This was the first zine in a very long time. Over a year in the making (or three years, if you count from when it was first spoken about), then rapidly compiled in the 24 hours leading up to the TINA zine fair in October 2008 in Newcastle, this zine is all about mix-tapes. Not CDRs, nor MP3 playlists, but TAPES - that wonderful dying medium whose nobility is also, it seems, fading away. Managed to get in the zine top 10 in Maximum Rock n roll #313, despite the fact that the reviewer hated the creator's music taste.

24 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

The first time I ever went on RSVP and realised I needed a profile heading, I decided to write 'desperate' because, after all, I was. Surprisingly, I received many responses. Responses by a whole population of insipid, unattractive, uninspired men. I realised that in dismissing them outright, I wasn't actually desperate at all. I amended my profile to read 'superficial'. And I received different kinds of propositions.

21 cm x 15 cm, 44 pages includes mini zine on speed dating. 

Unfortunately, all descriptive information about this publication is classified.

XX pages, XX cm x XX cm.

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 1-5 (9 March - 4 April 2009)

In short, it's an anti-review somewhat music-based perzine, whereby each issue is written on a Monday whilst listening to a different album. The idea is that the issues are more about the rambling thoughts finding their way through the author's head whilst listening to the music, rather than an abstract analysis of the piece of music itself. Some issues are obviously influenced by the tunes, and others not so much. Music features quite strongly in these first issues, more often than not hailing from the halls of extreme metal, further reinforcing the common misconception that the author only listens to metal.

1 A4 sheet, folded.  spurzine@gmail.com PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine issues 11-15 (18 May - 15 June 2009)

More bundles of A7 somewhat-music-inspired annecdotes, often sticking to the one theme for the whole 6 pages, would ya believe. Leaning closer to the morose side of things, these issues dealt with space-heater addiction, wanting to run away, contemplating the world getting quieter, contemplating not wanting to contemplate anything, and annuling a personal/professional relationship.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 16-20 (22 June - 20 July 2009)

Following on with the introspective and philosophical theme taken on board in previous issues, this bunch contemplate such deep concepts as the joys of banality, the scourge of marriage, fluid attitudes towards metaphysics, trying to track down old teachers, and contemplating partial deafness.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 21-25 (27 July - 24 August 2009)

Things get a bit painful in this stage of the development of d&hm, with accidental physical scarring and partially intentional mental scarring coming up, along with more expected pangs of loneliness. Errors in communication and issues with class also get a word in, as do some bursts of silliness that never really explain themselves.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 26-30 (31 August - 28 September 2009)

Music features strongly here, starting with the first review-ish (as opposed to anti-review) issue, where On Wednesday and Spurzine churned out a Sticky exclusive split issue (and, due to the exclusive nature there-of, only the d&hm side of it is available in this bundle). Then more broad talk on making music, drugs and music, as well as some talk on static electricity and having a good nights rest.

1 A4 sheet, folded. spurzine@gmail.com PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 31-35 (5 October - 2 November, 2009)

Starting with the post-TINA issue, full of uncertainty over late-night
speed-zineing, this bundle covers a number of discomforting thoughts
and moments. Like mixing terminal illnesses with performance art,
wearing Olympic medals long after they were won, deciding not to bite
your own tongue around bigots, and trying to find the right thing to
say at your Father's birthday party.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 36 - 40 (9 November - 7 December 2009)

Manic revelry at the end of the tertiary education year, reactions to being hit on in an unofficial public sex space, interpreting strangely innocent gifts, contemplating a bitingly bad review of one of the author's zines, and working through consumerist guilt all filter into these five issues. Stress and calm, waxing and waning. 1 A4 sheet, folded. 

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 6-10 (6 April - 11 May 2009)

[OK, so it doesn't look like 5 zines in the pic but believe us there's one hidden underneath. We don't sell you short- Mail Order Dept]

The narratives became less erratic over this period, with more care taken to trim the wiry hedges growing alongside it's consciousness stream, keeping the water flowing in a way that, although not
peaceful, at least make a bit more sense, with less backwards waterfalls and stretched metaphors. Topics covered included avoiding zine-burnout, audio equipment nerd-dom, starting a shitcore band, contemplating zines as a priveleged passtime, and frustrations with psychotherapy.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

It's about anxiety and chronic pain. It was typed/written between December 2009 and July 2009 on a Brother Deluxe 762TR.

42 pages, 15 cm x 10 cm

This issue as compiled over a series of late nights hunched over the laptop, trying to do something constructive with those late hours. In between reading about the economy and fretting over the inevitable engineered catastrophic collapse or watching documentries about the 9/11 inside job and sweating over the evidence, I wrote about the following records. This has been an excercise in paranoia and heightened awareness, the coyote in the desert.

16 pages, 30 cm x 21 cm PO Box 239 North Carlton VIC 3054

distorttheworld@gmail.com http://www.culthardcore.org/

This issue features interviews with Waste Management, Wasted Time and Watery Love, plus a Straightjacket Nation SE Asia tour diary.

There's no program with this fanzine, and the content basically reflects my interests. I would like to reconfigure the discussions around punk and hardcore records from adolescent fantasies to something that can interest people past high school / unity days...A lot of people misinterpret the modern day fanzine phenomena and fascination with cult hardcore and punk bands that Distort is a participant of as nostalgia, a desire to insert yourself into the Wonder Years with Tesco Vee as your Kevin Arnold...

16 pages, 30 cm x 21 cm

PO Box 239 North Carlton VIC 3054 distorttheworld@gmail.com

http://www.culthardcore.org/

Personal zine detailing the ins and outs of, and justification of, maintaining an expensive Blythe doll collection.

32 pages, 15 cm x 10.5 cm Includes mini zine written after 'falling out of the hobby' and comes in super cute red envelope

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

runawaykite@gmail.com 

Spiffy, shaggy, jumble-headed, shiney-eyed, tall-tale-telling and true

katebree@gmail.com

16 pages, 10.5 cm x 8 cm

52 pages of found material, some pages with additional stencil art over them. Each copy has its own unique cover with stencil art.

15 cm x 11 cm, 52 pages

www.667u.com