Set lists. They're like the hidden hieroglyphics of rock'n'roll. Usually scribbled out quickly just moments before the bands hit stage. Sometimes misspelled, and written in a near code-form that often only makes sense to those in the band. If the band has been together for a while, and knows the songs and each other well, this can be taken to extremes. (Check out Dallas Crane's set list on page 14!)

They're gaffered to the monitor or mike stands, or simply dropped around the stage. Far more than a poster/handbill of the event, or a t-shirt, they are about the moment - the short while that a band is on stage at an exact point in time. An essential item for 30 to 60 minutes, and a forgotten scrap afterwards.

Here's 45 of those moments. Try and decode them. Spot the mistakes. Look for the most repeated words. Remember the moments.

lazyliberty@hotmail.com

February 2009

21 cm x 15 cm, 62 pages

...I came across these notes last week while attempting to clean my room and saw a rather strange parallel. Perhaps I didn't consciously realise it but every Electrelane song is associated with something very specific for me - people and experiences lost, only to be recaptured through lyric and melody. Is this my form of eternal return?

15 cm x 11 cm, 16 pages

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.com

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

Anyone who's stood still long enough on a Melbourne street corner will know: This town has a lively music scene. Being for the most part a small town scene, most subgenres tend to get along just fine, sharing venues, bookers and the city night. However recently a rift has begun to emerge - a genre has become shunned...

14 cm x 10 cm, 20 pages.

www.maudefarrugia.blogspot.com

...A little while ago I noticed that I had all these fine, transparent hairs covering my face. Similar to the fuzz of a peach. Now, that doesn't seem right. I am not a peach. Perhaps I am a freak. But you can't notice them without inspecting me at point-blank range, so I don't care. Speaking of translucent (as I did, um, 49 words ago), did you know that the meaning of the word opaque has changed, so that apparently it can now mean either see through or transparent? That is crazy!....

PO Box 1497 East Vic Park WA 6981

The longstanding legendary pop culture trash magazine for the discerning layabout. This issue includes Those who didn't even make it to 25 (More rock and roll morbid death stuff); Notes from the street, a We Are Family crossword, Boring beer coasters, Bubblegum confidential, AC/DC mythbusters and so much more. Seriously. A lot more. Too much more.

March 2009

30 cm x 21 cm, 62 pages of madness

8 Derrick St Lalor VIC 3075

I was up in arms...and down on my luck

15 cm x 10 cm, 14 loose leaf cards bound with string

have.you.ever@hotmail.com

Don't you sometimes wonder what will be tomorrow's Shakespeare? I know, at the time, Shakespeare's plays were like the soap operas of the time, but do you really see a bunch of future school-kids sitting down to study Home and Away? There's something else out there that's totally awesome, cool and diabolically suitable study material. The endlessly enlightening; Kung Fu...

15 cm x 11 cm, 24 pages including Free Compliments poster and 7/11 compliment vouchers on request

cameronbaker@live.com.au

You know how you're listening to some great music, or watching an amazing film, or read a perfect sentence, and you get that shiver that runs all the way down your spine? It's like an overload of appreciation and excitement that turns into something physical and spills down your back. For me, nothing does it better than the sound of Robert Plant singing "to be the rock / and the roooooooooooooooooollllllll.'

15 cm x 11 cm, 24 pages.

cameronbaker@live.com.au

This is the part where I should have some sort of massive write up on the analysis of a seminal hardcore band right? With a name like Nothing Like A Beatdown there probably should be big fucking chunks of texts outlining why 25 ta life is fucking king. Why 'let da past be da past' makes me want to take my shirt off, pull out a brick and beat the living shit out of you...

PO Box 1156 North Richmond VIC 3121

Hi, I'm Rebecca. Saturday 23rd January 2010...8.10pm try to play game boy colour - having back light issues. 10.30pm Graham Coxon mega music-a-thon. 1.05am I brush my teeth...

