I was a twelve year old kid, born in Paddington, and living in West Hampstead, when I found Slade. 

Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim Lea and Don Powell made it big on the music scene in 1971. They had a minor hit with "Get Down and Get With It" before "Coz I Luv You" hit No1 in October.

They had follow-up No4 hit with "Look Wot You Dun" in the Spring of 1972.

I liked "Coz I Luv You" and "Look Wot You Dun" but I never purchased them initially. The first single I bought was "Take Me Bak Ome". I had seen the band perform on a tv programme called "2Gs and the Pop People" (a series hosted by the 2nd Generation dance troupe - which had featured guests every week) and was I was hooked.

I then bought "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" and all the Slade singles right up until their last release "Universe" in 1991.

I joined the Slade Fan Club in 1973 and eventually became such a fan that I actually ran the club myself between 1979 and 1981. 

This website is dedicated to the magazines I bought. I spent hundreds (if not thousands) of pounds on buying the weekly teen mags. I remember occasionally buying the Disco 45 magazine in 1971 - which included the songwords to all the hit singles. It was ok. But I really liked Popswap which was first printed in September 1972.

Popswap had music features and pop pin-ups. It's issue coincided with me becoming a Slade fan. The band were featured often (along with Marc Bolan, Donny Osmonds and David Cassidy). It had a series of pages whereby fans placed small ads to swap (not sell) pop records and souvenirs.

Other pop mags soon followed in publication:- Fan, Superstar, Music Star, It's Here and Now and many others. I used to trawl through these mags at my local W H Smith newsagents in Swiss Cottage and buy every issue that featured Slade. I would eventually throw the magazines away - but have still kept to this day all the Slade features and pin-ups.

All these magazines ran for about 3 years between 1972 and 1975 when the glam rock and teeny bop bands were big. They all declined in about 1975 when disco music became more popular and were killed off completely in 1976 and 1977 when Punk was in fashion.

Also, Slade featured in many of the girls mags (such as Jackie, Diana, Fab 208, Mirabelle, Mates, etc). I was always too shy to buy these - as they were girls mags! However, I used to bribe my two mates David Davensac and Chris Dancy to buy them for me if Slade were featured. I would offer them free Black Jacks or Fruit Salad sweets - if they suffered the embaressment of buying these mags!

I eventually moved on to buy more "serious" music papers. I really liked Disc, which eventually merged with Record Mirror. I also bought Melody Maker, NME, Sounds and Superpop whenever they featured Slade.

In my loft I have boxes of Slade pin-ups, posters, interviews and clippings. They are going yellow with age and I thought that I should do something with them. I therefore decided to scan a load of them and put them on this website. In that way I can keep the memories and share the history with any fans that want to check this site. All the major Slade events are covered here:- The Lincoln Festival in 1972, Slade's London Palladium concert 1973, The NME Music Awards show 1973, the Earls Court gig , Don's accident, The filming of Flame, Slade emigrating to the USA in 1975, Jim and Nod's marriages, The Reading Festival, Nod getting beaten up in 1978 etc.

I was suprised when I re-read many of these articles. I have realised that much of Slade's press was never quite as bad as I imagined. (I seemed to remember that the band received loads of bad press when they fell from grace with the public - but this really isn't so). Many album and concert reviews were quite balanced - it was just that the writers were never so hooked on Slade as I was! Also, I was shocked at how many times Slade were featured in Jackie. I seem to have built up a big collection of Jackie features - probably inheirited from girl fans when they moved on to other bands. Some of the Jackie articles are very trivial - but it does seem that most of them were based on fact and they give a good insight into the private lives of the band.

The one famous article that I have found and included is the Popswap article about Nod owning a pet tarantula called Sooty. Apparantly, at the time in 1973, Nod was bored doing press and one day decided to make out he had a pet tarantula. The article was published, and then copied in many other magazines. Nod's tarantula story went global. For years later he was quizzed by press and fans about Sooty. However he eventually decided enough was enough - and from 1978 onwards if anyone asked about Sooty he would announce that Sooty had sadly passed away.....

Also, I have included the famous photo shoot the band did for the 100th issue of  Music Star. Jim told me that he got totally fed up with these shoots. He hated being made to wear wacky party gear and put on false smiles. He really didn't believe that the band should be doing tacky photo shoots for teeny mags. The Music Star 100th Issue stuck out in Jim's memory as he, very reluctantly, managed to smile for one of the photos - but looked completely pissed off in all the other shots and these couldn't be used!  

This website will not have any real written text by me. It is all about Slade cuttings. I think that it will be a light weight, mainly pictorial, "coffee table" site for fans to look through. So here it is - a selection of fan mag pics, trivial teen mag cuttings and in depth band interviews in the serious music press - it's the Slade Scrapbook.

I hope that you enjoy.

Regards

Dave Kemp, 27 January 2010

CONTACT DETAILS
Email:- noizefeeler@aol.com 
Twitter:- @noizefeeler

OTHER WEBSITES
Check out my other websites:-
Dave Kemp and Slade Website
Slade Fan Club Newsletters Website 

DEDICATION
This website is dedicated to the members of the Slade family
who I miss and think about often:-
Walter and Dora Powell
Jack Hill
Carol McPhee
Sue O'Leary
Johnny Jones (JJ)

SLADE BOOKINGS
The agents for Slade are:
Hal Carter Organisation
Telephone (UK): 01908 567388
Email: info@halcarterorg.com 

SLADE GIGS 2012
25-27 May 2012 Butlins We Love The 70's Weekend - Bognor Regis (UK)
3 June Sunday Chemnitz (Germany): Brauereifest
6-9 June Sölvesborg (Sweden): Sweden Rock festival
11 July Wednesday Wrightegaarten i Langesund (Norway), Sporthalle
13 July Friday Narva (Estonia), Narva Castle: Narvabike 2012
21 July Saturday Tornio (Finland): Twin City festival
 25 July Wednesday Äänekoski (Finland) Keitele-jazz 
4 August Saturday Schneeberg (Germany): Silberstrom-Oldie-Party
10 August Friday Bad Bergzabern (Germany), Open air 
19 August Sunday Bree (Belgium), Vostertfeesten 

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NODDY HOLDER + OTHER GUEST YET TO BE ANNOUNCED. TICKETS NOW ON SALE. 
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Venue: Komedia, Brighton. Date: Thursday 7th June 2012. Doors: 7.30pm, stage, 8pm.
Tickets: £8.50 (£5.50 concessions) / £7.50 advance online booking. Hosted by Briggy Smale.

Noddy Holder is best known for being the former lead singer and co-songwriter with the band Slade, the most successful British band of the seventies. Pioneers of the glam-rock movement, Slade’s many hit singles included Cum on Feel the Noize, Coz I Luv You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, How Does it Feel, Everyday and, of course, Merry Xmas Everybody. A national treasure and a British music legend, Noddy was awarded the MBE in 2000, and he has made countless television and radio appearances. www.noddyholder.com Further info on June’s event will be coming soon.