party fears – Rocknerd

Stu Spasm’s Wikipedia article now has an old photo of him.

24 April, 202329 April, 2023 Film, Indie, Rock 1

Tales from 1986, when I was nineteen and just embarking on making my youth suitably dissolute.

B-Side #14, early 1986: Wet Taxis, Porcelain Bus, Feedtime, Ups & Downs, Mick Harvey/Bad Seeds, John Kennedy’s Love Gone Wrong.

12 October, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

This is the last of the B-Side for the moment. I have a few scraps of other stuff to put up …

B-Side #13, December 1985: Deniz Tek, Ku Klux Frankenstein, Ed Kuepper/Laughing Clowns, Huxton Creepers, X, Happy Hate Me Nots, Beach Nuts, Louis Tillett, Itchy Rat

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And a four-page cartoon in the middle.

B-Side #12, late 1985: Scientists, The Eastern Dark, The Stems, Deniz Tek, Behind The Magnolia Curtain, Mark Ferrie, Reactor Records.

10 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

More procrastination on other things!

B-Side #11, June 1985: Tex Perkins, The Shindiggers, Decline of the Reptiles, Eugene Chadbourne, 21 Faces, The Celibate Rifles, Harem Scarem.

5 September, 20216 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

I basically commend all of this coverage.

B-Side #10, April 1985: James Baker Experience, Triffids, Lipstick Killers, Saints, Tactics, New York garage psych roundup.

1 September, 20211 September, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

Remember when you could get this sort of goodness for a dollar?

B-Side 4½, June–July 1984: Celibate Rifles, True West, J.F.K. and the Cuban Crisis, Clinton Walker on The Next Thing

31 August, 2021 Indie, Rock, Writing 0

B-Side was the Australian indie rock fanzine of the time. Just slabs of text about good bands and records. I straight-up lifted its format for Party Fears.

Vortex #6, Dec 1987–Jan 1988: Kryptonics, Kim Salmon, Stems, Stolen Picassos, Errol H. Tout, Bacen Asagai, Cremator, Scarlets, Die Monster Die, And An A, 10,000 Maniacs, White Cross, The Cult

8 August, 20218 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 0

And that about wraps it up for Vortex!

Vortex #5, August 1987: Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Go-Betweens, Stolen Picassos, Gay Marvins, Martha’s Vineyard, Weddings Parties Anything, Chad’s Tree, Concrete Blonde

6 August, 20216 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 0

I’m on a roll here, or I’m procrastinating like hell on other things.

Vortex #4, May–June 1987: Palisades, Scientists, The Cult, Sparklers, Reels, New Order, Matt Johnson/The The, Errol H. Tout, The Clash.

5 August, 2021 Indie, Writing 3

I said previously I’d have the rest of Vortex up by the end of 2020, no worries. This proved incorrect.

1986-87 Perth fanzine Vortex scanned and up on the Party Fears page.

11 March, 201712 March, 2017 Indie, Writing 4

From the bowels of time, we bring you Vortex magazine, Perth 1986-1987.

Party Fears #1, 2 and 3 scanned and online.

15 November, 201212 April, 2017 Rocknerd 2

I figured out the scanner at work, so expect this page to fill out nicely. The early pop-kid days of Party Fears, with the

Party Fears #6 scanned and online.

25 October, 201212 April, 2017 Rocknerd 0

Description and scans, only twenty-five years after the fact. Psychotic Turnbuckles, David Nichols, Deadly Hume, Die Monster Die, Headonist, Jackals, Kryptonics, And An A,

Party Fears index updates and #11 up.

10 August, 200912 April, 2017 Rocknerd 0

The archive of my Perth ’80s–’90s Perth indie rock zine Party Fears has been updated, with the addition of a PDF of #11 and

Rocknerd editor beats Bon Scott to award; ego crushes London.

3 June, 200412 April, 2017 Rocknerd 4

Your humble editor has been inducted into the WA Music Industry Association‘s Hall of Fame, owing to an unfortunate incident thirteen years ago involving