Three grand's worth of gear for a complete band, all for a 17p stamp

Copious correspondence, lovely letters, nasty notes, all in our own Band Aid

The monthly miscellany gets stuck into the trivia

Paul Henderson sees their armoury of onstage gear

The First Lady of lungs stages a live lesson

Flying Scotsman Stuart Gillan watches UB40 make an exhibition of themselves North of the Border

Mick Jones' new outfit clash with Jim Betteridge

More packages picked apart by Tony Mills

Tony Reed talks to Somerville and Coles, the Morecambe and Wise of agit-Pop

Switched-on Phil 'the DIY-lithium crystals canna take it, cap'n' Walsh gets pedal powered

This Roland Gift is nothing to do with the competition, says Mark Cordery

Wonderful Radio Mike Hrano brings you a bulletin on how to get fair play on your airplay

Ricky Gordon fires questions at hot Cole

Paul Fishman, who always wanted to be bigger, expands to fit Kurzweil's keyboardless package

Is small beautiful? Jim Betteridge knows

Bob Henrit comes out of his shell to review this minimalist masterpiece

Hugely powerful and impressively loud. Martin Brassell, that is

Plug in, lean back, legs apart — and sound like an accordionist. Tony Mills taxes the axe

Onboard electronics unravelled by unbored Dave Burrluck

Eight pads, one reviewer. Bob Henrit puts one over the eight

Dave Burrluck stuffs everything into one box and sets off to find DOD

It's the latest. It's the greatest. It's the mostest. Oops