Hibs fanzines

[ian cruise]

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I was too young to really be into the fanzine scene in it's heyday but I've read back through a lot of MHHM copies in recent years and they are superb. I also enjoyed the True Faith Newcastle fanzine which has recently started producing a paper copy again after years of being online only.

I suppose everything has it's day and there comes a time to let things lie but a once or twice a year special would be a big success imo. Alternatively to drag things into the modern age maybe a podcast with a few of the contributors, editors etc would work?

Maybe some of the guys involved could be involved in a feature on the Hibs Talk podcast that's shared on here? Sounds like plenty would be interested in an episode with them talking about the fanzines.

[Greenfly]

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I contributed a rubbishy wee comic strip called ‘Spambo the Jambo’ on occasion. Obviously about a stereotypical, deluded Hertz fan! Wouldn’t mind another shot at improving upon it if someone revives the printed ‘zine. 😬

I mind that well ... poor wee Spambo! I used to contribute various bits of gash under the name of ''Fly on the Wall". Thinking back on them 30 years ago I just cringe now but it was a hoot at the time. There were some real beauts out there. Bradford's "City Gent" was brilliant, Queen's Park's "The Web", Aberdeen's "Northern Light" and the previously mentioned "Cheers" (Meadowbank) with it's impossibly small print - all great reads. There was a lot of dross but some real gold amongst it all - happy days (mostly!) ... and we'll done to Colin and his inner team for keeping it going as long and as well as they did.

[majorhibs]

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Maybe some of the guys involved could be involved in a feature on the Hibs Talk podcast that's shared on here? Sounds like plenty would be interested in an episode with them talking about the fanzines.

Followin right on fi me, some wouldnae due to not actually WANTIN tae. But disregard us illiterate shapers of the future fi the past! What’s our intransigence compared tae movin so rapidly ahead, nane ae ye’se will ever experience 180mph + on a motorcycle, but I guess I am the 1 here who is losing out! Unlucky again! Blast!

[Carheenlea]

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I contributed a rubbishy wee comic strip called ‘Spambo the Jambo’ on occasion. Obviously about a stereotypical, deluded Hertz fan! Wouldn’t mind another shot at improving upon it if someone revives the printed ‘zine. 😬

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I mind that well ... poor wee Spambo! I used to contribute various bits of gash under the name of ''Fly on the Wall". Thinking back on them 30 years ago I just cringe now but it was a hoot at the time. There were some real beauts out there. Bradford's "City Gent" was brilliant, Queen's Park's "The Web", Aberdeen's "Northern Light" and the previously mentioned "Cheers" (Meadowbank) with it's impossibly small print - all great reads. There was a lot of dross but some real gold amongst it all - happy days (mostly!) ... and we'll done to Colin and his inner team for keeping it going as long and as well as they did.

Remember both well guys -
On the subject of other fanzines one I recall for its classic name was “Brian Moore's Head Looks Uncannily Like London Planetarium", can’t remember which club it was connected to though.

[ian cruise]

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Remember both well guys -
On the subject of other fanzines one I recall for its classic name was “Brian Moore's Head Looks Uncannily Like London Planetarium", can’t remember which club it was connected to though.

Gillingham FC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moore%27s_Head_Looks_Uncannily_Like_London_P lanetarium

[Carheenlea]

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Gillingham FC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bria...on_Planetarium

Would never guessed that, cheers - knew it was an English lower league effort.

[BILLYHIBS]

HIBS.net best fanzine ever!

The old ones were quite good tae!

[The Harp]

Have good memories of the Hibs fanzines. My favourite at the time was Glasgow Gossip, and I also got the The Proclaimer. Still have 10 copies of MHHM at home,the oldest being from April 2001. I probably wasn't gifted enough to be a regular contributor but I did write several articles for MHHM.

When the fanzines were available on a match day, I used to get both the official programme and the fanzine before the games. Must say, I spent longer reading the fanzine, and enjoyed it more.

It would be great if they could make a comeback, say at the start of a season and maybe a stocking-filler edition at Christmas.

[SideBurns]

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I should have added too that one of my favourite memories of the fanzine days was regularly getting invited/hauled into the offices of Messrs Miller and Cromb to explain ourselves and leaving them even more angry. Cromb would go through the entire fanzine with his highlighter pen and it's safe to say he didn't approve too much of his 'Davros' and 'Dennis Norden' nicknames.

