Tag: Music

  • 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…

    Brian Clough Sings
  • 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…

    Ads Infinitum; More Adverts In Fanzines
  • Though it is true that fanzines were almost always critical and satirical in nature and a ground ban was never far away, clubs generally used to get along with both zines and the local rag, their existence a mutual benefit…

    Fanzines, Newspapers and Publicity.
  • Yesterday of all days, the anniversary of Hillsborough news came through that Sheffield Wednesday are to be docked 15 points at the start of next season because the people buying the club aren’t offering to pay enough money to the…

    Meet The Editor; Peter Holmes, Everywhere and Nowhere.
  • We’ve covered this before and we will again because fandom and fanzines cover and covered every little bit of minutiae, every corner of watching football with such aplomb and creativity that there are acres of this “stuff”. So, strap yourself…

    I Tried to Sign Platini; More Great Features in Fanzines
  • Today’s #FanzineoftheDay comes from the footballing outpost that was Scarborough FC, issue 5 of The Scarborough Warning appeared in May 1991 (we think, there is no date anywhere). The mighty fine cover mimics the club crest with a much better…

    FOTD; Scarborough, The Scarborough Warning
  • In honour of today’s Tyne-Wear derby we take a trip back to October 1989 and issue 4 of the venerable old gentleman that still is A Love Supreme from Sunderland..though it was actually based in Newcastle back then. Tremendous cover,…

    FOTD; A Love Supreme, Sunderland
  • We move to the flatlands of East Anglia for today’s #FanzineoftheDay with issue 81 of Those Were the Days or TWTD.co.uk as the cover displays along with the date, March 2006 an the price £1.50…a curators dream. Bit miffed at…

    FOTD; Those Were The Days, Ipswich Town
  • It’s all about fandom nowadays, fandom this, fandom that but what does that word mean? It’s has only really come into common use in the past 20 years. As a noun it’s definition is “the state or condition of being…

    Fandom and Fanzines
  • This edition of “Editor” is a bit different as I’ve not actually been in touch with the editor, it’s just fallen in my lap so to speak. I recently bought a copy of issue 50 of superlative Cambridge United fanzine…

    Meet The Editor; Nigel Pearce, The Abbey Rabbit