# The New English Archive: full text > The full text of The New English Archive, matching the web pages. Last substantive revision: 5 November 2026. The archive is about the English independent pop band The New English and not about other organisations of the same name. --- # The New English *Songs, photographs and stories from the 1980s* The New English were a London indie pop band of the late 1980s, built around Johnny Rasheed and Shareef C. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) 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. Every item has its own page, with a note on what it can and cannot prove. Last substantive revision: 5 November 2026. Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/ ## At a glance - **Origin:** 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. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Genre:** 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. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/)) - **Active:** 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. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/)) - **Line-up:** 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. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Recordings:** *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. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4), [B14](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987)) - **Later projects:** Johnny Rasheed’s solo CD *Inspiration* (1993), and The Internationalists, an acoustic duo according to a later account. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **Not to be confused with:** The New English Rock Ensemble, the 2005 album New English on Popster, or The New English Weekly. (Sources: [B22](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/new-english-mn0001761947), [B23](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-new-english-rock-ensemble/214419385)) ## The story of The New English 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. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/)) 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. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) 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. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/)) 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. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/)) 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) 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. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/), [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/)) 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. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541)) ### Timeline 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. - **December 1983**: Years of Backwater reported formation. Evidence: Later account. Reported only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **July 1984**: The Swan performance reported for predecessor duo. Evidence: Later account. Reported only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **May 1985**: The Fallen Idols reported formation. Evidence: Later account. Reported only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **May 1986**: The New English name adopted according to later account. Evidence: Later account. Reported only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **28 October 1986**: Tunnel Club live review. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/)) - **23 February 1987**: Le Beat Route live review. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) - **October 1987**: Get Ready recorded at Triple X Studios, according to an upload note. Evidence: YouTube upload note. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM)) - **1987**: Publicity names Network East and Wimbledon Festival. Evidence: Band publicity. Claims made by the band’s own publicity; the exact date is not established. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/)) - **March 1988**: End of original band period reported. Evidence: Later account. Reported only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **April 1988**: You Make My Day Shine recorded at Cymbelline, Reading, according to an upload note. Evidence: YouTube upload note. Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo)) - **February 1990**: Poster for a show at the Bazooka, attributed to February 1990. Evidence: Contemporary document, date attributed. Year attributed by the archive. A YouTube upload note dates a Bonn recording to March 1990. (Sources: [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **December 1991**: The Internationalists reported formation. Evidence: Later account. Reported only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **1993**: Inspiration by Johnny Rasheed. Evidence: Catalogue listing. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html)) - **July 1997**: Bracknell performance attributed to The Internationalists. Evidence: Later account. A later account places the performance with The Internationalists, although its infobox calls it a New English reunion. The upload title reads The New English. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **2001**: CDr of London 1987 listed by Discogs. Evidence: User-submitted catalogue entry. User-submitted Discogs entry; no document in this archive confirms it. (Sources: [B14](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987)) - **2 January 2019**: London 1987 digital release. Evidence: Catalogue listing. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4)) - **Date unresolved**: Solo Reading poster with an unresolved year. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. A faint pencil note appears to read 1995, while the label supplied with the scan says 1993. (Sources: [A01](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/)) ## The musicians 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. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ### Johnny Rasheed *Bass and vocals* 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. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html)) ### Shareef C *Guitar* 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) ### Joz *Early line-up* 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. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ### Sara *Drums, according to a later account* 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. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ### Earlier line-up and predecessor project #### Dave Beech *Earlier project* 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. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Live history 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ### Tunnel Club, Greenwich *28 October 1986* 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [B25](https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2016/08/08/fire-wrecks-home-of-the-tunnel-club-greenwichs-alternative-comedy-shrine/)) ### Le Beat Route, London *23 February 1987* 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. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B26](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Street)) ### Extended gig chronology 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. - **28 October 1986**, Tunnel Club, Greenwich. Evidence: Reviewed. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/)) - **11 November 1986**, The Tramshed, Woolwich. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **15 November 1986**, The Harlequin, Peckham. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **3 February 1987**, Mad Hatters, Southport. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **23 February 1987**, Le Beat Route, London. Evidence: Reviewed. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) - **15 May 1987 (year attributed)**, 112 London St. on the poster; Paradise Club in a later account, Reading. Evidence: Advertised. Venue name from a later account; it is not visible on the poster scan. Advertised on a ticket or poster. An advertisement does not prove that the performance took place. (Sources: [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **15 June 1987**, Le Beat Route, London. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **11 July 1987**, Wimbledon Festival, Wimbledon. Evidence: Later account. Date from a later chronology. The publicity sheet names the Wimbledon Festival as a claim, and an upload note says “Playing at Wimbledon Festival July 1987”. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **25 July 1987**, Sir George Robey, Finsbury Park. Evidence: Later account. Date and venue from a later chronology. The publicity sheet claims support slots with Frank Chickens and the Brilliant Corners but names no venue. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **16 August 1987**, Dingwalls, Camden. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **27 August 1987**, The Old White Horse, Brixton. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **16 October 1987**, Edge Hill College, Ormskirk. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **7 November 1987**, Sipson Community Hall, Sipson. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Date unresolved**, St David’s Hall, Reading. Evidence: Date unresolved. Date readings: 27 November 1987 (A10: printed day and month; calendar year inferred); 23 November 1987 (B01: retrospective list). The advertised and the later date differ; the performance date is not established. