In The City #13, 1980

ITC: Is it still such a crime to "ask a lady her age"?

Vi: "Well, I think it's great that you've asked me and if I tell you - well I mean, I can say right now that I'm 43...." Vi stops and thinks: "....Is it 43 or 44?"

Vi Subversa, 1980
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It's high time we had an In The City. I've got a fair few of these to post and I'll do them occasionally. Definitely one of the more attractive fanzines was ITC - the Poison Girls' pages in here are superb looking - some nice use of colour. But it's the written content that really made it - loads of credit to Peter Gilbert and Francis Drake. Given his ubiquity at the time this surprisingly is the first fanzine posted on EE to feature Adam Ant on the cover. Issue #13 also has: LPs - Crass (full page), Augustus Pablo, Creation Rockers Vols. 1-6 (VA), Rebel Music (VA), Punishment of Luxury, Talking Heads, Earcom 2 Comp', Cabaret Voltaire, The Carpettes, Poison Girls, Avon Calling (Bristol Comp), This Heat, The Slits, The Damned; Poetry - review of Annie Anxiety's, Eyes Of The Blind; Letters (incl 1 from Steve Ignorant in response to a query about Crass' advocacy of anarchy); Live - The Adverts/Cowboys International/Cuddly Toys, The Ruts/The Pack; ITC charts + 1 page The Ramones competition results article.

Here's the cover of ITC #1, which I don't have - 50 copies of it were produced in 1977 by a 13 year old Peter Gilbert on the school copier. A rare item.

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In The City #13

Anti-Climax #8, 1981

AC: So you're opposed to the whole aura of the 'rock scene'.

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Jaz: Of course I'm fucking opposed to it. Don't you think it's funny that people like us can be in a studio like this. They hate it, the idea that a grotty little turd like me could get anywhere near what they're doing. I hate the music business. I like the scene that you guys are interested in - small bands.

Jaz Coleman, 1981

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Issue #8 of Anti-Climax has good interviews with UK Decay and Killing Joke + a fairer appraisal of Another Pretty Face + a mention of The Anticx from Haverhill. 7" reviews - Pinpoint, Redbeat, Ski Patrol, Crass + letters. Cracking stuff.

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Anti-Climax #8

Anti-Climax #5, 1980

AC: Hi Jimmy

Jim: Hello

AC: Eh!

.Jim: What do you mean, eh?

'Jimmy Pursestrings', 1980

Issue #5 of Phil and Nidge's Anti-Climax.

Reviews: live - The Adicts/Disco Zombie/Mysterons; LPs - The Damned, Crass, Cherry Red Comp (Rudi, Girlschool, Those Naughty Lumps, Crisis, The Shapes, Newtown Neurotics, AK Process, Second Layer, Glaxo Babies, Llygod Ffyrning, Poison Girls, Piranhas, Spizz Oil, I Jog And The Tracksuits); 7"s - Pulp, 999, Epileptics, Swell Maps, Angelic Upstarts, The Stiffs, Cockney Rejects + letters/charts.

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Anti-Climax #5

COMPETITION TIME

Ok, so I have a spare copy of this fanzine - if you'd like it, have a scan around this post for the hidden mediafire link - first person to make a comment using the password gets the fanzine.

Anonymous comments enabled

UPDATE

Hidden link revealed - to the left of the 2nd Jim.

ZEBRAS

Anti-Climax #6, 1980

KIRSTY (Captain's girlfriend): Are you sick on stage ?

IAN: Of course I'm not sick on stage. What do you think I am, some kind of nutcase.?

Ian Woodcock (Vibrators), 1980

I've got 3 more issues of Anti Climax to upload + a spare #5, which I'll be giving away in a competition type thing. Anti Climax ran to 9 copies between '79-'82 and again, Clash sniping aside, it's a good little runner. Issue #6 also has: The Puritans, The Bleeding Pyles; live - SLF/Another Pretty Face ('boring'? - I saw the Bradford George's Hall leg of this tour and thought APF were excellent - horses/courses...), 999/Pinpoint; LPs - Penetration, The Cockney Rejects, Hybrid Kids Compilation; 7"s - Killing Joke, The Vibrators, The Cure, The Cockney Rejects, Sham 69 + news, letters and readers' chart.

