68 And finally...
Covered: Collections, publications
obsessions
Fanzines n the days before Loaded, before lads’ mags, before adverts featuring sofa-bound football fans waving their fists at imaginary televisions, the only place you could find about our culture was in fanzines. We’re not talking about the punk mags of the 1970s, but ’80s fanzines that talked about the absurdities of everyday life, a world away from the rarefied atmosphere of publications like The Face and i-D. At the centre of their world was the football ground, but The End and Boy’s Own took in fashion, music and clubs, as well as people who sold hot dogs or played Sunday league soccer. Much of this writing has now transferred online with super-sharp blogs like Oneumanship and Swine, but that need to tell stories about the ordinary and occasionally, the extraordinary is as strong as ever. The collection of publications pictured here is testament to the British male’s knack of producing something brilliant out of nothing. It’s a tradition we at Umbrella are proud to uphold.
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Words and photography by anthony teasdale
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