{ "meta": { "title": "Text chunks", "description": "The archive text split into citable chunks with source links.", "language": "en-GB", "last_substantive_revision": "2026-11-05", "canonical_page": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/", "file_url": "https://thenewenglish.org/data/chunks.json", "count": 118, "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." }, "chunks": [ { "id": "home.hero.lead.1", "type": "homepage", "title": "hero", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s, built around Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#top", "source_ids": [ "A10", "A12", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.hero.lead.2", "type": "homepage", "title": "hero", "text": "This archive gathers the tickets, posters, fanzine pages and publicity sheets that survive from those years, with the album and videos that later appeared online.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#top", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.hero.lead.3", "type": "homepage", "title": "hero", "text": "Every item has its own page, with a note on what it can and cannot prove.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#top", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.glance.origin", "type": "homepage", "title": "Origin", "text": "Fulham, south-west London, according to band publicity and a fanzine interview. A fanzine review says the East End, and a later account says Surrey.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A14", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.genre", "type": "homepage", "title": "Genre", "text": "Indie pop, in the band’s own publicity. In a Reading preview Johnny Rasheed said the band wanted to drop that label and move towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A10" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.active", "type": "homepage", "title": "Active", "text": "1986 to 1988 according to a later account. The earliest dated review of the band is from 28 October 1986, and a poster is attributed to February 1990.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B01", "A05", "A07" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.lineup", "type": "homepage", "title": "Line-up", "text": "A fanzine interview names Johnny Rasheed (bass, vocals) and Shareef (guitar) and credits the drums to a machine. Later accounts add Joz on vocals and Sara on drums.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.recordings", "type": "homepage", "title": "Recordings", "text": "London 1987, an eleven-track digital album listed with a release date of 2 January 2019. Its recording dates are not established. Discogs has a user-submitted entry for a 2001 CDr of the same title.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "B14" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.later", "type": "homepage", "title": "Later projects", "text": "Johnny Rasheed’s solo CD Inspiration (1993), and The Internationalists, an acoustic duo according to a later account.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B02" ] }, { "id": "home.glance.not", "type": "homepage", "title": "Not to be confused with", "text": "The New English Rock Ensemble, the 2005 album New English on Popster, or The New English Weekly.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#glance", "source_ids": [ "B22", "B23" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band built around Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C. Band publicity says the pair grew up in Fulham in the late 1970s and early 1980s and first met at the age of eight, in a “jumpers for goals” football match in Normand Park. Their songs, the same sheet says, told true stories of teenage love in the schools, parks and pubs of south-west London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "A08" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p2", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "A later account traces the partnership further back, to a duo called Years of Backwater in December 1983 and a group called The Fallen Idols in May 1985, with the name The New English adopted in May 1986. No contemporary document in this archive confirms those early dates.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "B02" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p3", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "The documents describe the line-up in different ways. A fanzine page printed in or after late March 1987 carries a photograph of three people and notes that Joz, the one in the middle, was no longer with the band. An undated interview lists Johnny on bass and vocals and Shareef on guitars, with drums by a machine the page calls “Sequestial”. An undated publicity sheet has the handwritten names Sara Hewes, Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C around a photograph of three people. Another sheet opens by calling the band “2 boys”, with part of the sentence blacked out.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "A09", "A14", "A12", "A08" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p4", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "Their reference points came from the independent scene of the time. Interviews name Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins, and the publicity sheet adds the Woodentops, the Smiths and the Housemartins. In a Reading preview, Johnny said the band wanted to lose the “Indie Pop” tag and move towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A10" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p5", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "Two live reviews anchor the story. A fanzine writer reported an audience of 25 at the Tunnel Club in Greenwich on a very wet Tuesday, 28 October 1986, and judged The New English the better band on the bill. At Le Beat Route on 23 February 1987, a review that probably comes from the same fanzine called them “the liveliest band out on the night” and recorded that this was their tenth gig since October.