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The last 7 issues were great fun but 'real' work got in the way. We were getting older and losing the wisdom of youth. We had been putting the fanzine out every three weeks in the first 2 years and it slowed to a trickle.1985 &1986 produced more apologies than fanzines. Highlights included the interview with New Order's Gillian Gilbert after the Barrowlands gig, when Barney and Peter offered fat Al (or skinny Vinny B his alter ego) a seat in a chair with no bottom. Boom Boom the Barrowlands shook as he crashed through it to the floor. How they laughed, how he did too! I was on holiday in Arran listening to some old band playing some old tosh and suddenly the music stopped and the interview came on. Oh how we laughed. The questions I asked were terrible, but Gillian was superb. She could've been patronising or just take the piss, but she was superb another example of the kind of person you're glad to have met.

Issue 29 has been scanned in full thanks to GG from www.retrodundee.blogspot.com and is below the pics of the covers. Scroll down as I update I'll add in more

The Dancing Bears - so many memories - all of them good!  Rhythm System too. If I get this gig in
September 2011 sorted I hope they'll be there

25 years on there will be a party to celebrate issue 33c - venue and bands to be confirmed. There's no doubt I was spending so much time working and trying to get the cash to make Deadbeat better, I and everyone else ran out of time to do it in. A bit like the review of Orange Juice in issue 7 and many of the bands in the previous 4 years, we'd had our time and we'd all moved on. There was a lot of angst breaking rocks in the hot sun and as we fought the law and the law won, poll tax rallies were much more enjoyable than to sell a Deadbeat, even if it was only 10p.

25 years on we'll be full of energy again and by the time the party comes along in 2012 to celebrate 30 years we can all have 50th birthday parties too. Olympics, 50th and a Deadbeat 30th - I better get that milk thistle into me now.

Issue30

Issue 31

The Government interview is below