Grinding Halt

You can't really ask me questions and expect me to answer them, 'cos I'm so confused I can't even believe that we're alive, I think it's so weirdShrink

Another exhilarating hit of Callous & Snide's, Grinding Halt. Live: The Distractions, Between Pictures, Clayson & The Argonauts, The Legendary Flobs, The Time, The Cockney Rekects/The Pack/Kidz Next Door, SLF, Coconut Dogs, El Seven, Zerox, Suspects & The Seize, Mighty Strypes/The Runners. Vinyl: LPs - Crisis, The Moonlight Tapes comp, Toyah, Cheap Dialogue, Sham 69, The Vapors, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Joy Division; 7"s - The Dead Kennedys, The Distractions, The Freeze, Comsat Angels, The News, Crass/Poison Girls, Flys, Flowers, El Seven, The Fall, Sector 27, Discharge, Snatch, The Barracudas, The Damned, SLF. + a reasonable rap on the knuckles for No Cure fanzine & Eddie's delightful encounter with Shrink.'A4 scanned at 400 dpiGrinding Halt #6

GRINDING HALTTHE KIND OF CRAP THAT TALKS BACKLadies & GentlemenHow do?Eddie Snide, 1980
This is a real corker of a fanzine - starting in 1979, Eddie Snide and Captain Callous produced 12 issues of Grinding Halt. Issue #5 is jam packed with excellent articles and reviews. Decent pieces on Patrick Fitzgerald and The Members. Reviews: 7"s - Those Naughty Lumps, Cult Figures, Apartment, The Donkeys, VIPs, The Yachts, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Scars, Stiffs; LPs - The Undertones, The Members, UK Subs, The Slits, The Pop Group, Magazine, The Fall, The Cure; Live - Mo-Dettes/Athletico Spizz 80/Tenpole Tudor, A Fast Crowd/Idiot Dancers, General Accident/Johnny & The Moondogs, The Wall, The Cramps/The Fall/Fashion, The Flatbackers/The K9s, Crisis/The Lazers/The Straps, and Wasted Youth. The interviews with Athletico Spizz 80 and Wreckless Eric are particularly smashing.
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Grinding Halt #5

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