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p6", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "Band publicity claims support slots with the Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens, a place at the Wimbledon Festival and a television appearance on Network East. Tickets and posters add the ordinary details of a working band: £3 at the Rock Garden, a 10.30pm stage time at Zeeta’s in Putney, £2.50 before ten o’clock in Reading. They show what was advertised, not what was played.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A08", "A03", "A04", "A06" ] }, { "id": "home.story.p7", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "A later account places the end of the main period in March 1988. The name returned on a handwritten poster for a show with S.P.G. at the Bazooka, attributed to February 1990, and the songs reappeared much later, when London 1987 reached digital platforms on 2 January 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [ "B02", "A07", "B03" ] }, { "id": "home.story.timeline.note", "type": "homepage", "title": "story", "text": "This timeline of The New English runs from 1983 to 2019, and each entry is labelled by the kind of evidence behind it. Entries from later accounts are retrospective, and they do not corroborate one another.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#history", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.members.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "The two core musicians of The New English were Johnny Rasheed (bass, vocals) and Shareef C (guitar). Joz and Sara each appear on a small number of items, and a later account adds Dave Beech to the earliest chapter. Names are given as they appear in the documents, and no dates of birth or career histories are added beyond what the sources support.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#members", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.johnny.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Johnny Rasheed sang and played bass. A fanzine interview lists Johnny on bass and vocals, and a Reading preview uses “singer/bassist” and quotes Johnny on the band’s direction. A later account adds acoustic guitar. The specialist catalogue TweeNet also lists a solo CD, Inspiration, from 1993.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#members", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A10", "B01", "B04" ] }, { "id": "home.members.shareef.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Shareef C played guitar, and the two live reviews in this archive both single out that playing: “brilliant riffs” at the Tunnel Club, where the name is typed Sharef, and “brilliant guitaring” at Le Beat Route, despite the wrong opening chords to one song. In a fanzine interview Shareef talks about the independent scene and an admiration for Lawrence of Felt and for Morrissey.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#members", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.members.joz.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "A photograph caption on a fanzine page printed in or after late March 1987 names Joz as the person in the middle and says Joz was no longer with the band. Later accounts describe Joz as a vocalist. The same page runs a quiz asking who left the band with no bassist, so the exact role stays an open question.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#members", "source_ids": [ "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.sara.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "The name is handwritten as Sara Hewes on a band publicity sheet, beside a photograph of three people and directly below the booking details. A later account calls the drummer Sarah Hughes. The archive uses the first name until the credit is confirmed, and the sheet does not say which person in the photograph is which.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#members", "source_ids": [ "A12", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.members.dave.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "members", "text": "Later accounts name Dave Beech as bassist in The Fallen Idols, the project before The New English. No contemporary document in this archive places Dave in the band itself.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#members", "source_ids": [ "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.live.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "The New English played clubs in London and advertised dates in Reading and on a German-language poster, but only two performances are described by a review in this archive. A review describes a performance. A poster or ticket records what was advertised. A later gig list is a recollection. The archive keeps those three kinds of evidence apart.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#live", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A06", "A07", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.live.g01.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "The Tunnel Club was best known as Malcolm Hardee’s alternative comedy club. A fanzine review places The New English there on a bill with The Third Man. The writer reports 25 people on a very wet Tuesday, at a pub and club on an industrial estate near the Blackwall Tunnel, and rates The New English “by far the best”. The fanzine’s title is not shown on the page.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#live", "source_ids": [ "A05", "B25" ] }, { "id": "home.live.g05.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "Le Beat Route was a Soho nightclub at 16 Greek Street, and the review heading spells it La Beatroute. The reviewer called The New English “the liveliest band out on the night”, noted wrong opening chords on “Sixteen” and recorded that this was their tenth gig since October. A photograph on the same page carries the note about Joz.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#live", "source_ids": [ "A09", "B26" ] }, { "id": "home.live.table.note", "type": "homepage", "title": "live", "text": "Reviewed means a contemporary review describes the performance. Advertised means a ticket or poster announced it, which does not prove that it took place. Later account means the entry comes only from a retrospective source. Date unresolved means the sources disagree or give no date. This is a selection, not a count of every show the band played.