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **7 December 1987 (year attributed)**, Rock Garden, London. Evidence: Advertised. Advertised on a ticket or poster. An advertisement does not prove that the performance took place. (Sources: [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **11 January 1988**, Polytechnic of Central London, London. Evidence: Later account. Listed only in a later account; no contemporary document in the archive confirms it. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Date unresolved**, The World at Zeeta’s, Putney. Evidence: Date unresolved. Date readings: 11 February 1988 (A04: handwritten Thurs 11th Feb; year from archive); 10 February 1988 (B01: retrospective list). The advertised and the later date differ; the performance date is not established. (Sources: [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Date unresolved**, Bazooka, Bonn, according to later accounts. Evidence: Date unresolved. Spelled Bazooka on the poster and in a later account. City from a later account. Date readings: 17 February 1990 (A07: Samstag Feb. 17th handwritten; year supplied with the scan, and the weekday agrees); March 1990 (Y07: YouTube upload note, March 1990). The sources disagree or give no date; the performance date is not established. (Sources: [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) ## Photographs, posters and documents 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. 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. - [Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/): 28/10/86. Contemporary document. 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. - [Fanzine interview, first page](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/): No date printed. Contemporary document, date not printed. 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. - [Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/): 23.2.87. Contemporary document. 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. - [Reading poster for 15 May](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/): 15 MAY. Contemporary document, date attributed. 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. - [Reading preview in What’s Happening?](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/): FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER. Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Rock Garden admission card, 7 December](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/): Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am. Contemporary document, date attributed. 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. - [Band publicity biography](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/): NETWORK EAST - [day clipped]/9/87. Band publicity. Band-issued publicity biography for The New English, undated, describing a Fulham childhood, a first national television appearance and songs about teenage love. - [Publicity sheet with trio photograph](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/): No date printed. Band publicity. Band publicity sheet with a trio photograph, handwritten booking details for A C Promotion and a typed question-and-answer section; it is undated. - [Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/): No date printed. Contemporary document, date attributed. 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. - [Interview in The Mighty Utterance!](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/): 2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated). Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/): THURS 11th FEB (handwritten); Onstage 10-30PM (handwritten). Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/): SAMSTAG FEB. 17TH 20.[overwritten digit]0 UHR. Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/): SATURDAY 11th MARCH...8pm; a faint pencil note at lower left appears to read 1995. Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/): SATURDAY (heading only; no date or year printed). Contemporary document, date not printed. 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. ## Reviews and interviews 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A11](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/), [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) ### Who wrote about the band 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A11](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/), [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/)) ### A two-song demo 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. (Sources: [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/)) ### Two interview pages 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. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A11](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/)) ### Johnny on soul pop 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. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ### Publicity is labelled as publicity 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. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) ### Network East 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. (Sources: [B24](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_in_British_television), [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [Y06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds)) ## Recordings ### London 1987 *The New English* *Digital release 2 January 2019* *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. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4), [B21](https://open.spotify.com/album/3BnIhDq7OO7oDUTvWwp8Ar), [B18](https://www.deezer.com/album/83444182), [B19](https://tidal.com/album/101908814)) 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. (Sources: [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4)) 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. (Sources: [Y02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw), [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo), [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/)) 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. (Sources: [B14](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) *Track order as listed by Amazon Music, Apple Music and Deezer. Durations as listed by Amazon Music; other platforms differ by a second on two tracks.* (Sources: [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B18](https://www.deezer.com/album/83444182)) ### Videos 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. (Sources: [Y01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw), [Y02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw), [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo), [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM), [Y05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDldN02cvMg), [Y06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE), [Y08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg)) #### London 1987: track listing The New English. 2 January 2019. Label credit: RipItUp Records. Identified from platform catalogues under the artist name The New English. The archive has not compared the audio with any 1980s recording, and the original recording dates are not established. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4), [B18](https://www.deezer.com/album/83444182), [B19](https://tidal.com/album/101908814), [B21](https://open.spotify.com/album/3BnIhDq7OO7oDUTvWwp8Ar)) 1. Get Ready (03:00) 2. This Evening (02:34) 3. Alone (02:47) 4. Secretly I Wonder (02:54) 5. The Day After Tomorrow (02:58) 6. You Make My Day Shine (02:47). [You Make My Day Shine on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/2DT20g0CZEG4AMluJDug8J) 7. This English Day (03:36) 8. Let’s Take a Walk (02:55) 9. Tufnell Park (02:30) 10. Get Ready (Live in Bonn) (04:35) 11. This English Day (Live in Bonn) (04:31) Listen or view: [Listen on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541); [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3BnIhDq7OO7oDUTvWwp8Ar); [View on Amazon Music](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4); [Listen on Deezer](https://www.deezer.com/album/83444182); [Listen on Tidal](https://tidal.com/album/101908814) #### Videos - [The New English - The Day After Tomorrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw), 3:00, uploaded 8 July 2024 by sc101101. Uploader note: Artist: The New English / Song: The Day After Tomorrow (this version recorded 1998) / Playing at Wimbledon Festival July 1987 / © 1984 RipItUp records Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw)) - [The New English - This Evening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw), 2:35, uploaded 7 August 2024 by sc101101. Uploader note: © 1987 (P) 1987 RipItUp Records / Recorded at Triple X, North Acton, London 1987 Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw)) - [The New English - You Make My Day Shine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo), 2:52, uploaded 18 August 2024 by sc101101. Uploader note: © 1988 ℗ 1988 The New English / Recorded at Cymbelline, Reading England April 1988 / RipItUp Records Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo)) - [The New English - Get Ready!