BHBJBB A FANZINE ABOUT NOTHING IN PARTICULAR ISSUE 1 • APRIL 2020
You’ll either rate this stuff or reckon it’s pitiful, read on…
Got thrown in a riot van and the coppers kicked him in and there was no way he could win just had to take it on the chin Smoked a bong last night and stole somebody’s telephone He thinks it’s all alright but they’ve left him on his own, on his own But, baby stop calling over and over, yeah and give me some funny cigarettes and do what they told you, yeah Pinched a car with one headlight lost control, the passengers were screaming Made him shut his eyes right tight and think of you and hope that he was dreaming Then up rolled a riot van called the fire brigade but it was already too late and there was no arrest to make But, baby stop calling over and over, yeah and give me some funny cigarettes and do what they told you, yeah
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ISSUE 1 APRIL 2020
During lockdown there was fuck all else to do but make a fanzine. Enjoy xx
A QUARANZINE ABOUT NOTHING IN PARTICULAR From an archive of stuff I’ve ‘saved’ because it resonated with me in one way or another.
FRIED Halloumi WITH LIME AND CAPER VINAIGRETTE INGREDIENTS
> 1 halloumi cheese > 2 tablespoons olive oil > 2 level tablespoons wellseasoned flour FOR THE DRESSING: > juice and zest 1 lime > 1 heaped tablespoon capers, drained > 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar > 1 clove garlic, finely chopped > 1 heaped teaspoon grain mustard > 1 level tablespoon chopped fresh coriander leaves > 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil > salt and freshly milled black pepper TO GARNISH: > few sprigs coriander
Halloumi arrives in sealed plastic wrapping and has a reasonably long shelf-life, which means that you can always have a pack tucked away in the fridge. If you can get hold of some Greek olive oil for the dressing and eat this outside in the sunshine, the scent and the flavours will transport you to the Aegean in moments.
First of all, unwrap the cheese and pat it dry with kitchen paper. Then, using a sharp knife, slice it into 8 slices, including the ends. Now prepare the dressing by simply whisking all the ingredients together in a small mixing bowl. When you’re ready to serve the halloumi, heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat.
When the oil is really hot, press each slice of cheese into seasoned flour to coat it on both sides, then add them to the hot pan as they are done – they take 1 minute on each side to cook, so by the time the last one’s in, it will almost be time to turn the first one over. They need to be a good golden colour on each side. Serve them straight away on warmed plates with the dressing poured over and garnished with coriander.
DISCHARGE
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Action Man was introduced in the UK by Palitoy in 1966. The first three figures available in toy shops in Great Britain were an Action Soldier, Action Sailor and Action Pilot. They were outfitted with the most basic of uniforms, a tiny ‘Training Manual’, Equipment Manual, Star Card and metal dog-tag in an appealing cardboard box, closed with Sellotape. He was an immediate hit and he became the National Association of Toy Retailer’s Boys Toy of the Year in 1966.
ARMY DREAMERS
I don’t know about you but my formative years wouldn’t have been quite the same without these little fellas. We dressed, undressed, redressed them countless times in varying outfits and uniforms. We forgot what bit belonged to which outfits, which would result in some quite bizarre and interesting fashions!!
Soft options were introduced like Olympians, footballers, cricketers, go kart drivers (!!) and mountain rescuers but what we really wanted was blood and guts fighting soldiers. These little skinheads were as hard as nails when we battled with them, buried them, traded, swapped, borrowed and stole to create the ultimate action hero.
We grew older and punked-themup, smacked them with cricket bats, tortured and blew their fucking heads off with fireworks - the toy that keeps giving. They reissue them every now and then and I still get a flutter of excitement as I reminisce over a particular uniform or see the cool artwork that these guys were packaged within.
recommended Listening
1973 I’m not sure how but I only discovered Fela in 2019. This popped up as something I might like through YouTube playlists. They were right, it’s flippin’ awesome! Layers of funky beats gradually building up into something other worldly, toasted with provokative lyrics. A lot of modern artists music shows Fela’s influence now I’ve heard him. Do everything to hear it, you won’t be disappointed.
