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Boy’s Own (issue ?) YEAR: 1989 CREATED BY: Terry Farley, Andrew Weatherall, Cymon Eckel and Steven Hall LOCATION: London SIZE: A4 WHAT’S INSIDE…. A zine from the last month of the last year of the 1980s…. By this time a gazillion fanzines had been published in the UK since the start of the punk rock explosion, covering a multitude of musical styles that had emerged in its wake. Football fanzines had also established themselves as an integral part of our national game. Boy’s Own was started in 1986 by a group of young clubbers who were friends with DJ Paul Oakenfold and right where they needed to be as acid house began to take off in the UK. One of their inspirations was Liverpool fanzine The End, which irreverently mixed up music, football, poetry, fashion, humour, booze, drugs and politics (some of the zine’s writers also ended up in indie-dance band The Farm). Each issue of Boy’s Own contained a list of “uppers and downers”, just like The End’s list of “ins and outs”. After sampling the club scene in Ibiza and discovering a new euphoria-enhancing drug called ecstasy, the Boy’s Own crew became associated with London’s first acid house clubs. Andrew Weatherall DJed at Danny Rampling’s Shoom, and Terry Farley DJed at Paul Oakenfold’s Future night at Heaven. They soon began hosting their own outdoor raves, helping to start a movement that would inspire any number of “Shock! Horror!” headlines in the tabloid press. They eventually formed their own record label and (if I remember correctly) also invented the phrase “it’s all gone Pete Tong”…. And in a similar way to the first punk zines, Boy’s Own reflected the enormous changes in Britain’s youth culture and fashion that were driven by house music and ecstasy in the late 1980s. This issue of the zine even includes the acid house equivalent of one of the most iconic expressions of the punk ethos (a picture of some badly drawn guitar chord charts accompanied by the words “THIS IS A CHORD - THIS IS ANOTHER - THIS IS A THIRD - NOW FORM A BAND”) that appeared in the first issue of Sideburns fanzine in January 1977 (although the Boy’s Own crew wrongly attribute it to Mark Perry’s Sniffin’ Glue). The acid house/ecstasy/rave scene was every bit as seismic as punk had been a decade earlier and also inspired a new generation of bands who were influenced by dance music (something that New Order had already pioneered since the early 1980s), the best of which were based in and around Manchester - which became known as Madchester at the time - and was also home to the Hacienda night club, which many people regarded as the epicentre of acid house. Some existing indie bands decided to completely change their sound and join the smiley/baggy/indie-dance revolution - most notably, Primal Scream. Andrew Weatherall’s production work on their album “Screamadelica” helped the band to create an influential blend of rock and rave music, especially on the iconic “Higher Than The Sun” - a track that perfectly captured the mood of the era. This issue of Boy’s Own features Flowered Up, a London band who managed to make a couple of half decent records while attempting to be the southern equivalent of Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses. Looking through the records in the Boy’s Own charts, most of them would sound a bit lame today, with the notable exception of “The Sun Rising” by The Beloved. New releases include “Madchester Rave On - The Remixes” by Happy Mondays, which features a remix of “Hallelujah” by Paul Oakenfold and Andy Weatherall, and a remix of “Rave On” by Paul Oakenfold and Terry Farley. There’s also cartoons, readers’ letters, lifestyle tips, bouncer horror stories, girl’s own nightmares, moody flyers, Viz comic, the Kray twins and much more. It’s often true that the pioneers of a scene end up getting pissed off when it goes mainstream, and in an article titled “Paradise Lost”, the Boy’s Own crew also reminisce about the halcyon days of clubbing before the riff raff started jumping on the bandwagon. Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine’s pages…. Andrew Weatherall was one of the greatest DJs of all time, and after his death in 2020, a group of fans created The Weatherdrive: a Google Drive folder containing hundreds of hours of his studio mixes, live recordings and radio shows. The complete collection of Boy’s Own fanzines was published in a book called “Boy’s Own, The Complete Fanzines 1986-92: Acid House Scrapes And Capers” but it’s been out of print for years and I’m not prepared to fork out a fortune for a second hand copy…. my box of 1980s fanzines flickr

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Seattle’s Fallen

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Happy Birthday to the one and only, LOML, Nuno Bettencourt 💘

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They awkward and I love em

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Things Every Classic Rock Fan has Done

1. Searched “Kiss” and got people kissing instead of the band.

2. Searched “Slash” and got a bunch of fanfic instead of the guitarist.

3. Tried to sing the high and low parts of Bohemian Rhapsody at the same time.

4. Affectionately roasted your favorite rockstar. Ex: “David Bowie, you’re a dramatic alien thot and I’d protect you with my life”.

5. Sang the guitar solo of a song just as loud as you sing the actual lyrics.

6. Seen a picture of your favorite rockstar looking like a whole-ass meal and had to remind yourself that the picture was taken 25+ years ago and they don’t look like that anymore (NOTE: does not apply if you find 70+ year old men attractive).

7. *sees a lemon* “Ha, nice Led Zeppelin reference!”

8. Watched a video of your favorite concert that your favorite band played and debated selling your soul to go see it live (mine is Queen at the Rainbow ‘74).

9. Gotten the Beatles mixed up and felt really bad about it later.

10. *sees a ultra-rare good-quality photo/video of your favorite band/musican* [PTERODACTYL SCREECH]

11. *looks at picture for .0453 seconds* “Oh yeah that’s (insert musician) at (insert concert) on (insert date) at around (insert time) and he was playing (insert song) on (insert instrument) and you can tell because-“.

12. Worn a really cool and outlandish outfit because it looks like something Elton John would’ve worn.

13. Turned your headphones up as loud as it will go so you can hear the bass pounding in your chest.

14. Cried over the deaths of people who died before you were even born.

15. Have spent your life savings on band merch, concert tickets, and vinyls.

16. Read/watched The Dirt and wondered how any of the Mötley Crüe boys are still alive.

17. Had a favorite David Bowie alter ego.

18. Freaked out when you saw Gene Simmons’ tongue doing the thing. You know what I mean.

19. “Oh my god, Angus and Hamish are so short!”

20. Gotten super jealous of the fabulous hair of your favorite glam rock bands because let’s be real, yours will never look that good.

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Slash // Pics that make me lose it

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I’d like to thank the powers that be for these pictures.

Slash // Poolside

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I’ll never get sick of DZ selling

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The guy that started my love of wrestling 🤙🏼

Reblog this with a GIF of your 1st favorite wrestler.

I’ll start! Miss you, Hot Rod.

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this post is to thank all my followers, love u guys

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Hi. I uh love Finn. Bye

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Welcome to my TED talk, in which I will discuss my love of GN’R’s glam phase.

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Concept art by Elliot Scott (images 1–3) and Brian Froud Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986), plus a background.

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Thats so funny how Slash is asking ‘Is that the mic?’ And then screams ‘Yo Mom’ and how he is laughing about that.

And Duff then screaming ‘SLASH!’ and they’re like talking through Axl’s interview and then Axl goes ‘Great you just blew everything’ And slash just ‘Oh sorry he gave me my shades’

It’s hilarious.