Guns of Steel
Mar 27, 2021
2 minutes
Written by Luke Kennedy
Photo by
Tony Nolan
When Newcastle’s Surfest event was spawned in 1985, the gritty city was underpinned by 70 years of steel industry labour. The smog-shrouded Newcastle steelworks had even appeared on the first cover of Tracks in 1970 as a kind of environmental alarm bell.
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