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ShadowPlay Fanzine

About Me

Oh shite, it doesn't say it at the top but me name's Alex. I write a Nottingham (formerly Sheffield during uni) based paper fanzine, ShadowPlay. It's really an excersise in relating random subjects to a fairly small but pretty varied readership. It is mainly concentrated on music with a personal feel to all the opinions and presentation. It's about passion and putting that down on a page. It's accompanying website is http://www.shadowplay.org.ukI also do a tape distro for live recordings. You can see this at www.geocities.com/luciddreamsdistro - it's pretty damn fine. Sexy covers, brilliant gigs, hissing frenzies... I'm a journalism student, this appears to mean very little really.

My Interests

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Layout Pimper.com Usual suspects: music, reading, Sheffield Wednesday FC, writing, exploring sheffield, sharing stuff, attempting to get away from the mundane.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone involved in anything interesting that sounds even vaguely relevant.

Music:

Lists of bands are bollocks. Anything, especially electronica, indie, HipHop, world, folk, dj mixes, anything that's decent really.

Movies:

Again lists are bollocks but the bands thing would be stupid and films are just about manageable. Faves include: Before Sunset, Amelie, Fight Club, Jurassic Park, enduring love, honey! I shrunk the Kids, the Goonies etc (by 'etc' I realise it's not the easiest list to guess the next five to...)

Television:

Inspector Morse, red dwarf, black books, brittas empire, the Office,MOTD, Alan Partridge, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Neighbours, Trisha, Jezza Kyle, This Morning with Richard not Judy, Father Ted. So comedy mostly!

Books:

Writers: Murakami, Litt, Millington, DuMaurier, Iain Banks, Robert Harris, Phillip Pulman, George Orwell, Sue Townsend, Richard Neill, Albert Camus and lots more!

Heroes:

Chirs Barrie, Lee Peacock, Devendra Banhart, Toby Litt, Craig David

My Blog

ShadowPlay European Podcast

Hi all,Haven't been entirely lazy whilst I've been out here (Prague). I've done a pocast about some of the more interest things I've been up to here:http://shadowplayboys.podbean.comAnd there's a blur...
Posted by Shadowplay on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:45:00 PST

March 08: New ShadowPlay/Czeching Out

As you may or may not know two things are afoot here at ShadowPlay Towers: 1. There’s a new ShadowPlay (25) just out, it’s a split fanzine with You Can’t Say No to Hope zine of non-o...
Posted by Shadowplay on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:55:00 PST

Jumpers next Thursday (March 20th) at the Alley Cafe, Nottingham

More musical fun and frolics, this time from... Becky Syson: Live at the Alley CaféMaze-promoting maiden Becky Syson provides an elegant accompaniment to the creative beavering this month. Her beautif...
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:05:00 PST

Jumpers for Goalposts, Thurs Feb 21st 2008

ShadowPlay Fanzine presents&Jumpers for Goalposts: Red Shoe Diaries   JFG: Red Shoe Diaries, Thur 21st Feb, Free Entry, Creative Competition, Prizes, DJs...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas...
Posted by Shadowplay on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:30:00 PST

New ShadowPlay

Dear ShadowPlayers Hope you're all well and there's been no minor/major disasters since I last mailed (which is virtually impossible so just hope everyone's still in one piece!) You'll (hopefully) be ...
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:57:00 PST

January ShadowPlay review blog

2007 promises to be a good year for ShadowPlay one way and another and what better way to start it than with the new single from Schizo Fun Addict from the fourth album, The Sun Yard. And its good stu...
Posted by Shadowplay on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:46:00 PST

November Review Blog

Welcome to what, if I actually manage to regularly pull my finger out, could be rather a momentous point in ShadowPlay history as I decided this afternoon the only way I was ever going to get through ...
Posted by Shadowplay on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:26:00 PST

DJing on the 9th November, Raynor Lounge

hiya guys,just to let you know i'll be DJing at the elecsoc night at the union on the 9th of november, hopefully an hour long set which'll be ace! cheers!alex   Here's the info:firstly, Raynor Lo...
Posted by Shadowplay on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:21:00 PST

ShadowPlay latest Oct 06

Alright people!   Well you'll be glad to hear&the ShadowPlayboys are back! Well, at least we think so. All being well we'll have our show, tomorrow (Tuesday) night 9.30-11pm on www.sureradio.com ...
Posted by Shadowplay on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:53:00 PST

Truck Festival Review: Part Two

Sunday       So as the second day round we are already gorged but not full of fantastic talent straight out of Oxfordshire and its acolytes. A brief shower beats us back to ou...
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:14:00 PST