For this episode, we spin back to 1979, for a lively and laughter-filled conversation with two famous bass players and a drummer: Mark ‘Bedders’ Bedford of Madness, Guy Pratt (then of Speedball) and Brett ‘Buddy’ Ascott (then of The Chords). Together they discuss: the fashion forces that inspired that year’s mod and skinhead revivals;why the former musical movement fizzled out but the latter one gave us the lasting music of 2-Tone Recordsthe influence of punk and the freedom it inspiredwhy the music you listened to in that era defined the clothes that you wore and why gig-going was so dangerousgetting into and playing in pub venues under agethe role of fanzines in that tribal eraMark Bedford becoming a pop star at 17 and the Madness biographical movie Take It Or Leave Itmemories of meeting what was then a 15-year old fanzine scribe and why it mattered to get coverage in Jamming! Guy Pratt's memoir 'My Bass And Other Animals' and Tony Fletcher's memoir 'Boy About Town' Mark Bedford's The Near Jazz Experience can be found at https://thenje.bandcamp.com/ His social is https://twitter.com/I_be_MarkB Guy Pratt will be touring soon with Saucerful of Secrets https://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/ Guy Pratt co-hosts the Rockonteurs podcast with Gary Kemp which can be found at https://www.rockonteurs.com/ His official Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/guy.pratt.official Buddy Ascott is currently on tour with The 1979ers and can be found at  https://www.facebook.com/brett.b.ascott. The Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up 1977-86 is published by Omnibus Press and available now from all good book shops in the UK/EU, and Dec 2 in the rest of the world. More information and online purchasing options at: TonyFletcher.net OmnibusPress.com 'The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast Theme' is by Noel Fletcher. Copyright reserved. The logo is by Greg Morton, who also assisted with editing. The Best of Jamming! book cover was designed by Martin Stiff. The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast website can be found at https://shows.acast.com/the-jamming-fanzine-podcast Social media updates at Instagram.com/LeagleAlien twitter.com/TonyFletcher See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.