To be honest, I had forgotten about Black and White Fanzine. It emerged from the ashes of the brilliant Heat fanzine and featured some of the same writers and designers. Here’s a photo of the first 2 issues, I think only 3 issues were published in late 1979, early 1980. From a design and layout perspective, it was still miles ahead of other fanzines.  But it wasn’t as good as Heat, lacking its predecessors humour and opinion. I’ve scanned in 2 sample […]

Categories: 70s, Featured Magazines with Front Cover, Music - Alternative

I’m guessing this Dublin 11 fanzine ‘ Pop Tones’ came out in 1982. This particular issue contained an interview with Some Kind of Wonderful who had Dundalk lads, Pete Deane, Philip “Turkey” Mullen and Tommy Gilsenan, as key members. That’s Pete singing and Turkey on guitar in the photo. Turkey had previously acted as manager for the Scheme.  I’ve scanned in the full interview with them . Click for Page 1 & Page 2. Also in this issue was an […]

Categories: 80s, Featured Magazines with Front Cover, Music - Alternative