I can see myself walking towards him, even as I'm thinking, "This is probably a very bad idea." But for some reason I can't stop myself. Against my better judgment I march straight up to Louis Walsh and introduce myself.
"Louis, we've never met. I'm Steve Lamacq."
"I know you, you used to write for the NME."
So The Lurkers a fortnight ago, now Magazine. For a column which tries to eschew nostalgia, this page is getting very misty eyed.
The ghosts of Christmas Past even flitted among us in the pub beforehand, where Spizz (he of Spizz Oil, Spizz Engergi and other Spizz incarnations) thrust a flyer into my hand for the next Spizz gig (May 14th, at the 100 Club in London).
September 1978: The Buzzcocks issue Ever Fallen In Love as a taster for their second album. John Peel unveils the debut single from The Undertones. And all over the country a plethora of raw, new, bedroom indie labels are springing up, to release the next wave of punk and post-punk bands who are channelled through the Peel programme and the pages of the music press.
September 1978 - Colne Engaine, Essex. Population - tiny: I will soon be 14. Tonight though, I am standing outside the Chelmsford Chancellor Hall in a motley queue of punks, feeling just a tad anxious. This is my first ever gig.
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