Sunday, November 7, 2010

Issue 13

Playing with the beast that is inde music PR sees me interview myself and give an old skool account of how to promote your band. Autumn 2003.

Issue 12

Possibly got a bit too comfortable with the idea of writing inane stream-of-consciousness with this one... yeah... dunno...
January 2003.

Issue 11

I decided to write about DJing by becoming a DJ. Read about the misadventures of my alter-egos: DJ Good Music and DJ $1 Record. December 2002.

Issue 10

Having noticed the proliferation of lifestyle magazines about I had a go at my own with the requisite picture of a steaming hot babe on the front. A bit of fashion, a bit of food, a bit of music, a bit of film, a bit international, a lot insipid. A noice pisstake of the genre (or lack of genre). November 2002.

Issue 9

By this stage my zine was well into its life as a Masters of Fine Arts project. Then, during critique, a lecturer asked, "Where's the art?" and I lost it. Where's the art does not mean, "This isn't art!" apparently, but I did not know that. So this issue became an ego-limping survey of a bunch of crap ideas. I lost my zine mojo, and wrote about it. October 2002. 

Issue 8

The second exquisite corpse issue responds to the comic strip. Each of the six comic strips within starts with the same frame then departs wildly as a cast of thousands draw and write respondent frames. Only the frame immediately previous was seen by any contributor, meaning the narratives career all over. It's surreal! September 2002.