PUNC: the Zine
I decided PUNC needed a fanzine in 2022 (the radio station had shut down for the holidays and I had nothing to do). Thereafter I began writing and selling zines.
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In 2024 I put together 3 zines in time for the Cork Zine Fest. These were a new issue of PUNC (having long lost track of the issue numbers, I decided this would be Issue Gerald), a zine called the PUNC Report (collages based on episodes of the Near FM show), and Punk Picnic Posters, which collected the posters I'd created over the past 2 years for the Dublin Punk Picnic.
If you live in Ireland & would like a copy of the zine, email me & I can send you a copy of any zine in the post for €5 (that includes postage). If you live in Dublin & would like a copy of the zine, email me and we can arrange a meeting where I give you the zine for €3. If you live outside of Ireland but would like to read the zine, email me and I can email you back the PDFs. Email me! I love getting emails!
PDFs of these zines will be added to this site when I have run out of hard copies.
Archive of Past Issues (free PDFs!)
Click on images for PDFs!
Here are the zines that I have already printed & sold & can't be bothered to do a second print run of.
Throughout 2022 while the radio show was on hiatus, I printed and sold a series of zines under the name PUNC. There are many advantages to print, so many that I won't name them here. However I did make digital PDFs of the zines available to some people who couldn't get the print issues for one reason or another. Now that all the issues are sold, I'm making issues 01, 02 and 03 of PUNC available here. Click on the images to download the PDFs! The first issue of PUNC was planned for release during the two My Chemical Romance gigs that took place in Dublin in May 2022. In the end, issue 001 wasn't released until early June, with a slightly altered text. Issue 002 came out in August as a belated Pride issue and Issue 003 was meant to come out around Hallowe'en, but in the end came out in early November. The PUNC Christmas Annual was just about released before Christmas, hitting na siopaí on the 23rd of December. The Christmas Annual is now out of print. I tried selling PDFs on ko-fi to make my money back but no joy. The PDF is now available on this page. PUNC 1-4 were sold by the Library Project, Connolly Books, Little Deer Comics & Distro Table. I and my minions also hawked copies of the zines at:
I have some regrets about that last one as I feel like I brought commerce & advertising & self-promotion into a night that is better without it. However I'm very grateful to Rob & Rod for letting me sell my zines there. They've let me talk about the zine from the DTTU stage, let me sell the zine & even gave me an opportunity to DJ at DTTU. It was at DTTU that I've sold the most zines. I am also very grateful to all the people who have bought them and chatted to me about zines. You've been very enthusiastic about PUNC, & that's why I've kept going even when I wonder if it's crap. Issue 4 was also sold at Lucky Lane in Limerick due to the involvement of 3 contributors from Limerick. Thank you very much to all the contributors who were part of that issue & to all the people that I couldn't fit in!PUNC in 2022: Issues 1-3
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CRIME
Co-edited by the mysterious DJ MAL & the even more mysterious Kamil, this zine explored the shared political & cultural interests of punks, internet pirates and real pirates. Issue 1 is currently out of print. Issue 2 is cancelled.
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I'm involved in the Dublin Union of Punks & I liked the idea of doing a zine for the Union, but other members were busy. I contacted my buddy Kamil (not his real name), a member of the Pirate Party, to ask him if he wanted to become part of the honourable Irish tradition of industrial unionism & form the Dublin Union of Punks & Pirates (incorporating the Buccaneer's Guild) & make a zine. Kamil was able to recruit a third & even more mysterious correspondent, the enigmatic Luci Furious, who contributed a cogent essay comparing the golden age of piracy to the first wave of punk.After much strenuous effort, the DUP(P) produced the first issue of CRIME in time for the DUP's May Punk Picnic (although we had to skip off to an internet café during the picnic to print them). The first print run was printed by Kamil & sold at the punk picnic. Copies of the Pirate Party manifesto & posters of a collage from the zine were also distributed for free at the picnic. The second print run was sold by the Library Project & Distroy. Money made from the zines sold via Distroy (€15) was donated to Medécins Sans Frontières Ireland on behalf of the US online Zine archive Circulation Zero.
More PUNC Zines: PUNC In Exile, 2023 Christmas Annual, May 2024 1-page
In summer 2023 I put together a one-page special edition of PUNC, intended for an Australian audience who would be even more unfamiliar with Irish punk than most Irish people are. In winter of 2023, after a several-month hiatus from zineing, I finally put together another PUNC Christmas Annual. This was followed in May of 2024 by a one-off, one-page issue of PUNC.
These zines have been sold, traded & given away at the Canberra Zine Fair, the Drogheda Zine Fair, the Daylight Centre FLINTA Fest, TSC (P), TSC (J), Dance To The Underground, Acéphale Cabaret, Cork Zine Fest, Little Deer Comics, the Dublin Punk Picnic & 33RPM Records in Cork. Míle Buíochas.