Fanzines

Manchester District Music Archive, in association with Manchester Histories Festival, is hosting a panel discussing the history and legacy and Manchester’s alternative music publications.

Chaired by Dave (‘Debris’) Haslam, the panel includes Mike Don from Mole Express (legendary local underground paper with its heyday in the early 1970s), plus Liz Naylor’ (of post-punk City Fun fame), Bob Dickinson (a contributor to the likes of New Manchester Review, and City Fun), and Dan Russell (from the contemporary fanzine Things Happen).

Expect the panellists to recount tales of Manchester’s music scene; to celebrate fanzines and analyse their relationship to the music scene, to the political underground, and to other independent and/or marginalised cultural activity in past eras; and to discuss the significance of fanzines and other self-published/alternative publications in an era of blogs, digital technology and social media.