Salisbury. Vague. November 1979. First Edition. 4to, Unpaginated
(8pp inc covers). Printed wrappers. Black & White/Monotone plates.
Text in English.
Issue 1 of the seminal post punk zine with Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Adam and the Ants, The Cure, The Specials, Madness, Selecter, Two-tone
tour, Swell Maps, Red Crayola, Ruts. "'Every day the seditious seeds
planted by Sniffin' Glue and Ripped & Torn bear some unlikely fruit.
Every day another young editor staggers proudly under the Westway with a
new bag of radical reading matter, making the three minute trip from
one bright spark of the current explosion, Better Badges, to the other,
Rough Trade. In every corner of the country there seems to be something
going on' Wiltshire's Vague". Sounds. 'The kids like it.' Adam Ant.