scrap(p)ing the barrel (nut)
February 8, 2016 at 12:49 pm | Posted in art, blog info, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: dex wright, dr. adolf steg, gary simmons, hiroshima yeah!, joe murray, joined by wire, julian bradley, mark ritchie, michael clough, microzine, paul walsh, stephen woolley, tape noise, the barrel nut, zanntone
Oh well,
[Editor sighs, picks at bits of glu-stik and newsprint stuck to his palms, sucks blood from site of paper cut]
…that was fun, eh?
It is with sadness that I announce that the new, long delayed, issue #14 of The Barrel Nut will be the last and, aside from a handful of paper copies for contributors, will be distributed in digital formats only. This is a drag but a triple whammy death blow has been dealt by a) time poverty b) my access to ‘free’ photocopying being curtailed by, *ahem*, circumstances and c) silly postal charges.
Regarding this final point, it is profoundly depressing to see the offline world of mail art, zine culture and other barter economies being constricted by the prohibitive cost of shifting physical objects. Plenty of fun remains to be had, of course, and I salute those still at it, but I am joining the retreat. Living with a privatised postal service sucks major donkey balls and if you reside in a country where your national service is being run down/softened up to make its flesh palatable to those vultures then I suggest you fight against it.
OK, freed from the obligations of its usual microzine format this issue is presented as a series of full page pdfs/jpegs to be downloaded and/or printed out by the reader. Featured artwork is a representative sample of remaining submissions and the names will be familiar to regular readers – I hope you are entertained. This, and all previous issues, will be available via the The Barrel Nut page (tabbed above) until the coming alien invasion unleashes its server-destroying electro-magnetic pulse. Roll call:
- The cover is by me,
- page two is more scanner/photocopier EVP phenomena filtered by Michael Clough,
- Dex Wright, a.k.a. Tape Noise, mauls ferric oxide on page three,
- weird symmetries by Zanntone’s Paul Walsh slide across page four,
- page five presents the collaged thoughts of Gary Simmons and Mark Ritchie of the print-only Hiroshima Yeah! zine (donbirnam@hotmail.com),
- Stephen Woolley of Joined By Wire leaves tire tracks across page six,
- deep-fried brainwaves crackle up and down page seven, courtesy of Adolf Steg
- …and lastly we have typographical and cut-up dada from Julian Bradley and RFM’s own Joe Murray to play over the credits.
It’s a belting finale, that’s for sure. Here’s the files – individual page scans are of better quality but the ‘whole thing as one pdf file’ is handier for those busy zine readers on the go:
Individual pages as jpegs:
Individual pages as pdfs:
14 – 5 – Gary Simmons and Mark Ritchie
14 – 8 – Julian Bradley and Joe Murray, credits
The whole thing as a pdf:
Many thanks to all those who have been involved – it’s been a right laugh.
—ooOoo—
christmas card from a blogger in chapel allerton: finally, the barrel nut #11!
December 4, 2014 at 10:49 am | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: collage, copier art, cut-ups, dada, dr. adolf steg, gary simmons, hiroshima yeah!, joe murray, mark ritchie, michael clough, no audience underground, posset, scanner art, text score, the barrel nut, visual art, yol, zines
Bloody hell, it has been nearly six months since the last issue dropped! Bet you thought I’d discretely shoved this barmy little project down the back of the sofa. Well, I could make up a whimsical nonsense story to account for the delay (erm… lost on a yeti hunt? Nope – used that one) but the sad fact is that I’ve just been busy with other things. Still, who can resist the zen calm to be found in folding a bunch of these zines at the kitchen table? Not me. Also, I thought it might be nice to do something special seeing as it is the fifth anniversary of RFM this month so not only does a shiny new issue appear but, for the first time, it is DOUBLE SIDED. Woo!
Wrapped in the usual dada silliness by your truly you will find cut-up collage by RFM’s own Joe Murray and Hiroshima Yeah!’s Mark Ritchie (big themes: space, god, death, n’ that) and proper art that looks like a Bauhaus photographic experiment by Mark’s co-writer Gary Simmons, plus an indication of his financial situation and a terminal film still from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Barrel Nut regular Yol praises King Coffee on the tomb wall and offers sage personal advice in the form of one of his rolling text scores/typewriter screeds. Dr. Adolf Steg of (the already much missed) Spon offers some vaguely dermatological doodling with newspaper headline addenda and finally Michael Clough gets an unheard of four-panel spread for an example of his unnerving scanner art ‘totems’ series. It is top notch stuff.
