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Post by dem on May 31, 2014 17:26:37 GMT
More crap info for zinewanki to swipe. They better hope I'm not making any of this garbage up. .... Kylie's Catalogue: #2 (Joe [ed.], Bath, July 1995) Another of the great unsungs, Joe's Kylie's Catalogue was a home grown, low-rent equivalent of the mighty Fight Amnesia providing yet another invaluable outlet for the punk/ anarcho/ black metal/ vampire/ general weirdness/ poetry/ fanzine communities. Featured publications include You Ride A Horse Rather Less Well Than A Horse Would (Toronto, Canada. "Reviews orientated, plus comics and strips"), Erebus Rising (Farnham/ on-tour-with-Nosferatu/ Cairo. Donna Crow's splendid vampire/ goth crossover), When I Grow Up I Want To Be Bobby Gillespie (Manchester. "Militant socialist teenage punk rock anti-music industry pop zine") and Dragon's Brew (Cardiff. "A Pagan magazine on its 16th issue featuring articles with titles such as 'Yule,' 'The Hunt For The Horned God,' 'Making & Using Incense'). The catalogue arrived in an envelope bursting with flyers. ********* Teenage Vampire (Sepas & Phil [eds.], London, 199?)  Dave WilliamsDespite title, zero v*mp**e content in this, the debut issue. Punk bands you maybe never heard of (KeN, Bad Vugans, International Strike Force, etc.), the kung-fu films of Bruce Lee, Why I Gave Up Ecstasy, the alleged several sins of London's bus drivers and a problem page hosted by Caring Princess Diana. ********* The Doppelganger Broadsheet: Christmas Special (Colin P. Langeveld, Dec. 1991) Apparently, a "by-invitation-only newsletter-cum-exclusive-club" so how or why one should have wound up in dem clutches is one of life's too many unfathomables. Affectionate gossipmongering about members of the Doppelgängers/ Dark Dreams fraternity (i.e., David Cowperthwaite, Jeff Dempsey, John Gale , etc.), bumper Xmas crossword, recipes, enthusiastic review of Richard Dalby's Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories 2, fiction from Mark Valentine, plus a rather delightful trad Christmas Ghost Story, Mr. Langeveld's own Reflections Of Scrope. ********* New Musickal Excess (Martin X. Russian [ed.], Sheffield, Feb. 1979) Long running 'zine devoted exclusively to the Sheffield post-punk scene, written, edited and produced by the El Tel Was A Space Alien legend. "I want to write about the bands nobody's heard of and try and make sure someone does because there's a lot of talent about and because its not in London nobody wants to know, and I'd hate to see the likes of Artery and Graph go under because nobody heard about them." In terms of production, issue 1 looks like a school magazine (no photo's) but its the content that counts and 'NMX' was where you'd go to find interviews with/ articles about pre-fame Cabaret Voltaire, The Human League, Vice Versa, They Must Be Russians ("sorry about the missing T.M.B.R. article. It was supposed to be based on their gig on Jan 27th which didn't take place because Tony Russian electrocuted himself") ..... See also: Do It Thissen: Sheffield and South Yorkshire Music Scene: 78 - 82 ********* |
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Post by dem on Jun 14, 2014 15:17:42 GMT
Dead Records File #1 (Lee Elliott [ed.],Adeline, Feb. 1994). L. E. Elliott - Greetings
