Do you have copies of Party Fears and a scanner?

[reddragdiva]

Many years ago (from 1985 until 1993), I edited a Perth indie rock fanzine called Party Fears. I've been thinking it would be a nice idea to put up the old issues for posterior's sake^[1]. However, I live in London, my old copies are in Perth and I don't have any here.

So, crusty old indie nerds, I'd like your help. If you have copies of the magazine, I would be fantastically happy if you could scan them for me. Do you or a friend have access to a scanner?

The issues of the zine were 1-7, 9-11, 11½, 12-16, 16½, 17, 18 and 18½. 8 didn't exist and 19 never did come out. (What remains of 19 is burnt to a CD-ROM somewhere in a box in Perth; I'm sure I'll get it shipped over some day, along with my old copies of the zine.)

The absolutely ideal thing would be 300dpi 2bpp greyscale TIFFs burnt to a CD-ROM. This may be a bit to ask; if you have the zines and access to a scanner, that'll be of tremendous help in itself.

OCR is a future plan, but that can be done by anyone once I have scans of the pages. Getting those scans is what I'm after right now.

(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 think the world needs B-Side once more. And Inner City Sound.)

If you can aid in this endeavour, please email me at fun[AT]velvet.net and we'll talk.

Please feel free to forward this message to relevant Australian music lists and forums as appropriate.

[1] © Kim Williams

Comments

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking it would be a nice idea to put up the old issues

Or you could start it up again and call it Party Fears Returns or Party Fears - The Sequel or something... ;-)

[reddragdiva]

Or Party Fears Two. (boom, tish)

Or just stick with Rocknerd :-)

[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

Or Party Fears Two. (boom, tish)

I'll set 'em up, son...you reel 'em off. ;-)

And yes, stick with Rocknerd. It's good. :-)

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

Party Fears Two

ooh, i could see that one coming ;)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Fsck me, I can help you with this... Give me a week or so to dig through my storage boxes and I'll see what I have...

I was a big fan of that 'zine, you know...

[reddragdiva]

\o/

(that's a 'hooray!' icon)

Thank you, sir :-)

Yours is the first lead, btw ...

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be able to help, but all of mine have vanished into the ether somewhere along the way, even the edition you dedicated to my cat. Sorry - possible drawback of moving house 65 times.

farty schmears

[missmilky.livejournal.com]

well...
I gave all them ones to the Alexander library so they're accessible in Perth
Ross has the doubles and the rest went to 78's and shit

Re: farty schmears

[reddragdiva]

Ah, good, they're in there then! Were they pleased?

And is Ross on the net as yet?

Re: farty schmears

[missmilky.livejournal.com]

yep library were happy and other spares went to murdoch collection
dunno if ross is on net or net