Friday 3 February 2017

Cubesville #20 is here and now!!

Cubesville #20 is here and now! Featuring TV Smith, 2 Sick Monkeys, Revenge of the Psychrotronic Man & Petrol Girls. Also Culture Shock Action Figures! Articles on punk biographies, Kurt Cobain's stripey jumper, little-known Spanish Civil War facts, etc, etc, and bags of reviews.

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Wednesday 1 February 2017

TV Smith in Cubesville #20

Hear punk legend TV Smith on his new book, The Alternative Top 50, as featured in the next exciting installment of One Way Ticket to Cubesville!!




Saturday 10 October 2015

Cubesville shop is now at Punx.uk

Cheers loads to Cubesville cover artist Joey Mutant for his excellent site Punx.UK

Having emptied out the zinefair box, I discovered back issues that were previously sold out!! 

Consequently, there are loads of back issues available at the Punx site's Cubesville shop.

Browse Punx for gigs in your area, get zines, read them on the bus. Bang-on!

Monday 22 June 2015

Buy now! The Vegan's Guide to People Arguing with Vegans

Available now - the publication that turned arguing with vegans on its head.

36-page A6 pocketbook format with two-colour card cover. Wow.

"People new to veganism may initially be surprised by the cornucopia of codswallop said about what is, after all, a constructive, compassionate lifestyle choice.

"As they soon discover, ignorance knows no borders, and the crassness, callousness and empty-headed nonsense in this collection is just the tip of the iceberg.

"This invaluable, interactive guide collects together some of the worst arguments against veganism to give you a flavour of what to expect from non-vegans.

"Enjoy the sheer absurdity of people arguing with vegans!"





Vegan's Guide...





 


Friday 5 June 2015

The Vegan's Guide to People Arguing with Vegans

This is so HOT I'm storing it in the fridge. The Vegan's Guide to People Arguing with Vegans went to Footprint Printers this morning. Simultaneously essential and absurd, get this 36-page pocketbook should be in every vegan's bathroom. Expect it in the next couple of weeks.

Friday 8 May 2015

Cubesville on tour...?

This is the nearest I get to my own gig poster.

Thanks to the people at Loughborough University for staying awake, especially Politics, History and International Relations department and School of the Arts.

Sunday 18 January 2015

Review: Ted Curtis - The Darkening Light (Itchy Monkey Press)

Here's a review of Ted Curtis' book The Darkening Light from the latest Cubesville fanzine.

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It is 1986, two years after Crass have called it a day, and the anarchopunk scene feels like it's falling apart. Heavy metal has ransacked punk like a muscle-bound Viking invader and Crass Utopianism is as murky as the homebrewed lager drunk by The Darkening Light's main protagonist, Frank. In the transition between anarchopunk and UKHC, Frank and his friends tumble into their huntsab group's Sherpa van to journey between Wiltshire and Wood Green for an all-day squat gig featuring Antisect, Atavistic and Heresy. Ted Curtis's writing captures the mood of dislocation and isolation and the tuppence ha'penny hedonism of homebrew and glue as Frank fumbles for answers in a contradictory scene whose protagonists wrap its rules around their own awkward personalities. The anarchopunk preoccupation with veganism chokes in the blue haze of rollup smoke and is muted behind the pandemonium and horror stories that fly around the gig.
As much as The Darkening Light could be a story about DIY culture at its most abrasive, it serves as a prelude to alcoholism and mental health issues. Indeed, its frankness could provide answers to many an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, anger management workshop or cognitive behavioural therapy session.
Ian Glasper's account of the late 1980s UKHC movement, Trapped in a Scene, was possibly the first book that attempted to catalogue this subculture whose authenticity lay in its own obscurity. In an otherwise comprehensive study, Mr Glasper's interviews, band profiles and discographies catalogue the music scene of the time, but struggle to capture the mood. Curtis's worm's eye view peers, totally sozzled, between the fissures of fact and fiction to produce a piece of subculture writing that ranks with the best. 

Friday 9 January 2015

Accidente

Accidente interview from October 2014. Outside Femmesnroll gig in Barcelona. Enjoy this brilliant anarcho-pop-punk band!!

Tuesday 3 September 2013

Cubesville 15 Extra

Here's an extract from the latest One Way Ticket to Cubesville:

  • Intro featuring art by Tony Keshiki
  • A Page of Punk review featuring art by Joey Mutant
  • Bonus Rant!!!
 Here!!!

Wednesday 19 December 2012

A guided tour round Salford Zine Library

From obscure 1930s Sci-fi publications to Riot Grrl zines and photo collages, Salford Zine Library houses a weird and wonderful collection of self-made publications... And what is the Blue Peter connection...?


Friday 14 December 2012

Conflict Interview

Colin Jerwood interviewed for Under the Pavement radio show before Conflict played at the Star and Garter, Manchester, on 6 Oct 2012.

Friday 28 September 2012

Interview with The Shend of the Cravats

Here's an interview conducted a month or two back during the Rebellion festival. What better venue to talk about anarchy and absurdity than Blackpool's answer to the Hollywood Boulevard, the Comedy Carpet. Brought to you in glorious stereo and hungover technicolour.



Tuesday 21 August 2012

New Andy T single available here

Andy T has released his first record in more than 30 years as a follow-up to his legendary recording on Crass Records.

As angry and uncompromising as ever, the full title of Andy's single is "I Still Fucking Hate Thatcher" and is counterbalanced perfectly with "Sing a Happy Song", playing on 33rpm and 45rpm respectively.

Andy's single on Crass Records, Weary of the Flesh, is considered a champion of DaDaist punk. For this project, he is backed by a band featuring members of State of Urgency and the Crow People. Collectively they sound something between Joy Division and PIL with Andy's angry poetry over the top

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Tuesday 3 July 2012

Cubesville #12 out now



Oh yes, Cubesville #12 is hot off the press bringing you essential anarchist bathroom reading. This issue is a special retrospective on the future featuring all the usual mayhem, described by Negative Reaction as "Bugs n Drugs without the cartoons".

This issue we talk about utopia and dystopia with people who dare to dream including: perennial punk poet Attila the Stockbroker, Polish legends Dezerter and Mancunian armageddonists the Blacklight Mutants.

We take the vegan tardis to the end of the universe and bring you cut out and keep action figures courtesy of Warrington punx Hated till Proven.

At 32 A5 pages it rests snugly beside anyone's toilet.






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