Party Fears

Party Fears was a Perth indie rock fanzine that ran from December 1985 to March 1993. Award-winning, no less. I thought it would be nice to put copies up on the Web for posterior's sake*.

The issues of the zine were 1–7, 9–11,

What am I doing these days? Rocknerd! Not quite the same level of endeavour, but it keeps me off the streets.

11½, 12–16, 16½, 17, 18 and 18½. 8 didn't exist and 19 never did come out.

#1 — no scan yet.
#2 — no scan yet.
#3 — no scan yet.
#4 — no scan yet.
#5 (late 1986) — Interviews: Paul Kelly (just before fame), Martha's Vineyard, Flamin' Groovies, Died Pretty, John Needham/Citadel Records, Errol H. Tout, Blue Ruin, A Company Of Angels, Waltons, Gravybillies. Live: Go-Betweens, Martha's Vineyard, Waltons, Gravybillies, Cramps, Kno Matter, Died Pretty, Kansas City Killers, John Cale, Holy Rollers, Summer Suns, Charlotte's Web, Homecoming, Bamboos, And An A, Errol H. Tout, Kryptonics, Greenhouse Effect, Memento Mori, Blue Ruin, Lubricated Goat, Rabbit's Wedding, Femme Fatale, Lick The Lizard, Mutants Of Desire, Steve Tallis Unit, The Moment, But I Love You Loves, Heretic Asylum, Long Tall Pitchforks, Emerald Ice, Los Mescaleros, Swamp Monsters, Marigolds, Comedy of Errors, King Pig. PDF of the whole thing (20MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#6 — no scan yet.
#7 (October 1987) — Kansas City Killers, Freuds, Rabbit's Wedding, Sunset Strip, Greg Dear, New Order, Stu Spasm/Lubricated Goat, Lime Spiders, Pontiac Conspiracy, Diddywah Hoodaddys, Triffids (Garry Meadows Syndrome), White Cross, Nigel Harford/Stray Tapes, Caterwaul. Live: Lime Spiders, Remains, Scarlet, Pilgrims, Bacen Assegai?, Kansas City Killers, Kryptonics, Beautiful Losers, Marigolds, Freuds, Lincolns, Stolen Picassos, Reels, Rapture, Box The Jesuit, Die Monster Die, Warumpi Band, Damned, I Hear An Army, New Order, And An A, BlueJackals, Painters & Dockers, Palisades, Kno Matter, Freuds, King Pig, Star Club, Paul Kelly, Hoodoo Gurus, Cockroaches, Creepers, Chad's Tree, Charlotte's Web, Circle of Confusion, Bamboos, Pilgrims, Newsbreak, Errol H. Tout, Rockets, Love Pump, Passionfruit Club, Martha's Vineyard, Rabbit's Wedding, Scientists. PDF of the whole thing (25.7MB), courtesy Nick Potter.
#8 — never existed. Robert Brokenmouth's bits ended up in Effigy #1.
#9 (Summer 1988–1989) — Interviews: Mick Harvey, The Honeys. Family trees: White Cross, Triffids. Live: Exploding White Mice, Waltons, Marigolds, And An A, Bed Of Roses, Caretakers, Charlotte's Web, Crazy Jane ≈ the Bishops, Cremator, my 21st, Holy Rollers, Jesus and Mary Chain, New Tradition, Kryptonics, A Month Of Sundays, Neptunes, Screaming Tribesmen, Seventh Seal, Sunnyboys, Miscreants. PDF of the whole thing (50.5MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#10 (Autumn 1989) — Interviews: Kryptonics, Summer Suns, A Month Of Sundays, Neptunes, Kim Salmon (Scientists, Surrealists, Beasts of Bourbon and solo), Sunday's Child, Rainyard, Mick Harvey, Widdershins, Waterfront Records, Hunters & Collectors (early days), Purple Hearts, Peter Hartley. Family tree: Marigolds/Neptunes, Love Pump/Waltons. Live: Marigolds, Black-Eyed Susans, The Fat, Beasts of Bourbon, hessian Sax, Fungus Brains, Sonic Youth, Screaming Believers, Henry Rollins Band, Honeys, Rainyard, Month Of Sundays, Joe Christmas (Healers). PDF of the whole thing (8.9MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#11 (Summer–Autumn 1990) — Interviews: Celibate Rifles, Ed Kuepper, Rabbit's Wedding, Black-Eyed Susans,Martha's Vineyard, Greg Dear and the Beautiful Losers, This Is Serious Mum. Live: Rabbit's Wedding, Triffids, He Dark Age, Errol H. Tout, Neil Young and