Please excuse my ignorance here, being an outsider who only starting following the Hibees from afar at the turn of the Millennium, and picking up the bug properly once more in the last few years..
But being a Manchester United fan who gets to Hibs games when I can, I was wondering what the fanzine scene was like at Easter Road before the onset of the internet. What fanzines have there been down the years, how long did they last, and do you think there's possibly room for a fanzine in future, or has that day now sadly passed?
I used to love collecting fanzines more than programmes when I was a kid and we've always been blessed at United, but I was just wondering what the history of fanzines at Hibernian is... if anyone can help shed some light on this for me please....
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18-02-2019 06:25 PM #1
Hibs fanzines
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18-02-2019 06:41 PM #2
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Apologies MB62 if it wasnt you, auld brain isnt as sharp as it used to be 😆
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18-02-2019 07:27 PM #3
HIBS monthly and Masshibsteria spring to mind with contributions from jonnyboy Grumpy Gibby the North Stand Hibby and from Irvine Welsh and Sandy McNair in various guises
Copies available from Almondvale Programmes
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18-02-2019 07:32 PM #4
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18-02-2019 07:33 PM #5
The pre internet Hibs fanzine scene was pretty good. Hibs Monthly was particularly fine. I remember Sandy Mc Nair contributed a fair bit ( Grumpy Gibby) and Irvine Welsh was the Octopus. The Proclaimer was another one I remember buying, but for me it was the Hibs Monthly. Still got loads of them.
Also used to enjoy the Absolute Game. A generic Scottish football fanzine. Very well produced.
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18-02-2019 07:33 PM #6
There was loads at one point, Glasgow Gossip, Hibs Monthly and The Proclaimer were steady editions and TANESH (sp) came later. There were a couple of one edition productions at the height of it all, Down The Slope and Aye Monotonous being a couple I got my hands on
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18-02-2019 07:44 PM #8
The
Absolutely
Non
Essential
Hibs
Supporters......
Cannae remember the full acronym 🇳🇬
Edit: the final H may have been
Handbook 🤔
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18-02-2019 08:14 PM #9
I used to do one when I lived in the States,for US based Hibees,and Canadian Hibees...internet took care of that ☹️..
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18-02-2019 08:17 PM #10
Used to always love the front page of Mass Hysteria, always caught your attention
Used to buy from a lad at the top of St Clair St, he had long black hair. Does he still go to the games?
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18-02-2019 08:18 PM #11
North East Hibernian was produced by Aberdeen students in the late 80’s, early 90’s.
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18-02-2019 08:23 PM #12
Mass Hibsteria was absolutely top notch.
I used to love it when you turned into Albion Road and there would be someone there selling a new edition on the street.
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18-02-2019 08:28 PM #13
Mass Hibsteria gave birth to that odious hideous money grabbing Jambo character “Wallet Mercenary” or was it on a banner at a Hands Off HIBS rally?
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18-02-2019 08:33 PM #14
One of my favourites was there was a photo of Pele on the front page, with the caption “the black Chic Charley”🤣
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18-02-2019 08:37 PM #15
Post Skol Cup win and pre Hearts 1998 Scottish Cup win we used to have a lot of fun laughing at their lack of trophy success in recent decades.
I remember a page being dedicated to Hearts' trophy successes since (?) 1962 or whatever - basically a chart that listed in columns under Scottish Cup, League Cup and League Championship "did not win" many times over.
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18-02-2019 08:48 PM #16InconsequentialLeft by mutual consent!
I used to get Hibs Monthly/ Mass Hibsteria delivered as a subscriber for many years. As a previous poster mentioned they were one and the same thing. They didn't merge as such just a change of name. The readers were invited to suggest a new name for the fanzine with a modest prize for the winning entry iirc. Still have many copies safely stored away. These were the good old days before all the internet rubbish we have now!
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18-02-2019 08:55 PM #17
Found this when clearing my mum’s house out last year. Good read twenty odd years on.
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18-02-2019 09:13 PM #18
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18-02-2019 09:17 PM #19
I was just the right age to catch the start of the fanzine scene, and luckily for Hibs fans we had some excellent publications, with the Hibees Glasgow Gossip being the first I remember buying. They were the complete antidote to the match day programmes and were filled with a mix of sharp wit/cartoons/essays and opinion.
As has been highlight above, Irvine Welsh used to contribute under the pseudonym of Octopus, and I think he might have contributed more under various guises. It was through reading fanzines that enabled me to be one of the first to purchase a copy of Trainspotting, probably quite collectible now if my well worn first edition was not held together with sellotape, as I don’t see too many with the cover that’s on my one. In the fanzine, probably Hibs Monthly, they started making mention of a book written by Octopus under the name Irvine Welsh, and highlighted some of the Hibs themed content. Despite not making much sense if it all I put an order in to my local book shop and the lady who ran the place sorted it out, and when the book was released the solitary copy she ordered was handed over with some muttered condemnation of the content when she had flicked through a couple of pages out of curiosity!
What I did notice with the fanzines was that often fans were not just interested in their own clubs publications, but would read many others, from England and Scotland, some of which had great reputations. It was a great scene back in the day.
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18-02-2019 09:34 PM #21
The Proclaimer was very quick to print it's concerns about David Rowland's involvement with Hibs after Duff and Gray took over our club.
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18-02-2019 09:36 PM #22
Being an avid Programme collector the fanzine used to always give me a wee chuckle at half time away from the main stream their lampooning made up stories together with some excellent essays ripping the pish out of everyone including ourselves but especially the Hertz.
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18-02-2019 09:40 PM #23
Would love to see a comeback of a fanzine. 4 every season or something.
A few fanzines seem to be making a comeback, particularly down south. Good to see.
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18-02-2019 09:40 PM #24
Glasgow Gossip was always the most irreverent of them all IIRC, and the most humorous.
I’m sure it was the one that described Joe Tortolano as “being successfully marked out of the game by a divot” at one point
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18-02-2019 10:14 PM #27
I'd like to see them make a comeback as there are still plenty people who remember them first time around and will willingly read a piece of printed paper. I didn't get through to ER much in the eighties but always had a look around Albion Road for a seller when I did. They were usually funny, irreverent and in some respects, instant and contained opinion, something which the matchday programme didn't. A bit like punk or Viz in the beginning.
I think there are folk out there, young and old, who could generate something pretty good with all the available tech and so on - and a lot has happened since the last ones!
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19-02-2019 07:26 AM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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