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We began the zine in spring 1997. We wanted to develop our vision of the oi! scene and the skinhead (counter-) culture. We try to have a continuity in the spirit. We are quite selective. We’ve always tried into the zine to speak a lot about the lyrics, the meaning of the band and not only basic interviews. Since the beginning one part of the zine is about history and skinhead culture in general (or at least our vision of the skinhead culture) with articles about old bands like 4-Skins, Criminal Class and interviews of old characters from the scene: Taï-Luc the singer of La Souris Déglinguée a cult band for all the French skinheads, punks or rockers, François and Laurent, formers Bérurier Noir, the most well known punk band in France, Roi Pearce the singer of The Last Resort, Denis from the first Parisian skinhead band Swingo Porkies, Fabian one of the first Parisian skinhead back in 77-78, Benoit the ex-singer from Camera Silens, Steeve Goodman, etc. And the main part is of course long interviews with nowdays oi! (and also Early reggae/ rock steady) bands. Usually we try to find bands who have social, rebel and revolted lyrics but not directly involved into politic, we think it is the strongest way for an oi! band. We do all our interviews live.

We did only 7 issues of the zine until now, but there is quite a lot to read, 3 are professionally printed, interviews are in French and English and with issue 4, 6, and 7 we made a vinyl 7” with 4 tracks from 4 of the bands interviewed. We print between 1000 and 1500 copies of each issue, which is very good for a French fanzine.

We are also doing a website now in parallel, www.uvpr.fr, where we put all the archives from the zine but also a webzine section (unfortunately only in French) with new reviews, MP3 from demo or unusual oi! releases, videos we did, every 2 months.

We began the label "Uvpr vinyles" 2 years ago to issue the French bands in the spirit of the zine.

Le voilà enfin, tout beau tout chaud: le numéro 7 de "Une vie pour rien?"!

Finally out! The new issue!

Au sommaire: des interviews de Camera Silens, Bombardiers, Toro Bravo, Nabat, Zona A, Böiler, Steeve Goodman et Voice of Boys. Le tout accompagné d'un 45 tours avec les groupes interviewés.

Contents: interviews from Camera Silens, Bombardiers, Toro Bravo, Nabat, Zona A, Böiler, Steeve Goodman and Voice of Boys. Comes with a EP with the bands from the fanzine.