Tag: scotland
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We have a plethora of floodlights for #Floodlight Friday this week from one of the all time great fanznes, The Absolute Game with its legendary numbering scheme; issue 2nd Round 1st leg appearing to cover August and September of 1989.…
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It is time for another thought / writing exercise that proves little except that fanzines are packed full of social history, excellent writing, mysterious bodies and stories, excellent design and that we need more print not less…so quite a bit…
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Not The View is a great fanzine name, a pun but a clear and concise one, instantly recognisable to fans as it is clearly not the official Celtic mouthpiece of the time, The View. Issue 23 appeared in October 1990…
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This weeks fanzine is another that called itself a magazine but it’s content, being printed independently and focussing on Scottish Junior football it’s hard not to consider it a niche, devoted fanzine entity. We join The Game at issue 4…
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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…
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is another belter from Scottish Junior football, issue 2 of Fulton, One-nil from Newlands / Glasgow giants Pollok FC. Produced in 1990 with the classic A5 photocopied format and 2 staples (They would revert to one for later…
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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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Todays fanzine of the day is issue 20 of Heart’s fanzine Always The Bridesmaid from September 1996. The name of course refers to Hearts long run of Hampden heartbreaks which has continued up to the current day with a 2025…
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An interview with the CEO of Google appeared on the BBC this week, interesting only for the fact that one tech’ company is finally coming clean on what utter rot AI is when you are searching for facts or even…
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We have many historic Meet the Editor interviews lined up but I recently came across an almost new print fanzine in Scotland when editor David Martin got in touch and started to tell me the fantastic story of Allez Les…
