the museum · Manchester post-punk

1981

Manchester Polytechnic noticeboard · Manchester

Became famous

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

Dancer / singer wanted for new band. Open to anything strange. — Jim.

What happened next

Tim Booth was a dance student. He answered the noticeboard ad placed by Jim Glennie and Gavan Whelan. James spent the rest of the decade as a sublime cult band on Factory and Sire before 'Sit Down' (1989) sent them into the UK top ten and a long, weird second act.

Source

Manchester Polytechnic dance department noticeboard, autumn 1981. Per James biographies and Tim Booth interviews.

Further

cite this ad

“Dancer / singer wanted for new band. Open to anything strange. — Jim.” — Manchester Polytechnic noticeboard, 1981. Musolist museum, /museum/manchester-post-punk/james-tim-booth-poly-1981.