L. E. Elliott - Anne Rice Fellow Readers: To Whom It May Concern
Tom Matthews & Lucille Beachy - Fangs For Nothing: Coppola's Dracula & Rice's Lestat: Cultural Icons For An Age of Enervation (Newsweek, Nov 30 1992)
D. A. Kissler - Vampire Facts And Fables
Katherine Ramsland - Hunger For The Marvellous: The Vampire Craze In The Computer Age (Psychology Today, Nov. 1999)
Poetry (Rudyard Kipling - The Vampire/ Deborah Kittler - Advice/ Zachary K. Davis - Passion Imprisoned/ Deborah Kittler - Questing)
Funeral Flowers: Dead Records File Book Reviews (Dan Simmons's Children Of The Night, Tanith Lee's Dark Dance and Gail Petersen's The Making Of A Monster)
Cheeky Devil Vampire Research 1994 QuestionnaireA frightfully proper début, printed on card as opposed to the usual xerox pages, so in terms of production values, quite the most professional of the small press publications this side of the Goth Soc's Udolpho (acid free paper etc). It struck me as Anne Rice/ Tom Cruise fixated at time which, on reflection was unfair, but somehow Dead Record File still doesn't turn me on whereas an unholy ramshackle mess like Poison Coffin most certainly did and still does. Questionnaire raised a few laughs, though not sure if that was the intention. File under worthy. Tripping Flags For You (Dave Furneaux [ed.], Aberdeen, Scotland, Autumn 1991). Classy Psychedelic Furs 'zine, but the timing was a bit off as this was published at close of their World Outside album and tour which proved to be their last stand .... Stop Messin About #35 (Carl St. John [ed.], Orpington, Kent, April-May 1994). , "The official magazine of the Kenneth Williams & Sid James Society" and "the voice of the fans," under the patronage of Nicholas Parsons. A refreshingly no-nonsense compilation of press cuttings, movie posters and ephemera. Issue 35 includes a Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) episode guide, a Carry On Matron press pack, interview with Quentin Crisp, and - The heartbreak letter that told me I'd lost my Babs forever - kiss and tell revelations from Barbara Windsor's "ditched hubby," Steve Hollings. #41 (below, Summer, 1995) was something of a Sid James special.
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Post by dem on Jul 11, 2014 14:35:02 GMT
John Quel (ed.) - Hoax (Brecon, Powys, 1991-2) Top anarcho pranking mischief from the mysterious Aux Industries. The slimline Issue #2 includes the adventures of globe-trotting garden gnomes, the great Beatles 'Paul Is Dead' conspiracy, Supermarket Sabotage (Free shopping at the Co-Op), and the curious case of the 'Bugger Me, It's Beadle' anti-Circus campaign. Ostensibly an ectasy-lsd special, it was advised that you lick the monster issue #3 carefully as you might be one of the lucky 23. More gnome-napping expoits, 'Free shopping at Tesco's with this voucher', Urban Myths {including a lengthy analysis of the legendary Orson Welles War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, supposedly the catalyst of a nationwide panic), drug-laced tattoos, The Loch Ness Monster - Alive and well and living in Slough, plus several lunatic newspaper articles ( 'Severed Head Joke Gets Man The Sack'), 'Road Joker Is killed Playing Dead', etc.). they also came stuffed with leaflets like this ...