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM), 3:02, uploaded 1 September 2024 by sc101101. Uploader note: Recorded at Triple X Studios, North Acton, London October 1987 / Ⓒ 1987 Ⓟ 1987 RipItUp Records Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM)) - [The New English - You Make My Day Shine (99Mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDldN02cvMg), 2:43, uploaded 1 October 2024 by sc101101. Uploader note: Recorded New Rising Studios, Essex / New Years Day 1999 / Ⓒ 1987 Ⓟ 1999 RipItUp Records Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDldN02cvMg)) - [The New English "This Evening"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds), 2:31, uploaded 18 February 2014 by sc101101. Uploader note: The upload has no description beyond the text “abc”, so no recording place or date is given. A later account links this upload to Network East. The channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds)) - [The New English - Get Ready! (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE), 3:59, uploaded 1 September 2024 by sc101101. Uploader note: Recorded Live concert at Bazooka, Bonn, Germany March 1990 / Ⓒ 1987 Ⓟ 1987 RipItUp Records Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) ## Later projects and solo work 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. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) ### Inspiration *Johnny Rasheed* *CD 1993 Jackfruit Music* 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. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html), [B15](https://www.discogs.com/release/3166424-Johnny-Rasheed-Inspiration), [A01](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/), [A02](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/)) ### The Internationalists 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. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [Y08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg)) ### Those Meddling Kids A later account lists Those Meddling Kids as a separate early-1990s band with Johnny on bass. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) #### Inspiration: track listing Johnny Rasheed. 1993. Label credit: Jackfruit Music. A solo release credited to Johnny Rasheed. It is not a New English release. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html)) 1. Close To Me 2. Living in Surrey 3. Summer Strangers 4. Hope 5. May 6. Smile In The End 7. Cressida 8. George Harrison Listen or view: [TweeNet entry](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html); [Discogs entry](https://www.discogs.com/release/3166424-Johnny-Rasheed-Inspiration) #### Videos - [The New English - Bracknell Festival July 1997](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg), 16:13, uploaded 12 July 2025 by sc101101. Uploader note: The New English aka The Internationalists / Live at Bracknell Festival July 1997 / copyright The New English Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. (Sources: [Y08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg)) More: [sources and research data](https://thenewenglish.org/research/), [questions and answers](https://thenewenglish.org/questions/), [about this archive](https://thenewenglish.org/about-this-archive/). --- # The archive: photographs, posters and press Every item in the archive has its own page with the scan, a description, the date evidence and a source note. 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. Last substantive revision: 5 November 2026. Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/ ## Photographs and publicity - [Band publicity biography](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/): NETWORK EAST - [day clipped]/9/87. Band publicity. Band-issued publicity biography for The New English, undated, describing a Fulham childhood, a first national television appearance and songs about teenage love. - [Publicity sheet with trio photograph](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/): No date printed. Band publicity. Band publicity sheet with a trio photograph, handwritten booking details for A C Promotion and a typed question-and-answer section; it is undated. ## Posters and tickets - [Reading poster for 15 May](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/): 15 MAY. Contemporary document, date attributed. 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. - [Rock Garden admission card, 7 December](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/): Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am. Contemporary document, date attributed. 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. - [Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/): THURS 11th FEB (handwritten); Onstage 10-30PM (handwritten). Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/): SAMSTAG FEB. 17TH 20.[overwritten digit]0 UHR. Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. ## Press and interviews - [Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/): 28/10/86. Contemporary document. 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. - [Fanzine interview, first page](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/): No date printed. Contemporary document, date not printed. 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. - [Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/): 23.2.87. Contemporary document. 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. - [Reading preview in What’s Happening?](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/): FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER. Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/): No date printed. Contemporary document, date attributed. 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. - [Interview in The Mighty Utterance!](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/): 2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated). Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. ## Later projects - [Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/): SATURDAY 11th MARCH...8pm; a faint pencil note at lower left appears to read 1995. Contemporary document, details in conflict. 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. - [Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/): SATURDAY (heading only; no date or year printed). Contemporary document, date not printed. 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. --- # Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986 > 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. - Date as recorded: 28/10/86 - Date note: 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. - Type: Fanzine review - Evidence: Contemporary document - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English, Shareef C - Also named: The Third Man, Tunnel Club, Greenwich, Blackwall Tunnel, Bonapartes, The Damned, Blue In Heaven, Liverpool Royal Court, The Redskins - Image credit: Page signed off “Nik”. A handwritten note credits the artwork to an illustrator using an alias. The fanzine’s title is not shown. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/tunnel-club-review-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “The New English were by far the best, with Sharef playing some brilliant riffs.” (Unattributed fanzine reviewer, review of the 28/10/86 Tunnel Club gig; the page is signed off 'Nik' and the zine is unidentified.) ## Related performances - **28 October 1986**, Tunnel Club, Greenwich. Evidence: Reviewed. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/ --- # Fanzine interview, first page > 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. - Date as recorded: No date printed - Date note: 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. - Type: Fanzine interview - Evidence: Contemporary document, date not printed - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed, Shareef C - Also named: 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 - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-first-page-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “Johnny Rasheed (Bass and vocals)” (Line-up statement in the interview’s introduction; the page’s own wording.) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Fanzine interview, first page. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/ --- # Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987 > 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. - Date as recorded: 23.2.87 - Date note: Printed in the review heading as 23.2.87 (the day’s second digit is slightly damaged but reads 3); 23 February 1987 was a Monday by calendar calculation, and the page itself was printed later because it also carries a review dated late March 1987. - Type: Fanzine review - Evidence: Contemporary document - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English, Shareef C, Joz - Also named: Le Beat Route, Lost Chord, Bonaparte’s, Fight Back, Amebix, Sacrilege, Concrete Sox, Ripcord - Image credit: The review is unsigned. The page carries the sign-off “Nik”. The fanzine’s title is not shown. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/le-beat-route-review-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “the liveliest band out on the night” (From the fanzine review of the 23.2.87 gig; the writer is not named on the review itself.) ## Related performances - **23 February 1987**, Le Beat Route, London. Evidence: Reviewed. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/ --- # Reading poster for 15 May > 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. - Date as recorded: 15 MAY - Date note: 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). - Type: Poster - Evidence: Contemporary document, date attributed - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English - Also named: Reading, 112 London Street - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-may-poster-1168.jpg (1168 x 848 px) Excerpt: “NEW ENGLISH 15 MAY” (Printed headline of the poster; the band is billed without 'The'.) ## Related performances - **15 May 1987 (year attributed)**, 112 London St. on the poster; Paradise Club in a later account, Reading. Evidence: Advertised. Venue name from a later account; it is not visible on the poster scan. Advertised on a ticket or poster. An advertisement does not prove that the performance took place. (Sources: [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Reading poster for 15 May. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/ --- # Reading preview in What’s Happening? > 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. - Date as recorded: FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER - Date note: 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. - Type: Local listing and interview - Evidence: Contemporary document, details in conflict - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed, Shareef C - Also named: 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 - Image credit: What’s Happening? The article has no byline. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/reading-preview-interview-1168.jpg (1168 x 848 px) Excerpt: “We’re trying to move more towards soul pop.” (Johnny Rasheed, quoted in the preview article; the band’s own description of its direction, not critical praise.) ## Related performances - **Date unresolved**, St David’s Hall, Reading. Evidence: Date unresolved. Date readings: 27 November 1987 (A10: printed day and month; calendar year inferred); 23 November 1987 (B01: retrospective list). The advertised and the later date differ; the performance date is not established. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Reading preview in What’s Happening?. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/ --- # Rock Garden admission card, 7 December > 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. - Date as recorded: Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am - Date note: 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. - Type: Ticket - Evidence: Contemporary document, date attributed - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English - Also named: Rock Garden, The Piazza, Covent Garden, London, Breakthrough I - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/rock-garden-ticket-635.jpg (635 x 322 px) Excerpt: “THE NEW ENGLISH at "BREAKTHROUGH I"” (Printed on the Rock Garden admission card, beside the label 'to see'.) ## Related performances - **7 December 1987 (year attributed)**, Rock Garden, London. Evidence: Advertised. Advertised on a ticket or poster. An advertisement does not prove that the performance took place. (Sources: [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Rock Garden admission card, 7 December. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/ --- # Band publicity biography > 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. - Date as recorded: NETWORK EAST - [day clipped]/9/87 - Date note: 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. - Type: Publicity sheet - Evidence: Band publicity - Source tier: B - Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed, Shareef C - Also named: Fulham, Normand Park, The Redskins, The King’s Head, Network East - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-promotional-biography-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “Songs to hum now and forever!” (Slogan near the end of the band’s own publicity text.) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Band publicity biography. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/ --- # Publicity sheet with trio photograph > 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. - Date as recorded: No date printed - Date note: 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. - Type: Publicity sheet - Evidence: Band publicity - Source tier: B - Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed, Shareef C, Sara - Also named: 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 - Image credit: Not recorded. The sheet names A C Promotion for bookings, and no photographer or designer is named. - Web copy: One passage is covered on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/agency-publicity-trio-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “We play Indie-pop like eg Woodentops, Smiths, Housemartins” (The band’s own answer to the first typed question on its publicity sheet; self-description, not independent criticism.) ## Related performances - **11 July 1987**, Wimbledon Festival, Wimbledon. Evidence: Later account. Date from a later chronology. The publicity sheet names the Wimbledon Festival as a claim, and an upload note says “Playing at Wimbledon Festival July 1987”. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **25 July 1987**, Sir George Robey, Finsbury Park. Evidence: Later account. Date and venue from a later chronology. The publicity sheet claims support slots with Frank Chickens and the Brilliant Corners but names no venue. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Publicity sheet with trio photograph. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/ --- # Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening > 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. - Date as recorded: No date printed - Date note: 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. - Type: Demo review - Evidence: Contemporary document, date attributed - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English - Also named: 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 - Image credit: What’s Happening? The review has no byline. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/demo-tape-review-873.jpg (873 x 606 px) Excerpt: “Two sprightly pop songs that bounce along” (Opening words of the demo review; the reviewer is not named.) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/ --- # Interview in The Mighty Utterance! > 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. - Date as recorded: 2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated) - Date note: No issue date is printed; the only date on the page is 2/4/87 on the Pressgang Club review, a Thursday as that review says the club runs on Thursdays, so the page cannot have been printed before 2 April 1987 and the October 1986 in the label supplied with the scan does not fit it. - Type: Fanzine interview - Evidence: Contemporary document, details in conflict - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English, Johnny Rasheed - Also named: The Mighty Utterance!, Acorn Bookshop, Felt, The Smiths, The Redskins, Burial, Clive Pig and G.K. Wall, The Pressgang Club, Cap and Gown, Reading, Pop Records, Probe, HMV - Image credit: The Mighty Utterance!, printed by Acorn Bookshop. The interviewer is not named. - Web copy: Private contact details are masked on this web copy. The original document is unchanged. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/band-interview-continuation-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “We ARE the new english!” (Johnny, answering the prompt about the band name; the band’s own words.) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Interview in The Mighty Utterance!. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/ --- # Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February > 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. - Date as recorded: THURS 11th FEB (handwritten); Onstage 10-30PM (handwritten) - Date note: 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. - Type: Ticket - Evidence: Contemporary document, details in conflict - Source tier: A - Subjects: The New English - Also named: The World at Zeeta's, Zeeta's, Putney, London SW15 - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/zeetas-ticket-628.jpg (628 x 447 px) ## Related performances - **Date unresolved**, The World at Zeeta’s, Putney. Evidence: Date unresolved. Date readings: 11 February 1988 (A04: handwritten Thurs 11th Feb; year from archive); 10 February 1988 (B01: retrospective list). The advertised and the later date differ; the performance date is not established. (Sources: [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/ --- # Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February > 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. - Date as recorded: SAMSTAG FEB. 17TH 20.[overwritten digit]0 UHR - Date note: 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. - Type: Poster - Evidence: Contemporary document, details in conflict - Source tier: B - Subjects: The New English - Also named: S.P.G., A.C. Promotions, Bazooka kollectiv, Bazooka, The Redskins - Image credit: Presented by A.C. Promotions and Bazooka kollectiv. No designer or photographer is named. