The Second Book of Sentences

The Second Book of Sentences is a project that I began about six or maybe seven years ago.  At that time I decided that there were not enough dedicated people who were creating old-fashioned fanzines so I decided to create one myself.  It's hard work, don't let anyone tell you otherwise but I had a bit of time then and could dedicate some energy to doing this.  The internet has made life easier for writers of 'zines; there is now much less time involved than in the eighties and nineties when one had to send and recieve interviews via snailmail, type them up and paste them onto the pages along with all the artwork, flyers, reviews etc.  This was time-consuming work, so time-consuming in fact, that I never made a 'zine back in the day, being too busy in a band (or just bone idle, depending on your point of view).  In any case, e-mails have made the process of sending and receiving interviews much easier and have the added benefit that one can respond with more questions to the answers received, giving it the feel of a conversational interview rather than just a list of answered questions.  I completed three issues of The Second Book of Sentences; unfortunately I hadn't thought of this aforementioned mode of interviewing people for those three issues.  The one that is currently under construction (issue 4) has made use of the powers of modern technology.  I am currently still waiting for a few interviews to be returned to me.

Now when I announced that the fourth issue was being compiled I was a little hasty, expecting everything to run quickly, smoothly, and according to plan but life just ain't like that so I began to receive music from bands wishing to be reviewed but there was finished 'zine in sight!  Therefore I decided to post up the reviews here in the REVIEWS section before the products become too old to be current!