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  • From: Cazz Blase <cazz.blase AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] 3. Re: Callout for female fanzine UK fanzine writers, 1975-1984 (viv acious)
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 21:56:41 +0000

Hi Viv,

I've just had a look and the British Library have Alternative Sounds, at least one issue of, from 1979, so I might check it out as it's not one I've checked out before. It may or may not be the one with your Chrissie Hynde photo in. 

Did you contribute to other fanzines?

My favourite one of the fanzines they have at the British Library is one called Monkey Business, which was from Carlisle and has a picture of two toddlers urinating on the cover. It appeared to be written by three fairly young teenagers who mainly wrote about their local scene. The interviews with local bands are hilarious.

Cazz


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   1. Re: Callout for female fanzine UK fanzinewriters, 1975-1984
      (Stewart Osborne)
   2. Re: Callout for female fanzine UK fanzinewriters, 1975-1984
      (Helen McCookerybook)
   3. Re: Callout for female fanzine UK fanzine writers,        1975-1984
      (viv acious)
   4. Re: Callout for female fanzine UK fanzine writers,        1975-1984
      (Joly MacFie)


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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:39:50 +0000
From: Stewart Osborne <stewart_osborne AT btinternet.com>
To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Callout for female fanzine UK
        fanzinewriters, 1975-1984
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Joly wrote:

"At Better Badges I printed a whole bunch of fanzines between 79-82 and I
don't think a single one of one of them was female authored?! I never
really thought about it til now".

I co-authored one of the 'zines that Joly printed (Grinding Halt), and likewise I'd never really thought about it before, but I don't remember ever encountering any female 'zine writers.

The closest thing I can think of is that there were a couple of girls from Didcot, who we frequently used to meet on the train to and from Paddington, from and to Reading, on our way to gigs, who used to run the official Stiff Little Fingers fan club and I *think* produced 1 or more issues of a fanclub-only 'zine of sorts, because I *think* they asked us if they could reproduce one or more of our reviews of / interviews with SLF in it (which we were delighted to agree to, of course).

Their names were Sarah and Jane (I just had to dig out my cooy of Nobody's Heroes and check the inner sleeve to refresh my ailing memory), but, again, good luck finding them - I made a few enquiries through various online SLF forums a few weeks ago, and nobody else seemed to remember them at all.

Stewart (formerly Eddie Snide)


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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:17:45 +0000
From: Helen McCookerybook <helen_mccookerybook AT yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Callout for female fanzine UK
        fanzinewriters, 1975-1984
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I used to make comics- Joly printed at least one of them, Brenda.
H MCc

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> On 27 Feb 2016, at 09:39, Stewart Osborne <stewart_osborne AT btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Joly wrote:
>
> "At Better Badges I printed a whole bunch of fanzines between 79-82 and I
> don't think a single one of one of them was female authored?! I never
> really thought about it til now".
>
> I co-authored one of the 'zines that Joly printed (Grinding Halt), and likewise I'd never really thought about it before, but I don't remember ever encountering any female 'zine writers.
>
> The closest thing I can think of is that there were a couple of girls from Didcot, who we frequently used to meet on the train to and from Paddington, from and to Reading, on our way to gigs, who used to run the official Stiff Little Fingers fan club and I *think* produced 1 or more issues of a fanclub-only 'zine of sorts, because I *think* they asked us if they could reproduce one or more of our reviews of / interviews with SLF in it (which we were delighted to agree to, of course).
>
> Their names were Sarah and Jane (I just had to dig out my cooy of Nobody's Heroes and check the inner sleeve to refresh my ailing memory), but, again, good luck finding them - I made a few enquiries through various online SLF forums a few weeks ago, and nobody else seemed to remember them at all.
>
> Stewart (formerly Eddie Snide)
>
>
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:26:59 +0000
From: viv acious <aciousviv AT gmail.com>
To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa
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Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Callout for female fanzine UK fanzine
        writers,        1975-1984
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hi,
there was a fanzine in Coventry called 'Alternative Sounds' can't remember
the name of the bloke who ran it, but he did publish a photo I took of
Chrissie Hynde on stage in 1979. i've got the photo but not the mag.
regards,
viv acious (ms)

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Cazz Blase <cazz.blase AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm very new to this list, so I should probably introduce myself.
>
> My name is Cazz Blase, I wrote a five part series on women and UK punk for
> the F-Word website (www.thefword.org.uk) between 2010 and 2011. I'm in
> the process of turning the series into a book, and for that, I need more
> interviewees.
>
> Because I'm interested in how women contributed to the growing mythology
> of punk, I'm interested in speaking to female fanzine writers who were
> writing punk fanzines in the UK at anytime between 1975 and 1984.
>
> I've tracked a few people down, and I realise it's likely to be a very
> small group of people to draw from in any case, but...
>
> I would be very interested in tracking down Crystal and Sarah who did More
> On and Sharon Spike who did Apathy in Ilford.
>
> If anyone happens to have a lead on how I might track them down, I'd be
> very, very grateful indeed.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Cazz
>
> --
> Cazz Blase
> Writer and journalist
> http://cazzblase.blogspot.co.uk/
> http://toolateforcake.wordpress.com
> cazz.blase AT gmail.com
>
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 00:09:44 -0500
From: Joly MacFie <joly AT punkcast.com>
To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa
        1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Callout for female fanzine UK fanzine
        writers,        1975-1984
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?Here in NYC things are a little different.

There were a bunch of girls doing a zine in 1980. One of them Gabby, came
to work for me at Better Badges.
She later played guitar for Luscious Jackson. I don
?'
t have a contact but I see her around occasionally. ?

?Then there was Nancy Breslow, who did Short Newz?. She also came to London
and worked at BB, became our east coast rep.

More recently, Wendy, Guillotine. http://www.guillotinezine.com/about-us/

But I'm still drawing a blank on UK efforts, beyond Gee and International
Anthem - not a fanzine per se.

j




On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:26 AM, viv acious <aciousviv AT gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
> there was a fanzine in Coventry called 'Alternative Sounds' can't remember
> the name of the bloke who ran it, but he did publish a photo I took of
> Chrissie Hynde on stage in 1979. i've got the photo but not the mag.
> regards,
> viv acious (ms)
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Cazz Blase <cazz.blase AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm very new to this list, so I should probably introduce myself.
>>
>> My name is Cazz Blase, I wrote a five part series on women and UK punk
>> for the F-Word website (www.thefword.org.uk) between 2010 and 2011. I'm
>> in the process of turning the series into a book, and for that, I need more
>> interviewees.
>>
>> Because I'm interested in how women contributed to the growing mythology
>> of punk, I'm interested in speaking to female fanzine writers who were
>> writing punk fanzines in the UK at anytime between 1975 and 1984.
>>
>> I've tracked a few people down, and I realise it's likely to be a very
>> small group of people to draw from in any case, but...
>>
>> I would be very interested in tracking down Crystal and Sarah who did
>> More On and Sharon Spike who did Apathy in Ilford.
>>
>> If anyone happens to have a lead on how I might track them down, I'd be
>> very, very grateful indeed.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Cazz
>>
>> --
>> Cazz Blase
>> Writer and journalist
>> http://cazzblase.blogspot.co.uk/
>> http://toolateforcake.wordpress.com
>> cazz.blase AT gmail.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TypicalGirls mailing list
>> TypicalGirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/typicalgirls
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>


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