Garage Issue 2 Returns
As part of Flying Nun Records' series of digitally re-publishing the Garage music fanzine, Issue 2 is now available again as a PDF download.
Garage #2 is the hardest to find and physically a little odd as well. Printed in a strangely shaped format, with a great cover featuring hand-written lowercase uphill "garage" that somehow emphasises both "garage" and "rage" atop an image of a blurry dark hand playing a left-handed guitar. It's all askew and delightfully unsettling.
And while Garage #2 was originally hard to read, it is less so here. With cover stories on the Sneaky Feelings (where it is noted that "Martin tells the history of the band like he should write a book about it", which is what Matthew Bannister does do many years later), The Puddle (read about the band's early development) and The Orange (and Andrew Brough's pre-Straitjacket Fits experience).
And there are other good bits too. A rundown on how Dunedin's Radio One was getting organised in 1985 is timely, a live review of The Chills and for this version, editor Richard Langston has also compiled a podcast to accompany as you scroll through the digital pages.
Garage #2 is available as a PDF download at http://blog.flyingnun.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/garage-2.pdf
Richard Langston's podcast mixtape is available at http://blog.flyingnun.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/garage2podcast.mp3