the Lost Dogs, Caretakers, Childlike Primitives, The Fish John West Reject, Fur Versions, Healers, Kryptonics, Rainyard, Kim Salmon, Thrombus, Summer Suns, X, Raindogs, Beasts Of Bourbon, King Pig. PDF of the whole thing (16.4MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#11½ (Summer 1990–1991) — Several pages of news items on every Perth indie band I could think of from 1990. Zine reviews. Why live musicians need to join APRA. PDF of the whole thing (1.6MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#12 (Feb–Mar 1991) — Interviews: Crabstick, Chevelles, Charlotte's Web, Someloves. Live: Ed Kuepper and Mark Dawson, Dave Graney and Dave Last, Black-Eyed Susans, Björn Again, Black Velvet, Not Drowning Waving, The Fish John West Reject, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. PDF of the whole thing (6.7MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#13 (Apr–May 1991) — Interviews: Healers, Greasy Pop Records, The Clean. Family tree: "Rickenbacker's Revenge," all the guitar bands that claim to sound nothing like the Triffids or Stems. Live: Kylie Minogue, Wild Pumpkins At Midnight, Rob Clarkson, Blue Jesus, Dazey Chayne, Beekeepers, Body Motors, Five Alive, A Month Of Sundays, Greg Dear's Butterfly Collection, Errol H. Tout, Killjoys, A Band Named Sue, Orange, Dave Mason and Paul Johnson, The Plague, Violinda, Ratcat. PDF of the whole thing (3.3MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#14 (June–July 1991) — Interviews: Mars Bastards, A Terminal Posture. Live: Kanda Bongo Man, Malombo, Tall Tales And True, Hummingbirds, The Pursuit Of Happiness, The Church, A Month Of Sundays, The Brautigans. Records: Breaknecks, Phil Bennett, New Salem Witch Hunters, Devil Dogs, Liquor Giants, Moving Targets, The Original Sins, Red Planet Rocketts, True West, Pray TV, Roger McGuinn, A Terminal Posture, Jack Frost, Jello Biafra, Lard.
#15 (Aug–Sep 1991) — Interviews: Healers, Plunderers. Family tree: "The Jagged Edge" (1985-1991 hardcore and punk). Live: Celibate Rifles, Water Diviners, Errol H. Tout, Bob's Love Child, Dixie Outlaws, Mars Bastards, Rob Snarski, Waltons, Healers, The Aints, The Fish John West Reject, Falling Joys, Fur Versions. PDF of the whole thing (2.9MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#16 (Oct–Nov 1991) — Interviews: Ollie Olsen/Third Eye, The Jackson Code. PDF of the whole thing (1.2MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#16½ (November 1991) — West Australian Rock Music Industry Awards day-after report (originally a letter to Robert Brokenmouth). PDF of the whole thing (290KB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#17 (Summer 1991–92) — West Australian Rock Music Industry Awards (that's all so far)
#18 — no scan yet.
#18½ (Summer/Autumn 1993) — single-sheet ramble.

I have vague dreams of scanning most of what's left of my Australian fanzine collection. If you have such a collection, there's no reason you couldn't do that too. I'll even put 'em up. I think the world needs B-Side once more. Thankfully Inner City Sound is in print once more.

After an appeal in 2003 for scans, I secured copies of almost all issues in 2004. Special thanks to: Jo Hoetmer (who also let me use her scanner), Helen Ardente (my mother, who paid my airfare to Perth) and Shirley Gerard (my mother, who kept the old copies). And Nick Potter, who decided I was being a slackarse and so sent me scans he'd done, including the long-lost #16½. w00t!

(Most annoying thing: #11½–18 were done on computer. Thinking there would be no use for the files ever again, I erased them as I went. Three years later, I discovered the World Wide Web. Bugger.)

— David Gerard.