James Brown : The John Robb interview
The music and culture writer tells John Robb about his new book ‘Zine Age kicks’ that documents his career from teenage punk rock Leeds youth with his Attack On Bzag fanzine, through to his days revolutionising the NME with his machine gun prose and ideas, to creating Loaded and beyond. The book also looks great, with its high-end fanzine collage layout and is available from here.
It’s a curious thing that some of the people that live the most chaotic lives manage to maintain significant archives of their work and times. This latest example comes from James Brown, the editorial enfant terrible responsible for Loadedmagazine, infamous for his drink and drug binges.
If you already enjoyed his recent autobiography, ‘Animal House,’ you’ll love this visual accompaniment. Here are tear sheets of his early writing, employment contracts, backstage passes, Leeds United season tickets and run throughs of the best parts of each of the magazines he worked on. It’s an impressive and fascinating collection of images, serving to remind us of a pre-digital time of physical tickets and cassette tapes.
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