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 05:25 PM #1
Hibs fanzines
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18-02-2019 05:41 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 06:27 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
5 Albion Road Edinburgh EH7 5QJ
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18-02-2019 06:32 PM #4
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18-02-2019 06:33 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 06:33 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 06:44 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 07:14 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 07:17 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 07:18 PM #13
North East Hibernian was produced by Aberdeen students in the late 80’s, early 90’s.
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18-02-2019 07:23 PM #14
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 07:28 PM #15
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 08:36 PM #17
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 08:40 PM #18
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 08:40 PM #19
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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19-02-2019 06:26 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteHIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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Naw!!HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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19-02-2019 01:05 PM #23
The London supporters association used to produce "Hibees Here Hibees There", I don't think that's been mentioned yet. From what I mind they managed quite a few editions.
Like most folk Hibs Monthly/Mass Hibsteria was the one I read most often. I was a teenager around the time of the fanzine boom and the subversiveness and humour really appealed to me as a kid who was discovering weird music and alternative culture and suchlike. Fanzines felt very much part of the same thing. Happy days. Things change though eh? That kind of DIY ethic doesn't exist in the same way now, although there are things like podcasts and the like with the NEW TECHNOLOGIES. Nice to reminisce though.
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19-02-2019 10:42 AM #28
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I was the co-founder of Hibs Monthly, which evolved into Mass Hibsteria, along with my old mate SideBurns.
We started it off while still at High School and initially it was really just a Hibs news bulletin (match reports etc). It was only when we became aware of the Fanzine 'scene' across the UK that it really took off and developed the wicked sense of humour it became renowned for. I still have vivid memories of putting it together with a typewriter, scissors, prit-stick, Letraset and Tippex!
When the Hibbie Hippie, Octopus (Irvine Welsh), the Raving Reporter and several other top-notch contributors came on board it started to grow and grow, and we also got a lot of help from other fanzines (AWOL, the old Meadowbank fanzine were particularly helpful) and outlets like the old Football Crazy shop up in Spittal Street.
The readers and their contributions made it what it was, and when I started playing fitba regularly on a Saturday I passed on the green and white baton to Jonnyboy and Sean Allan. Those two took it on to another level. Later esteemed editors included Graham Ewing and Nick Clater, while the Raving Reporter (MB) was always a stalwart of the editorial committee.
Looking back, if I'm being honest, I do cringe and regret one or two of the things we said and printed in the early days - I was young and Hibs and the fitba they played were often p*sh, so a lot of it was born out of frustration. However, the overriding memory I have is one of great pride, fun and mischief-making - we used to give Alex Miller and Dougie Cromb sleepless nights and we posed a lot of questions of the board and management. One of the finest issues we produced was the 1991 Skol Cup winning celebration edition, while the 'Summer Special' was always popular.
We were, I think, also the first publication to carry an advert for an upcoming book called Trainspotting.... I wonder how that did in the end?
Happy Hibbie days!
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