Should you be a recent convert to this blog and thus have no idea what I am talking about, here’s a repeat of the basics:
The Barrel Nut is a microzine – a single sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded to make an eight panel (per side), A7 pamphlet. Paper copies will be distributed to anyone who wants one, or who has expressed an interest in the past. I’ll bring some to gigs I attend and a bunch will be passed around by those with a similar love of the post.
Should you be so inclined then you are very welcome to download and print out your own. Links to the latest issue in jpeg and pdf formats are below (you’ll need to trim the print-out down one edge to make it fold properly). Some more context, assembly instructions and previous issues can be found on The Barrel Nut’s own page (tabbed above).
Should you wish to contribute artwork then I would be very grateful indeed. Submissions need to look OK when reproduced as a black and white photocopy and be 7cm by 10cm in size (or scalable to roughly those dimensions). Good quality scans attached to an email are fine, originals sent in the post ideal. Please get in touch.
All contributors should have their copies by now, it was available to pick up at the gig last week and a bunch more will have been distributed with the latest issue of Hiroshima Yeah! Subscriber copies will be in the post soonish – consider it a Christmas card from the RFM family. Contributions still always welcome – if you like this little distraction then please feel free to send me something. More will follow in the fresh New Year.
The Barrel Nut issue #11 FRONT as a pdf file
The Barrel Nut issue #11 BACK as a pdf file
nictate your membranes for the barrel nut issue #10!
July 15, 2014 at 8:21 pm | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: collage, cut-ups, dada, foldhead, gary simmons, hiroshima yeah!, joe murray, no audience underground, paul walsh, photography, text score, the barrel nut, visual art, yol, zines
Confidants, low-rollers, members of the 50-copies legion! The editor is proud to groan sleepily that the latest issue of The Barrel Nut has arrived and that a double figure issue count has been reached. Blimey! The reviews of the previous issue are in:
That’s some classic mail art shit right there.
…says PJM of the awesome Node Pajomo fanzine (paper/post only folks) and dare I say this issue rattles the bars even harder.
RFM co-writer and hep cat Joe Murray takes the first two pages to cut-up jazz/beat style with some discombobulating appropriation. Funny, poignant, rug-tugging. The centre spread sees Nut-fave Yol present a percussive illustration/text score set comprising of one word/sound. Could be a transcription of a recent performance for TV remote control and laminate floor by my son Thomas. Finally we have contrasting photographs – one a glorious evocation of freedom through art caught by Gary Simmons of Hiroshima Yeah! fanzine, the other a mysterious, possibly squalid, record of Mirfield detritus taken by Paul Walsh of foldhead and early hominids. Who knows, eh?
For anyone new to this momentary distraction, here’s some dog-eared explanatory bumpf:
The Barrel Nut is a microzine – a single sided, single sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded to make an eight panel, A7 pamphlet. Paper copies will be distributed to anyone who wants one, or who has expressed an interest in the past. I’ll bring some to gigs I attend and a bunch will be passed around by those with a similar love of the post.
Should you be so inclined then you are very welcome to download and print out your own. Links to the latest issue in jpeg and pdf formats are below (you’ll need to trim the print-out a bit down one edge to make it fold properly). Some more context, assembly instructions and previous issues can be found on The Barrel Nut’s own page (tabbed above).
Should you wish to contribute artwork then I would be very grateful indeed. Submissions need to look OK when reproduced as a black and white photocopy and be 7cm by 10cm in size (or scalable to roughly those dimensions). Good quality scans attached to an email are fine, originals sent in the post ideal. Please get in touch.
As ever, I’m proud to bring this to your attention. A fun issue, I think. Contributors and subscribers will be receiving copies in the post in due course. A bunch will be distributed by the redoubtable Hiroshima Yeah! fanzine. Links to downloadable versions below, as promised.
I’m in the lovely position of having a few contributions for future issues in hand but submissions always brighten the day. If you like this little project then please feel free to send me something. C’mon – get the crayons out and remember to ask an adult for help with the scissors. Dada safe, kids.
art imitates life imitating art in the barrel nut issue #9!
May 20, 2014 at 8:02 pm | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | 2 CommentsTags: aqua dentata, eddie nuttall, gary simmons, hiroshima yeah!, idwal fisher, mark ritchie, mark wharton, no audience underground, the bald heads of noise, the barrel nut, visual art, zines
Comrades, castaways, fellow members of the gutter elite! Radio Free Midwich proudly boasts of finding issue number 9 of The Barrel Nut stuffed down the back of art’s sofa: a momentary delight for those of heightened aesthetic awareness but sorely limited attention span.
