ANARCHIVIST ZINE

Anarchivist is a zine dedicated to documenting subcultures and history, from Melbourne and further afield. You can download issues in PDF format below. If you have any suggestions for zine content or would like more information, please email anarchivistzine [at] gmail.com

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Released in August 2013. The zine started as an adjunct to a band called Theft that had just finished recording its first (and presently only) release. Nina, the guitarist, and I put together this A5 pamphlet together with a burnt CD featuring some of the tracks, as well as a track from another band that the drummer, Gilbert, and I were playing in at the time. She did the artwork and I did the compositing and interviews. The background images in this issue all came from materials scrounged from a bin at Monash University behind the physics department, which was being demolished at the time. The accompanying music can be downloaded from here.

• Interview with Scott McLatchie (The World At A Glance, Diploid, Idle Minds, and others)
• Interview with Joe Hansen (Private Function, Break-In, Loser Denial, Clowns, and others)
• Essay on the Monash Homemaker Centre (now demolished)

ISSUE TWO

Released some time in 2015, this was just an excuse to whip up something really quickly and shove it in the zine rack in Wholefoods at Monash Uni. The tone of this issue is a bit down, and I apologise for that. It contains a few drafts of Nina's artwork, but most of it was some random bits that I had stuck together (like drain photos, inkscapes, etc.) combined with some writing from the past 10 years (including crap juvenilia). This was in A4 format and composited in Word in order to require absolute minimal production effort.

• Essay - 'The Hothouse', personal reflections on being in a band in Melbourne in early 2010s.
• Interview with Belu
• Fiction - 'Apartment'
• Interview with Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion) - originally appeared in Lot's Wife, 2011
• Essay - 'Rollins'
• Poetry - 'Something of Value' - Randall Stephens
• Poetry - 'Specious' & 'Started off busking and I can't explain myself'

ISSUE THREE - THE MODERN MUSICAL HISTORY OF SPRINGVALE

Released late 2017. A return to the hand-composited A5 format, this is the first themed issue, reflecting on the link between geography and artistic 'success' in Melbourne's music scene. Springvale seemed to be a hub of some significance for me - my mother's family and my partner's family both lived there shortly after arriving in Australia in the 1970s. My first band was based there, and I tried to get some inkling as to whether some kind of 'suburban mentality' was at fault for our perceived failure. Interestingly, two of Melbourne's most original bands, TISM and Primitive Calculators, were birthed in Springvale.

• Interview with Damian Cowell (Damian Cowell's Disco Machine, The DC3, Root! and TISM)
• Interview with Stuart Grant (Primitive Calculators and little bands)
• Interview with Scott, Reece and Mariam (Diploid)
• Interview with Francois Rambert (Lotus)

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