Tag: Music
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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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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…
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Creativity comes from all sorts of people and places. A man once said “We wanted to make it funny and it was a despondent time and we wanted to take the piss. We didn’t want to sit there and be…
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“These autonomous publications used for staging, communication and the construction of collective identities…they meant self-empowerment, the overcoming of isolation and the constitution of a social and cultural community.” Football fanzines writ large…except that quote is from a rather weighty academic…
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When people ask me what my favourite fanzine is it’s impossible to answer, there are just so many to choose from BUT I always recommend people look at lower league fanzines in general because they were often the best in…
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We’ve mentioned the rich history of people starting out in fanzines before moving on to “bigger” things. The A side of this 7” blog covers a largely unknown fanzine that was followed by an extraordinary roller coaster of a ride…
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Side 4 of our gatefold magnum opus. More puns, ‘taches and mullets, the list has grown to. 104 songs and is now 6 hours 34 minutes long but I’ve left “Freed from Desire Out” because I hate it with a…
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The one where we add a few songs linked to terrace culture and found a link between one of the best-known artists of the past 25 years and a fanzine. Now 102 songs and 6 hours 29 minutes long the…
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Side 2 of our 4-sided gatefold sleeved LP, this blog documents more links between football fanzines and music from the complete list of fanzines created during research for the Voice of the Fans exhibition on fanzine culture at Leeds Central…
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As part of the discussions about the Leeds Central Library exhibition on football fanzines and culture I started thinking about how many fanzines there had been. I assumed that this would be an easy task and was sure a list…
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