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"WORKING CLASS SKINS - SKINHEAD ZINE" Issue No. # 10 + CD

(Fee: about 3,00 Euro)

Here it is, the newest and current issue of the german "WORKING CLASS SKINS" print fanzine. The issue before was some kind of a dissapointment to me. Why? Just read the review, search in the older etries on this blog and you will get to know more. So here it is, the 10th anniversary issue, and it- the zine- comes with a nice CD respectively CD-R sampler, with some very good stuff on it. So, but what has this issue to offer when it comes to reading the zine?!? Let us see!!! First of all the quality of the much more precise interviews is finally back on a high and higher level, so thumbs up, that this ill fortune of the last issue did not happened this time again. Good thing!!! So what do we get here to read? This: A big bunch of interviews with THE MOVING SOUNDS (some Mod style music band from Sweden, absolutly not my type of music, but an interesting interview, and that's what matters most, not the diverse kinds of personal musical taste), with the great REVILERS from Boston (damn great American Oi! Sreetcore music, hard kickin', dirty rockin' stuff that you really should know), a bandhistory of and interview with the young Oi! Punk band ORANGE BLOOD (some kiddies looking like Mom and Dad bought their Doc. Martens and and their Button Down shirts playing Oi! Punk music... okay, why not, haha;-), but it's not my bottle of beer, if you know what I mean... but at least it's a good done interview, even the hustle against the so called political left is really laughable beyond belief, maybe think ones or twice before propagating some unreflected bullshit... could be a good idea, don't ya think that, too?!?), also an interview with the french band KID CHAOS (nice stuff and a good interview, nice to read, but the informations about the french scene could be at least a little bit more in-depth, but that's not some kind of failure or stuff like that done by the WORKING CLASS SKINS chief), then the "WORKING CLASS SKINS" chief gets interviewed and introduced to the readers by the "STAHLWERK" fanzine crew (very good!!!), then their comes an interview with the canadian Skinhead Rock band BOOTPRINT (actually a damn good band when it comes to the music and also some lyrics, but after their very, very strong patriotic standpoint in the lyrics I was really interested in what they might have to say... don't get me wrong, I am NO patriot, but I have with a patriotic standpoint also NO problem, but after reading in other interviews that BOOTPRINT proclaim themselves as a nationalistic band things started to get shady in one way or another, and after reading here that they are proud of being white and you might can call them at least some kind of a White Pride band and that they seem to play concerts in Canada with radical and extreme right wing acts like the german Neo-Nazi scumbags like OIDOXIE, I just have to say: Fuck it!!! First of all: Why the hell should you be proud of something that accidentally like the colour of your skin, and how can you be proud of that, damn, it's so unbelievable absurd and so ridiculous stupid that I really don't find fitting words to describe it correctly!!! Second of all: I really can't believe that the WORKING CLASS SKINS zine is leaving that bullshit without any kind of comment... if you proclaim to be not left but also not right, just pure Skinhead, through and through Working Class, blah, blah, blah, then why the hell you don't feel the need to say something to that White Pride subhuman scumbag crap... start to use your head for more than just shaving it clean... ah, and don't talk anything about being non p.c., because spending room to White Pride and / or even White Power scum is anything but not non p.c.... again, start to use your head for more than just cutting your hair off!!! Third and last of all: It's a great pity because of the awesome music, but at this point I'm out of it and new BOOTPRINT releases won't find their way on my record player again, because it's not just but much, much more than just music to me!!! Hm, it's a little bit of some foul aftertaste comparing to the last issue and the BRASSIC interview... it's maybe something like the more the things change, the more they stay the same...), after that we do also get interviews with the german MUMMY'S DARLINGS (traditional Oi! from Bavaria in Germany, nice stuff, the music of as well as the interview with the band), and the issue is closed up by interviews with the german Skinhead Rock band RAMPAGE (nice interview, but damn, oh, they are so through and through non p.c. that things start to hurt...) and with the guys that are doing the "UNITED SKINS" internet portal (that seems to be defunct these days...), so you see, a big bunch of also really long interviews, all are for some reasons good to read, so that with the interviews the nail gets hit more or less precise in one way or the other. Then we do also get a load of gig reports, but, nah, believe me, you don't need one single report of them, and also we do get a big bunch of record and fanzine reviews, but it's a pity, they are all very cursorily and 'statement-and-information-empty', don't know why, but if you don't already have the records it's really hard to get an imagination of what kind of music you'll get to hear, because, only for example, Oi! is not equal Oi!, I hope you know what I mean. Beside that all we also get some introduction words, a short retrospect of the year of 2009, a report of the "Do's!" and the "Do not's!" of Skingirls, a big promotion article to benefit the clothing company of "WARRIOR CLOTHING" (hm, who the hell needs that... but okay, at least it's done pretty good...), and I think that this is pretty much all, but okay, it's really much stuff to read and work through. It's all in all still a good fanzine, even this whole non p.c. bullshit, unreflected and ill-considered like not much else, is really a ridiculous jackass farce!!! Ah, their's also a live foto shot of EVIL CONDUCT (or am I totally wrong?!?), hm, and some pages are left white and empty... why ever... Okay, the good sides and the jackass stuff that's really far away from being non political and non p.c. you should know now, so decide for yourself what you are gonna do, but one last word to it: It is still a really good print fanzine, that still could truly be worth a read, so maybe you give it a try. It's all done in very clean computer / windows word layout (too clean and too sterilely, without charm or a really unique own identity, what's a pity, if you ask me), all written in german and in a good tonguing (but on a at least a little bit more correct orthography, etc. pp. should really be worked hard, because, damn, it's your 'own' language man, so that there aren't that many excuses left, and sometimes it's really, really terrible to read), coming all with good grey contrasts, in a nice black and white layout, and with pretty good photos. Like I've said, we do also get a nice CD-R sampler on top of it, with some great (THE REVILERS, SKINFULL), some pretty good (RIEN NE VAS PLUS, KID CHAOS, SICK OF SOCIETY) and some terrible (I DON'T LIKE YOU, SPY KIDS) bands, and BOOTPRINT are also on the CD-R compilation, but my current standpoint to this canadia band you should know now after reading that review of this issue of that zine here. The CD-R you'll find in the middle of the zine, as well as the really good cover and backcover motifs, to cut them out and make out of this simple zine sampler a proper release in your CD shelf. Okay, that's all now, so give it a try, if you might gotten interested in this fanzine now. Even if you might still not anticipate too much, at least when it comes to some cleaned up political issues and standpoints... I really wonder again and again why it's so hard to some people now-a-days to be outspoken against racism and fascism, seems to be a really big problem... Fuck it!!!

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