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#live", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.archive.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "The New English archive holds fourteen scans: fanzine reviews and interviews, tickets, posters, publicity sheets and two items naming Johnny Rasheed alone. These are the things that tend to survive in folders. Each item has its own page, with a description, a source note and the date information that can be established from it.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.archive.p2", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "Where a later scan label differs from the document itself, the original wording is kept and the difference is explained. A handwritten year, a printed day of the week and a remembered date are separate pieces of evidence.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.archive.index.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "Every item in the archive has its own page with the scan, a description, the date evidence and a source note.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.archive.index.note", "type": "homepage", "title": "archive", "text": "Items are broadly ordered by date. Where a date is only attributed or cannot be established, the item follows the dated ones in the same period.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#archive", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "home.press.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "All the press in this archive comes from fanzines and local listings sheets: live reviews, a review of a two-song demo and interviews about music and life in London. Band publicity sits alongside them and is labelled as publicity.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A10", "A11", "A13", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.press.zines.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "The Tunnel Club and Le Beat Route pages both carry a sign-off from someone called Nik and thank the same contributors, so they probably come from one fanzine, though neither page shows its title. Pages from What’s Happening? and The Mighty Utterance! in Reading share one contact block, which points to a single publisher who covered the band three times.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A10", "A11", "A13" ] }, { "id": "home.press.demo.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "A What’s Happening? review discusses a tape of Get Ready and This Evening. The writer hears “two sprightly pop songs”, compares the vocals with Lloyd Cole and Paul Weller, and notes that the brass sounds synthesised. It is a response to two recordings, not a general history of the group.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "A13" ] }, { "id": "home.press.interviews.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "One undated fanzine page lists the line-up and runs through short topics, from drum machines and the independent scene to Morrissey and Marr. A page from The Mighty Utterance! has Johnny on London, teenage love and the band’s name, with a short answer: “We ARE the new english!” The two pages may belong together, but that is not established.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A11" ] }, { "id": "home.press.sound.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "In a Reading preview, Johnny says the band wanted to lose the “Indie Pop” label and compete with Rick Astley rather than Voice of the Beehive or All About Eve: “We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.” The piece advertises St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November. A later gig list gives 23 November, so the date of the performance stays open.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "A10", "B01" ] }, { "id": "home.press.publicity.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "The promotional biography and the agency sheet are band publicity, and who wrote them is not recorded. The claims they make, such as support slots with the Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens or a place at the Wimbledon Festival, are recorded as claims. Interview answers give the band’s own account of its music and are not treated as independent criticism.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A12", "A10", "A14" ] }, { "id": "home.press.tv.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "press", "text": "Network East was a BBC Two programme for Britain’s Asian communities, launched on 25 July 1987. Two band publicity sheets claim an appearance on it, one of them calling it the band’s first national TV appearance. That sheet gives a date ending /9/87 with the day cut off, the other gives no date, and a later account gives a different month. A YouTube upload titled This Evening shows a band playing in a television studio. The later account links it to Network East, but the upload names no programme, so the broadcast date stays open.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#press", "source_ids": [ "B24", "A08", "A12", "B01", "Y06" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.album.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "London 1987 is listed on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal as an eleven-track album of about 35 minutes, released on 2 January 2019 with a RipItUp Records credit. The year in the title is not a release date.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "B21", "B18", "B19" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.demo.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "Get Ready and This Evening, the two songs reviewed on a demo tape in What’s Happening?, are tracks 1 and 2 of London 1987. The titles match, but the audio has not been compared.