The Jesus and Mary Chain, February 1985
Get an outrageous name, swear a lot, forget everything you ever heard that wasn't the Stooges and The Sex Pistols. Above all, offend.
An early appearance of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Either it was me or a Melody Maker subeditor who struggled to get the band’s name right. Or maybe both.
The 1980s wasn’t like now when you could look up a band on the internet. Sometimes I’d get sent a press release in the post (not this time, obviously). Otherwise, as a reviewer you had to rely on what y…