Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Something Better Change: The First Stirrings
• Do Something Muttley!
• Chapter 2 We Few. We Seething Few: Mister Nick Duckett
• Nod, Tramp and General Accident
• The Star
• Trash. By Name Only
• The K9’s
• The Romantix
• The Lemon Kittens
• Chapter 3 The Good Times are Just Around the Corner: Rehearsing
• Recording
• Chapter 4 Punk Goes to College, Reluctantly: The Barbarians are at the Gates
• Reaching For the Stars
• Chapter 5 Let’s Put the Show on Right Here!: Just Do It Yourself
• Open Your Own Club
• The Monday Club
• The Age of The Giant Quiffs
• Chapter 6 The Bulmershe Connection: Berkshire College Of Education
• The Saga of Clayson And The Argonauts
• A Wraggle Taggle Gypsy
• And Here Come the Girls
• The Bulmershe Band Factory
• Anyone For Tea?
• The Caped Crusaders
• And Finally For Something Completely Different
• Chapter 7 Working For You: The Soundman Keeps His In The Toilet
• Barry The Fence
• Fanzines
• Chapter 8 A Dummy’s Guide To Setting Up Your Own Record Label: Flexi-Discs and Dog’s Breath
• Pop Records, The Label
• The Last Of The Independents?
• Criminal Damage
• Compilation Albums
• Chapter 9 Appearing in Town Tonite!: The Seize
• Predatür
• Three Amigos
• Always Mighty
• The Mad, The Moody and The Magnificent
• Chapter 10 Pick Up The Pieces: We Came, We Saw, We Had A Good Time
• Here Comes Johnnie Reggae
• Chapter 11 Never Trust The Weather: Am Aid
• Not The Reading Festival
• Mud, Blood And Chaos
• Good Evening Reading!
• Chapter 12 And Here Come The Nineties
• Appendix: Stand Up And Be Counted: Reading Bands 1977- 1987.