the museum · Manchester post-punk

1977

Sounds · Manchester

Became cult

Draft. The ad text below is a paraphrase from documented sources. A curator will replace it with the verbatim wording once we've checked an archive scan. The outcome and citation are otherwise accurate.

classified · as printed

Vocalist (ex-Buzzcocks) seeks musicians for new band. Influences: Lou Reed, Bowie, Iggy. Manchester area.

What happened next

Howard Devoto had quit Buzzcocks weeks earlier. The ad assembled Magazine — Barry Adamson on bass, John McGeoch on guitar, Bob Dickinson on keys, Martin Jackson on drums. 'Shot by Both Sides' arrived in January 1978; the band split in 1981 after four albums but defined a peculiar, brilliant UK post-punk strand whose influence still surfaces in everyone from Radiohead to Interpol.

Source

Sounds classifieds, mid-1977. Per Buzzcocks and Magazine biographies; exact issue pending scan.

Further

cite this ad

“Vocalist (ex-Buzzcocks) seeks musicians for new band. Influences: Lou Reed, Bowie, Iggy. Manchester area.” — Sounds, 1977. Musolist museum, /museum/manchester-post-punk/howard-devoto-magazine-1977.