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Gtr Punk/Backing Vcls/Teen Appeal Brian Taylor (The Dolphin): Drum Delinquent/ No Political Affiliations Mark Amber: Org/Pno/Renegade Hippy T The Summer of 77 news/information/propaganda bulletin from Tom Robinson Band July 1977... Danny Kustow: gtr punk/backing vcls/teen appeal Brian Taylor (The Dolphin): drum delinquent/ no political affiliations Mark Amber: org/pno/renegade hippy T. Robinson: boss Mick Exeter: HGV/hard labour Tim Collins: sound desk/slave labor Colin Bell: wheeling/dealing GIGS: July 17 chelmsford city tavern Aug 13 bracknell arts centre Aug 18 middlesbro rock gdn. Aug 27 london jacksons lane community centre N6 Aug 28 london golden lion + more london dates end of august see time out & NME nearer the time BOOKINGS handled by Bob Salmons at ITB 01-629-4928 LYRICS to 'Winter of 79' printed in Temporary Hoarding no.1 from Rock Against Racism (see over). also 'Kum Bak' printed in Gay News no.61 available from GN 25p incl:- 1a, normand gdns/ greyhound rd/ W14 9SB THANX to Steve Witter who did six weeks hard slog on bass & 2nd vocals in the band May thru July this year for little reward & no money. Excellent musician & good bloke... thanks steve NOOS: still negotiating a record deal/if it comes of we'll be recording at once & releasing a single -possibly 'Motorway' . if it doesn't come off, fuck 'em - we'll slam in more dates carry on gigging. Whatever happens Jon Miller will be producing first album & Roger Wake engineering/ if neccessary we'll press & market it ourselves this autumn. Other plans - a single of "I shall be released" in aid of Ince if we get dylans permission for changed words/an outlet to market it . The more we hear about frameup of George I nce the more it stinks. There's no way he'll survive even half the sentence in present condition: how come he got that way ? Write to your MP today and demand action/if you don't know about case ring 01-987-6542 & ask for a leaflet. (NB George Davis arrested one week after coming on march to free George Ince...) The Nashville Rooms For reasons best known to albion agency TRB billed to apear on sat july 2nd. Us, we were working that nite & couldn't possibly have appeared/ told em so months beforehand. Also read with interest we were playing birmingham punkfest on nite of our chelmsford gig, (july 17) noos to us tho it woulda bin great to play with clash. Specially before we all go to jail... looks like it's too late now the heat's on. Meanwhile sorry if ya turned up at the nashvile the other week. WEIRD GIGS DEPT. Tonypandy Royal Naval Reserve Club, Rhondda Valley/a saturday nite/place already packed when Tim & Mick arrived with truck at 6.00/entire neighbourhood youth swilling pints waiting to hear rock band from london under watchful eyes of village elders who laid it on for 'em/last year's top 20 played at 3 1/2 watts on 1953 vintage record player by 1808 vintage DJ/two or three tables of dope smokers at front/"the polis dont want to hear but we know which boys are doing, it" /+ wouldya believe BINGO halfway thru evening. By allowing certain refreedoms rock/dope) elders had any youth rebellion nicely contained within their scheme of things. Fighting later broke out after "bad language in front of the womenfolk" AND BACK ON THE INSIDE Paid return visit to old buddies in the nick after our SOUNDS feature which they'd proudly pinned up against the wall. They too smoked dope quite openly during the concert / fumes wafting onto stage all evening. Definite prison hierarchy & black guys sit at back. Special chairs & cushions at front for top privileged cons allowied to help carry gear/talk to band - we never meet yer average man in the cell... GO SEE BETHNAL Working class london streetband for late 70's well in touch with heat on the street. Young, hard multiracial four-piece that know which side they're on. A touch of minldless sexist humour but remember the stranglers and be thankful. Best band I've seen for ages/dont miss em... Tom. IT COULDN'T HAPPEN HERE DEPT. Democracy was dead / killed by the crisis long before hitler buried it / 6 million unemployed/a hard winter nazis beating up communists / police charging into crowds maddened with hunger & despair. There was no sharp dividing line between the hitler regime & its predecessors that could be recognised at once by every man & woman. january 30th 1933 was as dull & miserable as any other day of the mont. there was no rebellion - no putsch. hitler was simply asked to be prime minister of a coalition government exactly as (before him) br¸ning papen & schleicher had been asked. he began his rule with the dissolution of parliament & the order for general elections to be held in march. Feb. 1st: goering issues decree against communist propaganda Feb. 3rd: emergency decree 'for