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Buzzcocks record most of their set at Revolution, a small loft studio on Bramhall Lane in Stockport, for a total cost of £45. The resident engineer, Andy MacPherson, offers Shelley a brand-new guitar from the studio, but he insists on using his broken Starway. As Buzzcocks record everything live, the whole session takes only four hours, recorded through an AMEK 12:2:4 X Series mixing desk onto a Sony two-track, which was borrowed for the day. Later, MacPherson engineers the recordings in the attic of his flat.

Eleven out of twelve of these Revolution recordings are later unofficially released on the Time’s Up bootleg album, which first appears in 1978.

John Maher still has his original copy of the session the band were each given on a Memorex cassette. ‘This was our first-ever visit to a recording studio. I met Howard, Pete and Steve at Piccadilly bus station in the centre of Manchester. We got the 192 bus to Stockport. I was sixteen, still at school in my first term of sixth form. I can’t remember if it was a midterm holiday or I had to bunk off for the day.

‘We recorded twelve songs, everything we knew, including a couple of cover versions, “I Can’t Control Myself” (the Troggs) and “I Love You, You Big Dummy” (Captain Beefheart). I used the studio drum kit, which was crammed into an airing-cupboard-style recess off the main room.’