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I loved Harry’s, they kept that simple menu the same throughout. The tallish waiter/barman (your age) opened a deli near us in Eldred Avenue. Daily customers include Muzza and Paul Hayward. Trams, I’ve thought for 35 years that a tram route from Shoreham High Street to East Brighton via...

For me; Eno, Ultravox, Roxy, John Foxx. Our friend Rounder Records didn't exist until a bit later.

I've always had a soft spot for Captain Sensible. Now we know Adam Ant copied his look from David Vanian.

I've got that. Acquired from the old HMV in Churchill Square.

Before my time being allowed to stay up for Peel, but from his autobio he adored some of those artists. I love The Kinks, Ray Davies so talented.

Personally, I love GB’s sumptuous vocals. I definitely didn’t as a 12 year old, that came later from times at The Suite and Busby’s. 78 …. albums kicked off. 77 …. not forgetting Saturday Night Fever’s singles :rave:

Brilliant vocalist. Great non-Punk albums in 77 ….. Arrival, Rumours and Oxygene.

I love all of JD and NO up to when you say. With two amazing (imho) outliers after that … World in Motion and the track Mr Disco. Movement just sounds so different from Closer/Unknown Pleasures, oozing synths, melodies, Barney a very different vocalist (reticent, learning on the job). Singles...

Peel touched upon something similar in his autobio. He lost with their anger his audience in the mid 70’s when he started playing Punk, then a few short years later diehard Punks who thought he sold out. All he strove to do was give kids a chance who were creating good music. [Heaven would’ve...

In 1979, I could be wrong, I mainly knew the term New Wave. A very wide definition of everything non-heavy metal that immediately followed the initial UK punk explosion. So many examples, XTC, Boomtown Rats, Split Endz, Talking Heads, Police, Jam, Elvis Costello, the original Ultravox, Human...

Same here, but with huge respect for Punk. Punk, synths and drum machines made post Punk and New Wave possible.

I love the evolution of JD/NO, the band of my youth. Post punk JD, followed by early 80’s NO with a more synth based sound and Gillian, then the NO you despise. To me brave, mostly magical. My favourite NO album is Movement, no one ever selects that!

The blokes I knew until the day they die who most hated the 76/77 cultural/music revolution were Hungry Years types. I knew some in the sixth form, uni and at work, with tunnel vision for heavy metal, angry forever that the Pistols, Damned and Clash upset their 70’s paradise. Fuming that in...

I was too young to see the 76/77 gigs, but I think you’ve nailed it. The NYD didn’t have a raw punk sound or aura at all, they weren’t ground breaking with a new music that shook the establishment.