DEFIANT POSE 4 64 A5 Digest pages:1982-3 Brazilian Punk,Keith Levene(Clash/PiL)
interview,Moors Murderers,Kevin Carter,Gulf War,Kosovo,Haile
Selassie,Seattle guide,Irish Punk,’77 Fanzines and more(Aug.2001)
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DEFIANT POSE 5 28 A5 Digest pages:Subway Sect Special,old cuttings/interviews etc(2002)
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the likes of Circle One,Germs,Artistic Decline,Detox,R.Pettibon,
Hollywood Squares,Weirdos.All the gang warfare,intolerance,
juvenilia and general teenage hijinks you can handle,plus of course
those old perennials,drug abuse and premature-death! Also,
interviews w/Dave Markey(Sin 34) and writer Iris Berry(2003)
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DEFIANT POSE 7 A5 Digest pages:Fanzines,a potted history/tribute from 1976 to now.
Again,it’s shameless and just a little anal,but with enough panache
to keep it out of trainspotter-territory.Histories,reprints,funny tales
from the best in subterranean UK Punk publishing,mainly
concentrating on 1976-79,with shorter bits on the Crass-style
‘zines and late 80’s stuff *****OUT 2006*****
DEFIANT POSE 8 A5 Digest pages:casting a wider net this time around,interviews
with Brits on the dodge in Spain,plus Flowers Of Romance(Sid
Vicious et al),that old Groucho Marxist label from Scotland(XS
Discharge and co),Serbs in Kosovo,WW2 German War fiction,
with 70-minute CD-R full of obscure/rare/unreleased UK
Punk 1978-85,much taken from long-forgotten tapes:Sons Of
Badbreath,God Told Me To Do It,3rd Party,Snap-ons,State Hate,
Decadent Few,The Stench,No Defenses and more
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IN PLANNING STAGE:
MICHAEL KIRK-Kaput 18 A5 Digest pages.Fiction.Scathing,witty,happy-sad-mad
stories ranging from hero-worship to Somalia to Stalingrad,
health camps,lonely dictators and Punk
WALTER NOWOTNY-(Title?).Semi-Fiction.Short story,the authors’ doomed love
affair amongst the piss-pools,vomit and beer boys of a
Spanish package holiday
This is a project with depth.Not only is it large(with pages often running eight point type).but most every page can be viewed from multiple valid perspectives.Kosovo,Siouxsie,The Slits,reprints of intense quotes and news articles with no focus(albeit plenty of piss and vinegar).This is all the aesthetic from which a grand narrative of punk rock over the past 30 years is interspersed.This tale is told through “old timers” reviewing records,interviews with cultural critics,and show reviews from 25 years ago.On second thought,this is an intense exercise in a slightly imbalanced neurosis.
And a pleasure to behold. MAXIMUMROCKNROLL 222
This is the stuff.A real punk fanzine choc-a-block with pictures,cuttings,pisstakes,
rants,bile,interviews covering music,politics,hypocrisy…It’s irreverent,it don’t give
a shit.It’s essential…Defiant Pose is THE punk rock fanzine. PUNK THROWBACK 4
For sheer individuality and depth of writing,this is intoxicating stuff.It’s good to see
Mike finally publish some of his writings.This zine is scrappy,disjointed,confusing,
and has the scathing bite of true Punk Rock,something largely lost these days.It’s just
chock full of various news clippings,writing of description and despair,bits of interviews,
bad attitude,and a real ‘fuck you’ spit-in-your-face venom.Most of the material is of or
about the dark side of humanity/society….Get hold of this,before it becomes legend.
The last edition of this apparently appeared in 1977 or thereabouts,so it’s little wonder
its pages are still very much greased by the punk rock beast.Not in a bad way,however.
The editor,rather,is derisive of today’s capitalistic glancing back at this period as he is of
all the mythologising….DP might be swathed in a little too much punk rock clothing for
most of you reading this(well,I surmise…)but,for all the Brazilian hardcore punk records
reviewed,there’s a great first part to a Keith Levene interview,some agreeable rants,a
dash of politics,and an interview with a Gulf War veteran.This isn’t saying much,but
I’d rather this over something focusing on yet more tenth-rate industrial-noise groups
any day. ADVERSE EFFECT Vol.2 # 5
Am I thick or missing the point or something? I don’t know but I kept feeling this ‘zine
was going straight over my head.It’s part chaotic 80’s cut’n’paste,but with a lot of
pretention thrown in.Apparently issues 1-3 came out about twenty years ago,and it’s a
nice idea exhuming your old ‘zine-makes a change from all the has-beens getting their
fourth-rate bands together again.But I get the impression this is the kind of fanzine
someone who really loves stuff like ATV would produce.Good,and different,but I just
couldn’t relate to it at all-apparently they are “taking the fanzine back from the speccy
plastic-bag toting nerds”,which sounds a bit like fighting talk to this speccy(yet still
immensely hard,witty and handsome….)fanzine editor.Slightly up its own arse,but
still worth a look. HEADWOUND 4
at a punk.Maybe a bit too nostalgic for some,but this is after all the reentry edition.And
it ain’t an easy read coz it comes at you from different angles.Defiant Pose won’t give up
it’s goods easily.And some of them are worth pursuing,but you gotta prowl it’s pages for
the booty….What stands out most about this zine is Mike’s bitter,cynical and extremely
entertaining observations on London life and the punk scene in general.I like his style
cuz he don’t bullshit.DP comes in an original cut’n’paste style,with well-picked stark
images and text peering out from beneath the page…Best of all was a hysterial Sir
George Robey(old London punk venue)spotlight,I can still smell the urine…The
knives are definitely still sharp in W11 !!!
