Hey Zinesters! How fanzines empowered a generation

The Cribs have always been obsessed with the DIY culture surrounding music. They asked their favourite fanzine writer Karren Ablaze to write about how 'zines changed her lifeGrowing up in the boring suburbs of Manchester in the 1980s, I learnt to live in my own world, utterly separate from mainstream culture, and thoroughly obsessed with DIY post-punk and emerging indie music. These sounds were easy to find on Radio One's evening programming, introduced by the kind voices of David Jensen and Joh...

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