Poster This – MAGAZINE 1978
MAGAZINE
Former Manchester new wave band led
by one-time Buzzcock Howard Devoto
First tour: 1978
MAGAZINE: Bio – Discography
Shot By Both Sides
Inbetweenies! Shot By Both MAGAZINE Sides
What Turn Up The Volume is watching/playing between two coffees
3 December 2021
Band: MAGAZINE
Who: Post-punk squad from Manchester formed by early
Buzzcocks vocalist/songwriter Howard Devoto (69 now)
Active: 1977–1981, 2009–2011 / 5 studio LPs
Song: SHOT BY BOTH SIDES
Brilliant single from their brilliant debut LP Real Life (1978).
Below a dumbfound live version played on Belgian TV, featuring
the late great Scottish guitarist John McGeoch.
Watch the bullets coming…
MAGAZINE: History
Single This! MAGAZINE
‘Shot By Both Sides‘ by MAGAZINE
Ex-Buzzcocks Howard Devoto‘s band (1977-1981)
This single, from 1978 debut album Real Life, was
co-written with the late Buzzcocks legend Pete Shelley.
On Top of the Pops…
MAGAZINE: Discography
TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Real Life’ – Haunting Debut LP by MAGAZINE Released 40 Years Ago…
Remarkable albums from the past…
‘Real Life’ by MAGAZINE
Released: June 1978
Forty years ago
ALL MUSIC wrote: “Like many punk bands, Magazine would likely cite David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Roxy Music. However — this point is crucial — instead of playing mindlessly sloppy variants of “Hang on to Yourself,” “Search and Destroy,” and “Virginia Plain,” the band was inspired by the much more adventurous “Low”, “The Idiot”, and “For Your Pleasure.” That is the driving force behind Real Life’s status as one of the post-punk era’s major jump-off points. Punk’s untethered energy is rigidly controlled, run through arrangements that are tightly wound, herky-jerky, unpredictable, proficiently dynamic.” Score: 4.5/5 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME says: sounds like haunting and paranoid! Like real life!
Hair-raising and scary. Staggering record!
TWO TOP TRACKS: Shot By Both Sides / Parade
* SHOT BY BOTH SIDES
* PARADE
MAGAZINE: Facebook – All Albums
MAGAZINE Got ‘SHOT BY BOTH SIDES’ 40 Years Ago…
When timeless in sound and vision it’s a …
19 January 2018
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES is an impressive jigsaw classic by MAGAZINE. Written by its frontman Howard Devoto and Buzzcocks’ mastermind Pete Shelley (they actually both formed pop punks Buzzcocks in 1976, Devoto left after a few months to start his own band). The song was inspired by Devoto‘s girlfriend who said to him after a political discussion: “Oh, you’ll end up shot by both sides” and has sonically nothing to do with punk whatsoever. It’s just a monumental, paranoid pushed up eruption released as a single on 20 January 1978, 40 years ago. Go frenzy here…
Audio version…
On legendary British TV show Top Of The Tops
MAGAZINE: Facebook – Discography
Striking Singles Turning 40 In 2018 – Here Are TURN UP THE VOLUME’S 10 Winners…
Going back in sonic history…
1978 was one of the highlight years
for stand out punk/new wave singles
Really tough to choose only ten!
Here are TURN UP THE VOLUME’S
top picks (some great sleeves too)
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1/ ‘Hong Kong Garden’ by SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
Oriental riffs and Siouxsie‘s pitch black voice…
Released: 18 August 1978 – debut single
2/ ‘(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais’ by THE CLASH
Barbed wire reggae à la The Clash…
Released: 16 June 1978
3/ ‘Public Image’ by PUBLIC IMAGE LTD
Goodbye Pistols, hello PIL…
Released: 13 October 1978 – debut single
4/ ‘Damaged Goods’ by GANG OF FOUR
The band’s smashing debut 45…
Released: 13 October 1978
5/ ‘Where Were You’ by THE MEKONS
Explosive like a molotov cocktail…
6/ ‘Pump It Up’ by ELVIS COSTELLO
Costello‘s sex song…
Released: 28 April 1978
7/ ‘Shot By Both Sides’ by MAGAZINE
Howard Devoto‘s glorious paranoia stroke…
Released: 20 January 1978
8/ ‘Down In The Tube Station At Midnight’ by THE JAM
Molestation in the London Underground…
Released: 13 October 1978
9/ ‘Ambition’ by SUBWAY SECT
Founder Vic Godard was a underrated genius…
10/ ‘Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) by BUZZC0CKS
One of their many speedy pop punk crackers…