2020 This is a corker and not the same old stuff repackaged which has sadly happened since Bowie’s passing. ‘Fun’ and ‘Nuts’ absolutely never heard of these songs until now? Tin Machine’s reworked Baby Universal is a superb opening track - apparently this cut nearly made it to the final Earthing LP. Mostly from 1997 and showing Bowie was still relavent; I can’t recommend enough.
2019 Unlike Fela, I’ve know of Beck for a long time. My son played this in the car at Christmas and I said “what is this?” when he told it was Beck I was pleasantly surprised. Anyway, this has been spinning on the turntable and car stereo for a good five months now and I haven’t tired of it. It’s kind of space electro pop and mellow and catchy. Standout tracks: Uneventful Days and Chemical.
1985 Graham was once Jilted John and is now John Shuttleworth. This continues from Jilted John’s 1978 True Love Stories LP. Everyday tales of the ordinary and mundane, not all tracks are outstanding but there’s some heartfelt tracks herein. You should be able to stream this album as the CDs and vinyl are long deleted and strangely sought after.
2016 Car Seat Headrest get 10 points for band name. Lyrics like this: “Last Friday, I took acid and mushrooms, I did not transcend, I felt like a walking piece of shit in a stupid-looking jacket.” There’s more of this and some from twenty something singer Will Toledo’s angst ridden imagination. More loser anthems 30 years after Graham Fellows’; the track Vincent is amazing.
1980 April 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of Iron Maiden’s debut LP. One of those albums acceptable by the punks even though it was heavy metal. It still kicks arse and has that punky feel to thanks to singer Paul Di’Anno’s brutal vocal delivery, none of your Bruce Dickinson high-pitched wailing here. If you haven’t heard it, your 40 years too late and really should give it a whirl!
2018 This psychedelic indie power-pop trio from Brooklyn, New York are great to watch perform and even better live than this LP does justice. Young, stylish and slick with some bold songs. If you’re on the lookout for something new to spin on your turntable then Sunflower Bean come recommended particularly I Was A Fool, Twentytwo and Oh No, Bye Bye. Also, girl singer/bass players are cool!!
2020 It’s also 40 years since Discharge’s debut single, aIso I have to recommend a Discharge release within these pages. Although the band continue to tour and record there’s nothing like the classic songs recorded at their peak. This double LP/CD contains these and more and the mastering sounds great. There’s even a few from the heavy metal years. Turn ‘em up loud!!
Psychedelic POSTERS I used to collect these in the 80s and what follows are some I would have loved in my collection but I was never able to obtain‌
Hung on You, a clothing boutique in London’s Kings Road. Notoriously became SEX when Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren took it on in the 70s.
UFO, a basement club in Tottenham Court Road hosting early performances by Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Soft Machine, The Move and Tomorrow circa 1966-67.
The Hippie, Psychedelic scene was born through the beatnick generation’s discovery of LSD; a hallucinogenic drug which led to a ‘trip’ - an out of body experience paired with strange visions and heightened sensory experiences. The scene was a very cool thing in the early days (before it dragged on too long spawning the drippy hippie era epitomised by ‘Neil’ of The Young Ones TV comedy sitcom fame). Like Punk, which was bound to happen (fast forward 10 years), the summer of love was a highly creative period in terms of design, music and fashion. It’s ironic that psychedelic clothing boutique Hung on You at 430 Kings Road eventually became Seditionaries - the go-to punk clothing shop run by McLaren & Westwood. This creativity gave birth to psychedelic posters which can be traced back to 1965 San Francisco in promoting concerts being staged at the Avalon Ballroom and Fillmore Auditorium by the likes of Bill Graham and Family Dog Productions. In San Francisco artists such as Rick Griffin, Victor Mososco and Mouse & Kelley drew on sources as varied as old-time Western advertising, photographs of Golden Era Hollywood stars, cartoon characters, Art Nouveau and Art Deco posters to conjure attention-grabbing prints in bold colours. In the UK artists like Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (who created the majority of artwork shown on this spread) were drawing on the sinuous lines of Aubrey Beardsley and Alphonse Mucha to create a radical new poster style – “packed with secret signs, prehistoric forms an flying saucers” – to promote concerts at the iconic UFO Club.
