Reviews...
I got fed up with starting a new
page for the review of each issue so I'm bunging them all
on one page. This is far from definative, there are thousands
and thousands of copies of Beat Motel drifting round the
globe now and we don't have time post all the reviews on
here! Although you find a review we haven't seen
please get in touch!
If you came to this
page wanting to get your 'product' reviewed then just post
it to us using the address on the front page.
Issue #7 Reviews...
Mild Peril #8
'Issue Zine' #32
Trust #130
Fast 'n' Loud #8
Black Lesbian President #4
Big Cheese December 2007
Three and a half stars
The musings of one man makes Beat Motel entertaining to read, although a bit scatterbrained. This zine makes quite a few intelligent points, and has some interesting coverage on the international music scene. Yet the rest of the 'zine covers everything from the fact that if you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion it will instandtly go mad and sting itself to death, to the controversy over Nestlé baby formula. There is minimal music coverage as the majority is rants and raves, so if you are looking for reviews it's not the best read. However, this has way more of a sense of humour than most 'zines and will have you chuckling, while several features will get you thinking. Engaging stuff.
and then the fine folk at Big Cheese liked issue 7 so miuch they reviewed it again the following month!
VEGLAM
posted 2007-09-11
Nice to see that BEAT MOTEL is still going strong with more and more to read inside! Lots of various columns, interviews with bands such as F451, PICKLED DICK, COPPERPILOT, CLOUDS and ATTACK!VIPERS!, a scene report about the Indonesian punk scene, an article about Britain’s favourite sport (football? Hm… nope, drinking!), a tour diary with the band POWER, many fanzine reviews (seems like there’s a slight paper zine revival these days!), DVD reviews, book reviews and a ton of record reviews (mostly punk rock, hardcore and indie bands) and much more!... This fanzine is packed with information of all kind and I can tell you that you’ll come back to it a few times before managing to read it all…and you can’t even complain about the font size since you’ll get a free magnifying glass with it, how cool is that? The tone used in BEAT MOTEL is still well balanced between funny and serious so that makes its reading never monotonous, you want to have a laugh and read about email conversations with a “Russian bride”? You get it in here… Want information about the Nestlé boycott and hunt saboteurs? You get that too. Everybody can find something worth reading in BEAT MOTEL, yes even you!/Laurent.
Get it from the horses mouth - http://www.veglam.com/veglam/lire_kronik.php?lire_kronik=117
The Ragged Edge
Found 10th January 2007
Discovered there's a Beat zine produced here in the old home burg, found it on the internet. Went along to Know Your Product in Eagle Street, Ipswich and bought a copy of Beat Motel #7, plus another two zines, Gash #3 from April '07 and Mashroobus Applecore #11. What I want to talk about here though is Beat Motel, a well produced, wittily written bundle of 80 stapled pages. The price? A couple of quid, though the guy let me have the 3 zines for £2.
The editor, who writes most of the zine though he is aided by reviewers and guest writers, is Andrew Culture. He's like a Paul O'Grady of zine life. The --er, ethos or whatever you want to call it of the mag is Punk, but not in an exclusive sense. For instance, guest writer Mainy Diablo gives us his view on his school days, having been assigned the topic by the editor. The piece is something we can all identify with, particularly those of us who had two trips a day on the school bus--a right wheeze in more ways than one.
There are music reviews, mainly of Punk and hardcore it seems, though I don't know the bands the paragraphs are still quite interesting to look through. Also there are zine reviews, with addresses and URLs where appropriate. It's there I found out about the magazine made up of post cards and looked it up on the net.
Beat Motel is definitely worth a look--I'm now keen on getting my hands on more zines. Seems with zines the writers are quite happy churning out their work either to give away or swap for peanuts or other zines. It's a great attitude and yields some wonderfully liberated writing. As we say in Ipswich, fuggit all, mate, gizzit 'ere! Bow-lacks!
Get it from the horses mouth here - http://www.raggededge.btinternet.co.uk/nonblog.htm
Issue #6 Reviews...
