TQ Zine #61 - fanzine UK - Maio de 2023

 

TQ Zine #61 - fanzine UK - Maio de 2023

48 páginas - capa e contracapa a cores - papel brilhante e grosso/pesado

papel e lay-out bons

Editorial

Hello Dear Reader, and Welcome to TQ61. You will be aware that the blogsite recently underwent a revamp. Thanks for those who got in touch, feedback has been 100% positive. Don’t forget to be a regular visitor otherwise you will miss out the new EXTQRA feature.

Check it out – www.tqzine.blogspot.com

We continue to be extremely busy here at TQHQ as plans to revamp the physical zine get underway. The changes will be subtle and gradual, but rest assured your favourite features are going nowhere. We hope you continue to like what we are doing.

That’s enough about the future, and we will leave Trixie (front cover star) to ponder the exciting features coming soon. What about the issue you currently hold in your hands?

“DIVE IN.

READ.

INVESTIGATE,

LISTEN,…”

We have interviews with Jay Reeve of the Muteant Sounds netlabel and with Rutger Van Zuydervelt AKA Machinefabriek.

There are reviews aplenty as we consider the WAVELENGHT electronic music clubs inaugural get together, an album titled simply + which sees Machinefabriek working with over 50 collaborators, TQLive with Gidouille, TSR2 and BigRoadBreaker, we pop our head around the door at an intimate Bartholomew gig, we gatecrash the Tyneside Improvisers Workshop, and lastly (but in no way least) we review the 150-minute continuous performance curated by Auntie Joy and featuring The Church Bell Ringers, John Pope, Sally Pilkington, Christian Alderson and Faye MacCalman, plus cameo sets from NofC and TQ.

Additional features include a treatise on How to Make Music, Tony Van Dorst speaks to us about cataloguing his collection and what he’s been listening to, and there’s an extended piece on The Agar Band.

While stocks last, subscriber goodies include:

- A DL Code for Live at The Fulford Arms by TSR2, with several lucky readers also receiving a code for their debut album, Divebomber.

- 29 subscribers receive a code for the Colour Tones album by Machinefabriek

- A code for a random album from the MuteAnt Sounds back catalogue.

So, until next time dear readers, dive in, read, investigate, listen, and support the scene in any way you can. Your next TQ will be a bumper Summer Special, so get your sun hats, sunscreen, deck chairs and curious ears ready.

TarQuin // May 2023

TQ Zine #58/59 - fanzine UK - nº duplo - Janeiro de 2023

 TQ Zine #58/59 - fanzine UK - nº duplo - Janeiro de 2023

TQ Zine - Fanzine Underground UK - Janeiro de 2020 - Issue 27

 

To welcome in 2020 Team TQ are Giving subscribers 3 freebies (While stocks last)

1. No Audience Underground – The Board Game designed and supplied by Chris Whitehead allows you to experience the highs and lows of being part of the DIY subculture without ever leaving your armchair (except to go and fetch a dice and some counters before you start). Imagine the excitement as you play gigs, test a fab new pedal and maybe even get reviewed in The Wire! It all culminates In the most prestigious accolade possible: your picture at the cover of TQ. As the Ramones put it:

“Ho! Hey! Let’s play!”

2. BVRTH (pronounced “birth”) is the latest from Boston born musician Derek Virta, currently based in Hungary. Your free album download can be redeemed at: http://bvrth.bandcamp.com/yum. The songs are an exploratory eclectic, fluid mix of electronic and freak folk elements.

3. Animal Wife is the debut physical release from Pinnel, and somewhere in your package you will find a CDr copy. Many of you will remember her set as Tusk 2018 where she transfixed the audience. This album is no less mesmerizing and is part of her Blue Topography project. We caught up with Lindsay at Supernatural Café, Newcastle for an insight into the project and in particular the recording of the album. Thanks also to Lindsay for the cover design.

 

So, that’s the freebies sorted, what else have we to tickle your buds?

. In the centre of this issue you have a feature dedicated to the sounds of St James Infirmary and his 20019 almanac series of CDr’s.

. We ponder the mysteries of WIP

. Last year’s Woodland Gathering in Cumbria, England gets a fair outing

. What happens when you move to Suffolk and need to find new experimental DIY sounds?

 

Thanks this issue: Al Reed, Ash Cooke, Chris Whitehead, Darren Holloway, Gary Raine, Gary W Lang, Jo Wood, Lindsay Duncanson, Paul Wormhole, Matthew Shenton

 

TQ Email: andywood23@hotmail.com

TQ Post: TQHQ, Evenwood, Ovington, Northumberland, NE42 6DN, England

TQ Blog: tqzine.blogspot.com

 

TQN-aut label: Releases planned for January and February – tqzine.bandcamp.com

Pinnel – Animal Wife

Whalt Thisney – EARTHIS

Stuart Chalmers – The Heart of Instinct

Carniverous Plants – Colloquial Emabrs

Alan Morse Davies – Jung Shop Radio

St James Infirmary – Annoyances No. 6

Cowboy Flying Sucer – Live in Layton

 

TQN-aut gigs:

8^th March, The Pod, Sunderland Glass Centre, Shunyata Improvisation Group & Pinnel, 1.00pm. £5

25^th April, Star & Shadow, Newcastle, Shit Creek & Posset, 8.30pm. £5.

