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The Very Best Of Paintbox
A collection of highlights from Paintbox, a retro-themed fanzine that I wrote, edited and published back before most people had even heard of the Internet.
Full of over-researched and under-reverent pieces about sixties pop music, seventies children's TV, ropey late night films, lurid paperbacks, forgotten crazes, long-defunct snacks, baffling adverts and loads more obscure pop culture ephemera besides, Paintbox ran for more than thirty issues and you can now find the very best articles in this book.
Dating from a time when the Pet Sounds Sessions box set was the stuff of madmen's dreams, The Very Best Of Paintbox includes early features on the likes of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Magic Roundabout, Bagpuss, Nick Drake, Chris Morris, Monty Python, Scott Walker, Battle Of The Planets, Lee & Herring, Tony Hancock, Chorlton And The Wheelies, Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley and a book with a big footprint on the back cover.
There's also a new introduction telling the weird and wacky story of Paintbox, and a large selection of the even weirder and wackier regular features. If you've ever wanted to read about the best uses of the letter Q in popular culture or a homicidal toaster advertised on the strength of its ability to pelt choirs with bread, step right this way!
Scanned from the original issues, and available for the first time since the late nineties, this is indisputably a collection of articles that originally appeared in Paintbox.
Available here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/tim-worthing...
Full of over-researched and under-reverent pieces about sixties pop music, seventies children's TV, ropey late night films, lurid paperbacks, forgotten crazes, long-defunct snacks, baffling adverts and loads more obscure pop culture ephemera besides, Paintbox ran for more than thirty issues and you can now find the very best articles in this book.
Dating from a time when the Pet Sounds Sessions box set was the stuff of madmen's dreams, The Very Best Of Paintbox includes early features on the likes of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Magic Roundabout, Bagpuss, Nick Drake, Chris Morris, Monty Python, Scott Walker, Battle Of The Planets, Lee & Herring, Tony Hancock, Chorlton And The Wheelies, Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley and a book with a big footprint on the back cover.
There's also a new introduction telling the weird and wacky story of Paintbox, and a large selection of the even weirder and wackier regular features. If you've ever wanted to read about the best uses of the letter Q in popular culture or a homicidal toaster advertised on the strength of its ability to pelt choirs with bread, step right this way!
Scanned from the original issues, and available for the first time since the late nineties, this is indisputably a collection of articles that originally appeared in Paintbox.
Available here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/tim-worthing...
92 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Tim Worthington
21 books12 followersWriter and occasional broadcaster. Somewhere between Jennifer Eccles and King Midas In Reverse.
"The Dominic Sandbrook of things that don't matter" according to one reader.
Lots more to read at http://timworthington.blogspot.co.uk/
"The Dominic Sandbrook of things that don't matter" according to one reader.
Lots more to read at http://timworthington.blogspot.co.uk/
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October 20, 2014
A genuine slice of nostalgia - dispatches from the pop culture fanzine world of the just pre-internet 1990s, before terms like cult and retro became jaded.
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