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Post by dem bones on Feb 23, 2008 8:51:46 GMT
Mick Mercer - Hex Files: The Goth Bible (Batsford, 1996) "Hex Files is Mick Mercer's new illustrated guide to the Goth scene. Mercer has expanded his coverage to include the interlocking worlds of the Pagan, Fetish and Vampire scenes and their fellow travellers.
Hex Files tells you who's doing what locally, and how to plug into the Goth scene worldwide - with up-to-date details on bands, records, shops, clothing, jewellery, accessories, fanzines, artists, writers and much more ..."You might not go a bundle on Goth Rock but this is actually an excellent resource for all kinds of moribund small press publications, and offers details on virtually all the vampire zines that proliferated from the late 'eighties onward. Naturally, most have long since gone to their graves, although some have established an internet presence including the excellent Mick, still fighting the cause at Dial M. For Mercer. Mick tirelessly promotes not just Goth but indie and punk (new and old) and has done so since the later years of ZigZag so the musicians among you are advised to investigate further!
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Post by dem bones on Jul 23, 2016 18:53:42 GMT
Just learned that Mr. Mercer reissued this as The Hex Files: Resurrection via Lulu in 2010, an expanded - 664 pages as opposed to the originals 192 - edition! Proof that when we all get nuked it will be the cockroaches and Goths survive. Not sure many of the 'zines saw it to the millennium, though. Authors site is still going strong ( Mick Mercer.com). I'd not checked it in maybe 5/6 years and incredibly, Mick is still knocking out an infectiously enthusiastic free music pdf zine every month! Why? I suspect it's because he could no more stop writing than he could breathing. An extraordinary talent and, in my experience of dealing with him, a proper gent. |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 8, 2022 14:06:50 GMT
That book sounds fascinating. I wonder if the mammoth 2010 edition included all the info from 1996 for defunct zines, shops, festivals, bands etc. Mick Mercer wrote a novel called The Old Lady who invented Goth with a protagonist somewhat confusingly named Hermione M. Lee who is not the same as Dame Hermione Lee the author (who I seem to recall wrote funny, archly disapproving television reviews in the Guardian back in the 1980s). www.mickmercer.com/old_lady_invented_goth.htmlMick seems like quite the busy chap! H. |
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