ON THIS DAY ... in 1979, THE RUTS play the Music Machine

All 40 photos I took at this gig.

Of all the deaths in the music scene during my life that led to the early extinguishing of a talent that had come to mean so much to so many I don’t think anything eclipses the passing of Malcolm Owen (R.I.P.) in 1980. To top it all we have also lost their great guitarist Paul Fox (R.I.P.) in 2007.

The Ruts were on the up, with seemingly boundless energ…