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Long time, no speak. Heres something new.

We're currently attatching tapes to zines to be ready to be sent out into the world. We'll have an online distributor and stockists all over very very soon. Thanks again to everyone who's been in touch since the zine symposium/looked at our stuff on the web/enjoyed a zine they bought.

We dropped quite a few dollars on zines at the symposium and some of our favourites are more than worth a mention here! First up is anything made by the loveley hands of Heather Willams who's rossetes, zines and badges adorned our stall, but were some of the best things at the show and sold loads. Her What Do You Do zine is a technicolour collage of different contributors ideas/thoughts/feelings. Really, really wonderful. Check her out at mynameisheather.co.uk right now. Sing A Rainbow by Gethan Dick was found nestled amongst a handful of nice zines, a collection of life writing based on colours of the raindow, printed on coloured paper, wrapped in card and bound with string in an edition of paper. A charming set of memories and experience that is really well written and looks absoloutley great. Get it at gethan.org. Tenement Publishing's first zine is University, another perzine that feels all warm inside and delivers naive, scared, enlightening adventures as the title suggests. Lots of content that holds several gleaming, wonderful sentences that set the writing apart from a lot of personal efforts. Email eforelizabeth@gmail.com. UK Zine Yearbook 2007 is a total must have that was picked up from the excellent Dead Trees And Dye stall. Big ol' compendulum of articles, recipes, rants, raves, proof that the UK zine scene is healthy and alive and offering a feast of different perspectives and ideas. Toby made it and you can buy it from Pete at http://www.deadtreesanddye.com. Notable mentions also to Laura Oldfield Ford and her dark, grim Savage Messiah socio-zines which sketch an honest portrayal of London town. Cynical and angry and here - savagemessiah@hotmail.co.uk. The latest Last Hours is the best we've seen so far. So, so good. They have found a perfect balance of culture and politics. We spent our formative years reading Rancid News and listening to The Filaments and even though we grew out of three chord anarchism, Last Hours continues to inspire and educate. A lot of good artwork, words, view of life in general to be found for cheap, and one issue takes about a month to get through! Essential - lasthours.org.uk. Also found a copy of Braindead issue four at the Punker Bunker in Brighton the other day, very funny, a little bit twisted, good, splodgy illustrations. myspace.com/666braindead.

When you end up getting into a constant pattern of staying up late drinking ale and watching bands or listening to records, life becomes a hazy sprial of 2pm lie ins, too much pizza and no money left. God bless the higher education system. Mogwai at the Southbank Centre were totally incredible. They show no signs of slowing or getting any quieter. They played a lot of new songs which were some of the best yet. Some quiet, some skull crushingly loud, some searing and all encompassing and mesmerising. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise. Like Herod was mind blowing. Thank you once again, Mogwai. Got a great chance to see Thao And The Get Down Stay Down at the Luminaire, which was a quality venue for the blues pop stomper. Thao threw down warm, feel good pop which made everybody smile and dance. Shit N Shine at Corsica Studios was a blast of rhythmic drone intensity. 5 drummers played the same beat for 40 minutes while three guitars threw molten, sludgy riffs from a wall of Orange amps, chaning halfway through to three small keyboards each playing a seperate note, and that note only. Very loud, very hypnotic, left Corsica in a daze, a bubble of sound. Hurt ears, confused brain, big grin. Been a bit late on the No Age tip, but Nouns is excellent. Cant wait for their show with Ex Models next week. Our Sheffield brothers Half A Handshake are putting EM on up north for free. Go see. And with the sunshine comes a throwback, we're rolling and twisting and clapping to The Sonics and Shangri Las and Dillinger right now.

Thats about it. We just found www.manchesterzinefest.org.uk which will be good good good.

More soon.

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