…Crumblin’ Rock ...not Rolling Stone.. gerrit?
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Crumblin' Rock (1993)
Back in the
early 1990s, I was mainly working as a media journalist and following my main
areas of interest, which were indie cinema and alternative rock. I arranged
interviews only with bands and film-makers I found interesting and usually I
placed the interviews in a variety of journals, including Number One, Knave and
New Woman - at the time I was also the assistant editor of Outlook, looking
after the magazine’s media content, and much of my output appeared in those
pages…
I also ran a side project: the fanzine, Crumblin’ Rock. It was a 'sporadical', rather that a periodical, publishing when I had enough to fill an issue. I did more
interviews than I could place and often a placed interview was savagely edited down
for publication, so Crumblin’ Rock was my outlet for unplaced interviews and
for the bits other magazines refused to print. This Crumblin’ Rock Yearbook was
a ‘best of’ and is basically the big interviews minus listings and news that
became out-of-date. This was a true fanzine, copied and bound by hand and toted
round record and book shops. It sold through Rough Trade, Forbidden Planet and
Tower Records, as well as by mail order and in the queues at related gigs…
nowadays it would be a weblog, but that is just not the same as hand-made,
cut-and-paste graphics, duplicated on a dodgy photocopier.
The 1992 –
1993 Crumblin’ Rock Yearbook was a proper card-bound ‘book’ and contained
exclusive interviews with: Fish, Momus, Nick Cave, Die Warzau, Lydia Lunch,
Dave Graney, Gavin Friday, Rob Zombie, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Johnny
Brown (Band of Holy Joy) and Bill Gilliam (Alternative Tentacles) – I am still
very grateful to these people and proud of the publication!
…Crumblin’ Rock ...not Rolling Stone.. gerrit?
…Crumblin’ Rock ...not Rolling Stone.. gerrit?
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