See more ideas about zine, post punk and punk poster. Bands feature include the sex pistols, iggy pop and the clash. The period between sniffin glues appearance in july 1976. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sniffin glue. The name is derived from a ramones song now i wanna sniff some glue. Apr 15, 2000 an excellent document of a time longgone, sniffin glue.
Punk a photographic journey the history of the melbourne punk. All you kids, he urged more definitively in issue 5 november 1976, dont be satisfied with what we write. 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. Its really just a few anecdotes of how he made it, but at the bottom are some wonderfully high res pdf scans of the fanzine itself. 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. Ive tampered with 2 of the pages in this pdf to cop hold of the actual re stapled fanzine sorry no flexi all you need to do is spot either of the. 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. Perrys achievement was to unite for a brief time all the.
How to create a fanzine with adobe indesign no more sticking text onto bits of paper and photocopying, there is now a much easier way of creating your very own fanzine all you need is a few basic skills in adobe indesign. Apr 02, 2012 sniffin glue is the name of a monthly punk zine started by mark perry in july 1976 and released for about a year. Because perry used everyday tools that were immediately to hand, sniffin glue fitted with the doityourself ethos which was already an important part of punk culture. How to create a fanzine with adobe indesign creative studio. Glue sniffing definition and meaning collins english. Its uk punks 40th anniversary year sort of and among the work being celebrated is sniffin glue, the. 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. Glue sniffing is the practice of breathing the vapour from glue in order to become. The first zines have been recorded from the 1940s including science fiction fanzines by russ chauvenet. 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. Fanzines, which are also called zines, can take the form of. Go out and start your own fanzines flood the market with punk writing. And other rocknroll habits was inspired by the ramones london gig and song now i wanna sniff some gluea verse that is reprinted in issue 1 1976. 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, 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. It reported the moment immediately as it happened, from an insiders point of view. Inspired by the sex pistols and mark perrys sniffin glue, the fanzine explosion of 1976 and 1977 remains one of the purest and most creative responses to. 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. However zines became more widely recognised in the 1970s during the punk movement. You should check some of them out theyre pretty cool even if a little rough around the edges, bit thats all part of their charm. Sniffin glue the first punk fanzine to reflect the punk movement visually in britain was mark perrys sniffin glue 19761977 1. The term fanzine is a combination of the words fan and magazine which implies the general vehicle for which these fanmade articles are distributed. The back page is missing from my copy so ive tacked on scans from sniffin glue. Mark perry gives birth to fanzine culture music the. Punk77 book sniffin glue the essential punk accessory. Now the original sniffin glue team returns with a retrospective of the punk era, featuring hundreds of original photos and original text. Launched during punks first wave, mark perrys sniffin glue fanzine captured the scene in its purest form and went on to shape the future of fanzines. In 1976 when punk rock was born, sniffin glue magazine was the genres very own magazine.
How we made punk fanzine sniffin glue punk the guardian. I do not own copies of most of the fanzines depicted on this page. Jun, 2011 sniffin glue was primitive but opinionated, offering a crucial alternative voice to the mainstream music papers most of which were late to cover punks rise at a time when none was available. This web page holds an article from the creator of the punk fanzine, loaded no connection to the lads mag.
Fanzines can be seen as enabling a users view and sometimes a radical reinterpretation or defence of popular cultural forms. One of the most popular of which was sniffing glue by mark perry. An excellent document of a time longgone, 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. Jan 10, 20 danny baker and mark perry talk about the fanzine sniffin glue. The essential punk accessory again, i recommend scoring a copy of that book while you can its got the full bloody run in it. Now form a band, 3 this drawing actually originally appeared in january 1977 in another fanzine sideburns and was later reproduced in the stranglers.
Life after lloyd a rocknroll tale by mick geggus cadiz music this is the second volume of cockney rejects memoirs, following jeff turners biography, published back in 2005. It reported the moment immediately as it happened, reporting it from an insiders point of view. Mark perry gives birth to fanzine culture music the guardian. A fanzine blend of fan and magazine or zine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon such as a literary or musical genre for the pleasure of others who share their interest. Sniffin glue was the most vital and cutting edge punk fanzine of its time. Sniffin glue the essential punk accessory sanctuary publishing 2000 if you thought hooray no more shelling out mega bucks to purchase individual copies then theres good and bad news with this new repro. Sniffin glue was primitive but opinionated, offering a crucial alternative voice to the mainstream music papers most of which were late to cover punks rise. The essential punk accessory takes you back to the days of attitude, spit and projectile pint glasses. Created by mark perry, a 19yearold deptford bank clerk, sniffin glue was the voice of punk in print.
Taken from the title of a ramones song now i wanna sniff some glue, perrys fanzine was the perfect punk form. Scissors and glue is the first indepth academic study of three influential british 1970s punk fanzines. Theses are a selection of covers from sniffin glue and as you can see the photocopying makes the images really harsh and the cutting and sticking of the pages makes them look more like a. How we made punk fanzine sniffin glue music the guardian. These examples will be measured against a discussion of sniffin glue. 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.
May 06, 2016 inspired by the sex pistols and mark perrys sniffin glue, the fanzine explosion of 1976 and 1977 remains one of the purest and most creative responses to british punk. Raymond cochrane and douglas carroll claim that when glue sniffing became widespread in the late 1970s, it was adopted by punks because public negative perceptions of sniffing fitted in with their selfimage as. These fanzines are measured against a discussion of the seminal punk fanzine sniffin glue 19761977, acknowledge by the punk community as the first punk diy. The most influential zines over the past 40 years or so have been the socalled punkzines, with perhaps the most recognisable of the bunch being sniffin glue. Sniffin glue ended in 1977 and in 1979 punk followed suit.
The essential punk accessory again, i recommend scoring a copy of that book while you. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Sniffin glue download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Punk and new music fanzines late 1970s to early 1980s. Below are some of my favourite bits after just a brief look, i already really like this fanzine after reading just the first issue, its very funny and honest. Click download or read online button to get sniffin glue book now. Glue sniffing definition and meaning collins english dictionary.
And other rock n roll habits ebook written by mark perry, danny baker. The term was coined in an october 1940 science fiction fanzine by russ chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, and from. It featured all the key artists of the time from the ramones and the sex pistols to blondie. By issue four, we were talking about taking over the music business. Jan 29, 2011 production of sniffin glue ceased production in 1977 after 12 issues although mark perry encouraged in his last edition for readers to create their own zines. Finally, the fanzines editor, mark p mark perry, a. Synopsis a compilation of the 12 completed issues, plus one new issue, of the legendary punk magazine sniffin glue. Article pdf available in history workshop journal 791. Inhalant use, especially glue sniffing, is widely associated with the late1970s punk youth subculture in the uk and north america. It was the most influential rock magazine of its time. Inspired by the ramones track now i wanna sniff some glue, i thought it would be great to do a punk fanzine. See more ideas about punk poster, zine and punk magazine. There were fanzines, but they were for more marginalised music, like blues and country.
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