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "A13", "B05" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.album.p2", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "The title does not fix the recording dates either. Upload notes on the YouTube channel sc101101 place Get Ready and This Evening at Triple X Studios, North Acton, in 1987, and You Make My Day Shine at Cymbelline, Reading, in April 1988. They also date a live Get Ready to the Bazooka in Bonn in March 1990, while the poster in this archive gives 17 February. These are the uploader’s notes, not confirmed credits.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "Y02", "Y03", "Y04", "Y07", "A07" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.cdr.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "Discogs also lists a limited CDr called London 1987, credited to New English on Jackfruit Music (JRJF004) in 2001, with fifteen tracks, one titled Sixteen, which is also the title of a song named in the Le Beat Route review. That entry is user-submitted, and no document in this archive confirms it.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "B14", "A09" ] }, { "id": "home.recordings.videos.intro", "type": "homepage", "title": "recordings", "text": "Eight uploads on the YouTube channel sc101101 are catalogued here, and all eight played when checked on 5 November 2026. The channel shows no owner’s name and has not been identified as official, so the recording places and dates beside each video are the uploader’s notes. No video loads until a visitor chooses to watch it.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#recordings", "source_ids": [ "Y01", "Y02", "Y03", "Y04", "Y05", "Y06", "Y07", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "home.later.p1", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "After the main period of the band, Johnny Rasheed released a solo CD, Inspiration (1993), and a later account describes two further groups, The Internationalists and Those Meddling Kids. Each project keeps its own name and credits here. A handwritten poster bills The New English with S.P.G. at the Bazooka on Saturday 17 February, with no year or city printed. The archive attributes it to 1990 and a later account places the show in Bonn, while an upload note dates a recording there to March 1990.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B02", "A07", "Y07" ] }, { "id": "home.later.inspiration.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "TweeNet lists Inspiration as a CD by Johnny Rasheed, with eight songs including Living in Surrey, Summer Strangers and George Harrison. Discogs gives the catalogue number JRJF001 and credits Shareef C on guitars. A Reading poster and a Saturday running order list Johnny Rasheed under that name alone, and their dates are discussed on their own pages.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B15", "A01", "A02" ] }, { "id": "home.later.internationalists.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "A later account describes The Internationalists as an acoustic duo of Johnny and Shareef, reported from December 1991, with a Radio Berkshire appearance in 1992. A sixteen-minute video from Bracknell Festival in July 1997 is titled The New English, and its upload note reads “The New English aka The Internationalists”. The archive files that performance with the later project.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B02", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "home.later.meddling.p", "type": "homepage", "title": "later", "text": "A later account lists Those Meddling Kids as a separate early-1990s band with Johnny on bass.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/#later-projects", "source_ids": [ "B02" ] }, { "id": "object.A05.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/", "source_ids": [ "A05" ] }, { "id": "object.A14.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Fanzine interview, first page", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/", "source_ids": [ "A14" ] }, { "id": "object.A09.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/", "source_ids": [ "A09" ] }, { "id": "object.A06.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Reading poster for 15 May", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/", "source_ids": [ "A06" ] }, { "id": "object.A10.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Reading preview in What’s Happening?", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/", "source_ids": [ "A10" ] }, { "id": "object.A03.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Rock Garden admission card, 7 December", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/", "source_ids": [ "A03" ] }, { "id": "object.A08.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Band publicity biography", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/", "source_ids": [ "A08" ] }, { "id": "object.A12.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Publicity sheet with trio photograph", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/", "source_ids": [ "A12" ] }, { "id": "object.A13.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/", "source_ids": [ "A13" ] }, { "id": "object.A11.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Interview in The Mighty Utterance!", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/", "source_ids": [ "A11" ] }, { "id": "object.A04.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/", "source_ids": [ "A04" ] }, { "id": "object.A07.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/", "source_ids": [ "A07" ] }, { "id": "object.A01.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/", "source_ids": [ "A01" ] }, { "id": "object.A02.1", "type": "archive_object", "title": "Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order", "text": "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.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/", "source_ids": [ "A02" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.who", "type": "answer", "title": "Who were The New English?", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Contemporary documents name Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals) and Shareef C (guitar), and a later account places the main period between 1986 and 1988.