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/bazooka-poster-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) Excerpt: “ONE AND ONLY EUROPEAN DATE” (Handwritten promotional wording on the poster; a promoter's claim, not independent evidence.) ## Related performances - **Date unresolved**, Bazooka, Bonn, according to later accounts. Evidence: Date unresolved. Spelled Bazooka on the poster and in a later account. City from a later account. Date readings: 17 February 1990 (A07: Samstag Feb. 17th handwritten; year supplied with the scan, and the weekday agrees); March 1990 (Y07: YouTube upload note, March 1990). The sources disagree or give no date; the performance date is not established. (Sources: [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/ --- # Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster > 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. - Date as recorded: SATURDAY 11th MARCH...8pm; a faint pencil note at lower left appears to read 1995 - Date note: 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. - Type: Poster - Evidence: Contemporary document, details in conflict - Source tier: A - Subjects: Johnny Rasheed - Solo item: not a New English performance - Also named: MacDevitt's Bar, Reading, The Free Box - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster-1168.jpg (1168 x 848 px) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/ --- # Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order > 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. - Date as recorded: SATURDAY (heading only; no date or year printed) - Date note: 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. - Type: Running order - Evidence: Contemporary document, date not printed - Source tier: A - Subjects: Johnny Rasheed - Solo item: not a New English performance - Also named: Uncertainty of Passion, Moonboot Oz, Spooner, Karen Grace - Image credit: Photographer or publisher not recorded. - Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/ - Image: https://thenewenglish.org/media/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order-848.jpg (848 x 1168 px) ## Source note This is a scan supplied to the archive and catalogued at https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/. Reproduced from a scan supplied to this archive. No licence for reuse is implied. ## Cite this item Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/ --- # Sources and research data This is a curated archive of primary documents, retrospective accounts and clearly marked uncertainty. It is not an independently reported source, and it should be read as an archive and not as an encyclopedia. Each statement links to the evidence behind it. Last substantive revision: 5 November 2026. Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/research/ ## How evidence is treated Statements are either supported as written or attributed, and an attributed statement carries its qualification on the page and in the data files. Statements that cannot yet be supported are left out. Where sources disagree the archive shows both readings. A printed weekday can support a year but does not prove a performance. A poster or ticket proves an advertisement. A catalogue date is a release date and not a recording date. ## Source tiers A tier describes the type of source, not whether a statement is true. Read each entry together with its qualification. - **Tier A, Contemporary primary document:** A document from the period, or datable to it where stated: a review, a fanzine interview, a ticket or a poster. Sources: A01, A02, A03, A04, A05, A06, A09, A10, A11, A13, A14. - **Tier B, Band publicity:** Contemporary publicity made by the band or its agency. It shows what the band claimed and is not independent. Sources: A07, A08, A12. - **Tier C, Catalogues and platforms:** Music platforms and specialist catalogues. They confirm listings and release dates, not recording dates. Sources: B03, B04, B05, B12, B13, B14, B15, B16, B17, B18, B19, B20, B21, B22, B23, B28. - **Tier D, Uploader notes:** Descriptions written by the uploader of a video. The channel sc101101 has not been identified as official. Sources: Y01, Y02, Y03, Y04, Y05, Y06, Y07, Y08. - **Tier E, Retrospective and reference:** Later accounts from a wiki-style article and its copies, which count as one source family and are used as attributed leads, plus encyclopedia and local news pages used only for background on venues and programmes. Sources: B01, B02, B24, B25, B26. ## Biographies to quote Three lengths of the same short biography, written only from the sources listed in the register below. ### 50 words 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. Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541) ### 100 words 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. Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html) ### 250 words 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. Two 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. A 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. Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4) ## How to cite Cite the underlying document where you can, then this archive as the place it is catalogued. A suggested form is the page title, The New English Archive, the date of the last substantive revision and the page address, as shown in the box below. The archive is not an independent source. The New English | Sources and Research Data. The New English Archive. Last substantive revision 5 November 2026. https://thenewenglish.org/research/ ## Data files The same eligible information that is on the pages is available as plain Markdown and structured JSON. Crawler access to these files is not a licence to reuse the material. - [Facts](https://thenewenglish.org/data/facts.json) (application/json): Eligible source-backed statements with their qualifications and citations. - [Entities](https://thenewenglish.org/data/entities.json) (application/json): The band, its musicians and separately represented later projects. - [Timeline](https://thenewenglish.org/data/timeline.json) (application/json): Dated events with precision and evidence labels. - [Gigs](https://thenewenglish.org/data/gigs.json) (application/json): Reviewed, advertised and later-account performance records. - [Releases](https://thenewenglish.org/data/releases.json) (application/json): Releases with correct artist credits, dates and track metadata. - [Sources](https://thenewenglish.org/data/sources.json) (application/json): Public source register with tiers and citation locations. - [Archive objects](https://thenewenglish.org/data/archive.json) (application/json): Public metadata for each archive object and its cleared image files. - [Graph](https://thenewenglish.org/data/graph.json) (application/ld+json): JSON-LD graph of eligible entities, releases, recordings and videos. - [Changelog](https://thenewenglish.org/data/changelog.json) (application/json): Real content changes and their dates. - [Videos](https://thenewenglish.org/data/videos.json) (application/json): Catalogued video uploads with uploader notes and qualifications. - [Answers](https://thenewenglish.org/data/answers.json) (application/json): Direct answers to common questions, with sources. - [Text chunks](https://thenewenglish.org/data/chunks.json) (application/json): The archive text split into citable chunks with source links. - [Source tiers](https://thenewenglish.org/data/source-tiers.json) (application/json): The A to E source tier scale and the sources in each tier. - [Homepage as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.org/index.md) (text/markdown) - [Archive index as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/index.md) (text/markdown) - [Research directory as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.org/research/index.md) (text/markdown) - [Questions and answers as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.org/questions/index.md) (text/markdown) - [About this archive as Markdown](https://thenewenglish.org/about-this-archive/index.md) (text/markdown) - [Archive directory](https://thenewenglish.org/llms.txt) (text/plain) - [Full archive text](https://thenewenglish.org/llms-full.txt) (text/plain) ## Catalogued statements - The band’s name appears as The New English on two tickets and on the agency publicity sheet. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/), [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/)) - Band publicity and interviews describe the music as independent pop, and a Reading preview records Johnny Rasheed talking about a move towards soul pop. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/)) - A review dated 28 October 1986 covers The New English at the Tunnel Club, Greenwich, on a bill with The Third Man. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/)) - A review dated 23 February 1987 covers New English at Le Beat Route, London. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) - A contemporary interview names Johnny Rasheed as bass player and vocalist. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) - A contemporary interview names Shareef as the guitarist, and the publicity sheet gives the name Shareef C beside the trio photograph. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/)) - A photograph caption identifies Joz as the person in the middle and records that Joz had left the group. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) - A contemporary interview credits the drums to a machine it calls Sequestial. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) - A contemporary interview names Felt, Morrissey and the Redskins among the band’s reference points. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) - A demo review discusses two songs, Get Ready and This Evening. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/)) - Two band publicity sheets claim a Network East television appearance. One gives a date ending /9/87 and the other gives no date. Qualification: The claim is made by band publicity. The broadcast date is unresolved and no recording of the broadcast has been identified. Evidence: Band publicity. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/)) - 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. Qualification: Two source readings of one name. Neither is treated as the definitive surname. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - 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. Qualification: A ticket advertises a show; it does not prove the performance took place on either date. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. (Sources: [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - 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. Qualification: An advertised date with an inferred year. The performance date is not established. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - 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. Qualification: The year 1995 is an inference. This is a solo item, not a New English performance. