MASS HIBSTERIA HIBS MONTHLY AND OTHER FANZINES
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Walking up to Easter Road Stadium in the early eighties the HIBS fanzines were a must buy
I used to hunt the vendors down after buying a Programme of course
Always worth a pre-Match or half time chortle at the goings on way down at Tiny, Alex Miller, Wallet Mercenary, Joe Tortolano, Benny Brazil, Alex Miller’s nephew Brian Hamilton or the latest adventures of that radge Grumpy Gibby The North Stand Hibby ( Loady Pish!)
Once again Hibernian were trailblazers with probably having the best fanzines in the UK and with the best writers in the days before the World Wide Web and HIBS.net
Anyone else got any memories?
Thanks to JohnSparky2
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13-04-2021 12:43 PM #1
Mass hibsteria
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13-04-2021 12:49 PM #2
Dashing young gentlemen!
I wonder if John still uses the same pc?
I don't think I missed an issue of any of the fanzines, but I gave them all away when I changed country.
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13-04-2021 12:55 PM #3
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Some great front pages.
Ally McCoist’s Ass. Ten out ten Daily Record journalists preferred it.
Pele - the Black Chic Charnley.
I’m sure there was a Keith Wright Missing front page once. Think we sometimes forget that players we look back on now fondly also had their bad spells!
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13-04-2021 01:06 PM #4
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I think I've still got all mine in the loft. Used to love them. Still remember Hibby Hippie, Your Raving Reporter and of course Grumpy Gibby. Still call my son that as he's worse than me!
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13-04-2021 01:11 PM #5
Loved it and always got an extra buzz when it was for sale on a matchday. Still have a few old copies somewhere at my Dad's. Contributed a few articles probably late 90s. Not that many though.
Irvine Welsh wrote under the pseudonym Octopus if I recall correctly. I mind a cartoon strip that I think was his - Speccy the Short Sighted Jambo. Sandy McNair's Grumpy Gibby sometimes bordered on genius. It was a fantastic fanzine. I remember a Rangers version of The Lord's Prayer containing the line 'give us this day our Daily Record.' 🤣
The Proclaimer was another excellent Hibs fanzine. Mind it was in A4 and maybe a bit more serious in tone overall. Very well produced but shorter lived I think.
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13-04-2021 01:20 PM #6
It was a great fanzine. I have a bunch of them in the loft.
I had a couple of letters published in it: one of them announcing the birth of Hibs on the newfangled interweb - Colin Macpherson's "Hypertext Hibs", which eventually grew into the hibs-list, Erinweb and might have ended up being some other website.
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13-04-2021 01:27 PM #7
I still wish it would make a permanent comeback, as good as the semi and cup final cameos are
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Any way they could be copied for excerpts ?Or are they out there somewhere on the web ?
Would bring back many memories for the elders amongst us and,may give our younger fans a laugh too.?
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13-04-2021 01:39 PM #9
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A lot of hard work, time and effort went in to putting MHHM together over all the years, but it was a labour of love really. Some of the best times was when we were really struggling for a front page then right out the blue, something just popped up and that was it. I remember J.C. dropping me off at Longniddrie station to get the train home after spending hours putting it together but we still didn't have a front page. There was a Sunday paper sitting on the a bench in the station with some sort of photo on it, and that was it, we had our front page for the next edition. For the life of me, I can't remember what it was (my brain has gone soft in my auld age and the memory is whitdeyecallit) , but it was that sort of thing that happened, not infrequently.
Worst for me was standing in Albion Road on a freezing cold, wet Wednesday night (I think we were playing St. Midden) selling the 'Zines, that was brutal.
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13-04-2021 01:52 PM #11
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I was quite young, but my auld man used to buy them and I used to love and sit and read them at half time.
They are a sad loss to the fitba scene.
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I always remember buying it at the top of St Clair St. a guy with long hair, who I believe has now passed on sadly
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13-04-2021 02:24 PM #14
Front page from the February 2000 edition of Mass Hibsteria incorporating HIBS Monthly
Hearts 0 v 3 Hibs
Jim Jeffries, Billy Brown, Donkey Dave McPherson, Chris Robinson, Wallace Mercer, Gary Mackay, Donald Ford, Rab Prentice, Willie Bauld, Eric Milligan, Steven Hendry............
WE GAVE YOUR BOYS A HELL OF A BEATING!Last edited by BILLYHIBS; 13-04-2021 at 03:56 PM.
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13-04-2021 02:43 PM #15
Cup semi and final ones aside I’m sure I used to get them posted to me. Whatever happened to those guys.
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13-04-2021 02:55 PM #16
The picture of Fenlon on the back page for Pat on the back was ingenious and had me in stitches
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13-04-2021 02:57 PM #17
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The two nuns on the see saw always cracked me up.
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13-04-2021 03:00 PM #18
It was a great read; I loved it, and the gorgeous wee lassie with the long black hair who used to sometimes sell it.
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13-04-2021 03:43 PM #19
I absolutely loved it.
It was always a great buzz when you turned into Albion Road, there was a new edition out and there to be bought.
A big part of the whole Hibs experience in those days and as a teenager who lived out in the sticks, a great way to keep up with opinion on things regarding Hibs in the pre-internet age.
It’s something I’d have loved to have been involved in producing but it sort of faded away a bit before I was of an age or ability to be able to meaningfully contribute.
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13-04-2021 03:54 PM #20
Great value two reads for the price of one..Like the Pink because of alcohol you could read it on Saturday night and then a second read on Sunday morning!!!!
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13-04-2021 04:14 PM #21
Loadypish. Grumpy Gibby an absolute legend. Ayatollah ruffscranbevi. Great days.
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13-04-2021 06:00 PM #22
It would be good to see a resurrection of sorts. Even something released twice a year or quarterly.
Obviously these things are a lot of work and the world has changed, people have moved on, their lives have changed and so on but I think there is still a place in football that is a bit old fashioned and nostalgic.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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13-04-2021 06:25 PM #23
Always felt the Club programmes were a waste of money and could be read in 10 minutes whereas 'Mass Hibsteria incorporating Hibs Monthly' was a brilliant read with 'laugh out loud' moments a plenty!
When I read this thread, just had to head up to the attic and check what editions I still have - earliest one is Issue 79 Feb/Mar 1998 featuring Lex Gold on the front cover and the last one is Issue 119 from March 2007 with a celebrating John Collins on the cover and a headline referring to 'only one manager enjoying cup success at Tynecastle this season...' I think in reference to our semi win over St Johnstone.
I'm sure you could also buy the fanzine in McColls on Elm Row?
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13-04-2021 07:31 PM #27
Don't remember how I first came to know about it but probably saw someone reading a copy in the ground. When I first realised it was being sold at the end of Albion Road I always looked out for it, before I went to buy a programme and was disappointed if there wasn't a new one for sale.
There was something 'punk' about it with irreverence and humour in good measure, along with the odd cartoon, and for the first time fans' opinions were being heard about things the MSM would never publish, so in effect predated the advent of social media. It was written in the style of a group of mates waffling in the pub and Grumpy Gibby was indeed the highlight, being written in the local patois. It was aye long enough that there was still something to read on Sunday morning, possibly cause I'd only understand some of it after I'd read it a second time!
It would be good to see it back because enough time has elapsed since the last one, Hertz are still Lillian Gish and people are so used to reading instantaneous stuff on-line that perhaps a gadgie flogging a pile of A5 mags at the corner of Albion Road would be a revelation. Also, crowds are a bit bigger now than they were in 1998 so a bigger potential audience.
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13-04-2021 08:46 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuotePM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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13-04-2021 09:09 PM #30
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