Parasol Post: c/o 24 Marfitt Street,
Leicester LE1 6RN
Very prolific zinesters. AAA stuff, Luther Blissett stuff, surreal
stuff. Send them a wodge of stamps or cash and see what you get.
Particularly recommended is the ever evolving multiple author
Downside of Fashion, which reveals the AAA's connection
to Zoe Ball.
artschmart:
honkus_piacke@hotmail.com
or phone/fax ++1 (917) 677 7568
Plagiarist International foldout thingy. Related to AAA Aotearoa
in some way, with a nod to Neoism. Two issues so far, one of which
interviews Luther Blissett in a hotel in Abu Dhabi, while the
other concentrates on RAM Technology and rocket building. Free!
Neoist Alliance:
BM Senior, London WC1N 3XX
Send SAE for Re:Action newsletters. Issue 10 (final issue)
looks at pranks, Mark Thomas, etc. Also the source of the infamous
Necrocards and various Stewart Home booklets.
Unpopular
Books:
Box 15, 138 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS
Lots of interesting books and booklets. Militias: Rooted in
White Supremacy, Green Apocalypse, Camden Parasites.
Also Cult Watch and back issues of the London Psychogeographical
Association newsletters. SAE for list.
Stewart
Home Society:
PO Box 1021, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9PW
Loads and loads of Home ephemera, including long-unavailable issues
of SMILE magazine, cards, badges, etc. Send SAE for list.
Head:
BM Uplift, London WC1N 3XX
The Survival issue is now out. With stuff by me (on why
I don't go for this Survivalist/Survivor malarkey), Merrick, AKCT
reprint, Gyrus on the potentially extraordinarily dodgy issue
of reclaiming the swastika, X Chris fiction, news, reviews, etc.
Plus a load of old arse about knives and rubbing two sticks together
to make a fire :-). I like the camoflage cover and design job
a lot. I think it's £4.
Rooted
Media:
The Cardigan Centre, 145-149 Cardigan Road, Leeds LS6 1LJ
The home of Towards 2012, Godhaven, etc. New Sexyouality
booklet is well worth a look.
Network News: Earthly Delights, PO Box
2, Cornwall PL22 0YY
Excellent mutant forteana and psychogeography, sometimes as reportage
sometimes as fiction. From those Nocturnal Emissions people. £1.50
a throw.
Communist
Headache: ATX, PO Box 298, Sheffield, S10 1YU
1st issue of the second series now out. Some really excellent
weird fiction, 70s Situationist stuff, TV reviews/analysis, the
psychogeography of the M1, Kafka and more. £1 in stamps?
Back issues available and also copies of the exquisite Autotoxicity
(100 pages, hard bound) for a fiver.
Antagonism: BM Makhno, London WC1N
3XX
Publishers of the new edition of The Eclipse and Re-emergence
of the Communist Movement, which is well worth a look. Also
a great new booklet, Beasts of Burden: capitalism - animals
- communism, which manages to get to the heart of the issue
without resorting to liberal squeamishness.
Nottingham
Psychogeographical Unit:
NPU, LAA, Victoria Studios, TNTU, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham
NG1
SAE for newsletters
Datacide: BM Jed, London
WC1N 3XX
Wicked techno culture zine from the Praxis records crew. Loads
of news and reviews of everything from jungle to avant-noise,
articles on Pasolini, Wilhelm Reich, terrorism, women in electronic
music, etc. £1.50 per issue.
Progress
Report: BM WIP, London WC1N 3XX
Industrial music zine with more analysis & harder criticism
than most of the others. Lots of Japanese noise stuff, major PTV
review-article, plus Mark Stewart and lots more.
SINIS:
Boxholder, PO Box 35, Bangor, LL57 3ZF
Chaos Magick Journal. Two issues available for £2.50 each
inclusive (blank cheque, or PO). Cut-ups, dreamwork, surrealism,
etc.
A
Ballad Against Work: Collectivities, Majdoor Library, Autopin
Jhuggi, N.I.T., Faridabad 121001, India. revelrytion@hotmail.com
The title speaks for itself really. Great text that describes
and analyses work, working conditions and resistance. Doesn't
fall back into cloth cap cliches (though I guess that isn't really
an issue in India?!) - very compelling, in fact. They can email
you the text, and the printed version is pretty widely available
in the UK.
Esoterra:
Chad Hensley, 410 East Denny Way, #22, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
Issue 8 has been out for a while. I've had my ups and downs with
Esoterra, but this issue is a damn fine read. The highlight for
me is the wonderful Iain Sinclair interview, but there are also
interviews with Current 93, Merzbow, Brighter Death Now and horror
author Thomas Ligotti. In oo-er territory we have another installment
of the series of pieces on the Process Church and an article by
Markus Wolff (of Crash Worship) about Vril and the obligatory
serial killer stuff (Gacy artwork, piece on visiting him in prison).
As ever, the production values are very high indeed - the graphics
and photos are extremely well reproduced. $9.00 inc. worldwide.
Stewart
Home - Confusion Incorporated (Codex Books)
Another hearty helping of journalism, ranting, comments and suchlike.
Lots of stuff on pranks and media hacking. And a great article
on identity politcis and anarchism. Great stuff!
Steve
Beard - Perfumed Head (Book Works)
During the early 90s an intelligence agent's contract with HMG
is terminated. He is burnt out but continues to write his final
report in the corridors of the London Underground system on a
lap top. Once the report is completed, he hurls the lap top into
the river thames. At some point it is found and handed to a rogue
data retrieval team. They reassemble the text as best they can
and post it on the web. The final chapter of the text makes it
clear that the agent was suffering from some kind of psychosis.
This is that text.
[Though, actually it isn't. The agent appeared in Steve Beard's
previous work, Digital Leatherette. This book was originally
an attempt to expand on his story, but Beard realised that a standard
novel would not be sufficient. He therefore fed the finished text
through two software programmes to mash it up. The results contain
a narrative that has been remixed, fucked up, distorted. Digital
cut-ups, the dub version. It all works very well - conveying the
psychosis and hardware fuck ups as part of the text...]
break/flow:
89 Vernon Road, Stratford, London E15 4DQ
More of Howard's
writing - this has got so much stuff in it, he could have padded
it out a bit and published it as a book. "Evacuate The Leftist
Bunker", Factory Records, etc. This isn't the sort of thing
you can just flick through. It demands concentrated reading, re-reading
and thought. Putting in the effort reaps rich rewards, though.
£3
Transgressions:
A Journal of Urban Exploration: Geography Department, Daysh Building,
University of Newcastle, Newcastle NE1 7RU.
An academic
journal that should be of interest to you if you're reading this.
Issue 4 features a whole bunch of psychogeography ("Reason
and Unreason in the Street", "Architectural Aesthetics
and Power", an exploration of the West Yorkshire Metro train
network, mad cows and bovril on the Glasgow street map, Motorway
Elvis), lots of Asger Jorn stuff and some excellent feature reviews
(John Barker, who was convicted of being in the Angry Brigade
on Tom Vague's book about them, Fabian Tompsett on the Situationist
issue of October 79 journal, Mark Tey on the ends of Class War,
Neil Orr on the Turner Prize). Plus multiple names, shamanic rock
art and debates. It's a 131 page perfect bound monster with high
production values (nice full colour Jorn cover). Issue 2/3 should
still be available and is well worth getting too. A 2 issue sub
is £15 in the UK (or £7.50 unwaged). Overseas subs
are £16 or US$25.