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Among the fine places you can pick up a copy of No Way Back: News And Coffee in London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.

Specialising in indie publications (+ good coffee + occasional DJ sets from the likes of Gilles Peterson) their mission is 'bringing back to life a piece of our cities which little by little has been disappearing: The Newsstand.'

You can check out the address of their newsstands here: @newsandcoffee.eu

And if you'd like to buy NWB001 direct from us, you can always head here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

‘All dressed up and somewhere to go’ - so reads the cover line to the Sounds piece on Spandau Ballet that we feature in NWB001.

Written by Betty Page and published in September 1980, it’s comes before the band take the so-called new romantic movement into the mainstream. At this stage, during their first interview, they’re busy creating their own culture from secret gigs and influential clubs.

Perhaps most interesting in the feature is their discontent with those presiding over the music and media industries - an elite that won't accept that the working class might like to, you know, dress up, have fun and create their own forms of entertainment and expression, rather than fit with a template of austerity and anger bestowed onto them.

With Gary Kemp, Spandau synthesiser player and songwriter, and Steve Dagger, band manager, doing the talking, quotes on the topic include:

"If you haven't got anything, if you haven't got a chance, then you should make the most of yourself and your appearance. If that's all you've got, make the most of it, beat everyone at it."

"In general, a lot of the music papers have got their own archetypal view of the social system and order, and how it should be, and the thought of people like us actually spending their money on looking good and expensive and enjoying themselves, they just can't stand it."

"I don't think they liked the idea of dressing up for some reason, they didn't like the idea of fashion as a progressive force. But it's nothing to be ashamed of."

Thanks to all who've purchased NWB001 (also for all of the lovely feedback). It's available via selected stockists worldwide or direct from the NWB team here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

‘All dressed up and somewhere to go’ - so reads the cover line to the Sounds piece on Spandau Ballet that we feature in NWB001.

Written by Betty Page and published in September 1980, it’s comes before the band take the so-called new romantic movement into the mainstream. At this stage, during their first interview, they’re busy creating their own culture from secret gigs and influential clubs.

Perhaps most interesting in the feature is their discontent with those presiding over the music and media industries - an elite that won't accept that the working class might like to, you know, dress up, have fun and create their own forms of entertainment and expression, rather than fit with a template of austerity and anger bestowed onto them.

With Gary Kemp, Spandau synthesiser player and songwriter, and Steve Dagger, band manager, doing the talking, quotes on the topic include:

"If you haven't got anything, if you haven't got a chance, then you should make the most of yourself and your appearance. If that's all you've got, make the most of it, beat everyone at it."

"In general, a lot of the music papers have got their own archetypal view of the social system and order, and how it should be, and the thought of people like us actually spending their money on looking good and expensive and enjoying themselves, they just can't stand it."

"I don't think they liked the idea of dressing up for some reason, they didn't like the idea of fashion as a progressive force. But it's nothing to be ashamed of."

Thanks to all who've purchased NWB001 (also for all of the lovely feedback). It's available via selected stockists worldwide or direct from the NWB team here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

Featured in No Way Back is Richard Grabel’s Burn This Disco Out piece from the New Musical Express in 1983.

It’s a fascinating, up-close and vivid report on the Fun House club, the so-called ‘street sound’ it championed and the young Latin and Italian bridge-and-tunnel crowd who claimed the spot as their own.

Explaining the street sound, Fun House DJ and producer Jellybean Benitez says in the piece: “To me street is the way I grew up in the Bronx. Graffiti was going on, break dancing was going on. In those days a street record was one that never got on the radio. But now that the street sound is getting more popular, it is getting on the radio.”

Songwriter, vocalist, and producer Man Parrish, meanwhile, opts for: “I think it falls in the percussion, I think of street stuff as the complicated kick drum patterns and the crazy kind of percussion stuff. I guess it’s also the craziness that happens in the records, things flying in and out, the weird edits.”