We begin strong with two pages of pavement photography from Eddie Nuttall of Aqua Dentata. He is a contemporary master of the well-tempered drone – each piece by him a comfortably warm iceberg – and his visual art has a similar austere intensity. Here he proves, alas, that the streets of London are not paved with gold but instead awash with suspiciously milky discharge…
The centrefold contains another hilarious four panel gag strip from Uncle Mark Wharton of the essential Idwal Fisher blog. This time the bald heads of noise enjoy a night in the pub doing what they like best: talking bollocks about music whilst quaffing the ale. That’s you that is – just show this to your partner and they will nod in rueful recognition.
Finally, we have a tag team effort from the brothers of Hiroshima Yeah! fanzine. Gary Simmons provides a photograph of life literally imitating art – and what life! What art! – whilst Mark Ritchie follows it with some sage advice for the working stiff presented in compelling collage form.
Cracking stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree. For anyone new to this party (you’ll have to refill the chip-‘n’-dip, I’m afraid) here’s some reheated explanatory blurb:
The Barrel Nut is a microzine – a single sided, single sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded to make an eight panel, A7 pamphlet. Paper copies will be distributed to anyone who wants one, or who has expressed an interest in the past. I’ll bring some to gigs I attend and a bunch will be passed around by those with a similar love of the post.
Should you be so inclined then you are very welcome to download and print out your own. Links to the latest issue in jpeg and pdf formats are below (you’ll need to trim the print-out a bit down one edge to make it fold properly). Some more context, assembly instructions and previous issues can be found on The Barrel Nut’s own page (tabbed above).
Should you wish to contribute artwork then I would be very grateful indeed. Submissions need to look OK when reproduced as a black and white photocopy and be 7cm by 10cm in size (or scalable to roughly those dimensions). Good quality scans attached to an email are fine, originals sent in the post ideal. Please get in touch.
As ever, I’m proud to bring this to your attention. Contributors and subscribers will be receiving copies in the post in due course. Links to downloadable versions below, as promised.
I shall finish by repeating my customary plea: leaving aside a dwindling stockpile of stuff by the regulars I am in need of submissions for future issues. If you like this little project then please feel free to send me something.
The Barrel Nut issue #9 as a pdf file
The Barrel Nut issue #9 as a jpeg file
get yerself free with the barrel nut issue #8!
April 10, 2014 at 7:53 am | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: gary simmons, hiroshima yeah!, no audience underground, robert ridley-shackleton, sophie cooper, the barrel nut, visual art, zines
Ladies and gentlemen, RFM is delighted to announce the arrival of lucky number 8 in the continuing series of puzzling art pamphlets known as The Barrel Nut. This issue has a carefully thought out narrative throughline and absolutely wasn’t just gummed together on the kitchen table as I tried to ignore my son coughing through the baby monitor.
The first two pages are more prison sketches from (now freed) Gary Simmons of Hiroshima Yeah! fanzine, dating from the early days of his sentence as he languished in Pentonville – his skilful draughtsmanship only enhancing the brick-bound despair.
The centrefold is given over to two tremendous collages of detritus from friend-of-RFM Robert Ridley-Shackleton. I was delighted to receive these examples of junkyard exuberance in the post so as well as the slightly trimmed black and white versions you’ll find in the microzine I’ve headed this post with full colour scans of the originals.
Finally, we have two lovely autobiographical cartoons from Sophie Cooper. The first a beautifully free sketch of her on the step painting her toenails in the Summer heat, the second a character swamped by his or her own guitar – a simple but effective comic metaphor for the overwhelming nature of creative endeavour.
So there you have it: from imprisonment, through artistic chaos, to freedom. Clever, eh? The cover collages are by me, as usual – the symbol of the crossed slugs celebrating the arrival of Spring and the growing season…
Just in case you are new to this (hello post-oTo-archive-post readers!) and are wondering what I’m talking about here’s the usual explanatory blurb:
The Barrel Nut is a microzine – a single sided, single sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded to make an eight panel, A7 pamphlet. Paper copies will be distributed to anyone who wants one, or who has expressed an interest in the past. I’ll bring some to gigs I attend and a bunch will be passed around by those with a similar love of the post.
Should you be so inclined then you are very welcome to download and print out your own. Links to the latest issue in jpeg and pdf formats are below (you’ll need to trim the print-out a bit down one edge to make it fold properly). Some more context, assembly instructions and previous issues can be found on The Barrel Nut’s own page (tabbed above).
