Information for potential contributors:
The Sides-Street Tymes is an 80/90s rock’n’roll fanzine style rag about non-commercial surfing, making things, small independent shops, garage bands; a ‘how to’ for the post-corporate era photocopied on Phantom comic paper using Mum’s office Xerox machine, stapled with the university’s stapler, and distributed via mouldy vans like Violent Femmes tapes. Any
one about anything, preferably regarding the things you make or sell or feel strongly about or take pictures about – relating to the realities and fantasies of the creative industry surrounding surfing, art, music and independent culture generally. This is an inclusive magazine for authentic un-scene creatives. We will offer some steerage or limitations on some contributions as appropriate, but mostly we are interested in earnest articles direct from the hearts and mynds of dedicated artists, however subject to one main condition –
you must use scissors and glue to put your article together. We are looking to release the first issue at the start of Summa 2014. The lead article is about Cuts Doloro’s vegetable garden – ‘Carrot Farming in Caloundra’ (see pic). Single page articles which function as small exposes’, posters or even ‘ads’ are okay, but we’d like to see most articles in the 3 to 5 page range. The fanzine will be directed by Kent Turkich, with Peter ‘Farrelly’ Holmes taking care of graphics/layout. Dead line! To get things underway and to heighten the hasty slapped together aesthetic of the rag, we are not giving contributors very long until the first deadline. Please send well-scanned versions of your legitimately cut and pasted articles to [email protected] by Monday June 30th. Depending on the viability of using your scans, we may subsequently request that original hard copies of articles be posted. Kent Turkich
