cycling, campaigning, nutrition; vegetarian; eating healthy, zines, public transport, veldrijden
Music
Loserdom has done interviews with; The Redneck Manifesto, Sea Dog, Fugazi, Saul Williams, Early Irish zine writers - PA of A New Clear Threat, Monkhouse, Pincher Martin, Mero Rejected, Brawl, The Ex, Deko, Caoimhe Butterly and many more.
Movies
Beat Street, Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert, Un air de famille, L'oncle de Russie,
Television
the A-Team
Books
Kelly: a biography of Sean Kelly Zines: Nosebleed, Smegma, Oi Oi Oi,
About me: check out www.loserdomzine.com to see the Dublin DIY punk zine we do. We started the zine in June 1996 and have done 16 issues not including the 8 issues we did on our own (Eugène did 5 zines of different names and Anto did 3 issues of a zine called Promise me skies).
The zine is mainly about DIY punk life, cycling, some grassroots political actions, interviewing Dublin or from other places bands of the DIY independant scene. The last issues have had coverage of early Irish zines with a history of the years 1977 -1980 and interviews with several people who wrote zines in the eighties to try to document zines as a local history. There is also the theme of cycling in each issue - as comuting to work, as travelling around the west of Ireland and in the Netherlands and as exercise for fitness.
In the 10 year anniversary issue, we had comics about the story of Loserdom zine and comuting to work, writings about cycletouring in Ireland and interviews with the redneck manifesto and Guy Picciotto. Issue 15 is still available and costs 2.50euro/3euro postpaid.
Issue 16 is still available - It has a lino printed cover, comics of cycling in Amsterdam, in Hoge Veluwe and in Dublin as well as a comic by Laura 'Token Feminist Hero'. Theres interviews with the Ex - the famous Dutch punk DIY independant band, Angus who used to write Smegma zine from 1986 to 1998, Neil Turpin who plays and has played drums in many independant punk bands from Leeds, UK over the last 13 years which include Polaris, Bilge Pump, Diesel versus Steam and Quack Quack Quack as well as an interview with Sea Dog the rockers from Limerick. It costs 2.50 euro.
The 17th issue is for sale in Dublin in the independant record shops Freebird Records (Wicklow St.), City Discs (Temple Bar lane), the comic shop Sub City comics (Wicklow St) and in the bicycle repair shop Squarewheel Cycleworks (Temple Bar Lane) and also in the Dublin Food Co op each Thursday (2pm - 8pm) and Saturday (9.30am to 4.30pm) at 12 Newmarket, Dublin 8. It will be available soon in Cork city in Barrika Books on Barrick Street and Plugd records on Washington street.
It contains interviews with Caoimhe Butterly, a peace activist working in Lebanon with Palestinian refugees and Deko (Paranoid Visions/ex-Striknien DC who used to write A New Clear Threat). The comics included the follow up "Le Tour Punk 2" of the Loserdom 12 comic, the time travel comic "Back To The Cycleworks" and the second "Token Feminist Hero." The zine also had an article on the Spanish Revolution and zine and book reviews. It is 112 pages and costs 3euro or 4euro postpaid.
www.loserdomzine.com
Who I'd like to meet: zinesters , anti war activists, cycling campaigning activists, old friends.
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