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Post by dem on Jul 19, 2014 13:24:18 GMT
John Tucker & Phoenix Hitch (ed's) - Lowlife: The Journal Of Light & Dark #5 ( East London, Jan. 1994,)  Photo: Kevin Cattermole
The News (Gigs, albums, demo's, tours, etc)
Children On Stun (song lyrics 'explained')
Andrew Darlington - The Reunification of Ramon Valasquez (fiction)
Alien Sex Fiend (interview with Nik & Mrs. Fiend)
Demonic Demo Reviews
Screaming For Tina (band interview)
Phoenix Hitch - Ribbons (fiction)
Soul Inside (band interview)
Gig Reviews
ViHS reviews: Br*m St*ker's D**cula, Dr. Who: Planet of Evil
Book Revie; Jackie Askew's Sundown ... Sunrise
Andrew Eldritch interviewOperating from a flat above a dusty carpet shop in Mile End when it was proper, John & Phoenix's publication began life in the early 'nineties as a Children On Stun 'zine but fast mutated into a glossy covered all-encompassing celebration of goth-alt related madness, the interviews, reviews and news items supplemented by original dark fiction and several examples of Mr. Tucker's artwork. It ran for (i think) seventeen issues. Issue 4 (October, 1993), last in the original format, was a Halloween double issue featuring interviews with -among others - Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer, Nosferatu, Crystal Reign, Sean Hughes, and fab French goth trio, Corpus Delecti and dark fiction from Gary Collett ( The Harvest, Jon Summers { And What Of The Night), Andrew Darlington ( The Great Dimensional Quadrature Conundrum: AD was in everything at the time, stories of his even turned up in Skeleton Girls and Princess Spider) and Robert Watt ( Mirror Mirror). Andrew Darlington - The Reunification of Ramon Valasquez: It is THE FUTURE. The illicit trade in 'body popping'(i.e., thieved human body parts) comes crashing down when Mrs. Valasquez recognises a TV presenter's shiny new nose as that which, until recently, belonged to her missing husband. It transpires that Ramon, a factory worker, has had his every limb and organ redistributed among 300 desperate donor-recipients. It now falls to a brilliant micro-surgeon to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Phoenix Hitch - Ribbons; Very Pan Horror. Little Rebecca James, eight, insists Daddy has gone to Heaven, but big sister Alice knows better. "Murderer men don't go to Heaven. Murderer men stay down in Hell." Damnation would be no more than the late unlamented Mr. James deserved. An all round bad egg who killed his wife and repeatedly molested his children, it's better for everyone that he is no longer around. Except Alice can hear him calling to her. From inside Becky's stomach...  John TuckerRespectfully dedicated to the memory of Phoenix Hitch.
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Post by pulphack on Jul 21, 2014 4:38:17 GMT
Andy Darlington was everywhere! I remember him cropping up in indie/punk zines in the early eighties, as well as sci-fi and poetry zines. A prodigious output. I used to like his stuff, but whatever happened to him? Is he still putting out wirk and it's just that I haven't connected with it? I'd love to know.
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Post by dem on Jul 21, 2014 8:00:21 GMT
Andy Darlington was everywhere! I remember him cropping up in indie/punk zines in the early eighties, as well as sci-fi and poetry zines. A prodigious output. I used to like his stuff, but whatever happened to him? Is he still putting out wirk and it's just that I haven't connected with it? I'd love to know. 'Still going strong' is the answer to that one, mr. hack, and his most recent published work is a biography of a dem hero, Don't Call Me nigger, Whitey: Sly Stone & Black Power for Leaky Boot Press (2014). He has a linked-in page here: Andy Darlington .... and, better still, a blogspot. Think I need to contact this fellow and grill him for his knowledge of the fanzine culture. Like you say, the man was all over the place in the 'nineties. Let's hope he hung on to his collection! |
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Post by dem on Jul 24, 2014 4:44:21 GMT
Jonathan Downes (ed.) - Animals And Men #2 (Centre For Fortean Zoology, Exeter, 1994)  Cover: Lisa Peach; cartoon Jane Bradely
Jan Parker - News File
Ben Chapman - The Woodwose Or Wild Man of Britain
Stuart Leadbetter - Near Lizard - But Not Near Enough
Jan Parker - If You Go Down To The Woods Today
'Paterfamilias' - Is This 'Animal' Behaviour?
Roger Hutchings - Alpine Enigma
Alison Downes - A Hard Day's Night Parrot
Jonathan Downes - Green Lizards in Devon and Dorset?
Jan Parker - A-Z of Cryptozoology: Part IITop fortean research from legendary scourge of the Owlman, Mr. Downes and fellow enthusiasts. Biped lizards from outer space, the ultra-violent trouser-stealing duck of Toddington, why the Loch Ness monster isn't a dinosaur, wild men of the forest, the bear of Wychwood, and did a big cat eat Price Charles' dog Pooh? Evan (ed.) - Gibbering Madness #1 (Sheffield, c. 1993) Introduction Ranty Bit
Contents + Thanks
D.M.D - Beyond Reason (fiction)
A.Bianco - A Cup Of Tea And A Slice Of Cake (fiction)
Questionair
Evan - Clark Ashton Smith - An Appreciation
Plus poetry Brian Lumley (Tindalos), Isabel Gregory, Mark Walton, Lizzy, Mike Tetrault, Christiane Knight, Misteria and Yan.