editor Mike has really done his homework on this one and I suspect he’s practically
got every major press interview the band ever took part in.So,if like me,you were a
fan of the early punk sound,get this just to see what made bands like Subway Sect
tick. Wolfie,NIHILISM ON THE PROWL website
This is the long-awaited LA. special,all about the L.A.Hardcore scene of 1979-83.
It’s jam packed with info on all the bands,venues,labels,zines,everything.Totally
rant-tastic and passionate and all slap-dash cut’n’paste chaos.There’s photos,flyers,
cuttings,stuff on bands of the day.Writings by Brian G.T.A.,Eddie Vincent of the
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES,Jon Roa(Boat)of JUSTICE LEAGUE.Interviews
with Dave Markey(SIN 34,PAINTED WILLIE and We Got Power zine),IRIS
BERRY,as well as writings by others…It’s a headache layout-wise…but that’s
the point:no sanitised art here. ARTCORE 19
Heavy,solid,and with a massive amount of compressed text to decipher.
Highly impressive “love letter” to a scene that went the way of the dodo
around the time the Red Hot Chili Peppers were signed and X split for
the first time:a highly useful read. MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL 243
The boys at Defiant Pose have been busy and come up with this little beauty.
76 pages of clippings,interviews and reminiscences about the L.A. punk scene.
Not alinear history,in fact no structure at all,but a fanzine packed with interest
(that really should have been a book)that can be just dipped into.
catapults this zine into the ‘best of’ category amongst it’s current pen and ink
contemporaries.If like me you gotta thing for early L.A. punk then this issue
is probably the best Defiant Pose has ever put out.I think even the L.A. punks
will learn something from this feast of urban sprawl.It circles the Californian
metropolis like a vulture lunging down to take bite-size chunks from the
corpses of it’s punk bands.It’s a history lesson,but one done with flair and
passion so well worth adding to your zine collection.All this was put together
before the recent spate of books on L.A. punk hit the shelves and I bet it
covers a load of stuff not included in those books….We get a major run down
of every band that ever farted in or around L.A. county,there’s even a large
scoop on the zine scene of the day that usually gets overlooked.I’m still
reading the fucker and I suggest you do too…highly recommended.
Los Angeles punk scene.As good a read as they have been,the trouble with
them has been their rose-tinted view of the late 70s “punk scene”-X,GERMS,
WEIRDOS,GO GOs etc and their absolute disdain for what happened to
the music after “their” scene was infiltrated by the underground masses
in the early 80s.The problem for me is that,much as I like early L.A. punk
rock,it’s what came after that which I’m more interested in and as far as
I’m concerned,some of the best punk rock/hardcore music that has ever
been produced came out of L.A. in the early 80s.Bands like BLACK FLAG,
TSOL,AGENT ORANGE,SOCIAL DISTORTION and a lot of other acts
who you probably have never heard of,but meant the world to me as a
teenager….STEPMOTHERS,THE JONESES,SIMPLETONES,THE
CROWD,SHATTERED FAITH and the list goes on and on.Well,this
issue of Defiant Pose covers the shit I loved,love,and will always love.
It’s my youth,it’s what I lived for and believed in.Basically this issue is
written by a bunch of 30-somethings who should know better,but there
is something about 80s US Hardcore that never leaves you,so many
memories,songs that still sound great today,and bands that influenced
and still influence so many bands.Anyway,this jam-packed issue is a real
mess of sloppy layouts,micro-text and badly reproduced photos and
flyers…but that’s its charm,it’s covering music that was never meant to
be accepted by the clean-cut masses.These were scary times,Reagan in
the Whitehouse,Cold War tensions and the rise of the Right Wing
Christian government control…1984 was coming.There are contributions
from people who were there,and information on almost every band you
can think of from that golden era.If you have no interest in 1980s US
punk rock/hardcore then this will be of little use to you,but if you want
to learn a little more about the area scene that pre-dates NO FX,BAD
RELIGION,OFFSPRING,ALL etc,then this is mandatory material.
This is book quality literature in old school fanzine format.Absolutely
brilliant and recommended for those who are willing to learn a little
about what went before what we know now. David Stuart,FRACTURE 25