High Heels Slut #10
Babies Dead 22
From -http://www.veglam.com/veglam/lire_kronik.php?lire_kronik=117
Beat Motel
'issue 7'
posted 2007-09-11
Nice to see that BEAT MOTEL is still going strong with more and more to read inside! Lots of various columns, interviews with bands such as F451, PICKLED DICK, COPPERPILOT, CLOUDS and ATTACK!VIPERS!, a scene report about the Indonesian punk scene, an article about Britain’s favourite sport (football? Hm… nope, drinking!), a tour diary with the band POWER, many fanzine reviews (seems like there’s a slight paper zine revival these days!), DVD reviews, book reviews and a ton of record reviews (mostly punk rock, hardcore and indie bands) and much more!... This fanzine is packed with information of all kind and I can tell you that you’ll come back to it a few times before managing to read it all…and you can’t even complain about the font size since you’ll get a free magnifying glass with it, how cool is that? The tone used in BEAT MOTEL is still well balanced between funny and serious so that makes its reading never monotonous, you want to have a laugh and read about email conversations with a “Russian bride”? You get it in here… Want information about the Nestlé boycott and hunt saboteurs? You get that too. Everybody can find something worth reading in BEAT MOTEL, yes even you!/Laurent.
From Artcore #24
From http://oscarsdistro.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html
The best Beat Motel yet! Much more consistent in the columns department, interviews with Aflighttoremember, Invasion & Relapse plus tons of music & zine reviews, all injected with their own brand of childish humour. Excellent! Mail order this and get a free sticker.
From http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/johnny_america/2007/may/28/analogmonologue001/
Beat Motel has a web presence too, of course, as does everyone and everything. As I type these words I look across the room at my neighbor's fat orange cat who wanders into my house from time to time. This cat is adroitly pressing his paws onto the human-sized keys of his anodized aluminum laptop. He is blogging about the cricket he just killed. I shot video of the battle on my cell phone, which he's asked permission to post on his blog. We transferred the footage to his computer wirelessly using Bluetooth technology, and he then added some rad ironic sparkle effects using iMovie. In his blog post he's going to casually mention how cute he is, I'm pretty sure — he always does. Looking at him knead-typing his next post, I notice a tiny scrap of leaf stuck on his furry his cat-paunch. He is awfully adorable, I admit. I think he's updating his Myspace profile in another browser tab as he blogs about the cricket, either that or Facebook — his screen's at an too acute angle so I can't be sure. Maybe he's adding something to his Amazon dot com wish list, which is displayed in the left sidebar of his blog. Beat Motel's web presence is approximately as advanced than my neighbor's cat's — that is, pretty high-tech: it's got a forum that lists the latest goings-on in the Ipswich punk scene. But the thing is, the web site is not the thing. The zine is the thing. And it's a Very Good Thing. It was a year ago that publisher Andrew Culture sent a copy of Beat Motel to the Johnny America Post Office Box with a barely legible note asking if we'd trade accept his publication in trade for an issue of ours. Of course, Andrew, of course, and we're so glad we did.
From http://www.ox-fanzine.de/fanzines/fanzine-reviewsox70.13622.html
BEAT MOTEL #6
A5, 64 S., 2,50 Euro, www.beatmotel.co.uk
Alleine schon wegen der immer wieder im Heft auftauchenden Katzenfotos ist mir das englische Beat Motel sympathisch. Bei der neuen, sechsten, Ausgabe hat es eine Katze sogar aufs Titelbild geschafft. Inhaltlich ist alles wie gehabt: Artikel über Bands, die kaum einer kennt (AFLIGHTTOREMEMBER, PROLAPSE und INVASION), Reviews, Konzertberichte, viel, sehr viel dummes, aber größtenteils unterhaltsames Zeug und massenweise Kolumnen und andere persönliche Gedanken. Beat Motel-Boss Andrew Culture will allerdings ab der nächsten Ausgabe die ihm etwas zu beliebig gewordenen Fremdbeiträge reduzieren und noch häufiger selbst aktiv werden, um dem Heft mehr Charakter zu verschaffen. Keine schlechte Entscheidung, ab und an ist eine Ausdünnung und ein auf Linie Bringen durchaus sinnvoll und der Qualität eines Heftes zuträglich. Außerdem hat der Mann einen sehr schönen sarkastischen Schreibstil, insofern freue ich mich schon auf Ausgabe sieben.