Illustrations by Evan, Dogger, Isabel Griffiths, T.Renner, Isabel Gregory, Yan"The strangeness and horror magazine for everyone" begins with a terrific manifesto/ call to arms from editor Evan, whose enthusiastic and touching appreciation of Clark Ashton Smith is another highlight, as are the two original weird tales. D.M.D - Beyond Reason: A vampire is loose in a mental asylum. As the corpses stack up, Alice, the superintendent's daughter fears for her life. A Cup Of Tea And A Slice Of Cake: A Uni lecturer turns into a tea-bag and Sheffield is destroyed (the two events are connected). Some lovely artwork, too. i particularly like T. Renner's "Corpse in shallow water" (below). Evan's still going strong at Gibbering Madness blogspot T. Renner. "Corpse in shallow water"
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 25, 2014 22:56:53 GMT
Not sure if I've posted this one previously, one of Leigh Blackmore's legendary Terror Australis zines: Terror Australis #3 (1992) The Jack the Ripper Special! Contents (from the contents page) Fiction: Nicholas Royale, Flowers, Holes and Loneliness B.J. Stevens, This Little Piggy Gets Ramsey Campbell, Jack's Little Friend DR George W. Sequeira, Catch Me When You Can From Hell Maurice Xanthos, The Stripper Revealed Adrian Zupp, Hoboes Pamela Klacar, Ripperama Verse: K.T. O'Neill, Jack the Ripper Coral E. Hull, Supper Features: C.G.c. Sequeira, Horrors of Australian History Leigh Blackmore, The Black Stump B.J. Stevens, Every Time the Candle Burns Gregory Cheeseman, Portrait of the Ripper Mark Morrison, Keeping Times Philip Cornell, Cornell's Corner Psych, Caranoid Spitz C.G.C. Sequeira, Strange Unsolved Mysteries Dr G.W. Sequeira, Jack the Ripper: Some Novel Suspects The Complete Jack the Ripper Reference Guide: Leigh Blackmore, Part 1: In the Bad Books Leigh Blackmore, Part 2: The Screaming Eye Leigh Blackmore, Part 3: All the Sounds of Fear C.G.C. Sequeira, Part 4: Graphic Accounts Leigh Blackmore, Part 5: Bibliocide ![]() i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv221/jamesdoig/SAVE1485_zps000b24ea.jpg |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 27, 2014 23:20:28 GMT
"The strangeness and horror magazine for everyone" begins with a terrific manifesto/ call to arms from editor Evan, whose enthusiastic and touching appreciation of Clark Ashton Smith is another highlight, as are the two original weird tales. Got to say anyone with the nounce to call their magazine 'Gibbering Madness' gets my instant vote. |
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Post by dem on Jul 30, 2014 16:27:29 GMT
That Terror Australis 'Ripper special' looks tasty/ tasteless. thaks v. much for posting, James. A few more. I'm sure i've one devoted to Barbie dolls buried among my stash, but this pair will have to suffice for time being. Bob Smith (ed.) - Chaotic Order (Spring, 2001, Lincoln) Bob Smith - Editorial
Bob Smith - American Toughie: An Interview with Katrina Del Mar
Dan Buck - Handfulls
Rik Rawling - Orgasmo Bestiale: The Druuna Comics of Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri
Bob Smith - An Interview with Residual Orchestra
Alex Mann - Reality In Film
Chris Mikul - God's Wounds.
