Tag: Music
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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