Tag: culture
-
This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes from issue 34 of Watford classic Clap Your Hands Stamp Your Feet! with some of the most grainy, awful and some might say spurious photos we’ve published so far. The cover displays keeper Steve Cherry…
-
A Venn diagram of people who created fanzines and music lovers would be more or less a circle. Less likely to be a circle is the Venn diagram of music lovers and people who heard Brian Clough sing. Anyway, there…
-
Today’s fanzine of the day is in honour of PL champions Arsenal and comes to you from late summer 1991 with Arsenal having won the Football League under George ‘1-0’ Graham. An Imperfect Match is also an imperfect fanzine as…
-
This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes to you from Volume 19 Issue 27 of The Football Traveller. £1.25 covering Thursday 2nd March to Friday 10th March 2006. I worked out the year only by looking up the quarter final fixtures for…
-
This week’s blog comes to you with thanks to the author Billy Morris (@Yorkshire_Tales) for the inspiration. He recently posted this extraordinary page from a newspaper way back in the 1970s commenting “Looks like this artist ran out of time…
-
“No it’s not the programme, you stupid sod”…I’ve been meaning to get around to one of these for a while but the problem is always the truly daunting amount of material from each and every issue that could be included…
-
This week’s #FloodlightFriday escapade comes to you from Not The 8502, the classic AFC Bournemouth (sic) fanzine. Issue 30 covers March and April of 1993 with the team about to finish 17th in the 2nd (3rd) division, a young chap…
-
Adverts popped up in fanzines as a way of promoting friends, cutting losses, supporting local businesses or just making a joke. So, this week we return to the wacky world of ads with a nod to the superb Victor Lewis…
-
Issue 13 of what some say was the benchmark St Johnstone fanzine, Wendy Who? appeared in all its 50p glory in February of 1992. The cover joke a reference to a subject that would take up quite a few pages…
-
Before we get to the #FloodlightFriday bit I need to clear up the obvious confusion here. This fanzine was “better” known as ‘The Keeper Looks Like Elvis‘ but by issue 12 in December 1996 they changed the name (temporarily I…