Down on the dancefloor, Mellisa from Brooklyn comes along with her Juice Crew friends. ‘They have Juice Crew T-shirts and crew names. Mellisa is Brown Sugar, Nikki is Pariko, Tony is White Lightning, Elise is Moma Juice, Ken is Spinner, Chino is Kid Viscious, Eva is Starstruck, Brian is Mr Nasty.’

“I always meet different people here, and make friends,” says Mellisa. “And Jellybean’s the top DJ, to me anyway. That’s where we all met, we could call it our home. We have so many memories here.”

NWB001 is available via selected stockists worldwide or direct from the NWB team here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There are a lot of layers to what’s inside No Way Back. Our piece on London’s Mud club was written by Neil Tennant, who, prior to Pet Shop Boys fame, worked at Smash Hits from 1982 to 1985.

He was keen on rifling through the magazine’s so-called ‘dumper box’ of discarded promo records, where he discovered lesser-known releases from Bobby Orlando (aka Bobby O), a pioneer of the hi-NRG genre. A press trip to New York City with The Police gave Tennant his first chance to meet Orlando. Just a month later, he returned to New York with fellow Pet Shop Boy Chris Lowe to record an early version of West End Girls with the producer.

In a full-circle moment, the best-selling issue of Smash Hits (around 750,000 copies) was published in 1987, featuring the Pet Shop Boys on the cover.

NWB001 is available via selected stockists worldwide or direct from the NWB team here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

Photograph by Virginia Turbett

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

There’s no shortage of things that make us proud about our first No Way Back release, but it’s hard to top getting the chance to publish some of Jamel Shabazz’s incredible photography.

At a time when the urban African American experience was so often visually coded as angry or unsafe, his images burst with joy, energy and so many smiling faces.

The work featured was mostly taken in early 1980s Brooklyn - on the streets, in diners and subways - with Jamel always making sure the people he photographed received a copy of the picture.

As he puts it: “I let them know I see greatness in them.”

You can pick up a copy of No Way Back here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in bio)

The first copies of No Way Back winging their way to purchasers across the UK, and over to Singapore, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, France, Thailand, Germany and the US.

If you'd like a copy too (we really think you might...), you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/. (link in bio)

Copies will also be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll update on outlets asap).

Time to start on NWB002!

The first copies of No Way Back winging their way to purchasers across the UK, and over to Singapore, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, France, Thailand, Germany and the US.

If you'd like a copy too (we really think you might...), you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/. (link in bio)

Copies will also be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll update on outlets asap).

Time to start on NWB002!

The first copies of No Way Back winging their way to purchasers across the UK, and over to Singapore, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, France, Thailand, Germany and the US.

If you'd like a copy too (we really think you might...), you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/. (link in bio)

Copies will also be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll update on outlets asap).

Time to start on NWB002!

Happy-happy-happy to see NWB001 now winging its way to selected stores around the world.

182 pages that set out to resurface long-lost music and sub-culture journalism and photography. 182 pages of material from 1977 to 1989, sourced from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds. Breakthrough events in dance music, hip-hop and pop – and parallel shifts in design and fashion - documented in their rawest form. It’s what comes before anyone has the remotest clue what long and remarkable trajectories these genres and art forms will take, before endless layers of post-rationalisation have kicked in. 182 pages that look dead good, too.

Inside No Way Back (NWB 001)

• Kraftwerk setting the path for a decade of electronic music breakthroughs in Ritz

• Spandau Ballet, working class creativity and a manifesto for the 1980s in Sounds

• Behind the new romantic gloss with photographer Graham Smith

• Richard Goldstein investigating NYC graffiti’s year zero for Village Voice

• After ‘disco sucks’ and before house – NME at NYC’s Fun House

• Neil Tennant writing in Smash Hits about London’s Mud Club

• Homeboy fashion and the birth of ‘bling’ in Spin

• Cynthia Rose for New Statesman on Jazzie B and London’s emergent ‘Black economy’

• Street style photographer Jamel Shabazz charts Brooklyn and the Bronx

• Deep inside New York’s vogue scene with Jon Savage for the Observer

+ Editor’s notes, supporting commentary, playlists, and covers, spreads and imagery from original titles

Huge thanks to all who pre-ordered NWB001. Your copy will be with you very soon.

