I've just started to cover Magazine in the book I've been working on intermittently over the past 4 years (!)...work just gets in the ****ing way all the time, but a man's gotta pay the bills...when I've finished some of the sections on the band, I might post some here for you lot, since it's probably going to be a couple of years, before the book is finished, edited and published. Incidentally, if anyone has any contact with ex-members of Magazine besides Howard (especially McGeoch or Formula) I'd love to do an interview with them for the book... Cheers, Jack

Jack; it takes years to do, and re-do doesn't it! I had reams of stuff which is now an article. not 4 here tho. S-G what does YAY mean? and why didn't you buy all 3 yesterday - you'd be the luckiest man i know.

happiest, of course

going back a bit... it was howard devoto thirty lyrics.a4, very amateur, i love it. kept it safe. the inside cover reads 'this is not a poetry book tho the words stand by themselves...you are full of secrets which you call me.

Openmind...'Yay' is 'I am happy'...which I am as the tickets arrived by post yesterday. Bought 40 Lyrics for £1 in 1979 and stupidly threw it out when I moved house. What a plank.