Boys Own & Raving 89 books

[Shooms]

Both came thru the post today...

Raving '89: Amazon.co.uk: Gavin Watson, Neville Watson: Books

"Boy's Own", the Complete Fanzines 1986-92: Acid House Scrapes and Capers: Amazon.co.uk: Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster: Books

Raving 89... more of a picture album with some commentary... some great pics...

BUT

Boys Own is THE best oldskool read ever... from 1986 thru till 1992 it captures proper youth culture from terrace casuals thru to rare groove / hip hop thru to acid house & raving thru to Balearic bliss & beyond...

Amazing read full of ascerbic, witty articles on music, drugs, fashion, clubs, random musings, tune lists (yay !! phones: Some I don't know too ), pictures blah blah blah...

FUCKING ESSENTIAL !! GET IT GOT !!

 

[T.C]

Both came thru the post today...

Raving '89: Amazon.co.uk: Gavin Watson, Neville Watson: Books

"Boy's Own", the Complete Fanzines 1986-92: Acid House Scrapes and Capers: Amazon.co.uk: Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster: Books

Raving 89... more of a picture album with some commentary... some great pics...

BUT

Boys Own is THE best oldskool read ever... from 1986 thru till 1992 it captures proper youth culture from terrace casuals thru to rare groove / hip hop thru to acid house & raving thru to Balearic bliss & beyond...

Amazing read full of ascerbic, witty articles on music, drugs, fashion, clubs, random musings, tune lists (yay !! phones: Some I don't know too ), pictures blah blah blah...

FUCKING ESSENTIAL !! GET IT GOT !!

bought the Raving 89 for my mates birthday a few months ago, but havent actually had a look at it myself. Want to though.
The Boys own one sounds ace , really curious now , might just have to buy it

 

[siman91]

Sounds cool to me, have got the Hacienda how not to run a club and have not opened that yet but Boys Own sounds cool and hopefully has some reference to the first party I ever went to...Boys Own in East Grinstead

s

 

[Shooms]

Sounds cool to me, have got the Hacienda how not to run a club and have not opened that yet but Boys Own sounds cool and hopefully has some reference to the first party I ever went to...Boys Own in East Grinstead

s

Special feature on it mate Including unseen pics (including the more pics of the bird in the white dungies with the incredible side boobs as used on the pic sleeve of electra - destiny / autumn love lol )

 

[blue jammer]

I thought Raving 89 was very poor, over hyped on dj history with a promo pdf file that contained more words than were actually in the book itself.

It also looked very rushed, one I would avoid imo - unless you are from the south of course as coverage of the north was minimal to say the least.

Also the CD with it wasn't great either, so all round a big rip off I'd say.

Is the Boys Own also via dj history shooms? If it's anything like Raving 89, I wouldn't bother.

 

[Shooms]

I thought Raving 89 was very poor, over hyped on dj history with a promo pdf file that contained more words than were actually in the book itself.

It also looked very rushed, one I would avoid imo - unless you are from the south of course as coverage of the north was minimal to say the least.

Also the CD with it wasn't great either, so all round a big rip off I'd say.

Is the Boys Own also via dj history shooms? If it's anything like Raving 89, I wouldn't bother.

I agree on Raving 89... it's more of a pic album.. don't get me wrong some of the pics are ace... but no really explanatory history or context... deffo had higher expectations given the hype on DJHistory.

On the flip side I cannot emphasis how ace the Boys Own book is... it is what it is... the entire Boys Own fanzine history pressed into a hardbacked book (bit like Viz does).

From 1986 to 1992 it is a proper timecapsule... terrace casuals & fashion (trainer charts lol !), lefty politics articles (the tories were cunts remember lol), rare groove thru to acid house, the backlash at west end club snobbery (Leigh Bowery / ID / The Face etc) the first grassroots articles on Shoom, Ibiza, the backlash against the men'al acieeeeeeeeeeed Teds, the growth of the 'Balaeric network', taking the piss out of Sasha, LOADS of tune charts per issue etc etc etc.

The best bit is it was written AS IT HAPPENED. No rose-tinted glasses... it's a real account.

I. Cannot. Recommend. This. Highly. Enough.

PS the 1st mention of ecstasy tablets is in the first issue from 1986

 

[Shooms]

PS I've just read a wicked article from the 1st issue in 1986 whilst having a poo about the boys own scallywags travelling up to Manchester for the first time to explore the Hacienda, Arndale, Moss Side etc

I guess what's apparent is that, football away days aside, people just didn't DO things like things like that back then...

 

[adamw]

Cheers for the heads up on these, on my "to purchase" list...

The Boys Own mag was great so I'm expecting this book to deliver but what a lot of people fail to realise is that it was based in part on a fanzine called "The End" from the mid-eighties started by one Peter Hooton (The Farm) from liverpool, which covered football, music, and politics. John Peel used to feature it regularly on his show and I always used to look forward to the "ins & outs" section which was nearly always hilarious... especially as a lot of the stuff was quite localised but living around 15 miles down the road it all used to filter through by us going to the football.

Check these links out for some more insights....

YouTube - THE WORLD OF THE END - PART 1

YouTube - THE WORLD OF THE END - PART 2

YouTube - THE WORLD OF THE END - PART 3

YouTube - THE WORLD OF THE END - PART 4

And while we're at it lets not forget that as Manchester, Sheffield and Nottingham were seriously getting into House in '86, and '87, most of the London cognoscenti were still walking round in floppy hats or MA1 bomber jackets listening to rare groove...

 

[Shooms]

Cheers for the heads up on these, on my "to purchase" list...

The Boys Own mag was great so I'm expecting this book to deliver but what a lot of people fail to realise is that it was based in part on a fanzine called "The End" from the mid-eighties started by one Peter Hooton (The Farm) from liverpool, which covered football & music. John Peel used to feature it regularly on his show and I always used to look forward to the "ins & outs" section which was nearly always hilarious... especially as a lot of the stuff was quite localised but living around 15 miles down the road it all used to filter through by us going to the football.

Bob on Adam... the book is literally all boys own fanzines from 86 - 92 in one hardbacked book... so the the 1st 'zine from early 86 finishes with a dedication to the Scousers & The End as their inspiration

The Boys Own have 'uppers' & 'downers' lists in a nod to The Ends' 'Ins' & 'Outs' & again are funny as fuck

 

[adamw]

Bob on Adam... the book is literally all boys own fanzines from 86 - 92 in one hardbacked book... so the the 1st 'zine from early 86 finishes with a dedication to the Scousers & The End as their inspiration

The Boys Own have 'uppers' & 'downers' lists in a nod to The Ends' 'Ins' & 'Outs' & again are funny as fuck

Yeah mate, the term "Acid Ted" is actually a derivative of the term "Ted" which in Liverpool and the surrounding areas was considered the ultimate put-down in the mid-eighties....

eg. "Look at that fucking Ted in his Woolies tank-top, half-mast flares and Winfield trainees"