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. (Sources: [A01](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/)) - A later account gives the main New English period as 1986 to 1988. Qualification: Later account (B01). Not independent corroboration of the dates. Evidence: Later account. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - A later account gives Surrey as the band’s origin. Band publicity separately describes Johnny and Shareef growing up in Fulham. Qualification: Two distinct geographic claims, not necessarily incompatible. Evidence: Later account. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/)) - Later accounts identify Dave Beech as the bassist in The Fallen Idols, a predecessor project. Qualification: Later accounts only. Dave Beech’s tenure in The New English is not established. Evidence: Later account. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - London 1987 is catalogued as an eleven-track digital album with a release date of 2 January 2019 and a RipItUp Records credit. Evidence: Catalogue listing. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4)) - Inspiration is catalogued as a 1993 solo CD by Johnny Rasheed on Jackfruit Music, with eight listed songs. Evidence: Catalogue listing. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html)) - 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. Qualification: 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. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. (Sources: [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) - The agency publicity sheet claims that the band supported Brilliant Corners and Frank Chickens. Qualification: A claim made by the band’s own publicity. Evidence: Band publicity. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/)) - The agency publicity sheet names the Wimbledon Festival among the band’s appearances. Qualification: A claim made by the band’s own publicity. Evidence: Band publicity. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/)) - 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. Qualification: A ticket advertises a show; it does not prove the performance took place. Evidence: Contemporary document, date attributed. (Sources: [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/)) - A poster advertises New English at a Reading venue on 15 May, with the year 1987 attributed by the archive. Qualification: The venue name is cut off on the scan. The year is attributed by the archive and is not printed. Evidence: Contemporary document, date attributed. (Sources: [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/)) - 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. Qualification: Later account (B02). The archive files the 1997 item with this project; the sources disagree on the billing. Evidence: Later account. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - A later account lists Those Meddling Kids as a separate early-1990s band in which Johnny Rasheed played bass. Qualification: Later account (B02). A separate group from The New English. Evidence: Later account. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - The band name is shortened to New English on a Reading poster and in the heading of a Le Beat Route review. Evidence: Contemporary document. (Sources: [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/)) - Get Ready: Triple X Studios, North Acton, London, October 1987, according to the YouTube upload note. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: YouTube upload note. (Sources: [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM)) - This Evening: Triple X, North Acton, London, 1987, according to the YouTube upload note. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: YouTube upload note. (Sources: [Y02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw)) - You Make My Day Shine: Cymbelline, Reading, April 1988, according to the YouTube upload note. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: YouTube upload note. (Sources: [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo)) - You Make My Day Shine (99Mix): New Rising Studios, Essex, New Year’s Day 1999, according to the YouTube upload note. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: YouTube upload note. (Sources: [Y05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDldN02cvMg)) - The Day After Tomorrow: the upload note reads “this version recorded 1998” and “Playing at Wimbledon Festival July 1987”. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: YouTube upload note. (Sources: [Y01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw)) - Get Ready (Live): Bazooka, Bonn, Germany, March 1990, according to the YouTube upload note. The poster in this archive gives Saturday 17 February. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: Conflicting evidence. (Sources: [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/)) - Bracknell Festival, July 1997, with the upload note “The New English aka The Internationalists”. Qualification: Per the YouTube upload note; the channel sc101101 has not been identified as an official source. Evidence: YouTube upload note. (Sources: [Y08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg)) - Discogs lists a CDr called London 1987 credited to New English, Jackfruit Music JRJF004, 2001, fifteen tracks. The entry is user-submitted. Qualification: User-submitted Discogs entry; no document in this archive confirms it. Evidence: User-submitted catalogue entry. (Sources: [B14](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987)) - Discogs gives Inspiration the catalogue number JRJF001 and credits Shareef C on guitars. The entry is user-submitted. Qualification: User-submitted Discogs entry; no document in this archive confirms it. Evidence: User-submitted catalogue entry. (Sources: [B15](https://www.discogs.com/release/3166424-Johnny-Rasheed-Inspiration)) ## Source register The sources behind this site, with their tiers. Scans are cited at their own page in this archive, and other sources link to the original. - **A01**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Johnny Rasheed at MacDevitt’s Bar: solo poster](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/). Scan supplied to the archive. SATURDAY 11th MARCH...8pm; a faint pencil note at lower left appears to read 1995. 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. - **A02**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Johnny Rasheed: Saturday running order](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-saturday-running-order/). Scan supplied to the archive. SATURDAY (heading only; no date or year printed). 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. - **A03**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Rock Garden admission card, 7 December](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/). Scan supplied to the archive. Monday 7 DEC; 7.30pm - 3am. 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. - **A04**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Zeeta’s ticket, 11 February](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/). Scan supplied to the archive. THURS 11th FEB (handwritten); Onstage 10-30PM (handwritten). 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. - **A05**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Tunnel Club review, 28 October 1986](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/). Scan supplied to the archive. 28/10/86. 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. - **A06**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Reading poster for 15 May](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/). Scan supplied to the archive. 15 MAY. 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. - **A07**, tier B (Band publicity): [Bazooka poster with S.P.G., 17 February](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/). Scan supplied to the archive. SAMSTAG FEB. 17TH 20.[overwritten digit]0 UHR. 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. - **A08**, tier B (Band publicity): [Band publicity biography](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/). Scan supplied to the archive. NETWORK EAST - [day clipped]/9/87. Band-issued publicity biography for The New English, undated, describing a Fulham childhood, a first national television appearance and songs about teenage love. - **A09**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Le Beat Route review, 23 February 1987](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/). Scan supplied to the archive. 23.2.87. 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. - **A10**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Reading preview in What’s Happening?](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/). Scan supplied to the archive. FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER. 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. - **A11**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Interview in The Mighty Utterance!](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/). Scan supplied to the archive. 2/4/87 (printed on a separate review on the page; the band interview itself is undated). 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. - **A12**, tier B (Band publicity): [Publicity sheet with trio photograph](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/). Scan supplied to the archive. No date printed. Band publicity sheet with a trio photograph, handwritten booking details for A C Promotion and a typed question-and-answer section; it is undated. - **A13**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Demo review: Get Ready and This Evening](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/). Scan supplied to the archive. No date printed. 