03 August 2011 - 1 Comment
As part of Flying Nun Records' series of digitally re-publishing the Garage music fanzine, Issue 2 is now available again as a PDF download.
Garage #2 is the hardest to find and physically a little odd as well. Printed in a strangely shaped format, with a great cover featuring hand written lowercase uphill “garage” that somehow emphasises both “garage” and “rage” atop an image of a blurry dark hand playing a left handed guitar. It’s all askew and delightfully unsettling.
And while Garage #2 was originally hard to read it is less so here. With cover stories on the Sneaky Feelings (where it is noted that “Martin tells the history of the band like he should write a book about it” which is what Matthew Bannister does do many years later), The Puddle (read about the bands early development) and The Orange (and Andrew Broughs pre Straitjacket Fits experience).
And there are other good bits too. A rundown on how Dunedin’s Radio One was getting organised in 1985 is timely, a live review of The Chills and for this version editor Richard Langston has also compiled a podcast to accompany as you scroll through the digital pages.
To coincide with their 30th Anniversary, Flying Nun Records is re-publishing all six issues of Garage, with a new one out each month for the rest of the year.
DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF VERSION OF GARAGE ISSUE 2 (Click the Link)
LISTEN TO THE GARAGE #2 PODCAST OVER AT THE FLYING NUN BLOG (Click the Link)
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