André Bohnensack
Which google translation says comes through as this;
BEAT MOTEL #6 A5, 64 S., 2.50 euro, www.beatmotel.co.uk Because of again and again the cat photos emerging in the booklet the English Beat motel is pleasant to me alone already. With the new, it created sixth, expenditure a cat even on the frontispiece. Everything is contentwise as had: Article over volume, which knows hardly one (AFLIGHTTOREMEMBER, PROLAPSE and INVASION), Reviews, concert reports, much, very much stupid, but to a large extent unterhaltsames things and massive columns and other personal thoughts. Beat motel Boss Andrew Culture wants to reduce however starting from the next expenditure it somewhat too arbitrary the foreign contributions become and become still more frequently even active, in order to provide for the booklet more character. No bad decision, now and then is quite meaningful and the quality of a booklet beneficial a thinning out and on line bringing. In addition the man has a very beautiful sarkastischen write style, to that extent is pleased I on expenditure already sieves himself. André bean bag
From http://www.robotsandelectronicbrains.co.uk/reviews/archive/0701.html
Beat Motel #6
A rather hefty A5 'zine with staples. Sixty plus pages of highly variable content including four pages of 'zine reviews, eight pages of live reviews, and a dozen pages of record reviews. It concerns itself with a range of sounds and has a bit of humour running throughout it. Items such as the little piece about why being British isn't so great, or the article by Richard Hell about CBGB's lifted from the New York Times caught your reviewer's attention. Editor Andrew Culture isn't shy about taking centre stage on occasion, but then it is his 'zine. The humour's a bit hit or miss and a lot of the reviews are very negative, which makes you wonder what the point is in taking the time and effort to review something that is only ever going to be trashed. This aside, a lot of effort has obviously been invested in this 'zine and has something of interest for just about everybody. (Laurence) www.beatmotel.co.uk
Issue #5 Reviews...
From R*E*P*E*A*T
Beat Motel #5 (£1.50 and A5 sae from 71 Rectory
Rd, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8EQ; www.beatmotel.co.uk) Beat
Motel is fast becoming one of the best fanzines in these
(and indeed any) parts. Not only is it packed with lots
of interviews (Lagwagon, Rise Against, Kneedeep, Cougars,
Things Found in Sharks and Against Me!) and reviews, it’s
also got lots of very amusing articles – “columns,
jokes, articles and dumb stuff”. These are so diverting,
original in concept and well written that I’ve spent
the morning reading them while I should have been writing
these reviews. Wanna know what I’m on about? Buy
your own copy!
Rosey Repeat
From El Diablo zine
Beat Motel # 5
If Maximum rock and roll is the elder statesman at the
dinner table. Then
Beat Motel is the retarded younger sibling. You know the
one. The
embarrassing kid that's trying to impress by shoving carrots
up his butt,
while attempting to set the record for the amount of peas
he can push under
his foreskin. Irrelevant, hilarious and bloody essential.
Plenty of reviews,
articles and nonsense that give the impression that the
people contributing
are all hyperactive lunatics. The ones whose parents haven't
heard of the
wonders of Ritalin. (get in touch through www.beatmotel.co.uk
for details on
how to get a copy)
From http://www.northwestzineworks.com/
A
very cool newsprint British zine, Beat Motel has a little
bit of everything for everyone on it. This issue spreads
the gamut from classic punk goodliness to an inserted Dilbert
cartoon. Layout is both chaotic and easy to read, giving
the eye lots to pick and choose from. I particularly
favored Steve DIY’s column, “Giving it to you
straight” which is subtitled, “The Horrors of
Guantanamo” a fact based treatise on the horrors of
the American military system from the British perspective. “A
Celebration of Blokeyness” and “HelpDesk” are
incredibly funny, as is “Conversation with my friends’ belligerent
cat”. Zine reviews, distro lists, lots and lots
of band interviews and a huge heap of cd reviews. This
is one of the most solid punk zines that I’ve seen,
it’s fat and thick for a mere three bucks. Tastes
like: Fish & Chips. Three
bucks plus postage, and a damn good deal.
BEAT MOTEL ISSUE 5:
I really love this fanzine compiled by Andrew ´Country Bumpkin´ Culture.
It´s everything a ´zine should be about - Plenty of interesting things
to read including articles some of which are serious and some are hilarious.
There´s also a fair few band interviews including ´Against Me!´, ´Kneedeep´, ´Rise
Against´ and ´Lagwagon´. Not only that but there´s plenty
of reviews, ads and other information which will be of use to you. There´s
80 pages which will keep you busy for a fair while and as I´ve said previously
this comes highly recommended. To check out more about this zine and/or purchase
a copy please click here. Finally congrats
to Andrew and Emma for tying the knot and let´s hope that married life
don´t get in the way of this zine, hehe!