Gary Simmons - Whitehouse Live Action #86
Simon Whitechapel - Killing For Sculpture
David Wood TG - Body Probe: An Interview with Ron Athey
Chaotic Order; Guide To (And Beyond) The Fringe. Book/ zine/ video/ film/ music reviewsInterviews with/ articles about alt-film makers, photographers, artists, sculptures, extreme noise terrorists, plus Rik Rawling on his favourite bum-fetishist, Chris Mikul asks "Is stigmata nice?", and Alex Mann explores the trend for "found" film footage ( Cannibal Holocaust, The Blair Witch Project, etc.). Justin Marriott's Weird Zine is mentioned in dispatches. On strength of this issue, a love in for the pierced, the tattooed, the sweary. R. Ahlfeld & G. Rose - House Of Exodus: The Masque (Dundee/ Gourock, Feb. 1995) A very strange comic featuring Pagan God the Fox who kills Phill White (Thee Vampire Guild, Crimson magazine). |
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Post by dem on Feb 23, 2015 12:30:45 GMT
Mike Don (ed.) - Dreamberry Wine (April-May 1994) Ran from Mike's shop in Maine Road, Manchester, for some years Dreamberry Wine operated as both a fanzine and used books catalogue. This sample issue from (scream!!!) twenty years ago - chosen purely because I love the cover illo - features an interview with SF writer Jeff Noon, lively letters and top ten books from, among others, Mark Valentine, Andy Darlington, John Madracki (of Cancer Chronicles repute), and thoughtful, proper book reviews by the editor and Ian Covell. Mike's shop is, to best of my knowledge, still going strong, and you can scrutinise the current catalogue HERE
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 23, 2015 12:55:57 GMT
 No date but detective work suggests July 1992. Reviews of Walter Jon Williams Days of Attonement, Robert Rankine: The Brentford Triangle, Patrcia Kenes The Throne of Scone.Terry Pratchet You Can Save Mankind |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 27, 2015 2:02:04 GMT
 Balthus, ed Jon M. Harvey, Cardiff. Issue 3, published in 1972. Cover by David L. Fletcher. ContentsEditorial Eddy C. Bertin, Curtain Fall Nick Caffrey, Old Crompton (poem) Andrew Darlington, Magic - the once and future science (review of Colin Wilson's The Occult) Robert J. Curran, The Champion of the Lake David C. Carr, The Explanation (poem) David Ieuan, Arthur Machen: 1863 - 1901. |
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Post by dem on Jul 28, 2017 13:51:26 GMT
Actually, this ad is not for the Barbie-zine referenced above, but it is kind of related and gives an idea of what the scene was about. The House Of Exodus: The Penny Black (1996) Screenplay: G. Rose: Cinematography: A. Ellwood "'Flowers In The Snow' is my Tim Burton kind-a tribute and 'Ae Fond Kiss' is inspired by the Burns poem of the same name. The latter is a 'boy meets girl, girl dies, boy buries girl, girl comes back as a vampire' and is told in flashback style (she's remembering her funeral)." G. Rose. Rendezvous: Newsletter of the St. James' Past Students Association (Burnt Oak, Augt. 1977).  Sally Howard
Annual Subscription
Minibus 77 - Two for The Price Of one
Cardinal Hume Visits St. James'
The Cardinal Says Mass In The Quadrangle
IRA Terror Shadow Over Cardinal's Visit
Soccer: Waterloo Gets The Boot
Colonel Bogey's Last March
Amnesty For Art Fans
Round The Quad
Keeping In TouchClassic issue, albeit one overshadowed by report of the untimely passing of Mr. Edmund 'Valkie' Valkenberg (Eng. lit), champion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gilbert & Sullivan, and John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps. Mini-bus appeal an unqualified huge success - the five week campaign raised sufficient funds to purchase a brand new 15 seater and a bonus second hand 12 seater. Cardinal Hume, various nuns, staff & pupils at the Grahame Park site for proposed new school in centre spread, though, lamentably, photo has been vandalised in personal copy. |
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Post by dem on Sept 6, 2017 17:45:53 GMT
Cantara Christopher [ed.] - Absinthe #1 (San Francisco) Spring 1991  Cathy Buburuz
Claude Palmer - Isis At The Holiday Inn
Holli Brando Quinn - Breathing Lessons
Jacie Ragan - An Invitation To scholars
The Mad Mick - Tales From The Last Resort : Part 1 (serial)
Regular Features
Cantara Christopher - Review: The San Francisco Zine Scene.
