Scootering Words & Sounds
Apr 21, 2020
5 minutes
’79 The Mod Revival, Time For Action ’79 The Ska Revival, Dance Craze Garry Bushell Red Planet
Back in the latter part of the ’70s, the then young, South London based, working-class lad Garry Bushell was making a name for himself as a writer for Sounds magazine. Alongside two other weekly music publications, (New Musical Express and Melody Maker), Sounds was at the cutting edge, reporting on exciting new bands and sub-genres of music of the time. Garry Bushell was one of the, if not the, first music journalists to pick up on the Mod revival of ’79 and was a first-hand witness to both the Mod revival and the ’79 fusion of ska and punk explosion pioneered by the Coventry based Two-Tone (and related) label mentored by Jerry Dammers. Both of Garry Bushell’s excellent
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