John Eden: BM Box 3641, London, WC1N 3XX, England UK
Archive for the ‘books/zines’ Category.
New stuff including a lot of one-off used books and zines.
Dub Poets!
Rastas!
Mental Patient Revolutionaries!
CCRU!
Pulp fiction!
Datacide magazine!
Even some copies of rare-as-hens-teeth Woofah issue 1!
A really impressive and fascinating look at representations of blackness in american popular culture through the decades. Check it!
…was a beacon of colour in the monochrome early 80s dominated by misery merchants Crass and TG. A zine I never saw at the time, but had read about in passing on a few occasions. I retold what I knew during a talk on magick and anarchism about ten years ago, which surprised ex-puppy Alistair Livingstone who was in the audience.
We corresponded on and off and he very graciously provided me with a couple of back copies. It was great stuff - uncompromising writing from uncompromising times - drugs, sex, magick, squats, music, politics, you name it. Most importantly, KYPP showed that the eighties couldn’t be divided up into subcultures (punk, crass, industrial, goth, skinheads, etc) so easily - there were strange mutant combinations, and other forces at work.
Al took up this theme at length in his excellent Greengalloway blog, which then became a bit of a pole of regroupment for old lags. As we stand possibly on the brink of an economic crisis every bit as ferocious as 30 years ago, it’s a good time for reflection.
The KYPP site is as ramshackle as the mag was, with a bewildering number of sections, contributors, subsites and spin offs. What is great is the sheer amount of knowledge and perspective about how the 80s counterculture operated, with some nods to how this may be relevant today.
And of course new maps - how did the punks join up with the hippies to form the convoy? Did you know that Colin Faver went from working at punk indie label Small Wonder to DJing techno on Kiss FM?
What is also great is the vast quantity of digitised music from the era which is up there for download. Loads of obscure (post)punk seven inches, whole albums by The Apostles, Adam and the Antz live sets, interviews with early Psychic TV, it’s all there.
All those luxury flats which have sprung up and are now empty - soon to be picturesque ruins? When the right time comes it will be dread for sure, but maybe we can use those ruins for our own purposes again soon.
Back up with the last few copies of Woofah, plus Datacide, Stewart Home, Osama, psychogeography and more.
Lots of stuff still to add.
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A little interview with me about Woofah, plus some news on Blastoze, a new dubstep-only zine outta Belgium.
Incidentally, Woofah issue 2 is shaping up very nicely, and work has also begun on 3…
Sukhdev Sandhu on the shadowy world of the modern fanzine.
Including nice write ups on Woofah and my fellow Hackney zinesters The Eel and Savage Messiah.
Woofah issue 1 is now completely sold out, by the way… 
ok ok, I know I’ve gone on about this a lot recently, but the response to the first issue has far exceeded my expectations. Feedback has been great and we’ve got 90% of the print run out there in less than a month.
Our ideas really were “already in everyone’s heads” this time!
Thanks to everyone who bought or blagged a copy, who told us what they thought and who offered to contribute to future issues.
Issue 1 is still available (but maybe not for long?) direct from the website and now also from a load of shops and other distributors. It feels really good to have something I’ve worked on stocked by all those great places I have bought tunes from in the past…
We want to make issue 2 even better…
Last week was a bit mad, so sorry for a lack of posts.
Woofah has really taken off, with a bucketload being ordered direct from the website and some really good responses from shops and distributors. (There is a full up to date list of stockists on the site).
Woofah readers stretch from a few doors down from my flat, to Estonia, to Japan, to America, to Australia.
People who have seen the mag have loved it - we’ve put a nice page of comments up on the site as well. Lots of cool people have offered to contribute and we’re in the process of putting together issues 2 (and 3) at the moment.
All this has meant that other things have taken a back burner so apologies if you’ve emailed me and I’ve not got back to you.
If you want something great to read, buy the magazine while stocks last.
Order via paypal through: http://www.woofahmag.com
Distributors/shops to follow (get in touch!)
Hold tight interviewees and contributors - you should receive your copies soon
Our ‘zine is at the printers, and may even be printed by the time you read this.
While you wait for it to become officially available, why not have a look at the rather nice Woofah website?
Alternatively, you might want to check out this slightly abitrary account of the project’s origins.
Woofah #1 - coming very soon.
