Christmas in 1987: The Sounds Readers Poll

As a special treat - and we're using the words "special" and "treat" in slightly nervous ways - we're going to be spending some of the festive season back twenty years ago, with illustrated results to the Sounds Readers Poll from 1987, as originally published in the January 2nd, 1988 edition of the now defunct magazine. As the endeavour unfolds over the next few days, we'll build a mini-list of the various polls here:

Top ten promo videos
Top ten cover versions
Singles: 20-11

Twenty Years On

Dedicated to Tony Wilson, and worth your attention: Little 015 - NineteenEightyySeven. Nineteen bands from 2007 doing 19 tracks from 1987. One each, of course, it's not 361 tracks. Amongst those taking part are The Leatherettes and Beki & The Bullets; amongst the acts being updated are A-Ha, The Vaselines and - eek - Men Without Hats.

A Million Miles: Weddoes tour George Best again

It's twenty years since George Best was first released - obviously not the footballer, who was constantly being released (Ford open prison, onto the transfer market, out of hospital with somebody else's kidney), but the Wedding Present album. To celebrate, they're recreating the original 1987 promo tour, as closely as they can:

23 October - Stirling FUBAR
24 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
25 Glasgow Queen Margaret Union
26 Manchester University
27 Liverpool Academy
28 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
29 Birmingham Academy
30 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
31 London Koko

As part of the evening, the band are going to play the album in full (the Reception version, we guess, rather than the Cooking Vinyl expanded later one.)