Merseyside musical predictions for 1980
High hopes for Echo and the Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes. Not to mention Attempted Moustache and Those Naughty Lumps.
Like the old year roundup (as featured last week), new year predictions are a journalistic staple when there’s not much news happening and you have column inches to fill. In some cases, of course, there is much news happening and that seems to have been the case as we entered the new decade in January 1980. Merseyside music was buzzing, both sides of th…