In these heady days of social networking, you could probably argue that an old-fashioned Links page isn't all that important. Nevertheless, here comes a selection of friends and colleagues, useful places and interesting people.
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If you'd like to link to Nemesis To Go, here's a handy banner. Copy it and paste it into your page (You don't need me to give you the code, do you...?) This is the standard 400 x 60 banner size: point the link at http://www.nemesis.to. If you want a bigger banner, email me and I'll do you a bespoke version to your specifications. How's that for customer service?
Just recently, an entirely unofficial Nemesis To Go fan group popped up on Facebook. I'm not involved - as I'm not on Facebook myself I can't join in (or even see who's on the list). But if you're a Facebooker, please feel free to click that banner and jump in. Go on, talk about me behind my back.
Ms Kitten Painting's witty and charming indie webzine - originally a website similar to this one, now relaunched in trendy blog format. Essential reading for anyone who secretly thought Bobby Gillespie was rather dishy (before he went all Dadrock on us, obviously), or if you ever had a Jesus & Mary Chain poster on your bedroom wall.
Organart - home of the many-headed Organ collective. Record label, radio show, and a long-running zine that's appeared in a variety of formats over the years, always with a maverick spirit of independence. The Organ zine is currently operating on the web: rants and reviews covering everything from punk to prog and art to politics are flung up weekly.
Online base of Mick Mercer, former Melody Maker journalist, now Britain's unofficial champion of all things goth (it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it). Mick produces a PDF-format fanzine which you can read on screen or print out and make into a traditional paper fanzine. You can also buy revised editions of Mick's books, and some new photo collections from his extensive archive spanning the 80s and early 90s, from punk to Britpop.
A little history, baby. Between 2002 and 2005, I wrote for, and contributed photographs to, the US-based webzine StarVox. It's now closed, but much of my stuff is still online.
The Pix is a fold-out poster with a fanzine on the B-side. Or a fold-out fanzine with a poster on the B-side - it works either way. It's put together by Princess Julia and Hanna Hanra, and you can get it for free at assorted London gig venues and record shops. Or grab it off the web from the comfort of your home environment.
Until recently Deathrock.com was the number one location for news and reviews of all things horrorshow in the field of post-punk and spooky rock 'n roll. I'm not sure what's happening with the site these days - new content seems to have dried up. The forum is still alive and kicking, so maybe deathrock isn't quite dead yet. But an update to the site itself now and then wouldn't go amiss.
A counter-intuitive throwback to the days of the 'inky' music papers, The Stool Pigeon is a freebie newspaper-format music mag with a vaguely steampunkish faux-Victorian style (interestingly, the NME copped a few of the Stool Pigeon's styling tricks in its last relaunch).
More proof of the inky revival? Loud And Quiet is another newspaper-format zine, but without the studied Victoriana.
Sometimes Artrocker magazine annoys me, with its clunky writing and know-nothing contributors. I still cringe at the S.C.U.M piece a while back, in which the lead singer allegedly namechecked 'Christian Cosey' of Throbbing Gristle. Clearly, he actually mentioned Chris and Cosey, but nobody at Artrocker was clueful enough to twig. Berks. Still, if you want a rather London-centric insight into the new-wavey end of the current indie scene, here it is. This link goes to the website of the hard-copy magazine: confusingly, there's another Artrocker site whch operates more or less as a stand-alone webzine.
Old school punk webzine, concentrating on the 1977 - 1979 era. Archives and survivors: interviews, resources and untold stories - essental reading for anyone who's interested in the first wave of punk.
Panda Eyes is a miniature fanzine produced by Alyssa Thralls. Tell her where you live, and she'll send you one for free, in the name of ART. Check out Alyssa's website for her podcasts, videos, photo-blog and hand-made jewellry.
Dominion magazine represents the first time in years the mainstream UK music media has taken goth stuff seriously enough to give it more than a quizzical passing glance (the bashful flirting with the dark side we've seen recently from Artrocker and the NME amounting to nothing more than more of the same). It comes out every two months, as part of Terrorizer magazine. Yes, you've got to buy Terrorzer to get it - but don't let that put you off. Declaration of interest: I write occasional reviews for Dominion. Don't let that put you off, either.
If you'd like a link here, let me know and we'll see what we can do. Note that I don't put links to bands on this page: there are hundreds of band links on every other page of this webzine. This page is for Other Stuff.
This page has been constructed using a revised layout which will eventually appear on all pages of Nemesis To Go. Things are still slightly under construction around here, so if things look a little strange for now, that's the reason.
If you find anything that doesn't work for you, please let me know.
