This is Issue one of Hobo – Coventry’s Music and Arts Magazine (Promoter) published June 1973, printed on Offset litho at The Left Centre, Coventry on an offset Litho donated by History and Warwick University Professor – E.P. Thompson. The magazine was produced by Trev Teasdel and John Bargent. It’s available free here on PDF. It was typed by Maz and the layouts were done by John and Maz. The intention was to produce it monthly but John Bargent (who ran Rouguestar Promotions and disco) left after this issue to road manage Coventry jazz-rock band Khayyam on their European tour. as John had largely financed the first issue, it actually came out when I managed to raise enough for the printing. Issues were produced that weren’t printed therefore owing to lack of finance but what i have left of those issues that never made it to print will be uploaded here too for research and archive purposes.
Here is the link to the first issue on PDF – https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B86kZ7RP6OWKSVB3cE9PcncwMEU
Hobo began with a campaign against the RU18 squad who were kicking young people out of pubs without anyone providing alternative places for young people to hear live music. In getting a petition together to send to Coventry Evening Telegraph, i met John Bargent who helped to get Hobo started. That story will be on this blog in another post. Meanwhile here is the press coverage we got in the ‘On the Scene’ supplement in the Coventry Evening Telegraph June 1973.
Editorial for – Issue one – Published June 1973
On the Scene supplement in which the above article came from –
Letter from Coventry Telegraph prior to our interview –
There will be more about John Bargent’s Roguestar Promotions in the Cov Discos blogspot listed on the top post. (Below – John and his wife Rachel as they are now).
John had worked for release and one of his ideas was Central Spot (Mentioned in the magazine) – a drop in centre for young people with problems. John left Hobo after the first issue but that option got taken up later by Bob Rhodes, a detached youth worker from Coventry Voluntary service council who facilitated the Hobo Workshop at the Holyhead Youth Centre summer 1974. More about that on a post on the Hobo Workshop.