Author Archives: trevor
Hobo 5 – Nov 1974 (Unpublished)
Hobo kept going between June 1973 and Nov 1974 as a magazine despite a series of set backs both financial and in terms of printing costs and resources. We had no core funding back then, reliant on ads which were … Continue reading
Hobo Magazine – Poetry Pages 1973 / 5 (Part 2)
Continuing from Part one, further contributions of poetry or connections to the local or regional poetry scene. These have been transferred from the original Hobo Vox blog from 2006 / 7 SADNESS by Gina Grunskis (Willenhall Wood – Coventry) Piercing … Continue reading
Alternative Sounds – Coventry Music Fanzine run by Martin Bowes 1979 – 80 Some issues on PDF’sof
Alternative Sounds was created and run by Martin Bowes and Dill of God’s Toys in 1979 – 80 when the Coventry music was at it’s zenith, post punk and during Two Tone. There is an interview I did with Martin Bowes c … Continue reading
Joe Reynolds – Coventry Poet / Musician – Willow / Selecter
Joe Reynolds was a Poet, saxophonist /flautist and songwriter of the Coventry Jazz / Rock band Willow c 1973 /4 and who, in 1979 /80, sessioned on Sax with Two Tone band Selecter. Joe also joined a reformed version of A Band Called … Continue reading
Hobo Magazine – Poetry Pages 1973 / 5 (Part 1)
The following are contributions of poetry that were either published in Hobo or sent in for publication c 1973 / 5 Al Yedd THE BACKWATER by Al Yedd – 1973. Published in Hobo No 4 Summer 1974 It had been … Continue reading
The Windsor Free Festival 1973 / 4
THE WINDSOR FREE FESTIVALS For Issue 2 of HOBO (the unpublished version) co-editor Bo (John Bargant) wrote an article on the 2nd Windsor Free Festival and we had a folded flyer for the 3rd in Issue 4 – August 1974. Other … Continue reading
Coventry News (Alternative newspaper c 1979 – 84)
COVENTRY NEWS – Introduction c 1978 or 1979, I attended a meeting at The Wedge (Cooperative bookshop / Cafe) 13, The High Street. Arol from Broadgate Gnome and Diggers Hole Artist Collective back in 1970, was there along with members of … Continue reading
Interview with Martin Bowes of Alternative Sounds & Attrition
MARTIN BOWES, as many of you will know, ran the Coventry Alternative Sounds Fanzine in 1979 / 1980, – an amazingly popular and documentary Coventry Music magazine during the Two Tone period in Coventry. The magazine wasn’t just about Two Tone though, … Continue reading
HOBO PROPOSED BENEFIT
HOBO PROPOSED BENEFIT A letter sent To Lynn Greenwood – Coventry Evening Telegraph August 1973 updating her on our ideas for a venue and Hobo benefit… Dear Lynn, We told you of our proposals to put on a benefit to … Continue reading
Trev and Bo on the Music Scene 1973
TREV AND BO – ON THE SCENE! This post is from the original Hobo site on Vox blogs c 2007 After publishing the first edition of Hobo in June 1973, we dropped off a copy of Hobo for the editor … Continue reading