This is the ultimate book on fanzines an amateur magazine produced by fans, for fans of a certain subculture. Sniffin glue was the most vital and cutting edge punk fanzine of its time. Now the original sniffin glue team returns with a retrospective of the punk era, featuring hundreds of original photos and original text. Its uk punks 40th anniversary year sort of and among the work being celebrated is sniffin glue, the. It reported the moment immediately as it happened, from an. Sniffin glue incorporated and instigated the diy style associated with the punk movement and fanzines, influencing many future fanzines, while using traditional press reporting techniques undercut with subversive humor. The essential punk accessory again, i recommend scoring a copy of that book while you can its got the full bloody run in it. This article recovers and contextualizes the politics of british punk fanzines produced in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Fanzines can be seen as enabling a users view and sometimes a radical reinterpretation or defence of popular cultural forms. And mike mcgonigal recalls seeing an issue of sniffin glue in a glass case for several thousand dollars, in this ridiculous ephemeraartbook shop on the upper east side of new york. The essential punk accessory takes you back to the days of attitude, spit and projectile pint glasses. Sniffin glue by mark perry overdrive rakuten overdrive. An excellent document of a time longgone, sniffin glue. Its uk punks 40th anniversary year sort of and among the work being celebrated is sniffin glue, the photocopied publication that.
Sniffin glue the bible dempsey mark perry collected punk fanzine zine 1978. Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind and the politics within the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of british punk from 1976. By issue four, we were talking about taking over the music business. See more ideas about zine, post punk and punk poster. Triggs, for punk fanzine pioneer mark perry, punk was already coopted by music industry in 1977 year of release of sex pistols first album, never mind the bollocks, heres the sex pistols, when he stopped publishing sniffin glue with number 12 triggs 2006.
Jon and charles did a sterling job with this fanzine the scritti politti and the raincoats interviews are excellent and i advise downloading the pdf for those alone. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sniffin glue. Go out and start your own fanzines wrote mark perry in his own fanzine sniffin glue1 published in november 1976. Because perry used everyday tools that were immediately to hand, sniffin glue fit with the doityourself ethos which was already an important part of punk culture. Some of the images i have posted are from reproductions with highly pixilated resolution. Your use of the jstor archive indicates your acceptance of the terms. He took the title from a ramones song now i wanna sniff some glue. One of the most popular of which was sniffing glue by mark perry. In england fanzines like sniffin glue or when saturday comes have proliferated over the last fifteen years or so, dealing especially with rock and pop music and also, most recently, with football.
Sniffin glue is the name of a monthly punk zine started by mark perry in july 1976 and released for about a year. It featured all the key artists of the time from the ramones and the sex pistols to blondie. Alternative tv were an influential british punk band formed in london in 1976. And other rocknroll habits was inspired by the ramones london gig and song now i wanna sniff some glue a verse that is reprinted in issue 1 1976. Culture music features fanzines the scene that smells of zine spirit it should have died out with flexi discs and vhs, but now a new generation is embracing the diy world of the fanzine. Sniffin glue 12 1977 correspondents here have noted how prolific some of the fanzine writers were on the ball and what not sniffin glue is the classic example spanning july 76sept 77 15 issues, 112 see editorial in this issue for details of the peculiar numbering sniffin glue was a monthly record of the emergent scene mark. Taken from the title of a ramones song now i wanna sniff some glue, perrys fanzine was the perfect punk form. Issue four of this short lived fanzine, founded by mark jay and initially taking inspiration from sniffin glue. Punk and new music fanzines late 1970s to early 1980s i do not own copies of most of the fanzines depicted on this page. I do not own copies of most of the fanzines depicted on this page. According to jay, the zine was started to interview the lash, but when they didnt show up.
The back page is missing from my copy so ive tacked on scans from sniffin glue. Army, the commander of troops, in escorting visiting egyptian president hosni mubarak right as he inspects the joint services honor guard during a march 30, 2000, ceremony welcoming him to the pentagon. Danny baker, who wrote for the original fanzine over four decades ago, provides a fulllength interview on its impact. The period between sniffin glue s appearance in july 1976 and its final issue in augustseptember 1977 marked the emergence of punk as a recognizable musical form and youth culture. As the founding editor of the pioneering sniffin glue fanzine, mark perry gained attention in the british punk scene. The evolution of an anarchopunk narrative 197884 rebecca binns and russ bestley first wave punk fanzines from its inception, punk culture as articulated through its fanzines was antielitist. Sniffin glue 197677, mark perrys iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of many, paving the way for hundreds of homemade magazines to be cut and pasted in bedrooms across the uk. Ripped, torn and cut pop, politics and punk fanzines. Go out and start your own fanzines flood the market with punk writing. A small but potent archive of full pdf scans of late uk anarcho feminist punk zines is up now at essential ephemera digital graphics. Download the complete archive of oz, the most controversial magazine of the. And other rock n roll habits kindle edition by perry, mark, baker, danny. How we made punk fanzine sniffin glue punk the guardian. Sniffin glue download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
The second fanzine revolution came about with the punk rock explosion in the seventies, spearheaded by punk in the states and quickly followed by sniffin glue in britain the cut and paste style and diy ethic of the fanzine lent itself an introduction to the public studio. In existence for a mere 12 months, the uk fanzine sniffin glue rose from humble beginnings an initial print run numbering just a meager 50 copies to a circulation into the. Punk a photographic journey the history of the melbourne. Now form a band, 3 this drawing actually originally appeared in january 1977 in another fanzine sideburns and was later reproduced in the stranglers. Sniffin glue 197677, mark perrys iconic punk fanzine, was but the first of many, paving the way for hundreds of homemade magazines to be cut. However zines became more widely recognised in the 1970s during the punk movement. The term was coined in an october 1940 science fiction fanzine by russ chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, and from.
All you kids, he urged more definitively in issue 5 november 1976, dont be satisfied with what we write. Sniffin glue, the first punk fanzine, was produced by mark perry in july 1976 a few days after seeing us punk band the ramones for the first time at the roundhouse in london. The first zines have been recorded from the 1940s including science fiction fanzines by russ chauvenet. The period between sniffin glues appearance in july 1976 and its final.
Sniffin glue famously printed a page illustrating three guitar chords with the tagline thats all you need to know, now form a band. These examples will be measured against a discussion of sniffin glue. In 1976 when punk rock was born, sniffin glue magazine was the genres very own magazine. It reported the moment immediately as it happened, reporting it from an insiders point of view.
Article pdf available in history workshop journal 791. Starting with a print run of a mere 50 copies, by issue 3 the circulation was into the thousands. This highly visual illustrated book is full of reproductions of the best fanzines ever created, from the superhero tributes of the 1950s and 60s, to punk fanzines such as sniffin glue, right up the contemporary ezine scene. Online and printed i like the way that the fanzine looks messy and unorganised. The name is derived from a ramones song now i wanna sniff some glue. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Sniffin glue, the first official punk fanzine, was produced by mark perry in july 1976 a few days after seeing us punk band ramones for the first time at the roundhouse in london. Sniffin glue is often incorrectly credited as the source of the illustration featuring drawings of three guitar chord shapes, captioned, this is a chord, this is another, this is a third.
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