Saturday, June 8, 2024

Old Wave / New Wave

 the cusp of a changeover, dramatised in same-page juxtapositions in this June 4 1977 issue of Melody Maker














The band on the right is UFO

A cover of the Love song! 1967-in-1977!


Astonishingly faithful cover, in fact.

Interestingly. in the same issue, Caroline Coon, doing the singles, more or less says that punk is over already - it's become a cliche, something the industry will be churning out as product by the yard






















Coon herself had been through several revolutions of the fashion cycle by this point... 









UFO, a few years earlier, put out a record, Force It, whose cover tangles up Old Wave and New Wave





















The design is by Hipgnosis, which in this case probably means Peter Christopherson, because the naughty couple in the bathtub are Genesis P (ghastly ponytail!) and Cosey FT - this must be just as TG are getting started 




New Wave / Old Wave juxtaposition (2 of ??) (Penetration versus Penetration)

 Resuming an early, barely-started series from 1976 the year of punk Pauline Murray 's dancing here in this Electric Circus clip, is a ...