Harry’s Place Arts

Can I draw your attention, dear HP readers, to Liverpool’s wonderful Swine Magazine - a worthy online successor to irreverent ‘zines like The End and Boys Own.  Whatever your opinion of football hooliganism (and as a workshy bourgeois southern fop with no real interest in football let alone fighting, I’m at very best ambivalent towards it - and certainly there’s little I loathe more than middle-class folk who fetishise the “pwopah nawty” Danny Dyer image of cheeky tearaways), terrace culture’s connection to grass roots music and style in the uk is undeniable, and this tradition of fanzines represent a particular type of approach to all these subjects and a delight in the minutiae of what remains of working-class culture in this country with a shameless passion that is all too rare in irony-crippled times.  If for no other reason, check it out for Phil Thornton’s excellent and very involved music reviews.