NWT - Presenting: Digital Clippings
August has come and gone. The Magazine is in printing. All is well. The NEW WAVE TIMES comes back to your search browsers with a collection of collated clippings of Punk Fanzines and Vintage Erotica from the past that have highly inspired us in our recent writing
Sniffin Glue #12
“Music is a perfect medium for shoving two fingers up at the establishment. Once it becomes respectable it loses all its potency. That's what occurred during the seventies. All the aggression had faded, and rock stars seemed more interested in becoming tax exiles or partying it up with royalty than looking after their fans who, after all had put them on the top”
Make no mistake, this ain't the first new-wave, and if it's the last, then what's the point carrying on. But things have to move on. If they stand still they become extinct. Take Presley, known to most of us in his flash Las Vegas or all-American boy eras. But in the fifties he was an outrage, who offended the public morality and was looked upon as a corrupting influence. It's ironic that straight society and its' media that today slags off Johnny Rotten and mourns the death of Elvis, once considered Presley a social outcast.
Ripped And Torn
Ripped & Torn never changed its basics which was an eclectic mix of contributions, collage, comments, reviews, random thought provoking pieces and interviews in type, handwritten and DIY cut and paste. It also included gig pictures from Jem Gibbs and Walt Davidson to name two, and cartoons from Phil Smee all with complete editorial freedom. Ever popular was the readers chart, a fanzine staple but which again reflected the evolving state of punk.
Vermillion
My favourite bands are my own, the Damned, a few others and everyone else stinks. All records made before a year ago ought to be burned! Of course I’m not talking about Iggy
(1 & 2) ALTERNATIVE SEX
Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Kill Your Pet Puppy #1
“The Reason I put this fanzine out was out of disgust for the quality of fanzines that came out this year and to attempt to wipe out the reactionary crap-filled (other zines).
“It may be a bit skinny, but atleast it’s not padded out with anything I didn’t think was important “
“Continued ad nauseum”
“The ants had an all powerful ‘force’, groups like the Banshees and Gary Numans Tubeway Army made half-hearted, diluted, mass-marketed versions of that ‘force’ and had major hits. Dirk Wears White Sox was Adams attempt at getting in on the act.
Kill Your Pet Puppy #2
“A Series of experimental ventures conceived and created to further the cause of punk”
“I desperately want to avoid the syndrome that happens with any fanzine or magazine where anything that happens to be around is used to fill up the pages because there’s a DEADLINE to meet”
“I suppose you’re going to tell me about anarchy and how everything’s a load of shit, but nobody wants that anymore, they want Gary Numan posters and fun”
“A hundred bombs can be exploded and a thousand guns can fire, the ruling class can lose a few members but it takes EDUCATION to wipe out the RULING INSTINCT”
“Every Subversive Act of violence must have at its end the intention of making the average person question him her or themselves.”
“Punks are the front line, the shock troops that herald the collapse of the myth, the death of a civilization that is ruled by fear of death”.
“Every time a punk walks on the street it is a direct confrontation with the accepted norms of civilized society, the dull imposed conformity of social normality”.
(Above, Kill Your Pet Puppy #3)
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