See the original
here - http://www.fullfrontalrecordings.co.uk/reviewlink.php?reviewid=796 |
Issue #4 Reviews...
FROM http://www.rippingthrash.com/RT23reviews.htm
Wow! This is a fuckin thick zine. 80 A5 pages, done pretty much by one bloke, and not that many months it seems since #3. Dunno how he manages it. We don’t really share the same outlook in bands etc, but you can’t criticise the effort that’s gone into this. Tons of bands interviews, reviews, articles, opinions,humour, guest columns, its all here. Reminds me very much of Real Overdose from a few years ago. Bands featured are THE DUEL, CHARLIE BROWN, PELICAN, and THE REAL MCKENZIES. There’s also a very useful 2 pages of listings of current labels / zines / distros! BEAT MOTEL / 71 RECTORY ROAD / IPSWICH / SUFFOLK / IP2 8EQ
FROM http://www.punkoiuk.co.uk/reviews/reviewmonth.asp?lstMonth=September+06
This zine seems to be bursting at the seams! But don’t worry to help finder your rway round this encyclopaedia of punk rock you get a dinky little table of contents. This is a mash of highbrow, lowbrow and pieced brow, with well constructed articles on straightedge, throwaway itmes like a horrorscope and interviews with Real McKenzies, Charlie Brown and Pelican. This zine is for those with an hour or two to spare.
FROM http://www.theneussubjex.com/issue69.htm#BEAT%20MOTEL
Andrew climbs tall trees, swims in toilets, and removes car batteries with the aid of a clothes dryer. Johnny's a "till monkey" who counts change, cleans up puke, and ogles women. Michelle has a love/hate relationship with men, but relies on tips from gay ones for her bad hair days. 101 rules of hardcore, how to give pills to a cat, and actual announcements from London Tube train drivers are among the tidbits in this half-sized rag. -Gunther 8544
FROM - http://www.variant.randomstate.org/26texts/ComicZine26.html
At some point during the Symposium someone thrust into my hands a copy of Beat Motel, an energetic upbeat punk zine straight outta Ipswich, crammed full of zine/gig/festival/record reviews, interviews, personal columns and a few barely forgivable reprints of internet gags. Columns include ‘Tour Diaries’, ‘Confessions of a Till Monkey’, instructions on ‘How to give a cat a pill’, and a continuing discussion of the clean-living straight edge punk lifestyle. Beat Motel combines coverage of the local Ipswich band scene with plenty of active input from contributors, giving it a bit of a Maximum Rocknroll feel, and at £1.50 for 80 pages it’s a bargain as well.
BEAT MOTEL FANZINE - Issue 4:
There´s 80 pages of madness in this fanzine and
one of the best ones doing the rounds. In this issue
there´s like millions of columns from the very
serious to the very wacky to band interviews from the
likes of the ´Real McKenzies´ to articles
about Reading and one about the ´Duel´ I
wrote last year! It´s well put together and it´s
always cool to get a proper zine through the post where
most of the bands featured I actually have heard of!
I love the little dig at ´NTL´ with a superb
but sarcastic reply to one of their stupid letters.
Not forgetting the piss take out of Macdonalds in the
advice column! Oh and the HC rules had me laughing
too! Andrew Culture does a wicked job with this baby
- It´s just a shame he drives a tractor!
See the original
here -http://www.fullfrontalrecordings.co.uk/reviewlink.php?reviewid=620 |
R*E*P*E*A*T Online
Eighty A5 pages with very little blank space on 'em; an encyclopaedic knowledge
of the Ipswich scene; enough fanzine reviews to guide the most voracious zineophile
through six months of reading material; some affectionately pointed digs at
the absurdities of the scene; a healthy dash of toilet humour; a bit of politics;
reviews and reviews and reviews and, to top it all off, a load of opinionated
ranting on music, life, bad gigs and drunken farce. Beat Motel is an absolute
corker of a 'zine, with all the right priorities, attitudes and passion hitched
to a lighthearted refusal to take themselves too seriously. And there's so
much in here: it's absolutely jammed with articles most of which are an enjoyable
read rather than simply of specialist-interest value. Highlights include nine
(count 'em: nine!) pages of 'zine reviews, Aunty Em's guide to inventive skiving,
Is Your Child A Goth (clue 12: stays up late at night and/or drinks blood),
a massive list of useful contacts for bands and, oh, too many fantastic things
to mention. Well worth sending £1.50 of your hard-earned cash to 71 Rectory
Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP2 8EQ - please include generously stamped A5 SAE.
