To view and download issues, click on thumbnails below Roadrunner’s first national issue hit the newsstands in February 1979. The cover story on the riots and run-ins of Elvis Costello’s summer tour was by the hard-hitting Ross Stapleton, whose fascination with the behind-the-scenes machinations of the music industry was to yield a series of lengthy features over the following twelve months. As well as being engrossing exposes in their
CONTENTS 2. Editorial/ Letters. 3. Malicious Gossip. 5. The Sports. 6. Soka. 7. EMS Records (Adelaide). 9. News/ Ross Hannaford. 10. Young Modern/ Brisbane/ Regular Records. 11. Rhythm and Blues/ Kim Fowley. 12. Elvis Costello Australian tour. 14. Live Review—Elvis Costello. 15 Public Image Limited. 16. Stiff Records. 18. Live Reviews—Pere Ubu/ Vivian Stanshall/ Be Stiff tour/ Magazine. 19. CBGBs. 20. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews. 23. Gig Guide/ Poetry.
CONTENTS 2. Editorial/ Letters. 3. Malicious Gossip. 5. The Stranglers. 6. Eric Gradman’s Man and Machine/ The Sports/ Contraband. 7. The Aliens/ Dragon/ Sid Vicious. 8. Adelaide/ London. 9. Melbourne/ Brisbane. 10. Mental As Anything. 11. Stiff Records (Part 2). 12. Split Enz. 14. Agents of Fortune. 16. Dave Warner’s From the Suburbs. 18. Martin Carthy. 19. Tom Waits. 20. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews. 23. Gig Guide/ Poetry.
CONTENTS 2. Malicious Gossip. 3. Charts/ Letters. 5. Bob Marley/ Australian Music Company. 6. Jamaica—Black Man’s Burden. 7. The Aliens/ Dragon/ Sid Vicious. 8. _!- (Tsk Tsk Tsk). 9. Paul Kelly and the Dots/ Voight 465/ Flowers. 10. Warm Jets/ Brisbane/ Adelaide. 11. The Sports in the UK. 15. The Clash. 16. The Stranglers. 18. Agents of Fortune (Part 2). 20. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews/ Book Review. 23. Gig
CONTENTS 2. Malicious Gossip. 3. Charts/ Letters. 4. Sex Pistols. 6. Hello Sailor/ Tactics. 7. La Femme/ Skyhooks/ Jivers. 8. Michael Gudinski. 12. Bob Marley. 14. Richard Clapton. 15. Mott the Hoople. 16. The Sports. 17. The New British Underground. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews. 23. Gig Guide/ Poetry.
CONTENTS 2. Malicious Gossip. 3. Charts/ Letters. 5. The Angels. 9. Adelaide/ London. 10. N-Lets/ The Clones. 11. Blondie/ New Zealand. 12. Talking Heads. 15. Redgum. 16. The Who. 17. Live Reviews—Dave Warner’s From the Suburbs/ Rrats Bander. 18. Film Review/ Book Review. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews.
CONTENTS 3. Malicious Gossip. 4. Letters/Chartbusters. 5. XTC. 6. Mi-Sex. 7. Two Way Garden. 8. The Angels. 10. John Cooper Clarke. 11. London. 12. Electronic Music. 14. Todd Rundgren. 15. Lipstick Killers/ The Visitors/ John McLaughlin. 16. Talking Heads. 17. Film Reviews/ Book Review. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews/ Independent Singles.
CONTENTS 2. Malicious Gossip. 3. Letters/ Chartbusters. 5. Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons. 6. Adelaide Music Scene. 8. Laughing Clowns. 10. XL Capris/ The Leftovers. 11. Leyton Buzzards/ Brisbane. 12. Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons. 14. Young Modern. 15. Live Reviews—Dr Feelgood/ Models/ The Police/ Secret Police. 16. Dusty Springfield. 17. Film Reviews/ Book Review. 18. The Angels. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews/ Independent Singles.
CONTENTS 2. Malicious Gossip. 3. Letters/ Charts. 5. The Sports. 6. The Scientists. 7. Terminal Twist. 8. The Cars. 9. Whirlywirld. 10. Rough Trade. 11. Local Records/ Kevin Coyne. 12. B-52s. 13. The Knack. 14. Live Reviews—Comrades of War/ The Visitors/ The Hitmen. 15. Live Review—The Ugly Mirrors/ Brisbane/ London. 17. Film Reviews/ Book Review. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews. 23. Medi-ochre Man
CONTENTS 2. Malicious Gossip. 3. Letters/ Charts. 5. Rockpile. 6. The Records. 8. Peter Lillie. 9. The Hitmen. 10. The Flying Lizards. 12. Mental As Anything. 14. Ry Cooder/ Journey. 15. The Yardbirds. 17. Live Reviews—Danger Dancer/ The Manikins/ Tactics. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews. 23. Film Review/ Medi-ochre Man
CONTENTS 2. Letters. 3. Malicious Gossip/ Charts. 5. Graham Parker. 6. Midnight Oil. 8. Flowers. 9. The Hitmen. 10. Popular Mechanics/ The Thought Criminals. 11. The Aliens. 12. The Special aka. 13. The Members. 14. Paul Kelly and the Dots. 16. Live Review—The Members. 17. Live Reviews—Primitive Calculators/ Cheap Trick. 19. Album Reviews. 22. Single Reviews/ Independent Singles. 23. Film Review.
CONTENTS 2. Letters. 3. Malicious Gossip/ Charts. 5. 1979 Readers Poll. 6. 2SM Concert of the Decade. 9. Kiss. 11. Glam Rock. 12. Film Reviews. 15. Abba/ Swanee. 17. Cold Chisel. 18. My Not So Brilliant Decade. 21. The Boys Next Door. 23. The Sinceros. 24. Australian Music to the World. 26. XTC. 27. London. 29. Melbourne. 30. The Passengers/ Lipstick Killers. 31. Radio Birdman/ The Other Side. 3. The
To view and download issues, click on thumbnails below When I returned to Adelaide in late 1977 after two-and-a-half years in the UK, I came back with 25 singles—Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Elvis Costello, Wreckless Eric, Tom Robinson Band, X-Ray Spex, The Rezillos, Slaughter & the Dogs etc. I moved into a small cottage at 14 Donegal Street, Norwood, owned by my old Adelaide Uni friends Larry
CONTENTS 4. Moist 5. Radio Birdman/Young Modern/Elvis Costello/Pizza review 6. Sex Pistols – live in Newport, South Wales 8. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers 9. A Bunch of Stiffs live – Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Larry Wallis, Wreckless Eric and Ian Dury. 11. Psycho Surgeons 13. Rock’n’Roll – No Future? 14. Record Reviews.
CONTENTS 3. Snippets. 4. Nocturnal. 5. Young Modern. 6. Death of Punk? 8. Gary McDonald 10. Mickey Finn. 11. Bob Dylan. 12. Beach Boys. 14. Denniz Tek. 16. Record Reviews. 20. Sports/ Skyhooks. 21. Richard Clapton.