{"product_id":"southend-on-zine-graham-burnett","title":"Southend On Zine Graham Burnett","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eover 200 pages and featuring a wealth of interviews and dozens of beautifully reproduced full-page covers and original artwork, this book by Graham Burnett is both a history and a celebration of Southend’s often forgotten ‘alternative’ and DIY culture, as told through the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epages of the fanzines, people’s papers and community magazines made in the town between 1971 and 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMention Southend on Sea in casual conversation to anybody that doesn’t live here and it’s not unlikely that the response will be a condescending snigger about Kiss-Me-Quick hats or else some quip about Essex Girls, White Van Man or reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex. But there’s always been more to Southend than the often grotesque caricatures of diamond geezers, wannabe gangsters, fake tans, white stilettos and tacky seafront nightclubs and boozers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith interviews and oral histories covering seminal titles from the last 50 years such as\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlive and Kicking,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlternative Estuary\u003c\/span\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmon*Spek, Arse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOats,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAvant, Bang,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCheesy,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlowers and Beads,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrrrl in Print,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHard As Nails, The Heckler, Iliad, Level 4,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eManaged Retreat, Mushroom,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNaked Tongue,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNecrology,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Clear Product, New Crimes, Noisy!, Precinct Press, The\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScene,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe SLAB,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStrangehaven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrawler,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto name but a few, and reproducing a wealth of covers, artwork and photographs throughout, Southend on Zine is both a history and a celebration of ‘alternative’ Southend, as told in their own words by those who were (and in many cases still are!) there; the self-publishers, counterculturalists, community organisers, activists, agitators, punks, sussed skins, young folk rebels, independent promoters, street artists, jester minstrels, anarchists, feminists, avant garde festival organisers, graphic novelists, indie entrepreneurs, poets, film makers, mental health activists, MCs, free-jazzers, allotmenteers, Essex Girl Liberationists, bioregional explorers, riot grrrls, psychedelic dream makers and all the other change agents who have in one way or another been involved with Southend’s ‘peoples press’, and have contributed to the story that makes this town buzzing, diverse, innovative, radical and amazing…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Focal Point Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42862401421475,"sku":"o","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/6633\/3347\/products\/SouthendonZine.png?v=1662119465","url":"https:\/\/focal-point-gallery.myshopify.com\/products\/southend-on-zine-graham-burnett","provider":"Focal Point Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}