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-who", "source_ids": [ "A10", "A12", "A14", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.from", "type": "answer", "title": "Where were The New English from?", "text": "Band publicity places Johnny and Shareef in Fulham, a Reading preview calls them a London band, a Le Beat Route reviewer wrote “the band from the East End”, and a later account says Surrey.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-from", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A10", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.disambiguation", "type": "answer", "title": "Is this the same New English as other acts with that name?", "text": "No. This archive covers the late-1980s London band The New English and the later work of its members. Other acts and publications with similar names are separate, including The New English Rock Ensemble, the 2005 album New English on Popster, The New English Weekly and New English Review.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-disambiguation", "source_ids": [ "A06", "A09", "B22", "B23" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.active", "type": "answer", "title": "When was the band active?", "text": "A later account gives 1986 to 1988 as the main period. The earliest dated review of the band in the archive is from 28 October 1986, and a poster is attributed to a show on 17 February 1990.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-active", "source_ids": [ "B01", "A05", "A07" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.members", "type": "answer", "title": "Who were the members?", "text": "Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals) and Shareef C (guitar) are the names that recur in the surviving documents. A photograph caption records that Joz had left, and later accounts describe Joz as a vocalist. A publicity sheet gives the name Sara Hewes, while a later account calls the drummer Sarah Hughes, so the archive uses Sara. Later accounts name Dave Beech as bassist in a predecessor project, The Fallen Idols.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-members", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12", "A09", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.music", "type": "answer", "title": "What kind of music did they play?", "text": "Band publicity describes indie pop and names the Woodentops, the Smiths and the Housemartins. Interviews discuss Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins. In a Reading preview Johnny Rasheed talks about moving towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-music", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A10", "A14" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.gigs", "type": "answer", "title": "Which performances are documented?", "text": "Two fanzine reviews are in this archive: the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on 28 October 1986 and Le Beat Route, London, on 23 February 1987. Tickets and posters advertise further shows, including the Rock Garden, Zeeta’s in Putney and Reading, and a later chronology lists more. A ticket or poster proves an advertisement, not that the performance took place.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-gigs", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A09", "A03", "A04", "A06", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.tv", "type": "answer", "title": "Did The New English appear on television?", "text": "Two band publicity sheets claim an appearance on the BBC Two programme Network East. A YouTube upload shows a band playing in a television studio, and a later account links it to that programme. The broadcast date is unresolved, and no programme listing naming the band has been read.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-tv", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A12", "B01", "B24", "Y06" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.london1987", "type": "answer", "title": "What is London 1987?", "text": "London 1987 is an eleven-track digital album credited to The New English, listed with a release date of 2 January 2019 and a RipItUp Records credit. The title is not a release date. Upload notes date different versions of these songs between 1987 and 1998, and one dates a live Get Ready in Bonn to March 1990. None of these dates is confirmed, and the notes do not say which version is on the album.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-london1987", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "Y01", "Y03", "Y04", "Y07" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.records1980s", "type": "answer", "title": "Did the band release a record in the 1980s?", "text": "No 1980s commercial release is documented in this archive. It holds a review of a two-song demo tape, and a publicity sheet offers a tape to bookers. The earliest release in a catalogue is a user-submitted Discogs entry for a 2001 CDr, which nothing in this archive confirms, followed by the 2019 digital album.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-records1980s", "source_ids": [ "A13", "A12", "B14", "B03" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.listen", "type": "answer", "title": "Where can I listen to The New English?", "text": "London 1987 is on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal. Links are in the Recordings section of the homepage, with eight videos on YouTube.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-listen", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05", "B21", "B18", "B19" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.inspiration", "type": "answer", "title": "Is Inspiration a New English album?", "text": "No. Inspiration is a 1993 CD by Johnny Rasheed on Jackfruit Music, listed with eight songs by the specialist catalogue TweeNet. Discogs credits Shareef C on guitars.