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‘Encyclopaedia of Ecstasy,’ incredible anarcho-goth-punk zine from 1983
I’ve hardly encountered a specimen from the postpunk years of the early 1980s that better exemplified how mixed up and stimulating all the categories were getting, than The Encyclopaedia of Ecstasy, Vol. 1, an utterly mind-boggling zine put out by Alistair Livingston in 1983. Livingston had/has associations with the anarchist collective/zine Kill Your Pet Puppy which ran from 1979 to 1984…. he references Crass and Bauhaus and Blood and Roses. While one wouldn’t necessarily expect that a...
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Not sure if this qualifies as a 'snap', but I'm new here, so I crave your indulgence - this is material from the UK, and dates way back to 1979 ( emerging from what was 'Kill Your Puppy', finding inspiration in IT and OZ magazines, it combined the bizarre ethos of hippy, post-punk anarcho-chaos magick, and opened the way for Vague magazine ( and consequently the style of ID etc). There are a myriad of links contained within, including comments from creator Alistair Livingston and a link to his current blog. I was inspired to post this when someone mentioned the dearth of 'zines pre -1990...