{"title":"Mark Perry","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"sniffin-glue-and-other-rock-n-roll-habits","title":"Sniffin' Glue... And Other Rock ‘n’ Roll Habits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis classic book is back in print. All copies come with a special bonus print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSNIFFIN’ GLUE may have been the closest thing to perfection ever achieved by a magazine. Untroubled by the demands of owners, publishers, designers and production editors, it was a one-man enterprise that perfectly mirrored the spirit and manners of its subject matter - punk rock - by being intentionally amateurish, passionate and crude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Perry’s first issue (1 of 12) set the tone for an exercise in kitchen-table publishing that did not even have a kitchen table. Boldly scrawled in his bedroom SNIFFIN’ GLUE started out as a fan’s rallying cry, went on just as long as it needed to (one year) and then stopped, as good punk enterprises should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts twelve issues were surely meant to be disposable, the polar opposite of those glossy lifestyle magazines that some people like to collect and file away. Who was going to treasure Perry’s startlingly crude graphic fanzine? Yet today, when any amateur can run up a professional-looking publication on a computer, SNIFFIN’ GLUE looks somehow even more heroic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd here it is again in its entirety, a potent slice of 1976 \/ 77 Brutalist punk culture, complete with fascinating new insights from its creator Mark Perry. So look inside, wake up and smell the glue once more...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omnibus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive - 2165385","offer_id":50382174093643,"sku":"2165385","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9781915841223_1024x10242x_5fc5c68a_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1726244125"},{"product_id":"snappy-turns","title":"Snappy Turns","description":"\u003cp\u003eDebut solo album for Alternative TV frontman and long-time running UK punk scenester, originally released in 1980 on Deptford Fun City Records. Mark Perry was also the man behind the iconic Sniffin' Glue zine, founded in July 1976. The album was produced by Grant Showbiz, principally known for his work with The Fall, The Smiths and Billy Bragg, and it is literally an art-rock nugget. Sort of an autobiographical work, the record is full of twisted hooks, showing the dark side of post-punk. Less hysterical than the output released with Alternative TV, \u003ci\u003eSnappy Turns \u003c\/i\u003eshould be considered as a post-apocalyptic pop record. It could have been easily included in the infamous Nurse With Wound list (guess what, his former band was there) introducing several connections to the so-called ‘grey area’. In particular, the disturbing tape loops and the violin heard in Death Looks Down are perversely informed by late Throbbing Gristle, a band seriously informed by the same aesthetics (Alternative TV used to rehearse in TG studio in Hackney back in the days, while former ATV member Alex Fergusson founded Psychic TV with Genesis P-Orridge). As the shadow of doubt surrounds our nearby future, \u003ci\u003eSnappy Turns\u003c\/i\u003e could be easily an appropriate soundtrack. Contains two bonus tracks from the 1980’s 7” \u003ci\u003eWhole World’s Down on Me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lantern Rec","offers":[{"title":"LP - Clear","offer_id":50424200724811,"sku":"1120868","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e3a7f6f0-cccd-4bc4-85d8-2009498bafeb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726775025"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/mark-perry.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}