True story.. when Miller took issue with being called 'Lexo' in the fanzine, Cromb called then co-editor Sean Allan at work demanding that we desist. All future references to Miller were sympathetically changed to '******** FACE' instead and Cromb never called Sean at work again after that.

One of my daft wee memories is of being in Gordon Rae's hoose in Bonnyrigg (I think?), interviewing him for the MHHM in the late 80s when his wife walked into the living room and said, "Sorry to interrupt, but that's Benny(Brazil) on the phone".

Interviewing one 'cult hero', and interrupted by another. Funny the things that stick in yer heid...

[brog]

I used to be involved with London Hibs fanzine, HHHT. It was quite a task carting hundreds of magazines north to sell at ER but we usually sold out & helped club funds. I just had a wee browse in my collection & found about 15-20 of HHHT & the same of Mass Hibsteria/Hibs Monthly. Also 2 Proclaimer, 2 Tanesh, 6 Absolute Game & 1 other Scots fanzine called A Lotta Balls. Also 1 Hibs Stat! I also found a London Hibs newsletter from Jan/Feb 1997. In it we mentioned that Simon Pia had reported in Scotland on Sunday that a group of local businessman were trying to buy Hibs. Tom Farmer denied the story & threatened to sue SOS. 21 years on & nothing's changed!!

[brog]

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I used to be involved with London Hibs fanzine, HHHT. It was quite a task carting hundreds of magazines north to sell at ER but we usually sold out & helped club funds. I just had a wee browse in my collection & found about 15-20 of HHHT & the same of Mass Hibsteria/Hibs Monthly. Also 2 Proclaimer, 2 Tanesh, 6 Absolute Game & 1 other Scots fanzine called A Lotta Balls. Also 1 Hibs Stat! I also found a London Hibs newsletter from Jan/Feb 1997. In it we mentioned that Simon Pia had reported in Scotland on Sunday that a group of local businessman were trying to buy Hibs. Tom Farmer denied the story & threatened to sue SOS. 21 years on & nothing's changed!!

Forza Fred, one of the Tanesh fanzines I have features an interview with Jimmy O'Rourke by Fred Leggett! If you don't have it I can get it to you if you want it.

[BILLYHIBS]

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I used to be involved with London Hibs fanzine, HHHT. It was quite a task carting hundreds of magazines north to sell at ER but we usually sold out & helped club funds. I just had a wee browse in my collection & found about 15-20 of HHHT & the same of Mass Hibsteria/Hibs Monthly. Also 2 Proclaimer, 2 Tanesh, 6 Absolute Game & 1 other Scots fanzine called A Lotta Balls. Also 1 Hibs Stat! I also found a London Hibs newsletter from Jan/Feb 1997. In it we mentioned that Simon Pia had reported in Scotland on Sunday that a group of local businessman were trying to buy Hibs. Tom Farmer denied the story & threatened to sue SOS. 21 years on & nothing's changed!!

Yip! Nothing has changed saw Simon in the Windsor last week before the game.

[HibbySpurs]

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I reckon their might be a market for them nowadays, or atleast one.

I agree, I would certainly buy copies

[Purple & Green]

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There was a gorgeous lassie who used to sell them sometimes: long raven black hair. Anyone remember her? I always made a point of getting my copy from her

Sounds like moaning Minnie. Spoke to her last year.

[Purple & Green]

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Would it be possible to get any of the old fanzines uploaded? I know most will be long gone, but even scanned pages or extracts etc, I'm sure would be interesting reading.

They were for a while on the Mass Hibsteria website - I’ve got a fair collection of old fanzines and its on my someday maybe list to scan them in and put them online.

[Fergos]

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Remember both well guys -
On the subject of other fanzines one I recall for its classic name was “Brian Moore's Head Looks Uncannily Like London Planetarium", can’t remember which club it was connected to though.

A line from a Half Man Half Biscuit song also....and on the subject of Liverpool, Everton’s WSAG fanzine is very good.

GGTTH

[Jonnyboy]

As has been said earlier, Col L. and SideBurns first created Hibs Monthly and took on board a few excellent writers including MB62 and Irvine Welsh. HM morphed into MHHM and I was an avid collector and fan and when Col L intimated the fanzine might die off given his change in circumstances. Sean and I met with Col L and SideBurns and were both delighted and honoured to take on the role of joint Editor's, we simply could not let it die.

Sean and I had great fun in producing a fair number of issues with Sean mainly the brainbox behind those fabulous front covers and myself contributing to the content, including of course "This is how it feels." We had fun, as I said but it was pretty time consuming work believe it or not!

