What am I doing these days? Rocknerd!

Party Fears

Party Fears was a Perth indie rock fanzine that ran from December 1985 to March 1993. Award-winning, no less. I thought it would be nice to put copies up on the Web for posterior's sake*.

The issues of the zine were 1–7, 9–11, 11½, 12–16, 16½, 17, 18 and 18½. 8 didn't exist and 19 never did come out.

#5 (late 1986) — PDF of the whole thing (20MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#7 (October 1987) — Rabbit's Wedding, Triffids (Garry Meadows Syndrome) + lots more; PDF of the whole thing (25.7MB), courtesy Nick Potter.
#9 (Summer 1988–1989) — PDF of the whole thing (50.5MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#10 (Autumn 1989) — PDF of the whole thing (8.9MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#11½ (Summer 1990–1991) — PDF of the whole thing (1.6MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#12 (Feb–Mar 1991) — PDF of the whole thing (6.7MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#13 (Apr–May 1991) — PDF of the whole thing (3.3MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#14 (June–July 1991) — Interviews: Mars Bastards, A Terminal Posture. Live: Kanda Bongo Man, Malombo, Tall Tales And True, Hummingbirds, The Pursuit Of Happiness, The Church, A Month Of Sundays, The Brautigans. Records: Breaknecks, Phil Bennett, New Salem Witch Hunters, Devil Dogs, Liquor Giants, Moving Targets, The Original Sins, Red Planet Rocketts, True West, Pray TV, Roger McGuinn, A Terminal Posture, Jack Frost, Jello Biafra, Lard.
#15 (Aug–Sep 1991) — PDF of the whole thing (2.9MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#16 (Oct–Nov 1991) — PDF of the whole thing (1.2MB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#16½ (November 1991) — PDF of the whole thing (290KB) courtesy Nick Potter.
#17 (Summer 1991–92) — West Australian Rock Music Industry Awards (that's all so far)
#18½ (Summer/Autumn 1993) — single-sheet ramble.

I have vague dreams of scanning most of what's left of my Australian fanzine collection. If you have such a collection, there's no reason you couldn't do that too. I'll even put 'em up. I think the world needs B-Side once more. Thankfully Inner City Sound is in print once more.

After an appeal in 2003 for scans, I secured copies of almost all issues in 2004. Special thanks to: Jo Hoetmer (who also let me use her scanner), Helen Ardente (my mother, who paid my airfare to Perth) and Shirley Gerard (my mother, who kept the old copies). And Nick Potter, who decided I was being a slackarse and so sent me scans he'd done, including the long-lost #16½. w00t!

(Most annoying thing: #11½–18 were done on computer. Thinking there would be no use for the files ever again, I erased them as I went. Three years later, I discovered the World Wide Web. Bugger.)

— David Gerard.