Sunday, 28 February 2010

Cobalt Hate #1, 1979


"SO YOU GOT IT DID YOU? WELL DON'T EXPECT NOTHING GREAT 'COS I AINT GOT MANY POSITIVE IDEAS,
and i carn't type 8 cept with 1 finger and that s slow! anycase, i'm gonna try and let you know what you wanna HEAR.,.,."
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Brilliantly chaotic one here for a kick-off. A big favourite. Sharp, succinct and witty stuff from Welwyn. Bits on Crass, Poison Girls, Rondos, Epileptics, Rubella Ballet; sniping at the Clash and a withering review of UK Decay/Pneumania. Still, UK Decay proved magnaminous enough, hosting as they did, in December 1979, a Cobalt Hate benefit gig featuring themselves, Crass and Poison Girls. For more see here.
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This blog seeks to compliment the 2 superb existing archives:



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Two new zine-related blogs on the same day! This is fucking awesome!

Thanks for sharing and good luck with the blog. I'll be checking back for updates!!

Slobodan Burgher said...

great stuff!

Nat King Dole said...

Nice one! It is extraordinary us both getting these blogs started on the same day, six months after the place shut. Shame all the zines there couldn't be scanned but at least we got a bunch of 'em.

 Allied Propaganda Issue 2, July/August 1979 Any fanzine is worth checking out if you can spare the time or money, if only for the principle...