Really miss the fanzine, always a great read on those match days when it was available. So much more content than the club programme back then.
Had written the odd article for it over the years and always got a kick out of seeing your ramblings in print. Still have some of them at home. Would definitely buy a copy if it re-emerged.
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13-04-2021 09:17 PM #31
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Hibs Monthly was created and edited by posters ColL and SidBurns who post on here as does MB62, also known as the Raving Reporter. Grumpy Gibby, aka Sandy McNair is now a published author as indeed are ColL, myself and Ted Brack who wrote for the Fanzine but I'm not sure if he posts on here?
When I was given the privilege of taking over as Editor, Sean Allan was my sidekick and we were ably supported by the likes of MB62, Ted and the much missed Ali Tait.
I kinda miss those days if I'm honest. Unlike MB I picked a good spot to stand selling the Fanzine, on Hawkhill Drive opposite the Burger van, so plenty of hot drinks available to thaw me outThis is how it feels
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13-04-2021 11:17 PM #33
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There was a great explosion of fanzines around then (late 80s?) - probably as the printing tech developed to make it more doable - and the Hibees were at the forefront as I recall with MHHM eventually emerging as our cream of the crop. It was brilliant for the fans as we'd always been starved of in depth coverage of our club outside of the narrow lens of the Evening News and the Pink - and suddenly here were these sheets stuffed with humorous Hibee columns, Jambo piss-takings and banter, as well as letters and articles on all the serious Hibs matters of the day.
Fanzines gave us fans a voice as well as anyone could write in and topics discussed in the pages of MHHM and other fanzines would often end up being discussed in boardrooms around the country. I'm forever grateful to all those who put in the effort, contributed and made these things happen. Thanks to you all - you fairly brightened up my football landscape of the time - and bloody hell didn't it need it! So any old fanzine hands looking in - I salute you
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14-04-2021 12:46 AM #34This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Great post. The heyday of fanzines was probably a bit before my time, but I loved MHHM and still have them. It was communication by the fans for the fans.HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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14-04-2021 05:31 AM #35
Grumpy Gibby The North Stand Hibby is very much alive and well as the West Stand Hibbby in a recent book by Sandy McNair
Same loady pish though
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14-04-2021 07:39 AM #37
MHHM was a great read as was another bigger more A4 ish sized one which might have been The Proclaimer? Unfortunately ditched them all along with my 12-inch records in one of our house moves, two collections I should have kept
I wonder if there would still be a market for them. They thrived on gossip and banter and by their nature could be talking about stuff that had happened weeks before. We now see all that stuff immediately on forums and social media so technologies probably made those zines that were monthly or bi-monthly obsolete?
Seem to remember there was a one-off MHHM for a Cup Final some years ago and Id definitely buy one if they were reintroduced for big occasions.
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14-04-2021 07:42 AM #38
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Is there any way an archive of the fanzines could be digitised and made available for nostalgic reasons?
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14-04-2021 07:46 AM #39
How about a "best of", either available to download or in printed form, with the proceeds going to a good cause?
I'd definitely lump in for that.
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14-04-2021 12:17 PM #40
I now can't remember which fanzine but my mate Alan Young drew and wrote the Winnie the Hibbee cartoons. Still got a full set he laminated. Easy enough to scan if there was somewhere to put it. I never had a full set but lost all my fanzines after splitting up with my ex wife.
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14-04-2021 06:11 PM #41
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Mass hibsteria
Great to see that there is still so much love for MHHM
As mentioned it was masel and Stevie SideBurns who founded the fanzine, first as a humble newsletter at school in 1987, before we quickly leapt on to the crazy fanzine bandwagon careering across the UK and steamed ahead on to a crazy journey.
Guys like the Hibbie Hippie, Irvine and many others volunteered their talent and helped inject some savage and brilliant humour and it just clicked with the fans.
We were always proud of our renegade status, although to be fair to Duff & Gray then Cromb, they were open to hearing us out... then usually throwing us out. Same went for Lexo, who even took umbrage with being called Lexo!
