King of the Kippax | Last ever edition (p 20)

[1961_vintage]

Mine. Posh blues. Never really took off.

Popular in Peterborough I hear.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The problem is that on here 200 words is a lot. In KOTK I can write 4000 and really go into detail.

Yeah, I can read a double page in KotK, but any lengthy posts on here I tend to skim over and read the replies. KotK is a bloody good read. Is Burf back?

 

[JGL07]

Before we all had the internet my wife worked at Birmingham University and used to print this for me!

If I recall correctly MCIVTA wasn’t online but was an email subscription service.

 

[WestGorton]

I liked Blueprint. The Crystal Palace cover was a classic. So were Bananas.

 

[bluebarry]

If I recall correctly MCIVTA wasn’t online but was an email subscription service.

Universities had internet before the rest of us so was accessible that way (may be it was email for those without the internet).

 

[bluebarry]

Universities had internet before the rest of us so was accessible that way (may be it was email for those without the internet).

Just checked with the wife, who confirmed it was available as a newsletter online in the early 1990s (she worked at the uni around 1993-1996).

 

[East Level 2]

I first bought KOTK at Fratton Park in 88-89 and bought all the City zines for a while.
The following season we tonked the rags 5-1 and a few weeks later Private Eye mentioned us drubbing them in an article about the farcical attempted takeover of the rags by Michael Knighton. I sent the article to all the fanzines and I think they all printed it. Dave Wallace was the first editor I met and I kept sending him odd comments which eventually grew in the Ged Sounds Off page. I also helped Dave and Sue sell the fanzine for about 20 years, and still do occasionally when others sellers aren't available.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Yeah, I can read a double page in KotK, but any lengthy posts on here I tend to skim over and read the replies. KotK is a bloody good read. Is Burf back?

He seems to be very intermittent on here recently.
His style of writing is well suited for a fanzine with a lovely turn of phrase. Easy to dip into before sleep or in the toilet library

 

[Jack74]

Chips 'n' gravy.

Scott Loney , Les and Mike Holden I remember correctly , top lads

 

[JGL07]

Just checked with the wife, who confirmed it was available as a newsletter online in the early 1990s (she worked at the uni around 1993-1996).

I first encountered MCIVIA in the early to mid 1990s. I have worked in the University sector since the late 1970s and was not fully online until around 1994-95 although email came somewhat earlier.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

yes forgot about electric blue! Sure they did that offer with some sort of floppy vinyl attached to it with a remix of Bluemoon with commentary on the 5-1 or the memory is playing tricks with me again . No recollection of BTH though

Blue Print did the floppy disc 5-1 remix

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

There was also "This Charming Fan". Produced by some prick obsessed with The Smiths & Morrissey.

 

[petrusha]

If I recall correctly MCIVTA wasn’t online but was an email subscription service.

Correct. MCIVTA is still going, actually, but is now sent out weekly (it used to be twice weekly). It started in 1994 with 12 subscribers, who were all academics, I think, arising from some loose group they'd formed to exchange news via whatever platform existed to do that at the time. I discovered it when working abroad in the late 1990s. I subscribed in 1997 and was persuaded to contribute a news summary for each issue from 1998 to 2001, and at the end of that period the number of subscribers had risen to more than 5,000.

At the time, certainly for non-local City fans, the email format was a huge advantage. Many people weren't online at home and those with internet access at work were often restricted (e.g. one terminal with online access for a whole team). Receiving City news and views to their mailbox twice a week, which they could print out and read on the journey home from work, was a godsend to many overseas subscribers, though I recall that around 50% .

I'm afraid I don't know what happened after 2001, as there was a change of editorship and I couldn't get along with the new regime. I walked away from the backroom team and unsubscribed, so have no idea how it evolved after that.

 

[frothy]

Mine. Posh blues. Never really took off.

City till i Cry?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

City till i Cry?

I was somewhat crestfallen when this one disappeared. I used to park in the Blue Car Park and walk all the fuckin' way round the ground to Ashton Rd. Never saw it on sale on the campus. I still recall the issue that gave a couple of paper clips and an elastic band as a free gift so that when fixed - I think it was the Pee-arse era - we could all generate a smile!

 

[frothy]

I was somewhat crestfallen when this one disappeared. I used to park in the Blue Car Park and walk all the fuckin' way round the ground to Ashton Rd. Never saw it on sale on the campus. I still recall the issue that gave a couple of paper clips and an elastic band as a free gift so that when fixed - I think it was the Pee-arse era - we could all generate a smile!

Thought it was brilliant, the Gary Neville diary piece and his love for Beckham, I've got quite a few copies in a box in the loft, going to go and find them

 

[mancityvstoke]

I first encountered MCIVIA in the early to mid 1990s. I have worked in the University sector since the late 1970s and was not fully online until around 1994-95 although email came somewhat earlier.

Still going MCIVTA

 

[mick10]

If we were all still buying City fanzines, Bluemoon would have never taken off and Ric would still be working at McDonald's instead of being a dot com millionaire.
Life (and love) is strange.

Nope. Bluemoon would still be here and as strong. KOTK would be doing even better ( deservedly) Cannot sing its praises enough. Intelligent contributors, with great wit and knowledge. Plenty of good stuff on Bluemoon too, but when someone has to sit down, get a plan together to write an article, proof read it, change it and finally decide to send it for publication, that’s a higher level. Opinions of course of which I don’t always agree with but never the less, well informed stuff and doesn’t toe the company line so to speak. I’m from Belfast but go over to a lot of games, if I see a seller when I’m there, home or away, I’ll buy another zine to support it. If it goes before I do I’ll be gutted. Love it, just love it.

 

[manclad]

Nope. Bluemoon would still be here and as strong. KOTK would be doing even better ( deservedly) Cannot sing its praises enough. Intelligent contributors, with great wit and knowledge. Plenty of good stuff on Bluemoon too, but when someone has to sit down, get a plan together to write an article, proof read it, change it and finally decide to send it for publication, that’s a higher level. Opinions of course of which I don’t always agree with but never the less, well informed stuff and doesn’t toe the company line so to speak. I’m from Belfast but go over to a lot of games, if I see a seller when I’m there, home or away, I’ll buy another zine to support it. If it goes before I do I’ll be gutted. Love it, just love it.

You are Dave Wallace and I claim my £10 reward!!!

 

[East Level 2]

Just remembered another one: Main Stand View, produced by Steve Welch. Only lasted a few issues though.