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-inspiration", "source_ids": [ "B04", "B15" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.internationalists", "type": "answer", "title": "What was The Internationalists?", "text": "A later account describes The Internationalists as an acoustic duo of Johnny and Shareef, reported from December 1991. The upload note for a Bracknell Festival video from July 1997 reads “The New English aka The Internationalists”. The archive files that performance with the later project.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-internationalists", "source_ids": [ "B02", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.videos", "type": "answer", "title": "Are there videos of the band?", "text": "Yes. Eight YouTube uploads on the channel sc101101 are catalogued on the homepage, and each played when checked on 5 November 2026. The channel has not been identified as official, so recording places and dates in the descriptions are shown only as the uploader’s notes.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-videos", "source_ids": [ "Y01", "Y02", "Y03", "Y04", "Y05", "Y06", "Y07", "Y08" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.dates", "type": "answer", "title": "Can the dates in this archive be trusted?", "text": "Partly. Documents are labelled by type of evidence, but many dates are advertised, attributed or inferred. The Zeeta’s ticket says Thursday 11 February, for example, while a later chronology gives 10 February. The research page lists the open conflicts.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-dates", "source_ids": [ "A04", "B01" ] }, { "id": "answer.q.independent", "type": "answer", "title": "Is this archive an independent source?", "text": "No. It is a curated collection of documents supplied to it, later accounts and catalogue entries, with the type of each source labelled. It is not an independent encyclopedia and does not claim to be one.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/questions/#q-independent", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "fact.F001", "type": "fact", "title": "name", "text": "The band’s name appears as The New English on two tickets and on the agency publicity sheet.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F001", "source_ids": [ "A03", "A04", "A12" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F002", "type": "fact", "title": "style", "text": "Band publicity and interviews describe the music as independent pop, and a Reading preview records Johnny Rasheed talking about a move towards soul pop.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F002", "source_ids": [ "A12", "A10" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F003", "type": "fact", "title": "live_review", "text": "A review dated 28 October 1986 covers The New English at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on a bill with The Third Man.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F003", "source_ids": [ "A05" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F004", "type": "fact", "title": "live_review", "text": "A review dated 23 February 1987 covers New English at Le Beat Route, London.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F004", "source_ids": [ "A09" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F005", "type": "fact", "title": "instrument_roles", "text": "A contemporary interview names Johnny Rasheed as bass player and vocalist.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F005", "source_ids": [ "A14" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F006", "type": "fact", "title": "instrument_roles", "text": "A contemporary interview names Shareef as the guitarist, and the publicity sheet gives the name Shareef C beside the trio photograph.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F006", "source_ids": [ "A14", "A12" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F007", "type": "fact", "title": "photo_caption", "text": "A photograph caption identifies Joz as the person in the middle and records that Joz had left the group.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F007", "source_ids": [ "A09" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F008", "type": "fact", "title": "drum_machine_reference", "text": "A contemporary interview credits the drums to a machine it calls Sequestial.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F008", "source_ids": [ "A14" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F009", "type": "fact", "title": "influences_discussed", "text": "A contemporary interview names Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins among the band’s reference points.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F009", "source_ids": [ "A14" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F010", "type": "fact", "title": "demo_review_tracks", "text": "A demo review discusses two songs, Get Ready and This Evening.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F010", "source_ids": [ "A13" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F011", "type": "fact", "title": "network_east_appearance", "text": "Two band publicity sheets claim a Network East television appearance. One gives a date ending /9/87 and the other gives no date. The claim is made by band publicity. The broadcast date is unresolved and no recording of the broadcast has been identified.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F011", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A12" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F013", "type": "fact", "title": "name", "text": "The publicity sheet gives the handwritten name Sara Hewes beside a trio photograph. A later account names the drummer Sarah Hughes. The archive uses Sara while the difference is unresolved. Two source readings of one name. Neither is treated as the definitive surname.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F013", "source_ids": [ "A12", "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F014", "type": "fact", "title": "advertised_zeetas_date", "text": "A ticket advertises The New English at The World at Zeeta’s on Thursday 11 February, with a year of 1988 attributed by the archive. A later chronology gives 10 February 1988. A ticket advertises a show; it does not prove the performance took place on either date.