As well as working on promotions for his ‘ Three And A Half Minutes Of Fame ’ book, and helping to make the nineties music documentary based on it too, author and musician Alex Boucher also has a substack update. The latest post on which is entitled ‘That was Lush’. Read on here…   Strap in folks, a long-form waffle about a whirlwind three days in January is about to enter your eyeballs…   14/01/2026 I headed in to London with a head full of notes and nervous trepidation, hoping the day...

Ian Glasper had a great response when he posted about bands that he is trying to contact for his next book a few weeks back, so here we go again...   The book will be ‘ A Country Fit For Heroes : Volume Two. More DIY punk in eighties Britain’ and will hopefully be out in the spring of 2027. This will be Ian Glasper ’s last volume documenting the Eighties, so he really wants to capture some of these bands for posterity. With that in mind, does anyone know the whereabouts of any ex-members of...

An alternative history of Scottish DIY culture, tracing how zines, tapes, and sheer necessity built a world far from the usual punk epicentres.   ' Dear Smash Hits, We’re From Scotland!: An Alternative History of Zines & DIY Music Culture (1975–2025) ' arrives at a moment when punk history risks collapsing under its own accumulated weight. We already have deep dives into specific eras and subgenres (Ian Glasper’s books remain untouchable in that respect), exhaustive discographies, and...