I eventually did what Miller should have done and bowed out before I overstayed my welcome as Editor, because I wanted to play fitba on a Saturday myself, and so John and Sean came in and did an unbelievable job of taking it on to the next level, as did MB, Ali Tait, Nick and Graham.
It was an absolute blast to be involved in (I still contributed articles until the end) and I’m glad to report MH/HM will be featuring in a new book on Hibs in the 80s I’m currently writing: ‘Bestie to Beastie to Belgium’
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14-04-2021 09:16 PM #42
Nostalgia is often a joy but its replication never quite manages to hit the same spot. If the printed fanzine made a comeback it would need to be both different, due to how mass communication and opinions have changed, but the same capturing an almost anti-establishment humour - a hard task but plenty of scope for ridicule in the establishment clubs these days.
My favourite printed output from old days were the Gilzean cartoons in the news - think I’ve still got my ally shuffle tin badge for my scarf. It was an ambition to emulate those that kind of led me to produce the cartoons that used to appear on a previous incarnation of here but they could never be anything as good as those.
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Used to look forward to the Gilzean cartoon on a Monday night’s EEN depicting scenes from that Saturday’s game usually an Alan Gordon header or Nijinsky speeding past some unfortunate defender usually ending with six footballs lying in an empty net.
Any future fanzine would have to be PC and HIBS have been issued with a letter of warning re Irvine
Welsh allegedly
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15-04-2021 06:04 AM #44
Not sure exactly what you mean by having to be PC, but I'm sure a fanzine wouldn't be held to account in the same way as an official Hibs TV channel. I've never actually got round to listening to any of the Hibs fans podcasts yet (the new fanzines?), but I'm sure they poke fun at the likes of Robbie Neilson and Hearts without resorting to outdated 1970s comedic tropes (if that's what being PC means!).
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15-04-2021 06:30 AM #45
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[QUOTE=Col L;6526676]Great to see that there is still so much love for MHHM
Did one of the people on the fanzine used to live in Comely Bank at the time? I lived there and I'm sure it was sometimes on sale one of the newsagents.
I still remember the line about Hibs turning down a 5 figure offer for Ally Brazil - £10.21 and a half pence!
I never bought programmes but always got Hibs Monthly - and I still had them all until my wife had another major clear out about 5 years ago. The Proclaimer was also good, but from what I remember was less regular.
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15-04-2021 09:56 AM #46
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All contributions would probably have to be vetted before printing a sign of the times I supposeLast edited by BILLYHIBS; 15-04-2021 at 10:08 AM.
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15-04-2021 10:43 AM #50
I remember Brian Hamilton being referred to once as our "musical midfield genital" and I still can't read or hear his name without remembering that and chuckling.
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17-04-2021 05:28 PM #53
I’m sure MHHM was the very first publication I was published in.
So that’s whose to blame
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17-04-2021 05:55 PM #54
Was the Leith Leader made by the same people that did the fanzine?
United we stand here....
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17-04-2021 08:49 PM #56
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17-04-2021 09:34 PM #57
I've been friendly with several MHHM-ers for a number of years including Sean, John, Graham and the late and sadly missed Ali Tait. Some fantastic tales from those days! They were kind enough to request I wrote a few words in the special reprise cup editions.
A magic and rare day was once when travelling back to Edinburgh for a cup final, I nipped up the Waverley Steps off the train and popped straight into the Guildford Arms, overnight bag still in hand and Ali Tait who'd flown back from Atlanta and Graham Ewing and were sitting there introduced me to the 'Hibby Hippy', Sandy McNair. A memorable and happy occasion indeed.
A favourite moment among so many was a front cover featuring Father Christmas and Lexo with Santa saying to the infamously defensive-minded Alex Miller 'And what would you like for Christmas?' with '******* Face' replying 'A nil-nil draw please, Santa'.
Loved MHHM and all the Hibs fanzines and still have a few. Happy days.
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07-05-2021 09:26 AM #58
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gMt7twJqqdzGZTuh8
A tribute to the late Ali Tait,from his local just outside Atlanta..
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