the show took place.", "body": [ "This is a handwritten, photocopied poster in German and English promoting a bill of S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK). It names the presenters as A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv, gives the venue as the Bazooka (‘Im Bazooka’), and states Samstag, Feb. 17th, an evening start time, entry of 6 and ‘one and only European date’. A dedication to the memory of The Redskins runs across the top. The poster carries an uncaptioned photocopy of two guitarists on stage and a school-style portrait of a child; neither is identified. No year or city is printed. The weekday fits 17 February 1990, the year in the scan label, and later accounts place the show in Bonn. It is an advertised bill, not proof that the show took place." ], "caption": "Handwritten poster billing S.P.G. (UK) and The New English (UK) at the Bazooka on Samstag, Feb. 17th. No year or city is printed; 1990 and Bonn come from other sources.", "date_text": "SAMSTAG FEB. 17TH 20.[overwritten digit]0 UHR", "date_label": "1990 attributed", "date_provenance": "Weekday (German ‘Samstag’), month and day are handwritten but no year is given; 17 February was a Saturday in 1990, which agrees with the label supplied with the scan, so 1990 is a consistent attribution but not a printed fact.", "object_type": "Poster", "mentions": [ "S.P.G.", "A.C. Promotions", "Bazooka kollectiv", "Bazooka", "The Redskins" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, details in conflict", "entity_ids": [ "the-new-english" ], "source_id": "A07", "source_tier": "B", "solo_item": false, "credit": "Presented by A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv. No designer or photographer is named.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": { "text": "ONE AND ONLY EUROPEAN DATE", "attribution": "Handwritten promotional wording on the poster; a promoter's claim, not independent evidence." }, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster.md", "image": { "alt": "Handwritten poster for S.P.G. and The New English, Samstag Feb. 17th, im Bazooka, with a photocopied photo of two guitarists.", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-848.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A01", "slug": "johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster", "title": "Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster", "type": "poster", "type_label": "Poster", "category": "later-projects", "category_label": "Later projects", "summary": "This is a typewritten poster for a free evening at MacDevitt’s Bar in Reading, billed under the name Johnny Rasheed alone. It gives the date as Saturday 11th March, with an 8pm start, and carries a hand-drawn box labelled The Free Box above the details, plus a cropped black-and-white print at the top edge. A small pencil note at the lower left appears to read 1995, while the label supplied with the scan says 1993. Saturday 11 March fell in 1995, not 1993, so the handwritten year is the better candidate, but the year has not been confirmed. This is a solo item by Johnny Rasheed. It does not name The New English and should not be read as a band performance. As an advertisement it shows that an appearance was planned, not that it took place.", "body": [ "This is a typewritten poster for a free evening at MacDevitt’s Bar in Reading, billed under the name Johnny Rasheed alone. It gives the date as Saturday 11th March, with an 8pm start, and carries a hand-drawn box labelled The Free Box above the details, plus a cropped black-and-white print at the top edge. A small pencil note at the lower left appears to read 1995, while the label supplied with the scan says 1993. Saturday 11 March fell in 1995, not 1993, so the handwritten year is the better candidate, but the year has not been confirmed. This is a solo item by Johnny Rasheed. It does not name The New English and should not be read as a band performance. As an advertisement it shows that an appearance was planned, not that it took place." ], "caption": "Poster for a free Johnny Rasheed evening at MacDevitt’s Bar, Reading, on Saturday 11th March. A pencil note appears to give 1995. Solo item, not The New English.", "date_text": "SATURDAY 11th MARCH...8pm; a faint pencil note at lower left appears to read 1995", "date_label": null, "date_provenance": "Day and month are printed (‘SATURDAY 11th MARCH’); the year is a faint handwritten pencil note reading 1995 at the lower left, which agrees with the weekday (11 March was a Saturday in 1995 but a Thursday in 1993, the year in the label supplied with the scan), although the annotation’s author and date are unknown and the owner has not confirmed it.", "object_type": "Poster", "mentions": [ "MacDevitt's Bar", "Reading", "The Free Box" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "disputed", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, details in conflict", "entity_ids": [ "johnny-rasheed" ], "source_id": "A01", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": true, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster.md", "image": { "alt": "Typed poster for Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar, Reading, Saturday 11th March, with a drawn box marked The Free Box.", "width": 1168, "height": 848, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 348, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-480.jpg" }, { "width": 960, "height": 697, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-960.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-960.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-960.jpg" }, { "width": 1168, "height": 848, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.jpg" } ] } }, { "id": "A02", "slug": "johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order", "title": "Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order", "type": "programme", "type_label": "Programme", "category": "later-projects", "category_label": "Later projects", "summary": "This is a single printed sheet headed Saturday, laid out as a timetable with a scale from 12.00 to 11.00 and ruled boxes for individual acts. Johnny Rasheed is the first act named, in a box just after the 3.00 mark, followed by Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner and Karen Grace. Two earlier boxes read Ask at Sound Desk. The sheet gives no event name, venue, date or year, and nothing on it supports the festival described in the label supplied with the scan or its 1993 date. It is a solo item for Johnny Rasheed and does not mention The New English. It shows a listing on a multi-act Saturday bill, but not which event it was, when it happened or whether the set took place.", "body": [ "This is a single printed sheet headed Saturday, laid out as a timetable with a scale from 12.00 to 11.00 and ruled boxes for individual acts. Johnny Rasheed is the first act named, in a box just after the 3.00 mark, followed by Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner and Karen Grace. Two earlier boxes read Ask at Sound Desk. The sheet gives no event name, venue, date or year, and nothing on it supports the festival described in the label supplied with the scan or its 1993 date. It is a solo item for Johnny Rasheed and does not mention The New English. It shows a listing on a multi-act Saturday bill, but not which event it was, when it happened or whether the set took place." ], "caption": "A printed Saturday running order listing Johnny Rasheed with four other acts. No event, venue or year is printed. Solo item, not The New English.", "date_text": "SATURDAY (heading only; no date or year printed)", "date_label": "Undated", "date_provenance": "Nothing is printed except the weekday heading ‘SATURDAY’; the label supplied with the scan says 1993, but no year, event name or venue appears on the scan to confirm it.", "object_type": "Running order", "mentions": [ "Uncertainty of Passion", "Moonboot Oz", "Spooner", "Karen Grace" ], "mask_note": null, "evidence_status": "reported", "evidence_label": "Contemporary document, date not printed", "entity_ids": [ "johnny-rasheed" ], "source_id": "A02", "source_tier": "A", "solo_item": true, "credit": "Photographer or publisher not recorded.", "rights_note": "Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied.", "excerpt": null, "last_modified": "2026-11-05", "page_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/", "markdown_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order.md", "image": { "alt": "Printed Saturday running order listing Johnny Rasheed, Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner and Karen Grace.", "width": 848, "height": 1168, "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.jpg", "variants": [ { "width": 480, "height": 661, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-480.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-480.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-480.jpg" }, { "width": 848, "height": 1168, "avif": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.avif", "webp": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.webp", "jpg": "https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.jpg" } ] } } ] }