RICHARD ALLEN BOOKS “I thought; whoever wrote this book must be a skinhead himself or must be involved in football violence…” MICK GEORGE, ORIGINAL SKINHEAD
FROM TWITTER 27TH MAY 2018 (referring to the photo on the cover of Skinhead) “Les Kent is the boy in the photo, he’s now in his 60s and lives locally. All the boys used in the Skinhead and Suedehead books were from South London. A few of their mates drink in my pub.”
Moffat talking about writing on BBC TV 1972. James Moffat was a Canadian-born writer who once published a magazine about bowling and wrote at least 290 hack fiction novels (westerns, children’s stories, mysteries and other genres) under at least 45 pseudonyms. In 1970 he was asked because he was so versatile and prolific, to write a book for the New English Library about skinheads, the white workingclass youths whose thuggery seemed, to some, an authentic cry of alienation and, to others, the decline of Western civilisation. In 1970 James Moffat AKA Richard Allen was 48 years old when he wrote Skinhead; the first of 18 books about various youth movements. Based in Plaistow, London; Skinhead was written at the middle-aged writer’s seaside home in Sidmouth, Devon over five days and sold over 1,000 000 copies. CHECKLIST (collect the whole set and swap ‘em with your friends) Skinhead, July 1970 Demo, March 1971 Suedehead, Oct 1971 Boot Boys, April 1972 Skinhead Escapes, July 1972 Skinhead Girls, Oct 1972 Trouble for Skinhead, March 1973 Teenybopper Idol, May 1973 Glam, May 1973
Smoothies, June 1973 Sorts, July 1973 Top Gear Skin, July 1974 Skinhead Farewell, Sept 1974 Dragon Skins, Jan 1975 Terrace Terrors, Feb 1975 Knuckle Girls, Dec 1977 Punk Rock, Dec 1977 Mod Rule, July 1980
RIP RICHARD ALLEN 27th JAN 1922 – 8th NOV 1993
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EIZO PIN UP CALENDAR, designed for the walls of medical professionals.
This caught my eye in Creative Review about 10 years ago. Twelve highly revealing poses showcase EIZO’s medical imaging high precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs. The campaign won the Grand Prix for Direct Marketing at the Cresta Awards, adding to Gold at the One Show, Gold at the ADC in Frankfurt, and a Silver from the New York Festival. Awesome creativity.
The making of Eizo calendar (no x-rays or nudity involved)
B R O T H E L CREEPErs These amazing shoes were originally worn in the North African deserts, the boots, with their thick crepe soles, were ideal for helping soldiers cope with the extreme heat and sandy terrain. Young mainly working class men were sporting these with the dandy neo-Edwardian clothing – drape suits, fancy waistcoats, Slim Jim ties - which had caught on as High Street tailors mimicked a trend which had started but faltered after one season in Savile Row.
In the UK during 1968 there was a brief 1950s revival, largely as a reaction against the lank long hair and drab colours of hippie. The following year two entrepreneurs opened their pop-art boutique Mr Freedom (at 430 Kings Road). Among other apparel, they sold original style brothel creepers in vivid colours as blue and red, a pair - featuring D-rings and quilted tops - was bought by M McLaren. Rumour has it that a number of returning soldiers, after years away fighting, went searching for a bit of fun in the streets of London…and, in short order, found themselves in the dim neon-lit labyrinths of Soho, enjoying its unique brand of adult entertainment. Hence the term ‘brothel creepers’.
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