If you've not already spotted it, get yourself along to DaveO's new blog, http://daveo-musicandstuff.blogspot.com/. Kindly making costly and rare items readily available for all to see, gratis, DaveO will be posting Punk fanzines. And hey, please acknowledge that generosity of spirit by offering thanks once in a while for the treats that are dished-up.

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Anti Climax #6

Mental Children #1, 1980

I'm not gonna get paranoid about this fanzine now,

so fuck off!!!

Mental Children Ed., 1980

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Mental Children is a Better Badges production so lots of nice pics again - it makes you wonder; was Rough Trade churning these buggers out as puff pieces for their artists......ooh, the cynic appears. Just kidding, it's a fine little fanzine. Reviews: 7"s - The Slits/The Pop Group, Silicon Teens, The Monochrome Set, Last Words, Cabaret Voltaire, The Mo-dettes; Live - The Ramones (very briefly) + recipes and Klingette the Clown cartoon.

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Mental Children #1

Strangled #8, 1978

WHO PUT THE BENZYDRINE IN MRS. MELLYS OVALTINE?

I'm gonna slap on a Strangled. Partly for the pleasure of seeing it on the blog, but mainly as an excuse to point you here where pdfs of all 9 issues of Strangled volume 1 can be viewed.

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Strangled was the work of Tony Moon and Alan Edwards. Moon is credited with production of Sideburns fanzine (4 issues) - notably, the December '76 issue featured the much copied Playing in the band diagram - can anybody pluck that one out of the ether? Wouldn't it be pleasing to see some online Sideburns......? Anyway, Issue 8 of Strangled has Kaine Kinetics; interviews with David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Hugh Cornwell, JJ Burnel, and George Melly + editorial, bits on cannabis legalisation, video revolution, news, and a HC cartoon.'

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Strangled #8

Grinding Halt #5, 1980

GRINDING HALT

THE KIND OF CRAP THAT TALKS BACK

Ladies & Gentlemen

How do?

Eddie Snide, 1980

This is a real corker of a fanzine - starting in 1979, Eddie Snide and Captain Callous produced 12 issues of Grinding Halt. Issue #5 is jam packed with excellent articles and reviews. Decent pieces on Patrick Fitzgerald and The Members. Reviews: 7"s - Those Naughty Lumps, Cult Figures, Apartment, The Donkeys, VIPs, The Yachts, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Scars, Stiffs; LPs - The Undertones, The Members, UK Subs, The Slits, The Pop Group, Magazine, The Fall, The Cure; Live - Mo-Dettes/Athletico Spizz 80/Tenpole Tudor, A Fast Crowd/Idiot Dancers, General Accident/Johnny & The Moondogs, The Wall, The Cramps/The Fall/Fashion, The Flatbackers/The K9s, Crisis/The Lazers/The Straps, and Wasted Youth. The interviews with Athletico Spizz 80 and Wreckless Eric are particularly smashing.

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Grinding Halt #5

London's Burning #1, 1976

LONDON'S BURNING,

the fanzine by a Clash fan for Clash fans,

has been done because it beats sharpening pencils...

...dial 999 at your own risk.

Jonh Ingham, 1976

A big treat here for Clash fans - Jonh Ingham's stylish London's Burning. It's a very nifty piece indeed with some fantastic collage work. Apart from this wonderful fanzine Ingham is credited with conducting the first Sex Pistols interview (published in Sounds, 24 April '76), writing the Rough Trade Newsletter, and penning many freelance pieces about the emergent Punk scene for papers such as Sounds and NME. Jonh writes on- you can read him in MOJO, the Word, Uncut and other publications.

