Financing Hobo was very difficult - keeping it going was not easy in terms of paying for the printing hence it came out when I could afford it - Lottery funding wasn't invented then and funding for something like that was hard to get back then. However, as Coventry's first Music fanzine (other magazines like The Broadgate Gnome carried articles on the Coventry Music Scene but was wider ranging in its editorial copy) it managed to raise the profile of the Coventry Music Scene and the work came to the attention of Coventry Voluntary Service Council who helped us set up the Hobo Music and Arts Workshop gigs. The Hobo team moved more into putting on and supporting new Coventry bands and developing street theatre and alternative film groups and performance poetry between 1974 to the end of 1975 and developing a support system with the Youth Worker for young people with problems. This work is dealt with in the Hobo Workshop Entry.
This cover, unpublished, was the last attempt to published Hobo as a magazine c Jan 1975. By this time I'd become a full time Sociology student. The Coventry Music scene was beginning to change towards what became the Punk era, battles between left and right would soon replace notions of love and peace. Many of the musicians went on to make it in the music business with various degrees of success. It would be another 10 years before Pete Waterman finally took over the charts. Four years until Two Tone rocked the world. Hobo gives a glimpse of the Coventry music scene prior to the Two Tone phenomenon. You'll soon find these entries in other sections of this blog. Watch this space.
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