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. - **A14**, tier A (Contemporary primary document): [Fanzine interview, first page](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/). Scan supplied to the archive. No date printed. 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. - **B01**, tier E (Retrospective and reference): [The New English on EverybodyWiki](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English). Later account. Retrospective account derived from a former Wikipedia article. Treated as a later account, not as independent corroboration. - **B02**, tier E (Retrospective and reference): [The New English on Wikibin](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html). Later account. Mirror of the same article as B01. The two are one source family and are not counted separately. - **B03**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [London 1987 on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541). Platform catalogue. Catalogue listing: eleven tracks, a digital release date of 2 January 2019 and a RipItUp Records credit. A catalogue date is a release date, not a recording date. - **B04**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [Johnny Rasheed on TweeNet](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html). Specialist catalogue. Specialist catalogue listing for Inspiration (CD, 1993, Jackfruit Music, eight listed songs). A catalogue entry, not a biography. - **B05**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [London 1987 on Amazon Music](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4). Platform catalogue. Album listing with track order and durations. - **B12**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [You Make My Day Shine on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/2DT20g0CZEG4AMluJDug8J). Platform catalogue. Platform listing for one track of London 1987. It is not evidence of an 1980s commercial release. - **B13**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [The New English on Amazon artist page](https://music.amazon.com.br/artists/B07CX4MR8M/the-new-english). Platform catalogue. Platform artist page. Its popular-track order is not the album sequence and is not used as a track listing. - **B14**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [London 1987 (CDr, 2001) on Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. User-submitted Discogs entry, data quality “Needs Vote”: CDr, Jackfruit Music JRJF004, 2001, fifteen tracks. Not confirmed by any document in this archive. - **B15**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [Inspiration by Johnny Rasheed on Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/3166424-Johnny-Rasheed-Inspiration). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. User-submitted Discogs entry with data quality “Correct”: catalogue number JRJF001 and a guitar credit for Shareef C. - **B16**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [The New English on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5aJcS4aEhQ0XwoUB8MEHVd). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Platform artist page. Streaming listings derive from one 2019 distributor delivery and are not independent of one another. - **B17**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [The New English on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-new-english/1381529598). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Platform artist page. Streaming listings derive from one 2019 distributor delivery and are not independent of one another. - **B18**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [London 1987 on Deezer](https://www.deezer.com/album/83444182). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Eleven tracks, release date 2 January 2019. - **B19**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [London 1987 on Tidal](https://tidal.com/album/101908814). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Eleven tracks, 35:09, release date 2 January 2019. - **B20**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [The New English on YouTube (Topic channel)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG3t9hDdeZZG-yelv9x_u0A). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Channel generated automatically by YouTube from the 2019 distributor delivery. It is separate from the channel sc101101. - **B21**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [London 1987 on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3BnIhDq7OO7oDUTvWwp8Ar). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Album page, release date 2 January 2019. - **B22**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [New English on AllMusic (a different act)](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/new-english-mn0001761947). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Used only to distinguish names: this AllMusic entry lists a 2005 album on Popster and is not the band in this archive. - **B23**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [The New English Rock Ensemble on Apple Music (a different act)](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-new-english-rock-ensemble/214419385). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Used only to distinguish names. This is not the band in this archive. - **B24**, tier E (Retrospective and reference): [1987 in British television on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_in_British_television). Background reference. Checked 5 November 2026. Reference for what Network East was. It does not mention The New English. - **B25**, tier E (Retrospective and reference): [Tunnel Club history in Greenwich Wire](https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2016/08/08/fire-wrecks-home-of-the-tunnel-club-greenwichs-alternative-comedy-shrine/). Background reference. Checked 5 November 2026. Local news reference for the venue. It does not mention The New English. - **B26**, tier E (Retrospective and reference): [Greek Street on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Street). Background reference. Checked 5 November 2026. Reference for the address of Le Beat Route. It does not mention The New English. - **B28**, tier C (Catalogues and platforms): [New English on Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/1866234-New-English). Platform catalogue. Checked 5 November 2026. Artist entry holding the 2001 CDr. A 1989 compilation credit on the same entry may belong to a different group. - **Y01**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - The Day After Tomorrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw). Video upload note. Uploaded 8 July 2024. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y02**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - This Evening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw). Video upload note. Uploaded 7 August 2024. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y03**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - You Make My Day Shine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo). Video upload note. Uploaded 18 August 2024. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y04**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - Get Ready!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM). Video upload note. Uploaded 1 September 2024. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y05**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - You Make My Day Shine (99Mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDldN02cvMg). Video upload note. Uploaded 1 October 2024. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y06**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English "This Evening"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds). Video upload note. Uploaded 18 February 2014. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y07**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - Get Ready! (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE). Video upload note. Uploaded 1 September 2024. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. - **Y08**, tier D (Uploader notes): [YouTube upload: The New English - Bracknell Festival July 1997](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg). Video upload note. Uploaded 12 July 2025. Description written by the uploader of the channel sc101101, which has not been identified as an official channel. Recording places and dates in the description are the uploader’s notes, not independently verified. ## Open questions These conflicts are unresolved. The archive shows each reading and does not choose between them. - **Drummer identity.** The publicity sheet gives the handwritten name Sara Hewes; a later account calls the drummer Sarah Hughes. The archive uses Sara until the credit is confirmed. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Network East date.** A clipped date on the band’s publicity ends /9/87, and a later account gives a different month. The Network East broadcast date is unresolved. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Zeeta’s performance date.** The ticket says Thursday 11 February; a later chronology says 10 February 1988. The performance date is unresolved. (Sources: [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **St David’s Hall date.** The listing advertises Friday 27 November; a later list says 23 November. The performance date is unresolved. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Solo poster year.