See the original here - http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/Reviews/zine%20and%20heard.htm
From - http://www.eroding.org.uk/inbox.htm
BEAT HOTEL- Issue #4 is an unwieldy 80 page beast, featuring; Tons of Columns, Aunty Em's Agony Page, Tube Tales, The Duel, Hardcore 101, Real Mckenzies, Becky Owen Tour Diary, Star Wars, Charlie Brown, Crap Advice, 58 Zine, Reviews, Goth Spotting, Pelican, Hunt Scum, Reading Festival 2005 Horror Stories, The Zero Point, 78 cd reviews, Live Reviews, Zine and Label Contacts, Ippo News & MORE http://beatmotel.co.uk STICK £2/ $3/ ¤3 (post paid) to a bit of card and lob it in the post to the address below. Beat Motel 71 Rectory Road Ipswich Suffolk IP2 8EQ ENGLAND
Issue #3 Reviews...
FROM - http://sherazqureshi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B4DB7C6EFF6EA02C!772.entry
Beat Motel: The Zine full of Punks, Bands, Writers and Idiocy.Of all the fanzines that have been sent in, this is easily the best. Its got pretty much everything you would expect, reviews of bands, books and films and things… plus, and this is key, it realises that in order to be worth caring about writers should be encouraged to rant about things other then music ! So you can find rants about new labour, tescos, the internet, and even Indonesia… What most encouraging is just how many contributors the zine seems to have… steve lamaque even gave it a positive mention on his radio show, check it out, you wont regret it.
BEAT MOTEL, #3
(A5,
40 pages, £1+SASE)
Three issues in, a lower page
count than before but proof positive that quantity
does not always represent quality. There's the usual
heap of columns and contributions - with a visible
improvement in quality - placed against the music content,
which includes a short ANTI-FLAG interview, GINGER
SLING, PHIL COLLINS 3, a piece on the Groez Rock festival,
a heap of live reviews, some music and zine reviews
and a piece on Queens Of The Stone Age. There's plenty
of humour also, most of which works. Pretty good print
job too, the text is really clear and easy to read with
smart DTP layouts. Gotta say, some of the music
stuff doesn't really appeal and it could be a little
spikier in its delivery, but generally this is shaping
up to be a neat little publication that seems to improve
with each issue. 71 Rectory Road, Ipswich,
Suffolk, IP2 8EQ, UK crap@beatmotel.co.uk
See the original
here - http://www.scannerzine.com/zines.htm |
BEAT MOTEL - Issue 3:
Ok so Andrew forgot to send me me and I didn´t get
this until a week or so after issue 4 so blame him ok! Ha!
Now I´ve got that over with what can I say about this
zine? Well it´s as crazy as the other 3 issues with
plenty of reviews, articles and interviews. There´s
some stories about ´Poo´ too! Because there´s
so many people involved with contributing to this ´zine
keeps it fresh and readable. I tell you what I´d miss
this baby if it wasn´t about. Fanzines are cool but
Beat Motel is up there with the best!
See the original here - http://www.fullfrontalrecordings.co.uk/reviewlink.php?reviewid=660
Ox fanzine
"HEy, that was fast. I just archived number 2 then
suddenly the number 3 of this funny Fanzine from Ipswich
that doesn't take itself too seriously. That doesn't meand
there's only stupid things inside, but the Team around
Andrew Culture prefers a humoristiv apporach. Beside mellow
columns -around them the second part about straight edge.
Show reviels and the usual CD reviews, there are interviews,
this time with Finger sling, AF, the maker of stateofemergeny,
Phil.C.T. and the second part of the Q o.t.StA history
and additionally a big bunch of "bullshit"
(it's a positive word for bullschit, but I don't know an
english expression for it) which might cause you some emberrassement
in public by starting to lough loudly. But this time there
are quite not eneough Cat pictures.
Issue #2 Reviews...
Got The Fidgets
Everlong Zine
Big Cheese Magazine
Positive Creed Zine
Full Frontal Recordings
Review found 25/07/05
BEAT MOTEL FANZINE - Issue 2:
I love getting fanzines through the post especially
ones you write for! Yeah I´ve got an article
in there called ´Never Mind The Ballots´and
it´s pretty good if I say so myself! Anyway there´s
plenty of great articles in here like the one on teenagers
written by Michelle. Shark does another great one about
how crap classifying bands to genres is. Spot on it
is too! There´s another column on ´Poo´
and some great shit stories, hehe! Brilliant article
on Tesco´s the supermarket chain - I knew they
were bastards but this has to be read to be believed.
