TAGG ISSUE 15 flipbook
Flick through the TAGG issue 15 flipbook including Melbourne’s live music gig guide for 18th January to 1st February, 1980!
TAGG time capsule
TAGG – ISSUE 15, TAGG The Alternative Gig Guide is Australia’s original street press.
In this time capsule series revisit the Melbourne music scene of 1979-1980.
Gig guide for the 18 Jan – 1 Feb, 1980
TAGG – ISSUE 15 Table of contents:
4. Hello to the 80’s….editorial
8. TAGG MAGG
10. Rock lobster
17. Confirmed dates
19. Listings
22. Gig review…Brian Watson’s Revenge
32. Gigs of our lives (cartoon)
34-35. TAGG minifold
36. Venue locations
46. TAGG prospects….Cuban Heels
52. How to be a R&R star – part 9
58. 3RRR-FM Top 30
59. Consumer guide
64. Mail Bagg
We hope you enjoy flipping through TAGG – issue 15!
Slipping into the eighties, TAGG – ISSUE 15 excerpt…Hush! Quiet! the editor speaks…
Well I dunno, for me it didn’t seem so incredible to slip from the seventies into the eighties. Like, up to a month before New Year’s Eve, it was a pretty exciting thought – the Eightie’s, George Orwell, the Age of Electronics, Futurism, Haley’s Comet, Science Fiction, maybe even The Apocalypse…or Harry Belafonte making a comeback with the Apocalypso Beat.
As the days passed, as December slowed to a trot, it was pretty obvious that we wouldn’t suddenly be thrust into a new age with the dawning of 1 January 1980.
On that day I looked around me and out my window. The Housing Commission flats were still there, Iran was still the world’s troublespot, the dishes were dirty, I needed a shave.
Two days later I found myself at a meeting of TAGG principles. It was at this meeting that yours truly first sensed something new and exciting about the eighties.
TAGG blundering along haphazardly up til now, despite strong public and industry support, was in for a refit.
It was obvious that a plot to start the decade off on not just the right foot but in a bright new pair of shoes was afoot!
Despite the bad puns (if you don’t like bad puns don’t read on!) – the timing seemed perfect – with TAGG in its back pocket, the Melbourne rock scene could stride confidently into the eighties with as fresh an outlook as possible. Certainly TAGG itself will, and we hope some of that confidence rubs off.
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The TAGG time capsule