Should you wish to contribute artwork then I would be very grateful indeed. Submissions need to look OK when reproduced as a black and white photocopy and be 7cm by 10cm in size (or scalable to roughly those dimensions). Good quality scans attached to an email are fine, originals sent in the post ideal. Please get in touch.
As ever, I’m proud to bring this to your attention. Contributors and subscribers will be receiving copies in the post in due course. Links to downloadable versions below, as promised. May I repeat my cutomary plea? Leaving aside a rainy day stockpile of stuff by the regulars I am in need of submissions for future issues. If you dig this odd little project then please feel free to give it a go.
The Barrel Nut issue #8 as a pdf file
The Barrel Nut issue #8 as a jpeg file
the barrel nut #6 and #7: double barrelled!
February 23, 2014 at 10:08 pm | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | 4 CommentsTags: collage, cut-ups, dex wright, gary simmons, hiroshima yeah!, joe murray, julian bradley, lucia foster, mark ritchie, michael clough, no audience underground, posset, tapenoise, the barrel nut, visual art, yol, zines
The more zine-hungry amongst you will have noticed that during my recent illness I was, sadly, only able to publish one issue of The Barrel Nut microzine. However, I’m glad to say that despite this unavoidable slowdown the plaudits kept coming in. It was voted ‘The North’s most charming noise/art delivery system’ by Members Aflame! – the newsletter of the Campaign for Civility in Power Electronics and was awarded an unprecedented 4.5 star-shaped sensory appendages out of 5 by Tago Mi-Go – the journal of Lovecraftian Krautrock studies (heh, heh – lolz – that nugget of comedy gold dedicated to Paul Walsh who celebrated his 50th birthday last week – happy belated returns!). This approbation has spurred me on to publish issues #6 and #7 simultaneously, thus recovering some of the lost ground.
Newbies might be wondering what I’m on about. Well here’s me self-quoting some explanatory blurb (those in the know can skip it):
A microzine is a single sided, single sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded to make an eight panel, A7 pamphlet. Paper copies will be distributed to anyone who wants one, or who has expressed an interest in the past. I’ll bring some to gigs I attend and a bunch will be passed around by those with a similar love of the post.
Should you be all internet-enabled n’ that then you are very welcome to download and print out your own. It’s well salt-and-shake! Links to the latest issue in jpeg and pdf formats are below (you’ll need to trim the print-out a bit down one edge to make it fold properly). Some more context, assembly instructions and previous issues can be found on the Nut’s own page (tabbed above).
Should you wish to contribute artwork then I would be very grateful indeed. Submissions need to look OK when reproduced as a black and white photocopy and be 7cm by 10cm in size (or scalable to roughly those dimensions). Good quality scans attached to an email are fine, originals sent in the post ideal. Please get in touch.
So there you have it…
Some really terrific contributions this time around. We have gnomic poetry and lollipop toting ghost children from Julian Bradley of Zellaby Award winners The Piss Superstion – a chap who should be better known for his exceptional graphic work. We have the monarch of the glen being prepared to become ‘value’ lasagne and a comment on the moustachioed breed of hipsterism by Yol, master of the starkly black and white and a TBN regular. We are celebrating the release from prison of Hiroshima Yeah!’s Gary Simmons with a bleak sketch of a cell window and a collage made during his time incarcerated (the smears are toothpaste – he wasn’t allowed glue). His fellow HY! editor Mark Ritchie contributes a poem-ish cut-up as does RFM’s very own Joe Murray, of Posset infamy. We have Michael Clough to thank for donating a double-page spread of elegant minimalism built from offcuts created whilst constructing one of his photocopier experiments (of which more anon). Hard stares for Dex Wright of Tapenoise who lays down some paranoia-inducing, exuberantly worked, outsider Cubism. Finally, we are treated to an unnerving sketch by Lucia Foster, a Mexican based illustrator affiliated to Miguel Perez’s Oracle Netlabel/Agorafobia Tapes axis. Her work is new to me and I hope to see more of it in future.
