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Always been a big fan of fanzines and collect them if they feature Jamaican music or Rastafari. This place has an incredible selection, although I've already cleared him out of the reggae stuff I didn't already have.

Mainly punk fanzines but incredible in their diversity. I never knew there were so many of them created at that time, would love to have a look through a few of these. Wonder how many old punks can afford £125 for an original copy of Sniffin Glue?

Some good punk/other music/classics/anarchy books on the site too.

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yeah I got the first issue of "pressure drop" zine off them a while back. :)

a lot of this stuff is pretty rare now...
 
Yes John, I got the first two of "Pressure Drop" from them, as well as two editions of the Jamaican zine "Rockers" from the late 70's, one of "Ital Rockers" from Scotland (1978), another American fanzine I'd never heard of "Judgment Time" from 1981 and the very first edition of Ray Hurfords excellent "Small Axe".

Have you seen the copy of Jahugliman on his site? I have that one but haven't managed to find any of the other Jamaican editions. It's a really good read, great mix of reggae articles, lyrics and unusual Rasta reportage as well as superb adverts for record shops, labels and sound systems.
 
ringo said:
Wonder how many old punks can afford £125 for an original copy of Sniffin Glue?
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Quite a few I guess, including me. But I'm fucked if I would. I still have a couple of old ones from back then stashed in a drawer somewhere, but punk was of its time and, as one of the old slogans went, paraphenalia like this was just so much nostalgia for an age yet to come. And if there's one think punk wasn't about, it was that.
 
ha ha, there are at least 3 things on that site I had a hand in producing :cool:

Ringo - yes saw all that, it's good stuff and I'm glad it is still circulating but not yet completely prohibitive - 10 quid or so for something produced in a ltd run in the 70s isn't bad.
 
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Dr. Furface said:
Quite a few I guess, including me. But I'm fucked if I would. I still have a couple of old ones from back then stashed in a drawer somewhere, but punk was of its time and, as one of the old slogans went, paraphenalia like this was just so much nostalgia for an age yet to come. And if there's one think punk wasn't about, it was that.
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I was talking to a mate about this the other day. A big fan of Crass since their early days he now finds himself collecting bits of Crass writing and memorabilia.

From a distance there's an obvious contradiction between the high prices of some punk stuff and the original ethos under which it was made, especially if the item still has a sticker on it demanding that no more than £1.50 is paid for it. My mate buys the stuff when it's not too pricey and just shrugs and says he believes in it, it was produced by people like him for people like him and he has a right to buy it. Seems fair enough.
 
Mental the price of some of those zines,used to have loads of "raising hell"and on the list it has "gusset"done by two lasses from brum who used to write to me in jail,no3 having a photo of me at glasto 94,which was strange as id never heard of the zine till i got a copy through the post!!
 
Cheers, interesting in the parts that aren't just self-agrandizement.

Agree with your last point, I always thought of fanzines as a rejection of the established music press, not a way of getting to work on one.
 
i bought a punk fanzine recently - produced by an urbanite, trevhagl, haven't read it all, but it was alright, the stuff i did read
 
marty21 said:
i bought a punk fanzine recently - produced by an urbanite, trevhagl, haven't read it all, but it was alright, the stuff i did read
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i regularly buy trevs zine negative reaction , its a good honest music mag with some top name punk interviews , a bit of good humour and a political rant , theres still some good zines on the go like anarchoi . and riot of yer own , recently got converted to no bollox just oi has some slightly dubious writing in that one but its pure quality with a good cd free with it
incidently trevhagl still has copies of his 25 aniversary issue for sale with free cd also and theres not often he gives stuff away lol
contact . trevhagl@yahoo.co.uk or pm him on here
 
northeastoipunk said:
i regularly buy trevs zine negative reaction , its a good honest music mag with some top name punk interviews , a bit of good humour and a political rant , theres still some good zines on the go like anarchoi . and riot of yer own , recently got converted to no bollox just oi has some slightly dubious writing in that one but its pure quality with a good cd free with it
incidently trevhagl still has copies of his 25 aniversary issue for sale with free cd also and theres not often he gives stuff away lol
contact . trevhagl@yahoo.co.uk or pm him on here
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he didn't give me the free cd :(
 
ringo said:
Cheers, interesting in the parts that aren't just self-agrandizement.
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Mine or his? :D

He's put the full interviews up on his blog here:
http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2009/02/john-eden-woofah-httpwww.html

I've been putting together a talk on this stuff and the conclusion I've come to is that the zine writers I am interested in are part of a tradition of ranters, leafletters, social historians and other oddballs, and that this is very different from journalism for all sorts of reasons. Not least that there is no money in it.
 
I love lots of the old zines - kill your pet puppy, cobalt hate, toxic grafity, pigs for slaugher, scum, enigma, new crimes etc etc but amn't really so into fanzines after 1982/83 or so as they tended to all become pretty samey with lots of band interviews etc and rather tokenist articles about why whacking seals over the head with clubs or joining the KKK isn't very nice, where-as the early zines were more about communicating ideas (in the tradition of the late sixties 'alternative press - OZ, IT etc - as much as the zeitgeist punk ushered in) and many of them, especially the ones printed by Better Badges when they would do multi colour overlays etc just look mental as they are genuine examples of people with generally no prior graphic/publishing experience experimenting with new advents in design.

PS: mike, respect for doing 'Up Yours' - didn't realise that was your zine. Quite the Welsh Sniffin' Glue by the looks of the rather catholic taste in bands featured.
 
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