** A faint pencil note on the solo poster appears to read 1995, while the label supplied with the scan says 1993. The printed weekday rules out 1993. 1995 is an inference. (Sources: [A01](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/johnny-rasheed-macdevitts-poster/)) - **Bonn show: month and city.** The poster gives Saturday 17 February, while an upload note says March 1990. Bonn comes from a later account and the upload note, not from the poster. (Sources: [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) - **Interview issue dating.** Page two of an interview contains a review dated 2 April 1987, so it cannot be safely paired with the first page as one dated issue. (Sources: [A11](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) - **1997 artist attribution.** A mirror’s infobox calls the 1997 Bracknell item a New English reunion, while its narrative gives The Internationalists. The archive keeps the later duo separate. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html)) - **Predecessor bassist tenure.** Dave Beech is described as a Fallen Idols bassist and early member only in later accounts. No exact New English tenure is stated. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Joz’s role.** Later accounts call Joz a vocalist, while a quiz beside the 1987 caption asks who left the band with no bassist. (Sources: [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) - **Length of the partnership.** A publicity sheet says the band had been together about eight months, yet a review places them on stage in October 1986. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/)) - **Two versions of London 1987.** Discogs lists a fifteen-track CDr from 2001, while platforms list an eleven-track digital album from 2019. No document here confirms the CDr. (Sources: [B14](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4)) - **Fanzine titles.** The two live reviews probably come from one fanzine whose title is not shown. The Reading pages share a contact block. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A11](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-continuation/), [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/)) ## Changelog - **5 November 2026**, First public release. The archive was published with fourteen scanned documents, a gig chronology, a timeline, two releases and eight videos, each with its sources. --- # Questions and answers Last substantive revision: 5 November 2026. Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/questions/ Direct answers about the band and the archive, each with the sources behind it. ## Who were The New English? 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. (Sources: [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Where were The New English from? 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. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Is this the same New English as other acts with that name? 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. (Sources: [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B22](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/new-english-mn0001761947), [B23](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-new-english-rock-ensemble/214419385)) ## When was the band active? 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. (Sources: [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A07](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/bazooka-poster/)) ## Who were the members? 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. (Sources: [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## What kind of music did they play? 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. (Sources: [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [A10](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-preview-interview/), [A14](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-interview-first-page/)) ## Which performances are documented? 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. (Sources: [A05](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/tunnel-club-review/), [A09](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/le-beat-route-review/), [A03](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/rock-garden-ticket/), [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [A06](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/reading-may-poster/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Did The New English appear on television? 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. (Sources: [A08](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/band-promotional-biography/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English), [B24](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_in_British_television), [Y06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds)) ## What is London 1987? *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. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4), [Y01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw), [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo), [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE)) ## Did the band release a record in the 1980s? 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. (Sources: [A13](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/demo-tape-review/), [A12](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/agency-publicity-trio/), [B14](https://www.discogs.com/release/25197358-New-English-London-1987), [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541)) ## Where can I listen to The New English? *London 1987* is on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer and Tidal. Links are in the [Recordings section](https://thenewenglish.org/#recordings) of the homepage, with eight videos on YouTube. (Sources: [B03](https://music.apple.com/us/album/london-1987/1448550541), [B05](https://music.amazon.com.br/albums/B07MHZ48Y4), [B21](https://open.spotify.com/album/3BnIhDq7OO7oDUTvWwp8Ar), [B18](https://www.deezer.com/album/83444182), [B19](https://tidal.com/album/101908814)) ## Is Inspiration a New English album? 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. (Sources: [B04](https://www.twee.net/bands/r/rasheedjohnn.html), [B15](https://www.discogs.com/release/3166424-Johnny-Rasheed-Inspiration)) ## What was The Internationalists? 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. (Sources: [B02](https://wikibin.org/articles/the-new-english.html), [Y08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg)) ## Are there videos of the band? 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. (Sources: [Y01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQixqSQqJuw), [Y02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYbWwo1Izw), [Y03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsgy2igPBo), [Y04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZEBh10uxM), [Y05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDldN02cvMg), [Y06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WRj2e86Ds), [Y07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwZiTIubiE), [Y08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sop6wz5qcIg)) ## Can the dates in this archive be trusted? 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](https://thenewenglish.org/research/) lists the open conflicts. (Sources: [A04](https://thenewenglish.org/archive/zeetas-ticket/), [B01](https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_New_English)) ## Is this archive an independent source? 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. --- # About this archive Last substantive revision: 5 November 2026. Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.org/about-this-archive/ This collection brings together surviving documents and source-backed accounts of The New English. Contemporary reviews, interviews, publicity and later recollections are identified so that readers can see what each item adds to the story. Some dates and credits remain open to correction. Source notes explain those specific questions, and the [research directory](https://thenewenglish.org/research/) provides the same eligible information in readable text and structured data. ## How it is edited Statements are linked to their sources, and those that rest only on a later account or on band publicity are labelled as such. Where sources disagree, both readings are shown and neither is chosen. Missing information is left as a gap rather than filled. ## What this archive is It is a curated archive, not an independent encyclopedia. It was assembled from documents supplied to it, catalogue entries and later accounts, and it does not claim independent reporting. ## Images, credits and rights The scans were supplied to this archive for this site. The photographer or publisher of most items is not recorded, and each object page says so instead of guessing. Showing an item here does not grant a licence to reuse it, and crawler access to this site is not a licence either. Private addresses and personal telephone numbers printed on some originals are masked on the web copies, a small number of other passages are covered for now, and each affected page says so. The black bars on some pages are on the originals. No lyrics are reproduced. Review and interview text is summarised, with short attributed excerpts only. ## Data files Plain Markdown and JSON versions of the content are listed on the [research page](https://thenewenglish.org/research/), and a short directory is in [llms.txt](https://thenewenglish.org/llms.txt). Anchors on the homepage: [history](https://thenewenglish.org/#history), [musicians](https://thenewenglish.org/#members).