After a while, Sean took more of a back seat and I was greatly helped at that time by MB62, famous for his Raving Reporter articles. We cracked along for a while until I was given the chance to join Stewart Crowther in the advent of Rivals.net wanting a Hibs presence. I'm delighted to say MB62 took over as Editor and the fanzine continued to flourish. There were many who contributed and many who helped us sell the fanzine on match days and the truth is we couldn't have done it without them.

Sadly the internet pretty much killed MHHM off although it stayed alive for a while in an online version as those of us who had stuff to say about Hibs could now do so online.

I loved my time as Editor and contributor and should some brave soul decide to resurrect MHHM, I'm good for a few articles

I see Col L and SideBurns have recalled instances of involvement with the club and my own favourite was when Dougie Cromb invited Sean and I to meet with him on a day when Hibs were playing a closed door game against Dundee. We sat in the Directors Box and Dougie proceeded to tell us off for calling Alex Miller, Lexo Hibs won the game but Sean and I were impressed by the Dundee Manager who sat at the front of the Director's Box and shouted down instructions to the bench. That Manager was Jim Duffy but I swear to God neither Sean nor I tried to influence Dougie to sign him

[SideBurns]

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As has been said earlier, Col L. and SideBurns first created Hibs Monthly and took on board a few excellent writers including MB62 and Irvine Welsh. HM morphed into MHHM and I was an avid collector and fan and when Col L intimated the fanzine might die off given his change in circumstances. Sean and I met with Col L and SideBurns and were both delighted and honoured to take on the role of joint Editor's, we simply could not let it die.

Sean and I had great fun in producing a fair number of issues with Sean mainly the brainbox behind those fabulous front covers and myself contributing to the content, including of course "This is how it feels." We had fun, as I said but it was pretty time consuming work believe it or not!

After a while, Sean took more of a back seat and I was greatly helped at that time by MB62, famous for his Raving Reporter articles. We cracked along for a while until I was given the chance to join Stewart Crowther in the advent of Rivals.net wanting a Hibs presence. I'm delighted to say MB62 took over as Editor and the fanzine continued to flourish. There were many who contributed and many who helped us sell the fanzine on match days and the truth is we couldn't have done it without them.

Sadly the internet pretty much killed MHHM off although it stayed alive for a while in an online version as those of us who had stuff to say about Hibs could now do so online.

I loved my time as Editor and contributor and should some brave soul decide to resurrect MHHM, I'm good for a few articles

I see Col L and SideBurns have recalled instances of involvement with the club and my own favourite was when Dougie Cromb invited Sean and I to meet with him on a day when Hibs were playing a closed door game against Dundee. We sat in the Directors Box and Dougie proceeded to tell us off for calling Alex Miller, Lexo Hibs won the game but Sean and I were impressed by the Dundee Manager who sat at the front of the Director's Box and shouted down instructions to the bench. That Manager was Jim Duffy but I swear to God neither Sean nor I tried to influence Dougie to sign him

Remember how smoothly the takeover discussions went, Jonnyboy. Col and I met you and Sean in a venue no stranger to high powered business meetings, I'm sure - The Chesser Inn - and we knew the fanzine was in safe hands.

Btw, you should've suggested to Dougie that you were impressed by Jim Duffy - there's no danger he would've been the next Hibs manager if you had 😁

[basehibby]

I was an occasional contributer to Hibees Here Hibees and will never forget selling a couple to Pat Stanton and Kano in a bar near Pittodrie. There were some great issues - but MHHM was a gem. I used to get a wee thrill when I saw the guy selling them - stories, gags and articles galore with many riotously funny - and all about the Hibees. Reading bliss!

[McrHibee]

Thanks for all the feedback to this thread, fellas. Really enjoyed reading through all of the reminiscences, although it does really sadden me how fanzines aren't the matchday staple they once used to be. After reading some of this thread, I got a copy of Mass Hibsteria off ebay and, as we said in Manchester during the height of fanzine culture... I was well impressed.

As a kid I enjoyed reading my dad's fanzines more than the programmes he gave me from the matches he attended, and I started selling the first United fanzine that began in the mid-80s around the pubs of Old Trafford when I was 15... and a year later edited my own for a few seasons, until life and real work took over. After that I would write for one of the biggest selling fanzines in the UK, United We Stand, until the Glazers took over my club and I help create FC United. From there, I wrote for an early FC/Manchester fanzine and since we moved into our own ground in 2015, I've been editing the FCUM programme, trying to keep alive the spirit of fanzines as much as I can within the content.

