JULY gig listings out now - plus zine fairs in Other Cities
Hello, paper punks. Hope you've had a bountiful and not-too-bloody-hot June, which has if anything been my favourite month of gigs so far this year with Physique, Ribbon Stage, Gamma, Keno, R.Aggs and Screaming Females (and that's with me missing Sial, Savageheads and DJ Travella, fuck!) Will this momentum last with homegrown bands this summer... well, let's have a look:
July's listings are online now – a little early, and with nearly 60 events spanning punk, hardcore, electronic nonsense, experimental days and club nights across the capital. This page was printed earlier than usual and another run will be done soon, so if I've missed your event there's still time to get it online: email me, and don't forget the DIY Listings London website too. Hard copies are going to be at BOOKS Peckham with others sent to All Ages, Rough Trade and World of Echo too, and will be at gigs wherever I am.
Anyway! I'm going on holiday tomorrow so will be 'out-of-office' until Monday 10th July. (This means that if you want to grab a zine, it won't be posted until then, so go find in the city!) Out of the country and then back for Glasgow Zine Fest, where I'm excited to be tabling all weekend, although a bit worried about jet lag and selling London-centric media, but there we go.
And after that, I'll be at Scunny Zine Fest - the very first in my hometown - on Sunday 30th July. The temptation is there to collect up all I've found about the Scunthorpe and Grimsby punk/post-punk scene, from the Instant Automatons and their peerless noise to the bands on Household Shocks, the 1980 compilation reissued by Dark Entries a few years back (there's a copy at Tome if anyone's interested!) If that gets sorted then expect copies down south too.
And then there's Alternative Strategies: three quarters of the zine have been sold or distributed and the planning for issue four will begin soon. Everyone who's bought and subscribed is a big legend, thank you. I hear Static Shock Weekend and Hoodstock are coming up again; best take a camera and a dictaphone or two...
Take care, enjoy yourselves, silly times ahead - - B P / A S