November 1998

Greetings. Welcome to issue two of Uncle Harry And A Pocket Bach I hope life has treated you well in the interim period. Oooh a whole new issue, rub your hands in delight. In the limited experience I have had of doing a fanzine a few problems have come to my attention. Here is what they are, and my proposed solutions:
1. Things going Out of date by the time you come to read it. solution- urn I'm stuck here. I'm afraid you will just have to lump it, basically, but if anyone has any suggestions as to what to do about this then please let me know. I am vaguely, vaguely thinking of attempting to get this fanzine up and going on a home page, or a website or something, yes, revel in the extent of my computer illiteracy. But, anyhow that is going to take quite, alright a very, long time to materialise as it is reliant on a huge amount of help from the I.T. technician at college, and I haven't even asked him yet. Would anyone be interested in this if I did it anyway, or would you find a publication that you can hold in your hands and flick through preferable? Please let me know.
2. The crap quality achieved by photocopying stuff that is already quite dark, such as the Euros doll of the previous issue.
solution- same as before really, except I am more aware of it now and am making a conscious effort not to use (very) dark images and all responsibility for printing this time is out of my hands as I sent it off to The Malteaser Dancefloor and they did it all for Inc for a very reasonable price so it is thanks to them that the price has gone down. Their address, if you're interested in doing something similar is: P0 Box 21636, London, SW16 6WH, but be warned they are a bit strange. They said I wrote like a boy and asked if I was sure my name was Emily and that I wasn't lying.
3. Keeping a Gorky' 5 fanzine to do with Gorky's. It isn't a problem for this issue, and hopefully won't be for the next, but after that who can say? I don't want this to turn into a fanzine full of other bands I like, or bands that I have seen and who would reply to any questions. solution- I fully intend not to ask every band I go to see if they would fill in a questionnaire or whatever. However, each issue I do will probably have a bit about one or two local bands that I like And before you say it it isn't just because they possibly contain my friends, but because no one ever reviews them + oh yes, I am giving them their big break. Oh yes. My opinion holding such weighty sway in the heady world of musical politics. But who can say, maybe in the distant future when I have run out of stuff to say on Gorky's that I wont approach bands like Mogwai and Sparklehorse and people like Elliot Smith. It's just when I buy a fanzine for a particular band, and find it full of other bands, to the extent where the supposed band it is about is hardly featured, it always annoys me. Also, in order to keep this about Gorky's it is reliant on them putting out stuff or touring, or doing something so it is because of this that I can't say when issue 3 will be ready, but see the back page for more details. If you were to want to read reviews written by me on other bands then you can if you check out the
Bad Transmissions site on the Internet, or get the magazine (as yet I don't know when or where it is available from, but it will be free) . The address is www.verynicethankyou.demon.co.uk/badtl
Ummm - Yeah. Anyway.
Ok. That's that done and dusted. Now For amendments to issue one regarding Matchepsut, the Melys song. I have since been informed that she was an Egyptian queen (which now makes sense of their press release sheet)
"... only a few queens ruled in their own right. The most famous of the women who did reign, Queen Matchepsut, at first served as regent to her stepson Thutmose III... She completely usurped the reigns of government. Flaunting all the trappings of kinship, even male dress and ceremonial beard, this remarkable woman built a lavish temple to keep her name alive. When she fell, after 20 years; in power Thutmose claimed his throne and vengefully desuroved much of her great memorial, " Lionel Casson. Oh- kay. (Cheers Hugh) .

> Thankyous time

1. Richard from Gorky's for talking to me
2. Sam Pow, from the now cursed, Mercury for the cd (flick forward to find your chance to win) , biography and cuttings. When asked why Mercury have dropped Gorky's she said "It is just one of those things. There is no press statement or anything."
3. Rosey from R*E*P*E*A*T for sending me a lot of stuff on Gorky' 5 and for reviewing issue one (see issue 12 of his and Dweeb's most esteemed publication, which also contains an exclusive Megan interview). To get hold of this you need to send £1.50, I think, and an A4 S.A.E. to 7 Ferry Lane, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1NT
4. Sam Wistenoff for the pictures he sent me of The Pudding, and the tape -
5. The Malteaser Dancefloor, and Finally
6. Matt, for being & real star and retaping me Melys' John Peel session and for sending me a copy of 2 songs I didn't have
GORKY'S ON THE NET
There is one realy good Gorky's website on the Internet than I managed to locate. It can be found at:

www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Mezzanine/6707/index.gzm.html

It is run by a kid called Rodrigo + is clearly put together with much love and devotion. It has albums, singles + live Gorky`s reviews, as well as a chance to buy GZM merchandise, view pictures, lyrics (some with translations) + tab stuff. The highlight, in theory anyhow, is an ode to Megan. The other sites I found were extremely disappointing. They contained the sum total of, ooh, let me see, one song review, one gig review and a thing about a paragraph long + that was 3 separate addresses. There was one that sounded potentially good though that I couldn`t open as my computer said something about strings missing ID users. The address for that if you are interested is:

gridmagazine.com/html/gorky-s-zygotic-mynci.html

I hope you don't come away feeling as disillusioned as I did and like you just wasted a lot of money.
Good news- there is another Gorky's fanzine called IECHYD DA. They are now on issue 3 (I bow in your presence) which contains a run down of all the Gorky's videos to date, translations, reviews, Catatonia, cartoons, chords and some other things. Let them know that you got their address from me because then maybe they'll do this whole advert thing in reverse.

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