Author archives: ian3edmond

I’ve replaced the scans of some old Sounds interviews with better copies from the originals. It should now be easier to read the pieces from 18 July 1987, 3 December 1988 and 9 February 1991.

It’s only a small image taken from an old eBay listing, but Andy Black has kindly donated a poster for this gig.

I’ve added links to some SoundCloud uploads of the audio recordings of a few gigs: 5 December 1986 – Lagoon Bar, Chesterfield 15 March 1989 – Portsmouth Polytechnic 14 May 1989 – Röhre, Stuttgart, Germany 25 August 1989 – Reading Festival There is also a SoundCloud upload of the audio of the 3 August 1985 …

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Today started with me noticing that Ade Matthews had posted a few interesting clippings from the Leeds Student Independent Newspaper, including a review of the Oblivious Participant bootleg CD compilation of the first two Spacemen 3 singles, on the Spacemen 3 Appreciation Society Facebook group. All the bits that Ade was posting were from the …

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I’ve posted the brief ZigZag interview from January 1986, the earliest printed piece of Spacemen 3 coverage that I know about.

Interesting lookback at Recurring 30 years on, posted this morning on The Quietus.

A couple of press reviews that I have just discovered I have photocopies of. The first is from the Melody Maker, and I think it is about the gig on 28 March 1988 at Dingwalls. I’m not entirely sure, since I don’t know who else was on the bill for that gig, but there is …

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Nice treat to have delivered today – the January 1986 issue of Zig-Zag, which includes the first piece of press about Spacemen 3, a brief interview with the band by The Jazz Butcher, Pat Fish. I’ll have it scanned and transcribed for the site soon.

Lovely to have a nice colour flyer for this gig. With many thanks to Adam Gillison.

A couple of local press reviews of Spacemen 3 gigs held on 22 October 1987 at the Mean Fiddler in Harlesden and on 2 November 1988 at the After Dark Club in Reading.