ARTCORE - TERMINAL DECAY

Got this through the post this week from Welly, the creator of what is (I'm pretty sure) the longest running print fanzine in the UK and possibly one of the longest running in the world, established way back when you were all fields in 1986. The brand new issue of ARTCORE which comes with a free compilation album (or the album comes free with the fanzine, or 50/50, take your pick).

Welly's been doing this for as long as I have known of him which must have been way back in the mid 90s with his band FOUR LETTER WORD that played regular round the Bristol and Wales area. FLW ended up on BYO, I have their album and 7" and then if I remember rightly there was this major record label with money that wanted to form a boy band called "Four Letter Word" and there was a law suit and court cases and lots of money involved.....this is another story for another time. But I do remember when I interviewed Four Letter Word for my own fanzine "FUCKYOUALL" back in the 90s (a literal cut-and-paste printed zine written on a typewriter and photocopied), Welly sent me the interview back typed up and copied to the right sizes and format and everything, very thoughtful and helpful!

So yes - this new issue is a belter, and the comp album is ripping, 20 tracks, mostly exclusive unreleased with bands such as Night Birds, Arctic Flowers, Off With Their Heads, Pettybone and Burnt Cross. The zine features Night Birds, Arctic Flowers, 1981, Hygiene, Ruidosa Immundicia and my own contribution, Amebix.

There is also "the vault" covering some old classic standard such as Agent Orange and reviews, art, scene reports - you basically can't go wrong with Artcore.

Go check it all out and get your self a copy: http://www.artcorefanzine.co.uk/