The All Thrills No Frills Music Bill paper music fanzine - issue two now ready to buy!

Issue #2 of The All Thrills No Frills independent music fanzine is now published! It is to be found for sale over at Etsy, else you can get in touch and Paypal me the £2.50 including postage to the UK, or get in touch if overseas. There is a slight increase in cost due to extortionate photocopying costs now, and due to the cover being coloured paper.

Featured in this issue:

* Interview with Amelia Fletcher and her band Tender Trap with in depth article on Marine Research/Tender Trap. Also, new Tender Trap album Ten Songs about Girls.
**The return of Tilly and The Wall.
***The seven inch singles of Pullover
****Brian Jonestown Massacre live
*****Records recently bought: Altered Images, This Mortal Coil, John Foxx, and Teenagers in Tokyo.
******The Chameleons live at Camden Palace VHS tape review
*******Edwyn Collins's TV show, West Heath Yard
********Female exclusion/abuse within music (including getting attacked at gigs)
*********1990s compilation tapes and 1990s music culture
**********Anti anti-pop consortium!
***********Loads of silly anecdotes/satire about bands/singers
************Recent favourite record shops
*************Mix CD listings
***************Vinyl

Plus:

****************Luke Haines's cat !

All written with heart and passion, not like freely available mainstream music magazines - and much more easy to access/portable than blogs and books if you're travelling!

Soon to be available in various independent music shops and other likely places, when I get round to it.

David Gedge interview

Happy to announce that I interviewed David Gedge of The Wedding Present, before their Seamonsters gig last night. To be featured in #2 of the main issue of The All Thrills No Frills Music Bill fanzine, very soon! As well as on http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk
 

Many thanks to David Gedge for his time and talk - discussing Seamonsters, Steve Albini, underrated albums, lyric-writing, pedals, and all sorts! Please look out for this issue, and support this little independent 'zine which makes no profit, and buy it via Etsy, or email, or from one of the many supportive independent music and books shops as listed in older posts here...! It will be great. This issue shall also feature a great interview with Amelia Fletcher of Tender Trap / Marine Research / Heavenly / Tallulah Gosh, amongst a myriad of other musical things!

And the performance of Seamonsters album was astonishing. Review of this has been drafted up today in my notebook, as I travelled up to Nottingham!

October/November interim issue out now!

I'm pleased to have finished the latest mini issue of The All Thrills No Frills Music Bill, for October/November!

I dropped off the first batch in a couple of pubs/bars and at the Stuart Hall library yesterday. I suddenly realised I had not changed the date on the front cover to 'October/November', though, so the first batch will be oddities, and I shall edit and reprint my next batch! So if you've got one of these wonky ones, lucky you - who knows, a future collectors' item?

Indie pop fans will recognise that Neil Armstrong is on the cover this issue - as doctored lovingly by Allo Darlin' on the inner sleeve of their last album, Europe! I thought it apt, given the inclusion of an Allo Darlin' review, plus a nice tribute to the space man. When I was about 8 years old, I wanted to grow up to be an astronaut, you know.

I am going to do a deal for anyone who has not got all three of the mini issues, and you can get them for flat rate cost: £1.10 which covers copying and postage. Get in touch if interested as I still haven't figured out a way to link to Paypal yet! I keep forgetting to ask people's advice...

September - interim issue

Latest mini issue features live reviews, including the amazing event that was Thomas Truax in Croydon (!), and Peter Doherty in Kingston.

Currently being distributed for free (so long as we can make it), at various gig venues, bars, etc, around London/Surrey.

I am currently working on issue #2 of the main fanzine, which is more substantial, with interviews, in depth articles, etc, and will be for sale (as cheap as we can make it) in the next month or two.

Interim issue - August. Now printed

Interim issue for August is out now - a mini 'zine that is free as long as I can make it so. I will make these mini zines in between the bigger, more in depth issues, as and when I fancy until next main issue is ready. I will drop off batches at gig venues and the like. If you'd like to stock issues, please get in touch.