03/08/24 – 14/09/24
Initially set up as cut and paste homage to the early acerbic genius of the Manic Street Preachers, R*E*P*E*A*T Fanzine has grown from a messy, noisy, irreverent, childish, rebellious baby into a messy, noisy, irreverent, childish, rebellious adult. And who’d want it any other way?
Described by the press as an underground ‘indie Tution’, R*E*P*E*A*T has expanded from its humble fanzine beginnings to encompass a record label, gigs promotions and an enormous and unwieldy website, as well as a DIY roaming recording studio.
This exhibition seeks to preserve some of R*E*P*E*A*T’s glue, glam and glory from the oblivion which is the usual unjustified destination of so much beautifully creative ephemera. It features scans of original gooey fanzine pages, gig posters, photos (some never seen before), CD and record sleeves, rants and reviews, beauty and bile, along with some of our more recent digital detritus.
We’ve collected and Pritt Sticked much more of this sort of thing into a appealingly chaotic full colour A4 200 page book, available at the exhibition, which is itself launched with a mammoth all day gig at the same venue on August 3rd.
Come and have a mooch around our museum packed by a history of 30 years of rubble and shit, then get inspired for tomorrow; grab your guitar, pen, microphone, megaphone, laptop, picket line, paint brush, paste table, leaflets or imagination, and forge a future far brighter.
‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.’ Bertolt Brecht
