Category: Thursday Blog
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We’ve discussed this before… It was inevitable that with the age and profile of fanzines and their editors that certain games and activities should receive more than a few mentions, part of growing up and a great way of filling…
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I’m dedicating this blog to all the fantastic people at Leeds central library without whom none of this madness would have started and to Antony Ramm in particular who has been asking me to write a blog about fanzine poetry…
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Jim Ratcliffe, a tax dodger living in Monaco who doesn’t speak the language, is the latest in a long line of people in high profile roles who have outed themselves in the most horrific manner with their utter, hateful bile.…
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I’ve been driving up and down motorways recently, something that is wearing to say the least. On my travels I thought about the many articles in fanzines about the “joy” of travel as a football supporter. So, this week we’ll…
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If there are any members of the Office for National Statistics watching I apologise for what is to come, although based on the criticism politicians have been doling out, maybe you can pick up some tips here lads. In 2020…
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Mike Amos edited the fantastic fanzine Northern Ventures, Northern Gains for 27 years chronicling dog raffles, Kevin Keegan eating pie and peas, the death of a spongeman and 80p burgers the size of a tea plate in the Northern league.…
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There aren’t many football clubs in the UK that date back over 150 years, only around 17 in total I believe (someone will correct you- Ed). There are 8 in the top 4 leagues of English football – Notts County…
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Art is famously very subjective; “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power” So it was…
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I saw an advert for the current tour of “Dave Hill’s Slade” the other day (yes, they play it and yes, they stop and the crowd sings it for them..) anyway, this made me think of the way fanzines marked…
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Quite incredibly, since I published a list of all fanzines still in print a couple of weeks ago two (2) NEW fanzines have been in touch, Oldham’s BTBPAS or Beyond The Boundary (Park Alert System) and Sheffield Wednesday’s Everywhere and…