Cantara Christopher - Review: The Homo-erotic Plays of Robert Chesley
Poetry
Vattacharia Chandan - In This Decaying Day
D. S. Black - Aftershock Walkup
Ray Schmitz III - Bottle Green
H. J. Cording - The Past
Mark Rich - Do we Know The Drink
James Gawron - Reason For Morning.
Artwork
Cathy Buburuz, Marge Simon Fanzines don't just materialise from thin air, not even those of occult-themed persuasion, but have absolutely no recollection of sending for, receiving, or even setting eyes upon the Absinthe début until yesterday when I extracted it from a folder stuffed with mouldering press clippings while seeking out an ancient Ghosts & Scholars review. Pleased to have done so, too, as slick, easy on the eye and only occasionally over-taxing on the brain, it's an impressive first issue. Claude Palmer - Isis At The Holiday Inn: A predatory chancer blags his way into a young woman's hotel room posing as the photographer she hired from an agency. Amanda claims she can only be filmed at sunrise as there is something about her chemistry that neutralises the developer. "Dick" swiftly calculates that leaves them with five hours to kill and he knows exactly how they are gonna do it, even if she is rapidly ageing before his eyes ... Holli Brando Quinn - Breathing Lessons: A prose poem, not sure I understood it. At the moment of death, the narrator's spirit is accepted into the walls to become one with the house? Jacie Ragan - An Invitation To scholars: Thornton village, near Alder Lake. The Fetch, cowled, cloaked, and something other than mortal, manifest in a church cellar to educate their human disciples. The author is keen for you to join their fellowship. And the pick of the crop, for this reader, at least. The Mad Mick - Tales From The Last Resort: Secundus, born of an advanced alien civilisation with highly developed powers of telepathy, is brought to earth and abandoned in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Evidently he's being punished for some unspecified crime. "You are here either in glory or shame. You can either use use your power for fame, or slink along in anonymity. The choice is yours," snigger the Prime. Secundus meets Rick and Wanda, an ageing hippy swinger couple, who give him some rags and, after he's fixed their clapped out van, a lift to their destination, The Last Resort. "It's this really depressing bar, like out of Kerouac or something, where everyone sits around drinking themselves to death and wishing it was twenty years ago." As the proprietor, B.J. Duckworth - who seems a bit of a boy - is desperate for a trustworthy barman, we have a shrewd idea where this might be heading. We leave Secundus - who has now taken the name "Al" (the couple are fans of Paul Simon's Graceland) - as he dozes in the back beside a very randy Wanda. Shame it ends there as would have liked to have read more of what has the makings of an amusing serial. Editor Cantara's reviews are nothing if not informative; " Murder Can Be Fun ... a grisly compendium of deaths, disasters and other calamities that beleaguer our fragile human race. Issue #8, for example, dealt with the Santa Cruz mass murders, while issue #10 took a loving look at Karen Carpenter's anorexia ..."; The Snopses Go Camping " Not strictly a zine, this episodic novel in series form chronicles the loves and lives of the Snopeses, a white trash family in New Tulsa, California. Elvis sightings, trailer squalor, mall adventures, and tabloid exclusives abound. Recipes included!". Better still her very beautiful tribute to Robert Chesley who died the previous November. "He left behind a legacy of some of the most incisive, witty, poignant and hilarious portraits of the gay community to come out of the 'eighties.... Chesley's arena was the gay community, but he wrote for life and lovers everywhere."
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