About three years ago i was on the dole (job seekers allowance.) i’d just finished a course learning to teach english as a foreign language and was feeling pretty pleased with myself / like i deserved a rest after zero educational breaks between age 3 and age 21. my housemate ralph and i would subsist on a diet of free tofurkey schnitzels and purdy’s multivitamin juice from the holland and barrett down the road (when company policy is don’t lock eyes they might be dangerous, then every one is a delicious winner) i had a gigantic room, staying up until 8.30am was totally legit, and you could see the sea from my bedroom. what came out of these months, otherwise lost to binbags full of empty cans, was modern hate vibe.
ISSUE ONE – Completed the first week of december, 2007
this is what i said about it at the time (i used to write in an annoyingly slangy way, i’ve tried to curb that)
“shit is getting ragged. its freezing outside, shoes are soaked, no amount of gravy can heal this. xerox salvation is on its way, modern hate vibe issue one, a fanzine in the fine tradition, high contrast black white and nasty. expect nice design and rude talk. i’m starting off local(ish), interviews with shitty limits and cold ones, some insight on the overrated/venerated/oughta-be-cremated holy trinity of opinion forming, an informative how-to of hardcore tiers, diggin in the crates for the record nerdarious, and samples of the kinds of aimlessly bilious rants that are an everyday feature in our house”
there are none left. i’m a bit embarrased by it, but it’s out there. may reprint at some point.
After that, I moved to London.
ISSUE TWO – MHV ‘Chronicles of Gnarlier’ (Completed last week of July 2008)
I tried a bit harder with the interviews in this.
- Mob Rules
- DFJ (Mind Eraser)
- Ironclad
‘Columns’ if you will include amongst others:
- Review of the last Lintfabriek gig
- Panic on the streets of Brixton: South Wales to South London
- Five things I learnt from the Wu Tang Manual
- Why you should listen to Poison Idea
- Rinko Kikuchi, Lil Wayne and Chloe Sevigny
- Five things I learnt from the Anti-Matter Anthology
- Citalopram is the new Cocaine: Batshit Grans & The Flatline Generation
- A (Drunk) Treatise on ‘Saving’ Hardcore
I caught a reasonable amount of shit for some of the opinions in this, and generally felt a bit weirded out by its ‘reception.’ nothing that controversial, by most people’s standards. despite the fact that everyones got a messageboard opinion, i guess these zine starved times (in southern UK at least) meant that a lot of people took it to mean that if i’d bothered to ‘publish’ something, i thought my word was absolute truth. There are some left, I think.
ISSUE THREE MHV – Triceraflops/Fluxine (finished May 2009)
Interviews with:
Brian Walsby – Double Negative
Tommy Stupid – The Stupids
Chris Bickel – In/Humanity
I got into buying weird books about fluxus happenings, june paik, site specific art and all kinds of stuff i was trying to challenge my (by then half flayed from the below employment) brain into processing, so this zine was illustrated with that stuff. I didn’t try and write about it though. I got really gripey about referential hipperati, resulting in an article entitled ‘No renaissance: cutting through fuzz pop’s shit caked underbelly.’ Mediation on Immigration, Belgium as a state of mind (basically a shitty/sceptres tour report but hopefully less boring) lessons learnt from Crucifix.
I have just reprinted this one.
Including all fees and postage, paypal this address:
Including all fees and postage, paypal this address:
£1.50 in the UK
£1.80 in the EU
£2.20 to the US
£2.40 to CAN
£3.00 to AUS
ish. or buy it at shows, i always have some on me, they might be a bit dogeared. get in touch for everything else. i love trades. comment here.
number four will happen soon, like really, soon, honestly, ive only being saying that a year.