Copies will then be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll share locations in follow-up posts) or you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in the bio, too)

Happy-happy-happy to see NWB001 now winging its way to selected stores around the world.

182 pages that set out to resurface long-lost music and sub-culture journalism and photography. 182 pages of material from 1977 to 1989, sourced from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds. Breakthrough events in dance music, hip-hop and pop – and parallel shifts in design and fashion - documented in their rawest form. It’s what comes before anyone has the remotest clue what long and remarkable trajectories these genres and art forms will take, before endless layers of post-rationalisation have kicked in. 182 pages that look dead good, too.

Inside No Way Back (NWB 001)

• Kraftwerk setting the path for a decade of electronic music breakthroughs in Ritz

• Spandau Ballet, working class creativity and a manifesto for the 1980s in Sounds

• Behind the new romantic gloss with photographer Graham Smith

• Richard Goldstein investigating NYC graffiti’s year zero for Village Voice

• After ‘disco sucks’ and before house – NME at NYC’s Fun House

• Neil Tennant writing in Smash Hits about London’s Mud Club

• Homeboy fashion and the birth of ‘bling’ in Spin

• Cynthia Rose for New Statesman on Jazzie B and London’s emergent ‘Black economy’

• Street style photographer Jamel Shabazz charts Brooklyn and the Bronx

• Deep inside New York’s vogue scene with Jon Savage for the Observer

+ Editor’s notes, supporting commentary, playlists, and covers, spreads and imagery from original titles

Huge thanks to all who pre-ordered NWB001. Your copy will be with you very soon.

Copies will then be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll share locations in follow-up posts) or you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in the bio, too)

Happy-happy-happy to see NWB001 now winging its way to selected stores around the world.

182 pages that set out to resurface long-lost music and sub-culture journalism and photography. 182 pages of material from 1977 to 1989, sourced from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds. Breakthrough events in dance music, hip-hop and pop – and parallel shifts in design and fashion - documented in their rawest form. It’s what comes before anyone has the remotest clue what long and remarkable trajectories these genres and art forms will take, before endless layers of post-rationalisation have kicked in. 182 pages that look dead good, too.

Inside No Way Back (NWB 001)

• Kraftwerk setting the path for a decade of electronic music breakthroughs in Ritz

• Spandau Ballet, working class creativity and a manifesto for the 1980s in Sounds

• Behind the new romantic gloss with photographer Graham Smith

• Richard Goldstein investigating NYC graffiti’s year zero for Village Voice

• After ‘disco sucks’ and before house – NME at NYC’s Fun House

• Neil Tennant writing in Smash Hits about London’s Mud Club

• Homeboy fashion and the birth of ‘bling’ in Spin

• Cynthia Rose for New Statesman on Jazzie B and London’s emergent ‘Black economy’

• Street style photographer Jamel Shabazz charts Brooklyn and the Bronx

• Deep inside New York’s vogue scene with Jon Savage for the Observer

+ Editor’s notes, supporting commentary, playlists, and covers, spreads and imagery from original titles

Huge thanks to all who pre-ordered NWB001. Your copy will be with you very soon.

Copies will then be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll share locations in follow-up posts) or you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in the bio, too)

Happy-happy-happy to see NWB001 now winging its way to selected stores around the world.

182 pages that set out to resurface long-lost music and sub-culture journalism and photography. 182 pages of material from 1977 to 1989, sourced from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds. Breakthrough events in dance music, hip-hop and pop – and parallel shifts in design and fashion - documented in their rawest form. It’s what comes before anyone has the remotest clue what long and remarkable trajectories these genres and art forms will take, before endless layers of post-rationalisation have kicked in. 182 pages that look dead good, too.