21 cm x 15 cm, 12 pages.

rebeccasheedy@live.com, www.aargh.net, www.flickr.com/rebeccasaurus

Because the 2008 diary wasn't primarily meant to be zeen content, the blather entries are sometimes a tad more personal. If you were hoping for my scandalous and juciest of revelations circa 2008, this zeen has the greatest potential to meet your needs. This is probably my most embarrassing zeen to date, so I'm hoping, should that be your desire, you'll be a little disappointed.

28 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 108 Unley SA 5061

yummylychees@spin.net.au

We're starting to see some effects of the Liquor Licensing blitz. Rumours flying around the hospitality industry have mentioned a range of interesting stories. Some venues have found to be in breach of license and fined accordingly. Others have allegedly been fined for allowing staff to have a knock-off drink after closing. Small band venues are also finding that the letter of the law is harming the live music scene due to some license restrictions and related overheads if music is performed...

21 cm x 15 cm, 20 pages

stubbybuddyzine@gmail.com

When a person listens to Triple J radio on a regular basis, one might be lured into the false impression that each week's "Featured Artist" must possess some interesting or redeemable qualities to receive all that airplay. One might even be so deluded as to find these artists enjoyable, on a multitude of levels. If you fit into this category, I want you to know, they are not good music...

30 cm x 21 cm, 32 pages. Includes CD!

62 Washington Ave, Tingalpa QLD 4173, dirtyalley@msn.com

I started to voraciously read Dolly and Girlfriend magazines when I was about twelve or thirteen. They cost about $3.50 and were sold at the servo on the corner near my mum's house. I felt guilty about reading them...

10 cm x 11 cm, 12 pages.

Sure it was a good 12 years ago when Geri left - prompting the remaining lot to rank in more unpopular than ABBA, BUT the team at Virgo still gets teary eyed whenever the tabloids use them as space fillers. So naturally we wanna dedicate this issue to ourselves, for being fans, and for keeping Girl Power alive on a hospital machine for another few months.

21 cm x 15 cm, 12 pages

This is a split zine bringing together two heavy weights of the Australian zine underworld with the theme of 'metal' (as in heavy metal, or no metal at all).  The YOU half is issue #353 of the weekly,
anonymous, free, paper zine from Melbourne.  YOU has been produced every week since November 2001 and usually takes the form of a hand-written letter sealed with staples in a paper bag.  

The Westside Angst half is issue #13 of the long running Adelaide zine Westside Angst made by Dr Ianto Ware.  Dr Ware's half of the zine is devoted entirely to Motorhead.  

This zine is notable for being launched inNewcastle at midnight on the Saturday night of the This Is Not Art Festival weekend, 2008.  The zine was launched at The Obelisk as the clock struck midnight and a copy of the zine was set on fire on a sundial as a crowd of hardcore zine fans cheered while Manowar played on a walkman and Slayer played on a lap-top.

40 pages, 21 cm x 14 cm

This zine is something of a legend. 'You' is a free, anonymous, weekly zine from Melbourne Australia, made and distributed since 2001. It involves a letter addressed to you from various writers, usually handwritten, often sealed in a paper bag and signed off 'from Luke' but may be also written by different people. This zine has been known to be typed in Braille, appear inside cigarette boxes, cassette tapes, noodle boxes, and has assumed the form of a CD and an hour long DVD. The zine usually appears in English but issues have included Spanish, French, Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian. Every week there's a different issue - see what issues you score through the magic of mail order! And if you're super keen, check out the anthology of the first five years.

variable dimensions.

The free, anonymous, weekly zine from Melbourne Australia comes in various dimensions and packaging, and here's the anthology of the first five years published by Breakdown Press. You started appearing on the streets of Melbourne in November 2001 and since then appears weekly around the world.

YOU involves a letter addressed to you from various writers, usually handwritten, often sealed in a paper bag and signed off 'from Luke' but may be also written by different people. This zine has been known to be typed in Braille, appear inside cigarette boxes, cassette tapes, noodle boxes, and has assumed the form of a CD and an hour long DVD. The zine usually appears in English but issues have included Spanish, French, Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian. 

24 cm x 19 cm. It's a book. that's how many pages.