Melody Maker, 19 April 1986: Siouxsie and the Banshees – Tinderbox interview and album review; Cactus World News, The Damned flashback, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Waterboys live
Melody Maker, 19 April 1986: Siouxsie and the Banshees – Tinderbox interview and album review; Cactus World News, The Damned flashback, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Waterboys live
Melody Maker, 19 April 1986 (45p weekly; Australia $1.00, New Zealand $1.25, Malaysia $2.75, USA $2.25 by air), the British weekly music paper, with Siouxsie and the Banshees on the cover in a portrait by Tom Sheehan ('Tinder loving photography'). Cover story: 'Siouxsie – Tinder is the night', with the interview on pages 14–15 and the album review on page 33, published as Siouxsie and the Banshees released Tinderbox, the album that includes 'Cities in Dust'. Also on the cover: 'Cactus World News – a cut above the rest'; Jimmy White; Love and Money; It's Immaterial; The Bolshoi; 'Flashback – The Damned: ten years of mayhem and madness', marking a decade since the band's formation in 1976 as one of the first British punk groups; and live reviews of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Waterboys and Fine Young Cannibals. A strong issue for the goth and post-punk generation: Siouxsie Sioux at the height of the Banshees' mid-1980s run, The Damned's punk history, Liverpool's Echo and the Bunnymen and It's Immaterial, Glasgow's Love and Money and Mike Scott's Waterboys. Inside, the paper's usual news pages, single, album and live reviews, gig guide and its famous musicians' classified advertisements, through which many British bands found their members. Melody Maker, founded in 1926, was the oldest of the British weekly music papers. Published by IPC Magazines, London. Newsprint, tabloid format, about 29 x 40 cm. A collectable issue for Siouxsie and the Banshees fans and for collectors of the 1980s British music press. THEMES: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie Sioux, Tinderbox, post-punk and goth, The Damned, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Waterboys, Fine Young Cannibals, Cactus World News, Melody Maker, music memorabilia.
Author: Melody Maker
Publisher: Melody Maker/IPC Magazines
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Good