Inside No Way Back (NWB 001)

• Kraftwerk setting the path for a decade of electronic music breakthroughs in Ritz

• Spandau Ballet, working class creativity and a manifesto for the 1980s in Sounds

• Behind the new romantic gloss with photographer Graham Smith

• Richard Goldstein investigating NYC graffiti’s year zero for Village Voice

• After ‘disco sucks’ and before house – NME at NYC’s Fun House

• Neil Tennant writing in Smash Hits about London’s Mud Club

• Homeboy fashion and the birth of ‘bling’ in Spin

• Cynthia Rose for New Statesman on Jazzie B and London’s emergent ‘Black economy’

• Street style photographer Jamel Shabazz charts Brooklyn and the Bronx

• Deep inside New York’s vogue scene with Jon Savage for the Observer

+ Editor’s notes, supporting commentary, playlists, and covers, spreads and imagery from original titles

Huge thanks to all who pre-ordered NWB001. Your copy will be with you very soon.

Copies will then be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll share locations in follow-up posts) or you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in the bio, too)

Happy-happy-happy to see NWB001 now winging its way to selected stores around the world.

182 pages that set out to resurface long-lost music and sub-culture journalism and photography. 182 pages of material from 1977 to 1989, sourced from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds. Breakthrough events in dance music, hip-hop and pop – and parallel shifts in design and fashion - documented in their rawest form. It’s what comes before anyone has the remotest clue what long and remarkable trajectories these genres and art forms will take, before endless layers of post-rationalisation have kicked in. 182 pages that look dead good, too.

Inside No Way Back (NWB 001)

• Kraftwerk setting the path for a decade of electronic music breakthroughs in Ritz

• Spandau Ballet, working class creativity and a manifesto for the 1980s in Sounds

• Behind the new romantic gloss with photographer Graham Smith

• Richard Goldstein investigating NYC graffiti’s year zero for Village Voice

• After ‘disco sucks’ and before house – NME at NYC’s Fun House

• Neil Tennant writing in Smash Hits about London’s Mud Club

• Homeboy fashion and the birth of ‘bling’ in Spin

• Cynthia Rose for New Statesman on Jazzie B and London’s emergent ‘Black economy’

• Street style photographer Jamel Shabazz charts Brooklyn and the Bronx

• Deep inside New York’s vogue scene with Jon Savage for the Observer

+ Editor’s notes, supporting commentary, playlists, and covers, spreads and imagery from original titles

Huge thanks to all who pre-ordered NWB001. Your copy will be with you very soon.

Copies will then be available from selected stores worldwide from July 21 (we'll share locations in follow-up posts) or you can buy direct from us here: https://www.nowayback.co/ (link in the bio, too)

Pre-order finishes Midnight - last chance to get your name in the first issue alongside some of the greatest cultural icons of music and club culture. www.nowayback.co

Pre-order finishes Midnight - last chance to get your name in the first issue alongside some of the greatest cultural icons of music and club culture. www.nowayback.co

NWB001 pre-order deadline 31st May. Last chance to get your name in the zine alongside musicians, creatives, artists, DJ's & cultural icons. Pre order here www.nowwayback.co

NWB001 pre-order deadline 31st May. Last chance to get your name in the zine alongside musicians, creatives, artists, DJ's & cultural icons. Pre order here www.nowwayback.co

Only a few day left to pre-order our first No Way Back release (NWB001) and get your name in the zine alongside all the Dj's, artists, brands, musicians and cultural icons. A 192-page publication bringing together long-lost music and subculture journalism, images and perspectives, from 1977 to 1989.
Inventively assembled – combining original layouts with new formats – it curates material from titles ranging from Village Voice and New Statesman to Smash Hits and Sounds.

The first issue of No Way Back (NWB001) is also a chance to give something back to the writers and photographers who documented those times. Too often, their work is forgotten or repurposed without credit. It's good to redress the balance.

No Way Back has been a lot of fun to work on. We hope you enjoy it and get good inspiration from it, too.

Pre-order here: https://www.nowayback.co/
And as a show of thanks to those who purchase before May 31 (general sale date July 2025), we're adding a page to the publication listing all of their names.
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Birthday weekend. Now an old old man but a lucky spoilt one.

Birthday weekend. Now an old old man but a lucky spoilt one.

Birthday weekend. Now an old old man but a lucky spoilt one.