Watching United away as a regular for many years, I would always seek out a fanzine from the other team as A, it would often provide a fascinating and much-needed alternative and constructive insight into another club, and B, would prove useful hanging out of the back of your jeans pocket when in boozer far from home and running the risk of getting your head kicked in for being an outsider!

A couple of years ago, and having not attended a match at Old Trafford since that takeover by the Yanks in 2005, I launched a retro/nostalgia-based MUFC fanzine called 1878 and although sales aren't great, the feedback has been overwhelming and has only confirmed to me that despite the changing climate of football over the last couple of decades, there is still an appetite for the printed fanzine. Or as I tell people when they buy it and ask what it is... perfect bog-reading material.

Reading this thread, it does seem there is a desire to see possibly another fanzine on the streets of Leith and although my original post was more about an education for myself in the Hibees fanzines of yore, the replies to my question of whether there's place for a fanzine at Hibs in this day and age has only Anthony Stoked something in me.

I am in no position to provide much of he content for a potential publication, but if there are enough people willing to contribute regularly to a future fanzine, then I would be more than happy to work in conjunction with a few people, and possibly design, produce and print a fanzine if there's a market for one, and we can get some good contributors who would do justice to the past mags that seem to be so missed.

I'll be up for the game against Sevco next week, arriving a good few hours before kick-off, and if anyone would like to talk about a potential future fanzine with me, or feel you would like to get involved with something, then please give me a shout or fire me a PM on here and maybe we can get something started...

After reading this thread, I feel that a club like Hibernian really could do with having a fanzine produced once again, and I'd be happy to get involved...

[brog]

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Thanks for all the feedback to this thread, fellas. Really enjoyed reading through all of the reminiscences, although it does really sadden me how fanzines aren't the matchday staple they once used to be. After reading some of this thread, I got a copy of Mass Hibsteria off ebay and, as we said in Manchester during the height of fanzine culture... I was well impressed.

As a kid I enjoyed reading my dad's fanzines more than the programmes he gave me from the matches he attended, and I started selling the first United fanzine that began in the mid-80s around the pubs of Old Trafford when I was 15... and a year later edited my own for a few seasons, until life and real work took over. After that I would write for one of the biggest selling fanzines in the UK, United We Stand, until the Glazers took over my club and I help create FC United. From there, I wrote for an early FC/Manchester fanzine and since we moved into our own ground in 2015, I've been editing the FCUM programme, trying to keep alive the spirit of fanzines as much as I can within the content.

Watching United away as a regular for many years, I would always seek out a fanzine from the other team as A, it would often provide a fascinating and much-needed alternative and constructive insight into another club, and B, would prove useful hanging out of the back of your jeans pocket when in boozer far from home and running the risk of getting your head kicked in for being an outsider!

A couple of years ago, and having not attended a match at Old Trafford since that takeover by the Yanks in 2005, I launched a retro/nostalgia-based MUFC fanzine called 1878 and although sales aren't great, the feedback has been overwhelming and has only confirmed to me that despite the changing climate of football over the last couple of decades, there is still an appetite for the printed fanzine. Or as I tell people when they buy it and ask what it is... perfect bog-reading material.

Reading this thread, it does seem there is a desire to see possibly another fanzine on the streets of Leith and although my original post was more about an education for myself in the Hibees fanzines of yore, the replies to my question of whether there's place for a fanzine at Hibs in this day and age has only Anthony Stoked something in me.

I am in no position to provide much of he content for a potential publication, but if there are enough people willing to contribute regularly to a future fanzine, then I would be more than happy to work in conjunction with a few people, and possibly design, produce and print a fanzine if there's a market for one, and we can get some good contributors who would do justice to the past mags that seem to be so missed.

I'll be up for the game against Sevco next week, arriving a good few hours before kick-off, and if anyone would like to talk about a potential future fanzine with me, or feel you would like to get involved with something, then please give me a shout or fire me a PM on here and maybe we can get something started...

After reading this thread, I feel that a club like Hibernian really could do with having a fanzine produced once again, and I'd be happy to get involved...

Excellent post, good luck with your endeavours!

[Hibernia&Alba]

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Sounds like moaning Minnie. Spoke to her last year.

Why is she called moaning Minnie? It was about 2003, I think, she used to sell Mass Hibsteria. Wee stoater.