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London's Burning #1

Chainsaw #3, 1977

I do a mag called Chainsaw,

It's got a lot of class,

If you don't like the mag

you can stuff it up your arse!

Charlie Chainsaw, 1977

One of the early classics here - Chainsaw was produced in Croydon by Charlie Chainsaw between 1977-1984, running to 14 issues. Assisting were: Kid Charlemagne (Hugh David); cartoonists Michael J. Weller and Willie D (Andrew Marr - yes, that Andrew Marr). This issue is pre missing 'N' type key. Also includes: Charlie and the Kid ranting about the Damned and Stranglers respectively; half page The Soft Boys plug; live reviews - 999, London/The Swords/The Victims; vinyl reviews - The Boys, and Stranglers. 11 pages slim - but essential!

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Chainsaw #3

Jamming #7, 1979

If you ever become established , have you any ambitions to go onto something more complicated?

SID: No, I don't think anybody can get above their own station in life.

(Viv): Just keep it down to basics.

SID: Yeah, if I ever got the urge to do something like that, I'd consider myself a total cunt, and I'd blow my brains out.

Sid Vicious/Viv Albertine, 1976

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Tony Fletcher's Jamming was an utterly superb fanzine. I'm not gonna risk attempting to do a chronological posting of the full run, though I will be sneaking the occasional copy onto the blog. Issue #7 also includes the Jamming Charts, an excellent fanzine roundup, 7" reviews - The Jam, Patrick Fitzgerald, Swell Maps, Shrink, Doll By Doll, Wasps, Straight Eight, Homosexuals, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Dr. Alimantado, 12" reviews - Sex Pistols, ATV, The Stranglers, Skids, Tom Robinson Band and Stiff Little Fingers. Live reviews of The Raincoats/Scritti Politti, The Cure. Reprised interview with Sid Vicious + a charming little letter from The Rezillos' Faye Fife.

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Ogle Jamming covers

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Jamming #7

Terminal Boredom #4, 1984

COAL NOT DOLE

It's more than a fight for jobs and cash now. It's a fight for freedom and basic human rights-we must support them + smash Thatcher.

FIGHT BACK-NEVER GIVE IN!

Stringy, 1984

Ok, so I'm gonna relent - sneakily though - this will be a triple posting - but since Terminal Boredom issues 6/7 were published in 1985 they'll be tacked on at the end with no banner. I'm making this (first) exception because the 2 issues describe/review events from 1984 and contain an exceptional 2 part Crass interview. Issue #4 includes a KUKL review. Live reviews: Nostell Priory Festival featuring The Damned/Chelsea/Dr. & The Medics; Conflict of Nations/Freestate; Disrupters; the Aderdare Colliseum Miners Benefit featuring Crass [last gig]/Flux of Pink Indians/Annie Anxiety. Lots of 'News' [Antisect, Hagar the Womb, The Sears, No Defences, Decadent Few] + an epitaph for Panorama in Black. The original quirky sequencing of the interviews with Subhumans and Iconoclasts are retained in the pdf.

Terminal Boredom #6, 1985

Record/tape reviews: Anti Nowhere League, Lunatic Fringe, The Stranglers, Hit Parade, Daffodils and Daisies compilation tape, Crass Live At Birmingham, Avoid. The plug for Bane Tapes mentions Still Life in Action, The Fringe, The Without, Freestate, Mysterie Boys, Raw Niose, Anihilated, Panorama in Black, Bane, Stupids, Beethoven on Saturday, And Stoic Makes, Blowers, Third Stone, Fire Sermon, 777-I. Review of the Manchester Hawkon Hawkfan extravaganza + lots of 'News' and stuff.

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Terminal Boredom #7, 1985

Record/tape reviews: Cleanse the Bacterium - Various Artists, Alternative, Penny Rimbaud/Eve Libertine. Live reviews: Wretched/Disorder/Rancid/Dirge/Skum Dribblers; Conclict/Icons of Filth/Instigators; Hawkwind + lots of 'News' etc.

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Terminal Boredom #4