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The Fanzine Podcast

25 EpisodesProduced by Tony FletcherWebsite

Join Tony Fletcher as he interviews fanzine editors past and present, along with authors, curators and anyone else contributing to the prevalence and preservation of the home-spun DIY press.Tony Fletcher started Jamming! fanzine as a 13-year old schoolboy in 1977, and went on to publish 36 issues an… read more

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

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Ep. 23: Sniffin' Glue with Mark Perry

February 29th, 2024

1:37:58

To win a copy of the compendium, Sniffin’ Glue and Other Rock’n’Roll Habits, published by Omnibus Press, as mentioned on this episode, please visit

Ep. 22: Perzines Are Awesome with Liz Mason & Billy McCall

February 1st, 2024

1:14:04

Liz Mason and Billy McCall are two of the more prominent U.S. “publishers” of what are affectionately called “perzines,” fanzines as expression of …

Ep. 21: NYC's Ira Robbins (Trouser Press) & Jack Rabid (The Big Takeover)

December 21st, 2023

1:11:42

The Fanzine Podcast finally gets across the Atlantic, and talks to two of the mainstays of the New York 'zine scene.


Ira Robbins started Trouser Press

Ep. 20: What Was The First Ever Fanzine?

November 22nd, 2023

1:00:11
What was the first ever fanzine?


When was it published? In what country? What did it write about? Where can I find it? When was the word fanzine coined? By who? Where does it come from? What is a Gestetner? Or a Roneo? …

Ep. 19: Postcard from Post-Punk Scotland with Bobby Bluebell & Alastair McKay

October 18th, 2023

1:10:32

For an episode playlist, to see covers and pages of these zines, and for much more about the fanzine culture in general, visit Midweek Update #12: …

Ep. 18: Modzines and the Mod Scene with Eddie Piller

September 20th, 2023

1:08:16

"No other youth culture or subculture centred on fashion or music, or both, has ever had as many fanzines dedicated to it as the mod revival."


So …

Ep. 17: Confessions of an Ex-Zine Editor

August 23rd, 2023

57:49

Ten years after she ceased publishing her 2000s rock’n’roll fanzine Bubblegum Slut due to the lifestyle it induced (i.e. drug addiction), Alison B.

Ep. 16: James Brown & Mark Hodkinson (Attack On Bzag/Untermensch

July 20th, 2023

1:32:18

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James Brown and Mark Hodkinson both hail from the Pennine District in Northern England. Both ran fanzines in the 1980s (Attack on …

Ep. 15: Miki Berenyi & Clare Wadd (Alphabet Soup/Kvatch)

June 15th, 2023

1:27:14

In the mid-1980s, before she became known for fronting the band Lush, Miki Berenyi put out five issues of Alphabet Soup fanzine (“It may be crap but it’s only 5p”) alongside her then-bestie and future band-mate, Emma …

Ep. 14: Bloody Revolutions with Toxic Grafity's Mike Diboll

May 17th, 2023

59:21

Mike Diboll founded, produced and published the leading anarcho-punk fanzine TOXIC GRAFITY, producing six issues between 1978-82 "with various …

Ep. 13: Ripped & Torn with Tony D.

March 16th, 2023

1:20:18

Tony D. – Tony Drayton to his parents - was founder, publisher and editor of the archetypal, seminal, influential punk fanzine, Ripped & Torn, …

Ep. 12: Archiving a City's Zine Scene

February 16th, 2023

57:50

Back in 1980, Alan Rider started a fanzine in Coventry called Adventures in Reality. Over in Southend-on-Sea, Graham Burnett started his own fanzine called New Crimes. Forty years later, independently, without knowing …

Ep. 11: A History of British Zines

January 20th, 2023

58:47

THE JAMMING! FANZINE PODCAST is back after a year in exile, now as a Podcast for and about all Fanzines, though still hosted by former Jamming! editor/publisher Tony Fletcher. For this first episode of a new …

Ep. 10: Series 1 Finale with James Endeacott & Tony Fletcher

February 17th, 2022

59:47

We close out the first Series/Season of the Jamming! Fanzine Podcast with an interview conducted by James Endeacott, for Soho Radio's Morning Glory show, with Jamming! founder Tony Fletcher. The conversation traces the …

Ep. 9: Jamming! Records with Rudi, Zeitgeist & Apocalypse

February 3rd, 2022

1:05:16

In the middle of 1981, Jamming! expanded from fanzine to record label. Between that summer and the end of 1982, Jamming! Records released five singles, all of them independent chart hits: two from the band Rudi, three …

Ep. 8: Tales from the Trenches

January 13th, 2022

1:05:31

Tony Fletcher reunites with Bruce Dessau, Ross Fortune and Paul Davies, each of whom wrote extensively for Jamming! during its commercial heyday, …

Ep. 7: The Importance of Being Virgin

December 16th, 2021

59:26

Tony Fletcher reunites with musician/composer Jim ‘JG’ Thirlwell, DJ Wendy May, and Dimple Records boss Brian O’Neill, all of whom he first met in the late 1970s when they bought copies of Jamming! off him while they …

Ep. 6: Morrissey, Frankie, Natalie & Bronski

December 2nd, 2021

1:02:29

Chris Heath is a writer for The Atlantic, GQ and Vanity Fair, and author of several books. Russell Young is a visual artist with a background in music photography, sleeve design and video directing. Both got their …

Ep. 5: The Birth of Creation with Alan McGee

November 18th, 2021

59:21

This episode is a co-production with the Fifty Years of Fun podcast.


In Jamming! 13, published in the spring of 1982, a 17-yr old Tony Fletcher wrote …

Ep. 4: The Politics of Fanzines

November 4th, 2021

57:38

Tony Fletcher hosts a conversation with three fellow former fanzine editors and Jamming! contributors, Tim Kelly (Revolutionary Suicide/Fanzine of …

Ep. 3: Image as Virus with Joly of Better Badges

October 21st, 2021

55:49

Between 1976-82, Joly MacFie printed some 40,000,000 badges (pins, in the USA) related to music culture. Along the way his company Better Badges grew …

Ep. 2: Mods and Sods with Mark Bedford, Guy Pratt and Buddy Ascott

October 7th, 2021

59:27

For this episode, we spin back to 1979, for a lively and laughter-filled conversation with two famous bass players and a drummer: Mark ‘Bedders’ Bedford of Madness, Guy Pratt (then of Speedball) and Brett ‘Buddy’ Ascott …

Ep. 1: From Classroom To Clubs

September 23rd, 2021

55:58

For this debut episode of The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast, Tony Fletcher connects with three old friends who all played an important part in the …

Introducing... The Jamming! Fanzine Podcast

September 15th, 2021

2:46

Welcome to the Jamming! Fanzine podcast hosted by Tony Fletcher. In late 1977, as a schoolkid in South London inspired by the DIY culture of punk, I …

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