Considering the fact that Beat Motel is a zine podcast, we don’t talk about zines enough. This episode fixes that with aplomb; not only do we spend most of the episode talking about zines, our guest publishes one of the finest zines to come out of a town that people think is in America, but that is actually in Lincolnshire.
Our guest for this episode is the marvellous Marv Gadgie, an ardent fan of thrash, weaver of magical tales and all-around good sort of cove. Dive into this episode if you have a love of zines, d-beat bands and if you were once a child. In fact, I can’t think of any reason anyone with a pulse wouldn’t enjoy this episode.
We’ve even used AI to adapt a well-known song to accompany this zine-related episode, but we can’t afford the licencing and aren’t musically talented enough to perform it for you. So you’ll have to sing it yourself. Please send in recordings of yourself doing just that.
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The punk rock ones, sung to the tune of ‘The Young Ones’ by Cliff Richard and The Shadows
The punk rock ones
Darling, we’re the punk rock ones
And punk rockers
Shouldn’t be afraid
To live, love
With zines in our hands
‘Cause we may not be the punk rock ones
For a too-long
Why wait for another zine?
‘Cause tomorrow
Marv Gadgie might share a scene
From Guisborough tales
Of his childhood so keen
With memories so sharp
And stories so clean
Once in every gig night
Comes a riff like this
Oh, I read you, and you read me
In Marv’s zine, can’t you see?
Punk dreams
Inked on zines together
And punk hearts
Shouldn’t be afraid
And someday
When the gig is done
Darling, then we’ll share with the new punks
Our favourite song
Once in every mosh pit
Comes a jump like this
Oh, I moshed with you and you with me
In Guisborough’s memory, can’t you see?
Punk dreams
Penned in hilarious tales
And punk hearts
With Marv Gadgie’s details
And some day
While the stories have grown
Darling, we’ll show the new punks
Marv’s Guisborough zone
The punk rock ones
Darling, we’re the punk rock ones
The punk rock ones
Darling, we’re the punk rock ones
