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About Me



Hello and welcome to The Sound of the Modern Lonely, a Teesside-based fanzine dedicated to music, art, poetry, TV, film, photography and general pop culture-related ranting. Come one, come all, and join us in the search for fresh perspectives and excitement.
Issue 4 is out from late October 2008, featuring a ton of shit from gig reviews to local schnews. There are interviews with local heroes The Chapman Family and Russell and the Wolves, gig reviews from the Empire, Doctor Browns and the Westgarth and an exclusive feature on Teesside's radical history including an interview with film-maker Craig Hornby.
It's just £1 per copy with a juicy colour cover (cost a fucking bomb, that) available via PayPal and perhaps even at one or two gigs around the Tees Valley™, every now and again, whenever a crackpot team of sellers is let loose upon The Scene™. Alternatively, send £1.50 to modernlonelyzine @ hotmail.co.uk with payment details. Or send a message/email for further info and we can all chat merrily :)
Issue 4 cover photo (Chapman Family, Stockton Fringe Festival 2008) by Jazzy Lemon .
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Issue 5 expected Spring 2009.
Contributions welcomed.
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My Blog

* Middlesbrough Music Live 2009 *

Yes, it's selected highlights from MML 2009!  Modern Lonely favourites Das Wanderlust (above) opened the proceedings at the Empire. I never go in the Empire (it's full of young, happy people) so once ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:47:00 GMT

* Giggage 2009 Part 2 *

Razmataz Lorry Excitement/ Idiot Savant@ Uncle Alberts, Middlesbrough 04.04.2009More Saturday night action at Uncle Alberts. Interesting fact: until about an hour ago I thought Razmataz Lorry Excitmen...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:34:00 GMT

* Giggage 2009 *

Modern Lonely has been out and about this year and can't be arsed to write proper reviews, but did get a new camera for Christmas. So this is what we've been up to. Check it out! (NB. These fucking th...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:32:00 GMT

* Digging Deeper *

Yo. Long time no blog. It was 25th anniversary of the outbreak of the Miners' Strike this week. Its an occasion which merits a blog not because it was the most decisive moment in the UK's modern hist...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:27:00 GMT

* Please dont put the radio one *

   * * * Modern Lonely's roving reporter Mr Incident rails against the beer-hoying monkeys, derivative DJs and failed stage-school students who dominate the mainstream indie consensus... &nb...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:07:00 GMT

* Tidings and material comfort and joy *

Hats off to the company which standardised the image of Santa as we know it and also catered for the Nazi war machine, and has continued to sanction political intimidation and murder in the pu...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:59:00 GMT

* Middlesbroughs day of infamy *

Just in case you didn't know, those harbingers of doom Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp were on telly tonight, giving Middlesbrough a right slagging (if the reports are to be believed).  I didn't...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:35:00 GMT

* Generation Sex *

A number of documentaries and articles appeared in the media recently commemorating the fourtieth anniversary of the legalisation of homosexuality in the UK.  Later this month...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:43:00 GMT

* Lost in YouTube*

In homage to the greatness of YouTube (and also out of boredom), I decided to watch a few bands and pick out the 10 live performances which I enjoyed the most.  So here they a...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:49:00 GMT

* The politics of suicide bombing *

"Engendered by the absence of a revolutionary class, regenerated later by a lack of confidence in the revolutionary masses, terrorism can maintain itself only by exploiting the weakness and disorgani...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:46:00 GMT