Tag: self-publish
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Today’s #FanzineoftheDay is issue 12 of On Cloud Seven a Hull fanzine from September 1991. Hull are newly relegated to the 3rd Division (League one) in their 88th season. The brilliant name stems from manager Colin Appleton’s idiomatic faux pas…
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If there are any members of the Office for National Statistics watching I apologise for what is to come, although based on the criticism politicians have been doling out, maybe you can pick up some tips here lads. In 2020…
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Mike Amos edited the fantastic fanzine Northern Ventures, Northern Gains for 27 years chronicling dog raffles, Kevin Keegan eating pie and peas, the death of a spongeman and 80p burgers the size of a tea plate in the Northern league.…
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There aren’t many football clubs in the UK that date back over 150 years, only around 17 in total I believe (someone will correct you- Ed). There are 8 in the top 4 leagues of English football – Notts County…
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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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I saw an advert for the current tour of “Dave Hill’s Slade” the other day (yes, they play it and yes, they stop and the crowd sings it for them..) anyway, this made me think of the way fanzines marked…
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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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I’ve wondered a few times if I could get a magazine sized piece (about 2000 words) from researching and writing about a “randomly” chosen fanzine so let’s find out, shall we? For an added bonus there will be Chesterfield FC…
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I was out for a few celebratory drinks with a bunch of librarians the other week …This is not the start of a Bob Monkhouse monologue, it’s true as we celebrated winning the Sporting Heritage award for volunteer team of…
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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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