Maybe just slightly!
When you set up an exhibition you want to try and let as many people know about it as possible otherwise it might pass them by.
I had posters and flyers printed but I was hoping for more publicity from the media and with that in mind I contacted every music magazine in the country as well as radio stations, TV companies and local newspapers. I contacted over twenty different places and only four replied, Uncut Magazine, Cheshire Life, Altrincham Today and BBC TVs North-West Tonight and thank you very much to those four outlets for their support. However, it is rather pathetic that just four replied, don’t forget the Sex Pistols first visit to the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester is seen as a groundbreaking event, one of the NMEs 50 gigs that you had to be at. This exhibition was the very first time all the photographs taken on that night were to be seen together, a one-off opportunity and yet, apart from Altrincham Today who actually interviewed me, the rest of the local media couldn’t be bothered. Manchester Evening News? What a joke!
At least the BBC sent a reporter down and camera crew to interview me at the exhibition which appeared on the TV. The exhibition is still on until the 31st of December at the Manchester Central Library and it is proving very popular, if you fancy calling in to see it you won’t be disappointed and if you are, remember it’s free!
Paul Welsh Writer 