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Lindsay Hutton started a fanzine called The Next Big Thing in April 1977. Taking its name and inspiration from the opening cut on The Dictators Go Girl Crazy, the title has since morphed into a blog (www.tnbt.co.uk). There’s a continual possibility that another issue of its print counterpart might see the light of day but breath should not be held. In 1980, he started The Cramps fan club - The Legion of the Cramped - along with one Stephen Patrick Morrissey, who has since gone on to loftier heights. Hutton piloted the club single-handedly from there on in and ran the LOTC-zine Rockin’ Bones and NBT until the band pulled the plug on the fan club operation in August 1983. Possibly just as well because people who admitted to liking Bauhaus were starting to join the ranks. Hutton was then asked by Edwin Pouncey to contribute to Sounds, which he did for a time (some of those blethers can be found here in RBP). Since then, he has written for many fanzines and publications including Mojo and still keeps the ol’ hand in. The last printed version of the fanzine came out in 1997 and the web is the main outlet for his rantings. Recently (in October 04) Hutton began to contribute a bi-monthly column (in English) to the German magazine OX. He considers himself a fan that got lucky and that any similarities between himself and an actual journalist are, by any stretch of the most fevered imagination, co-incidental. Now considerably older but in no conspicuous way wiser, Hutton continues to campaign for the music and artists he staunchly believes in.

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Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams

Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, September 1985

OVER THE years, many lesser talents have taken chapter and verse out of the Vega book, and who can blame them? Not me. ...

Dictators, The: The Dictators: live at El Sol, Madrid 24th November

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, December 2001

HEY ANDY SHERNOFF! You tell us that your generation ain't the salvation of this R'n'R beastie but I beg to differ. ...

Fleshtones, The: The Fleshtones: Speed Connection (IRS)****

Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, July 1985

THERE'S SOMETHING about the concept of recording and releasing records within a week that really stinks. The emphasis on how quickly these things are turned ...

Fleshtones, The: The Fleshtones: Fleshdance At Le Gibus

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, 1985

THE PLAYBOYS warmed up the crowd just right despite the fact that I felt their set was a touch too long. That's not to say ...

Fuzztones, The: The Fuzztones: Leave Your Mind Behind

Profile and Interview by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, October 1984

THE FUZZTONES mission is simple. Rudi Protrudi, Deb O'Nair, Elan Portnoy, Michael Jay and Ira Elliot must spread their psychedelic snarl to the docile minds ...

Fuzztones, The: Fuzztones: Lysergic Emanations

Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, April 1985

HEY HEY hey everybody. You were stunned by their debut 45 and transfixed by the live mini album. Here, with the advent of the group's ...

The Gun Club: Gun Club: Guns For Hire

Interview by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, December 1983

IT'S ALMOST three years to the day since I encountered the Gun Club. After the Cramps' 1980 Lyceum Show, Lux Interior introduced me to the ...

The Gun Club: Hoochie Coochie Club, Edinburgh

Live Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, November 1984

PRACTICALLY A FULL year after coming down hard on the Batcave quotient at the Lyceum, the Gun Club finally rolled into Scotland to prove that ...

Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual (Portrait)****

Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, January 1984

CYNDI LAUPER's old group Blue Angel made an album for Polydor Records in 1980. Given half a chance it could've put them in the Fleetwood ...

MC5: MC5 - A True Testimonal (Future/Now Films)

Review by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, November 2002

SEVEN YEARS in the making, this is a multi-dimensional boot up the jacksy to the increasing legion of lazy tosspots that compares anything with a ...

Nomads, The: The Nomads: Outburst (What Goes On)*****

Review by Lindsay Hutton, Sounds, November 1984

BROTHERS AND sisters, to witness the Nomads in action is to believe! And hearing them on record is quite an experience as this, their very ...

Annika Norlin, Hello Saferide: Modern Stories from Östersund: Annika Norlin

Interview by Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, December 2008

YOU MAY NOT be familiar with Annika Norlin's name yet but I hope that one of these days you will be. The organic rise of ...

Simple Minds

Profile by Lindsay Hutton, ZigZag, March 1979

I'VE NEVER BEEN this goddam excited about a rock'n'roll band for ages. The monster media called NEW WAVE is almost finished and the climate is ...

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Surf and Destroy

Comment by Lindsay Hutton, MOJO, April 1995

BEFORE THE RELEASE OF Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Dick Dale was simply "the man who invented surf music" and his craft remained generally unknown outside ...

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