 

TQ27 – January 2022

TarQuin x

TQ Zine - 55: Fanzine TQ55: Fanzine música: Fanzine Julho 2022

Fanzine

TQ Zine

Issue 55

Julho de 2022

48 páginas

UK

http://tqzine.blogspot.com/

 O TQ zine é um magazine / fanzine que recupera, em todos os sentidos, o espírito DIY dos famosos e numerosos fanzines dos anos 80. Com melhor apresentação, face aos meios técnicos ao nosso dispor neste época, não deixa de evidenciar, mal olhamos para ele, o referido espírito DYI. É aliás fruto do trabalho "solitário" de Andrew Wood, aka Andy Wood, aka TarQuin, aka @TarQuin23. Já vai no número 55 e só agora o descobri, pelo que este é o primeiro número aqui recenseado. A assinatura de 6 ou 7 números é barata e tem a vantagem de não parar na alfândega (pelo menos este não parou). Vale bem a pena. Confiram em http://tqzine.blogspot.com/.

É ainda possível comprar os números atrasados, se bem que muitos (e dos mais interessantes) estejam esgotados, como por exemplo, um dedicado em exclusivo a Kaus Dinger (arghhh) - TQ48 - . A propósito, este é um fanzine essencialmente dedicado à música, mas com a particularidade de cada número ser temático e de a música ser abordada nas suas mais variadas vertentes. No caos do presente número, o tema é a música, ou antes, os músicos e a doença mental. Vários artigos e entrevistas debruçam-se sobre esta problemática duma forma muito honesta, directa e frontal. Os músicos e a música tratados neste fanzine são todos "underground" e desconhecidos. Estão a ver já, é aqui que está o que interessa. Neste e noutros fanzines mais obscuros que, como disse no início, desde há uns tempos começaram de novo a florescer, logo a seguir às cassetes :-)

Last but not the least, cada fanzine é sempre acompanhado por um conjunto de yum-codes que permitem o download das versões digitais de trabalhos, principalmente dos músicos que contribuem para esse número do fanzine... isto para além de 7 ou 8 de boas-vindas, aquando da subscrição do fanzine.

Deixo-vos, abaixo, com o editorial de Kieran Mahon, que co-edita este número é é um músico já relativamente conhecido no meio. A entrevista de fundo é com o John Geiger Ohlin, aka The New Emphatic.

TQ55 – ‘The Mental Health Issue’ is available from 15th July and is a massive 48 pages and includes up to 4 subscriber only Yum Codes from;

Difficult Art and Music

Jonas Geiger Ohlin

Megaheadphoneboy

The New Emphatic

EDITORIAL

TQ55 has been co-edited by Kieran Mahon & TarQuin

Why bother? A while back I wrote to Tar Quin and suggested that I maight submit a piece for TQ on the subject of being a creative person and balancing this with everyday life and the many challenges this brings. I certainly felt like I had something I wanted get off of my own chest about this, but Andy suggested it might be a good idea to expand upon this theme and create a special issuel dedicated to mental health. I'd like to thank him for this and the opportunity to contribute to TQ alongside a handful of my musical peers. I'd also like to thank him for his patiente with me and the stream of missed deadlines along the way.

The tortured artist trope has always been questionable, but does being a creative person lead to certain outcomes? If you make music and you are part of a small/no audience underground, are there periods of despondency and why do they happen? How does a person balance their creative needs with the everyday responsibilities of family, work and paying bills? Has social media added pressure and expectations to the mix?

When you've spent hours and hours crafting a sprawling noise symphony that's taken every ounce of your heart and mind, that you somehow found the time and space to make, how do you feel three days after sharing when Bandcamp stats tell you no one has downloaded, and no one has even listened to more than four minutes of your 45 minutes piece? And you feel embarassed sharing it one more time on Twitter because the harsh indifference is too much to take, and you don't want to moan about it on there again. Or post that, "Sod it, I am giving up" message - again, and all the while you can see the successes of others and they eat away at you. You know you're supposed to be a better person than that.

What do you do when you've not been able to sit sown and focus on the idea that's been in your head because you get home from work knackered each evening, and the dinners need cooking, the clothes need washing, and you're got a debt nagging at you, and you've lost the power cable to your mixer somewhere in the bedroom, and you still don't have a space to set your gear properly, but the idea doesn't go away and instead becomes a monster, no longer giving you pleasure at the creative possibilities, but now just another weight on your mind. A burden.

Yet you keep going. Because it isn't a choice. It is just what you do. And on better days you realise that is how it is for everyone, one way or another. The universe isn't conspiring against you. You will find time. You will make time. Because you must.

Then, just before you hit 'send' on your doom Tweet you see that two people have downloaded your latest offering, and someone else has posted a nice comment about it. This isn't trivial. It is what you need. Just a little bit of recognition from yourself. You're doing the right thing. Keep going.

Kieran.

Colaboradores deste número:

Kieran Mahon

Paul PMZ

Ola Aldous

Jonas Geiger Ohlin

Chris Whitehead

Beano

Daniel Hignell

Andy Myers

Ian Cusack

Daniel Gregory

Acep Hale

Tarquin