I’m proud to bring this lot to your attention. Contributors and subscribers will be receiving copies in the post in due course. Links to downloadable versions below, as promised. A plea: leaving aside a rainy day stockpile of stuff by the regulars I am in need of submissions for future issues. If you’ve ever fancied giving it a go then now is the time to get the crayons out…
The Barrel Nut #6 as a pdf file
The Barrel Nut #6 as a jpeg file
new product! tj cuckoo sings yol: vox-object on hairdryer excommunication
February 17, 2014 at 9:54 am | Posted in new music, no audience underground | 2 CommentsTags: drone, hairdryer excommunication, kevin sanders, midwich, new music, no audience underground, noise, shameless self-congratulation, text score, the barrel nut, tj cuckoo, yol
tj cuckoo – vox-object (3″ CD-r, hairdryer excommunication, edition of 15 or download)
Ladies and gentlemen, RFM is delighted to announce the second release by tj cuckoo – vox-object – now available from hairdryer excommunication, the impeccable label run by Kevin Sanders.
Following the runaway success of too tired to eat, too hungry to sleep (the first tj cuckoo release, a C10 on Matching Head – literally some people were interested) I’ve decided to keep this alias for any non-midwichian noise emanating from these parts, especially that featuring and/or inspired by my baby son Thomas.
Tom does not feature this time but his pre-verbal jabbering, chuntering, shouting and bibbling inspired me to attempt a couple of things I’ve never done before. Firstly: perform a score and secondly: use my voice in a recording.
The score is the third of three text pieces by Yol that I have published in The Barrel Nut, the RFM microzine. Anyone unfamiliar with Yol’s work as artist or performer is missing something unique and I recommend clicking on the links below or the tag above and setting time aside to catch up. Anyone unfamiliar with The Barrel Nut can click on the link to #5 below, or its page tab above, and get the skinny there – free treats for anyone interested in zines, graphics and the DIY aesthetic. Anyway, this is the piece I’m referring to:
The more I looked at it and the more I heard Thomas chattering to himself, the more I fancied giving it a go. Tracks one, two and four are performances of the ‘vox’ column. The first is an intimate rendition having been woken in the middle of the night by the boy yelping in his sleep. In the second I mimic his shuffling by kicking the dictaphone about as I record. The final version is accompanied by a percussive rummage in the toy box. The third track is an interpretation of the ‘object’ column. Unlike Yol, I am far too timid to contemplate actually destroying something, so my conflagration (or not) is a 16 minute drone track built from heavily filtered domestic recordings.
Here’s Kev’s account:
vox-object features three tracks of pre-linguistic attempts at communication with a longer, more caustic track to boot. The guttural numbers are invariably more successful, communicatively speaking, then any hitherto fully formed words (or sentences), images or semaphore that have been used to communicate…er…erm… anything. Seriously. I have no ‘idea’, but a very deep understanding of why.
Fired in the kiln alongside the shorter throatings is a wonderous track featuring Hayler’s deft droning abilities. Detailed, grainy, dark drones crackle through thine ears until thee be burned out and ready to tackle one more explication of being. Prepare to have your skull seriously bent around this beast.
A mere fifteen copies exist on 3″ cdr with simple black and white photocopies of Yol’s score and the usual hXe stamps and typewritten accoutrement.
Cool, eh? I’ll have a few for trade shortly, Kev is selling the remainder for a token, cost-covering amount. Otherwise available to freely download from the hXe site (which is a very high quality resource that you should frequent frequently) alongside its sister release Clusters, clutter and other ephemera by the man Kevin himself.
Released, by the way, with Yol’s blessing – why not have a go at it yourself?
vox-object on the hairdryer excommunication blog
the barrel nut #4: punk rock, richard gere, vegetarian black pudding
October 26, 2013 at 9:01 am | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: crater lake sound, dr. adolf steg, half an abortion, hiroshima yeah!, joe murray, mark ritchie, no audience underground, pete cann, posset, spon, the barrel nut, visual art, zines
Ladies and gentlemen, RFM is delighted to announce the publication of the fourth issue of the North’s cutest noise/art microzine: The Barrel Nut. This latest number has something of a theme as most (all?) of the contributions were created semi-automatically during blank or stolen time. ‘Doodles’ I believe they are called. Hence the dense, cartoony feel created by the scrawling ids of RFM’s own Joe Murray (Posset), Pete Cann (Half an Abortion) and Dr Adolf Steg (Spon) and the wry list of work distractions admitted to by Mark Ritchie (Hiroshima Yeah!) in the poem that closes the issue.
Coincidentally, the latest issue of Spon, Steg’s alternate-world-describing zine/mail art project, is titled ‘#35: The Doodle Issue’ and comprises many more fully worked up examples of his febrile, scatological and multi-dimensional imagination. Thus I’ve taken the liberty of twinning the two publications. Please consider TBN#4 to be a vestigial outgrowth sprouting from the side of Steg’s more substantial mutant offspring. Contact him to get on his mailing list.
