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invoicing for Woofah / lots of scanning / dump stuff in charity shop / water newly planted (not by me) vegetables / listen to the new blogariddims podcast / get technics deck fixed / transcribe an interview tape / review Downpressor’s record he sent me ages ago / purchase mixtapes by Jammer, Tinchy Stryder and the new Ruff Sqwad 12″ on no hats no hoods oh and a copy of ‘Smell of Female’ by The Cramps / finish reading Jason Toynbee’s slightly too academic Bob Marley: Herald of the Postcolonial World / answer all my emails, texts, private messages / watch Barbarian Queen featuring Lana Clarkson / start on sleevenotes for next blogariddims with Paul Meme / get to these:

Awesome fanzine seeks bass-head designers for mutual layout fun

Can you help?

Woofah is an independently produced magazine covering reggae, grime, dubstep and all points in between.

We have just published our 2nd issue featuring Durrty Goodz, Tippa Irie, Iration Steppas, Scuba, grime and policing and a whole lot more - see website for details: http://www.woofahmag.com

We are looking for people to join our team and help with the design for future issues.

If you:

• Are into the idea and look of the magazine
• Have some experience of design but would like more
• Know their way around Quark and can work with templates
• Are passionate about the music we cover and want to help promote it
• Are willing to work to an agreed deadline

then, please get in touch!

If you have any examples of your work to show us, send some links or samples.

Nobody gets paid to produce Woofah, but working on the mag will get your work published and help get the word out about the artists and their music. Everyone who contributes receives a full credit in the magazine and on our website.

We are hoping to get a few designers on board to work on a spread each (2-5 pages) so that the magazine continues to look wicked.

All enquiries to info at woofahmag dot com or via the myspace

John Eden and Paul Meme / woofah

Most of last week was spent putting Woofahs in envelopes, getting it into shops and telling people about how great it is. Which was and is, a good laff. Here’s a quick run down of some other stuff tho:

Paul Meme has an album coming out! And some other stuff I don’t know if I can tell you about yet! He’s been played by Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio one and Blackdown and Dusk on Rinse FM. It’s all sounding very good indeed.

Paul is interviewed about the project in Tom Lea’s new column in Fact Magazine, which includes a free downloadable grime mix from DJ Magic of Dirty Canvas fame.

Melissa Bradshaw now has a blog called Decks and the City, which you should all check, not least so you can see the context to the phrase “I was totally even more bewildered than Coki with the tits girl.”

Heatwave’s outstanding An England Story set has been getting some great reviews including a full pager in the Guardian guide at the weekend. They have a 12″ out on Soul Jazz also and more to follow. Their Roots Reality and Culture mix for Blogariddims has stopped me going postal in the post office on more than one occasion. This is just some of the news posted on their blog, which you need to check out on the regular.

Other stuff I’ve been checking includes:

Trim - Soulfood 3 mixtape
Riko - The Truth mixtape
David Rodigan presents Real Authentic Reggae Music comp (BBE)
Eek A Mouse - Most Wanted (Greensleeves)
Triston Palmer - Joker Smoker (Greensleeves)
Zareb - The Cake Must Slice (Greensleeves)
v/a - This is Lovers Rock (Greensleeves)

all of which comes highly recommended. Oh and some material for a blogariddims mix me and Paul are working on.

I’m sure I’ve missed a load of stuff out, it’s hectic times.

Roll up roll up come and get yer Woofahs, fresh of the press!

Think they look great? They feel even better when you hold one in your hands - believe!

Available NOW from woofahmag.com

Available SOON from our recommended worldwide stockists (see website for details).

More pages, more colour, more great writing!

More contributors, more pages, same absurdly high quality content!

Available from www.woofahmag.com soon soon soon and from a host of distributors who will be linked from the site also.

2008, woah.

I’m really glad January is over - I kicked off the year by smashing up my Dad’s car and that set the tone, really.

But everything on the horizon suggests that BIG THINGS are going to happen this year:

• Woofah 2 is almost ready to go the printers.
• Woofah 3 is getting filled up pretty damn quick.
• Paul Meme’s Grievous Angel project got played by Blackdown on Rinse FM, and has an album coming out soon.
• Heatwave’s England Story mix is getting released on Soul Jazz as a double CD and two chunks of double vinyl. And so is their single with Warrior Queen
• Kevin Martin should be releasing not one, but two albums this year - one as The Bug, and one as King Midas Sound.
• Benga and Coki’s Night video features a mentalist squid, rekindling the colossal squid furore of yesteryear.
• That’s just the stuff I can tell you about right now.

http://www.uncarved.org/shop/

Back up with the last few copies of Woofah, plus Datacide, Stewart Home, Osama, psychogeography and more.

Lots of stuff still to add.

Please let me know if it’s running slow or you have any problems… apologies but if you registered before you will have to reregister now.

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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…

http://www.woofahmag.com

We want to make issue 2 even better…