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F014", "source_ids": [ "A04", "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F015", "type": "fact", "title": "advertised_reading_date", "text": "A preview advertises The New English at St David’s Hall on Friday 27 November, and the year 1987 is inferred from the weekday and the band’s activity. A later list gives 23 November 1987. An advertised date with an inferred year. The performance date is not established.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F015", "source_ids": [ "A10", "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F016", "type": "fact", "title": "solo_poster_date", "text": "A poster advertises a free solo appearance by Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar, Reading, on Saturday 11 March. A handwritten year appears to read 1995, while the label supplied with the scan says 1993. The weekday agrees with 1995. The year 1995 is an inference. This is a solo item, not a New English performance.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F016", "source_ids": [ "A01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F017", "type": "fact", "title": "active_period", "text": "A later account gives the main New English period as 1986 to 1988. Later account (B01). Not independent corroboration of the dates.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F017", "source_ids": [ "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F018", "type": "fact", "title": "origin", "text": "A later account gives Surrey as the band’s origin. Band publicity separately describes Johnny and Shareef growing up in Fulham. Two distinct geographic claims, not necessarily incompatible.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F018", "source_ids": [ "B01", "A08" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F021", "type": "fact", "title": "reported_predecessor_role", "text": "Later accounts identify Dave Beech as the bassist in The Fallen Idols, a predecessor project. Later accounts only. Dave Beech’s tenure in The New English is not established.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F021", "source_ids": [ "B01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F022", "type": "fact", "title": "recording_release", "text": "London 1987 is catalogued as an eleven-track digital album with a release date of 2 January 2019 and a RipItUp Records credit.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F022", "source_ids": [ "B03", "B05" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F023", "type": "fact", "title": "solo_release", "text": "Inspiration is catalogued as a 1993 solo CD by Johnny Rasheed on Jackfruit Music, with eight listed songs.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F023", "source_ids": [ "B04" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F024", "type": "fact", "title": "german_poster", "text": "A handwritten poster bills S.P.G. and The New English on Saturday 17 February at the Bazooka. A later account places the show in Bonn. The archive attributes the poster to 1990, which agrees with the weekday. A YouTube upload note dates a live recording at the Bazooka, Bonn, to March 1990. The year comes from the label supplied with the scan and the city from a later account. The upload note’s March conflicts with the poster’s February and both are shown.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F024", "source_ids": [ "A07", "B02", "Y07" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F025", "type": "fact", "title": "publicity_support_claims", "text": "The agency publicity sheet claims that the band supported Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens. A claim made by the band’s own publicity.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F025", "source_ids": [ "A12" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F026", "type": "fact", "title": "wimbledon_festival_claim", "text": "The agency publicity sheet names the Wimbledon Festival among the band’s appearances. A claim made by the band’s own publicity.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F026", "source_ids": [ "A12" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F027", "type": "fact", "title": "rock_garden_ticket", "text": "A ticket advertises The New English at the Rock Garden on Monday 7 December, admission £3. The year 1987 comes from archive context and agrees with the weekday. A ticket advertises a show; it does not prove the performance took place.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F027", "source_ids": [ "A03" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F028", "type": "fact", "title": "reading_poster", "text": "A poster advertises New English at a Reading venue on 15 May, with the year 1987 attributed by the archive. The venue name is cut off on the scan. The year is attributed by the archive and is not printed.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F028", "source_ids": [ "A06" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F030", "type": "fact", "title": "reported_activity", "text": "A later account reports an acoustic duo called The Internationalists from December 1991, with a Radio Berkshire appearance in 1992 and a Bracknell performance in 1997. Later account (B02). The archive files the 1997 item with this project; the sources disagree on the billing.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F030", "source_ids": [ "B02" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F031", "type": "fact", "title": "reported_lineup", "text": "A later account lists Those Meddling Kids as a separate early-1990s band in which Johnny Rasheed played bass. Later account (B02). A separate group from The New English.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F031", "source_ids": [ "B02" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F033", "type": "fact", "title": "alternate_name", "text": "The band name is shortened to New English on a Reading poster and in the heading of a Le Beat Route review.