For those coming to this raw, a microzine is a single sided, single sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded to make an eight panel, A7 pamphlet. Paper copies will be distributed to anyone who wants one, or who has expressed an interest in the past. I’ll bring some to any gigs I attend and a bunch will be passed around by those with a similar love of the post.
Should you wish to get all 21st Century about it then you are very welcome to print out and create your own. It’s well DIY-techno-punk, innit? Links to the latest issue in jpg and pdf formats (in full colour!) are below. Assembly instructions and previous issues also in downloadable formats can be found on the Nut’s own page (also tabbed above).
Should you wish to contribute artwork then I would be very grateful indeed. Submissions need to look OK when reproduced as a black and white photocopy and be 7cm by 10cm in size (or scalable to roughly those dimensions). Good quality scans attached to an email are fine, originals sent in the post ideal. Get in touch.
gags, girls, impenetrable oddness: life’s a riot with the barrel nut #3
September 10, 2013 at 12:04 am | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: culver, idwal fisher, joe murray, lee stokoe, letraset, mark wharton, matching head, microzine, no audience underground, posset, shameless self-congratulation, the bald heads of noise, the barrel nut, visual art, yol, zines
Friends, it gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of the third issue of The Barrel Nut.
Just to recap for those at the back, TBN is a microzine – that is: a single sided sheet of A4 paper cleverly folded into an eight panel A7 pamphlet – featuring artwork submitted by comrades affiliated to what this blog cheekily calls the ‘no-audience underground’. It exists purely because it is fun for it to do so.
Issue #3 is wrapped in cover collages by yours truly and contains a gag strip by Mark Wharton of Idwal Fisher, heroines of vintage porn as sketched by Lee Stokoe of Culver, Skullflower etc., another of Joe Murray’s improv typography pieces – the dictaphonic bonkerness of Posset transcribed – and a creepy line drawing by blog fave shoutmonger Yol. Entertaining stuff from a strong line up.
Some paper copies will be distributed via arcane means, some can be had from me direct. Following the Hiroshima Yeah! model, enquiring about how to subscribe appears to be more or less the same thing as subscribing. Alternatively, you can go all ‘salt-and-shake’ and do it yourself. Copies in either jpg or pdf formats can be downloaded by clicking…
…and printed out at your convenience.
For pictorial instructions on how to self-assemble please see The Barrel Nut page tabbed above. There you will also find details on how to contribute artwork (submissions very welcome), some background on the project and links to files containing the previous issues. If this dinky artefact tickles you then please spread the word.
Today’s guest critic is Thomas James Hayler who can be seen above gleefully deconstructing his preview copy. The result of his analysis is presented below:
the barrel nut strikes back: #2 hot off the/your press!
August 15, 2013 at 1:01 pm | Posted in art, no audience underground, not bloody music | Leave a commentTags: hiroshima yeah!, joe murray, mark ritchie, no audience underground, posset, shameless self-congratulation, the barrel nut, the truth about frank, visual art, yol, zines
Ladies and gentlemen, Radio Free Midwich is happy to announce the arrival of the second issue of The Barrel Nut microzine. I was delighted by the level of interest shown in the first issue of this humble project and would like to thank those who have contributed or have promised to do so in the future.
For those coming late to the party: The Barrel Nut is a monthlyish publication comprising one single-sided sheet of A4, cleverly folded into an A7 booklet (the scan above is much larger than life), featuring artwork by prominent members of the no-audience underground. It is officially ‘well cute’ according to Northern Pamphlet Compiler magazine and has been verified as ‘awesome’ by the UK Fanzine Council.
Paper copies can be had from me, or from certain select outlets, or can be printed out by visitors to this blog. Instructions on how to contribute, how to subscribe and how to assemble self-printed copies can all be found on The Barrel Nut page which is tabbed above. The latter option has proved very popular – ‘salt and shake’ fanzines are clearly the future…
The second issue contains more line drawing and another performance score by Yol, some great upset typography (letraset jazz?) from RFM staffer and dictaphonic maestro Joe Murray of Posset, plus bonkers collage from Leeds noisters The Truth About Frank and Mark Ritchie of Hiroshima Yeah! See for yourself:
The Barrel Nut issue #2 as a pdf file
The Barrel Nut Issue #2 as a jpeg file
Contributions to future issues very welcome. No excuses ‘cos it is only tiny – lick your nib and get on with it!
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