Contributors

 

Thanks to all these lovely people who contributed their work to the zine

  • Antony Johnston is the creator of ATOMIC BLONDE, a bestselling graphic novelist, and an ageing goth who just wishes everyone could stop with all this killing shit. He lives and works in the north-west.
  • Bridgid O’Conner
  • Caroline Beavon is an infographics designer who still dines out of the fact she used to be on the radio.
  • Cath Bore is a Liverpool-based writer of fiction and fact, and a radio presenter/producer. She writes about feminism, fandom, and music for a number of publications.
  • Chris Nee is a metalhead and lover of hardcore, with a soft spot the size of Jupiter for Brand New. He co-owns This Decay Records, the smallest record label in the world.
  • Daniel Henchman is a content writer for national charity Youth Music and long-time live music fan.
  • Dave Musson
  • Elsie Clark is a pseudonym.
  • Gavin Wray plays a mean guitar and once backed Frank Sidebottom.
  • Graham Allcott
  • Jez Collins runs the Birmingham Music Archive
  • John Mostyn has been in the music industry for many years. This story happened while he was managing The Beat.
  • Jon Bounds is the writer of things such a Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside.
  • Karen Davies is a Birmingham music promoter.
  • Karl Hodge
  • Kirsten Parnell is a writer from Hove. The first ever gig she went to was the Spice Girls. She is not ashamed of this.
  • Libby Hayward is an incorrigible ageing indie kid who has never properly left the nineties.
  • Louis Hudson is an award-winning animator/director,also known as Dice productions. He’s got a taste for the absurd and the psychology of toilet humour.
  • Louise Carrier
  • Mike West is a writer and musician from Rock Ferry who loves music, the Universal Monsters, B Movies,Nicolas Cage and raging against the machine.
  • Milk Taylor
  • Paul Jenkins is an acid house granddad, growing old disgracefully in South Wales. When he isn’t doing the world’s most pointless job, he writes short stories, runs a pop music pub quiz and indulges in gratuitous swearing on Twitter.
  • Rob Wickings
  • Shelley Harris has written two novels, Jubilee and Vigilante, both published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. She plays the electric guitar badly but with great enthusiasm.
  • Stephen Duffy formed The Lilac Time 30 years ago, they’re still going.
  • Tom Lennon is a writer and comedian.