protection of the german people' against all anti-fascist forces Feb 7th: nazi officials appointed to home office (ministry of interior) Feb 9th: all police officers who did not wholeheartedly support hitler asked to resign from their posts Feb 13th: all republican civil servants in high positions dismissed Feb 15th: nazis appointed to police in place of such republicans as had been forced to resign Feb 17th: the Terror officially sanctioned. goering orders police to use firearms 'at own discretion' Feb. 27th: reichstag burened down/ communists blamed/party banned by official decree Feb 28th: thousands of cormmunist party members including MP's arrested & sent to prison/ concentration camps or just murdered. Meanwhile entire communist/socialist/ labour press closed down March 5th: general election, 288 nazi seats/326 non-nazi seats Communist vote 'illegal' therefore 81 seats invalid. nazis claim absolute majority May 17th: in last pathetic attempt to save their party social democrats vote unanimously with nazis on foreign policy. nazis show merely contempt & little leniency ... June 23rd. social democrats officially banned. suffer same fate us communists a few months before. nazis tollerated their liberal compromise only as long, as they considered it useful for their own ends July 14th: re-organisation of political parties prohibited. nazis now only legal party in germany November 1933: general election 92.2% of electorate vote nazi 7.8% have courage to abstain etc.(polling booth set up at Dachau - at that time populated entirely by political prisoners/ mostly communists. later officially announced majority had voted for hitler...) from 'Hammer or Anvil' Evelyn Anderson, 1945 all you downtrodden people always bear the brunt just sit back on your fat backside till you havta face the Front wait till the bullyboys get you don't make no kinda sense and pretty soon gonna be no room for sitting on the fence you better decide which side you're on LOVE MUSIC - HATE RACISM support Rock Against Racism gigs & publications: Temporary Hoarding nos 1 & 2 available from RAR 30p ea.incl - 6 cottons gdns london E2 RIGHT ON SISTERS Spare Rib magazine for women: 45p incl: 27 clerkenwell clo london EC1 Nat. Abortion Campaign: 01-485-4303 Woman's Right to Choose: O1-359-5209 YOU have the right to choose what you do with your body/ not some pig of a politician or priest... fight for women's rights HOMOSEXUALS Gay Switchboard: 01-837-7324 is a 24hr info/advice service for gay women and men ARRESTED dont kid yourself it can' t happen to you/ anybody can get arrested anytime for almost anything/guilty or not. Memorise this number - 01-289-1123. You're legally allowed one phone call/politely & firmly refuse to make any statement until you've spoken to RELEASE or a solicitor - this is your right THE SUMMER OF 77 doesn't end here - the heat's just beginning. keep the belief/stick to the street/ dont believe a word They tell you. Next bulletin + general TRB info from: linda Cooke XX montpelier grove Kentish Twon London XXX. Send stamps if you can afford it - she can't. THE SUMMER OF ' 77: PART II news/information/propaganda bulletin from Tom Robinson Band 28 july 1977 (part I still available - see over ) LINEUP Danny: 1959 gibson les paul custom Brian: premier kit/paiste cymbals Mark: mutilated hammond T2/wurlitzer electric piano Tom: obsolete yamaha bass Tim: sunn 8 channel desk Mick: ford 35cet luton Colin: GPO executive telephone GIGS IN AUGUST 13th bracknell arts centre 14th saffron walden 8 bells 15th london music machine ('orrible & overpriced - dont go !! ) 18th birmingham rebecca's 25th high wycombe nags head 27th london jackson's lane community centre N6 29th london gelectric cinema: gig/discussion on politics/music 29th london golden lion (free) 30th Iondon brecknock (free) NB some of these changed since last bulletin: allways check gigs in NME Time Out etc. if in doubt phone venue. BOOKINGS: Bob Salmons (ITB ) 01-629-4928 INCE: Commons debate on george ince last wed / front page of evening noos / TV special / xtensive coverage in grauniad / opening of yet another official enquiry... & yet another round of Home Office Bullshit to delay things as long as possible. They aim to let him out on parole Sometime next year - that way *we shut up & sit down *conviction stays upheld *they save face... & good ol British Justice does it again. they say there'll be a new enquiry they say there's bin a slight mistake & while they write reports we've heard it all before Just get him out before it' s all too late... NOOS: ins/outs our record contrax drag on & on & on - our motto remains IBIWISI (i believe it when i see it) borrowed off cafe society who inherited it from march hare (1st-ever casualties in long line of konk victims ).
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