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F033", "source_ids": [ "A06", "A09" ], "publication_status": "public" }, { "id": "fact.F034", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "Get Ready: Triple X Studios, North Acton, London, October 1987, according to the YouTube upload note. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F034", "source_ids": [ "Y04" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F035", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "This Evening: Triple X, North Acton, London, 1987, according to the YouTube upload note. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F035", "source_ids": [ "Y02" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F036", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "You Make My Day Shine: Cymbelline, Reading, April 1988, according to the YouTube upload note. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F036", "source_ids": [ "Y03" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F037", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "You Make My Day Shine (99Mix): New Rising Studios, Essex, New Year’s Day 1999, according to the YouTube upload note. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F037", "source_ids": [ "Y05" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F038", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_recording", "text": "The Day After Tomorrow: the upload note reads “this version recorded 1998” and “Playing at Wimbledon Festival July 1987”. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F038", "source_ids": [ "Y01" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F039", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_live", "text": "Get Ready (Live): Bazooka, Bonn, Germany, March 1990, according to the YouTube upload note. The poster in this archive gives Saturday 17 February. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F039", "source_ids": [ "Y07", "A07" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F040", "type": "fact", "title": "upload_note_live", "text": "Bracknell Festival, July 1997, with the upload note “The New English aka The Internationalists”. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F040", "source_ids": [ "Y08" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F041", "type": "fact", "title": "catalogue_entry", "text": "Discogs lists a CDr called London 1987 credited to New English, Jackfruit Music JRJF004, 2001, fifteen tracks. The entry is user-submitted. User-submitted Discogs entry; no document in this archive confirms it.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F041", "source_ids": [ "B14" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "fact.F042", "type": "fact", "title": "catalogue_entry", "text": "Discogs gives Inspiration the catalogue number JRJF001 and credits Shareef C on guitars. The entry is user-submitted. User-submitted Discogs entry; no document in this archive confirms it.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#fact-F042", "source_ids": [ "B15" ], "publication_status": "attributed_only" }, { "id": "bio.50", "type": "biography", "title": "Biography, 50 words", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals) and Shareef C (guitar) are the names that recur in the surviving documents, and a later account dates the main period to 1986–1988. The digital album London 1987 was released on 2 January 2019.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#bio-50", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A14", "B01", "B03" ] }, { "id": "bio.100", "type": "biography", "title": "Biography, 100 words", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Johnny Rasheed (bass and vocals) and Shareef C (guitar) are the names that recur in the surviving documents, with Sara on drums and Joz on vocals according to later accounts. Fanzine reviews cover the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on 28 October 1986 and Le Beat Route, London, on 23 February 1987, and a later account dates the main period to 1986–1988. The eleven-track digital album London 1987 was released on 2 January 2019. Johnny Rasheed’s solo CD Inspiration (1993) is a separate release.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#bio-100", "source_ids": [ "A05", "A08", "A09", "A12", "A14", "B01", "B03", "B04" ] }, { "id": "bio.250", "type": "biography", "title": "Biography, 250 words", "text": "The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s. Band publicity says Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C grew up in Fulham and first met as children. The surviving documents name Johnny as bass player and vocalist and Shareef as guitarist, and one fanzine interview credits the drums to a machine. Publicity and interviews place the music within indie pop, naming Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins among the reference points, and a Reading preview has Johnny talking about a move towards soul pop.\n\nTwo fanzine reviews anchor the archive: the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on 28 October 1986, and Le Beat Route, London, on 23 February 1987. Both praise Shareef’s guitar playing, and the second carries a photograph caption saying that Joz had left the group. A publicity sheet gives the name Sara Hewes beside a photograph of three people, while a later account calls the drummer Sarah Hughes, so the archive uses Sara. Tickets and posters advertise further shows, but an advertisement does not prove that a performance took place.\n\nA later account dates the main period to 1986–1988 and mentions earlier projects called Years of Backwater and The Fallen Idols. A poster attributed to 1990 bills the band with S.P.G. at the Bazooka, a venue a later account places in Bonn. The Internationalists, an acoustic duo according to a later account, are treated as a separate group. Platform catalogues list the eleven-track digital album London 1987 with a release date of 2 January 2019, and its recording dates are not established. Johnny Rasheed’s solo CD Inspiration (1993) is a separate release.", "url": "https://thenewenglish.org/research/#bio-250", "source_ids": [ "A08", "A10", "A12", "A14", "A05", "A09", "B01", "A07", "B02", "B03", "B04", "B05" ] } ] }