Some great interviews with The Ballistics and The Big
plus the many reviews. Great fanzine - Plenty to read
and it´s printed on recycled paper too!
See the original
here - http://www.fullfrontalrecordings.co.uk/reviews.php |
Veglam
Review found 12/08/05
This is already the second issue of Beat Motel! This
one includes articles about Indonesia, straight-edge
as well as a tour report by JUNK CULTURE (the editor's
band), KYUSS history, interviews with The BALLISTICS,
The BIG, gig reports, fanzine reviews (always a good
thing) and lots of record ones. The columns are still
cool to read since the subjects are quite various (from
MySpace to downloading music) and there's still a lot
of fun, comics and pics in this punk zine. Oh, and
there's even a photo of the almighty JESUS & MARY
CHAIN! You know you need a paper zine to read on the
beach during your summer holidays so this is the right
time to get Beat Motel.
/Laurent
See the original
here - http://www.veglam.com/BeatMotelrev.htm |
R*E*P*E*A*T
Review found 14/08/05
This really is a very good fanzine.
Not just for its musical content - interviews with
The Ballistics, Kyuss, Junk Culture, and The Big,
a fair smattering of reviews and the best and most
horizon-widening fanzine reviews I've read in a long
time, but also for what other zines might just see
as the extras, which in fact make up the bulk of
this publication.
What editor Andrew Culture has managed to do very
successfully is to persuade a host of contributors,
some from other zines, websites, bands and labels,
to submit thoughtful, intelligent, well written,
amusing, thought provoking and sometimes controversial
articles on an incredibly wide range of subjects.
These include Straight Edge, Tescos, the pigeon holing
of bands and scenes, parliamentary democracy, the
need to play music LOUD, Myspace, recording techniques,
recycling, Indonesia and 'Of Burberry and Puberty'.
There's even a reply from someone who seems to be
a Tory free marketer responding to a piece of mine
about Fighting the Power in the last issue. All these
writers make you want to read on, they engage you
and you become genuinely interested in their point
of view. Top stuff.
If this wasn't enough, there's also a whole lot of
other 'random crap' including The Best Agony Aunt,
some stories, and a whole page of silly, but sadly,
apparently true, anecdotes about Poo.
As I was saying, Beat Motel is really a very good
fanzine.
See the
original here - http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/Reviews/beat%20motel.htm |
I'm getting a little overwhelmed with the amount of reviews I'm getting, so I've
decided that instead of spending hours copying them out for the site I'm going
to go and have a nice cup of tea
Issue
#1 Reviews
Full Frontal Recordings
Review found 10/04/05
BEAT MOTEL FANZINE - Issue 1:
This is a cracking debut issue with plenty to read and
keep you happy for a good couple of hours. The layout
is cool, it´s slightly crammed, it´s very
readable and what´s more it´s Punk Rock!
What makes it so good is there´s so many contributors
which keeps it from getting stale. There´s even
an article from me too! Stuff inside includes interviews
by from the likes of Sick 56, stories, articles, reviews
and even tales of Poo!
See the original
here - http://www.fullfrontalrecordings.co.uk/reviews.php?review_id=260
|
Big Cheese Magazine
Review Found 03/06/05
BEAT MOTEL
£1.50
****
This is the first issue of this Ipswich centred zine.
First thing to say is that they have put a lot of effort
into this - its 63 pages of dense text. Its focus is
definitely the Ipswich local scene. It's also has a
refreshing mix of wacky articles (I particularly liked
the favourite replacements lyrcis - genius). This is
written by a group of people who seem to be a bit older
and this is reflected by a maturity of writing absent
in a lot of zines. When they sort out their contacts
for reviews its gonna be really good. Especially if
you live in Ipswich. Get a copy from: 71 Rectory Road,
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8EQ |
Veglam
Review Found 09/06/05
This fanzine reminds me of the DIY punk zines I used
to read a lot... when people actually used to make them!...
Some called them "emo zines" when it wasn't
only about music but emotions and politics, but that
was before the word emo started to get used to describe
everything and anything, and especially lame commercial
hardcore bands with nice haitrcuts and stupid lyrics.
Anyway, this first issue of BEAT MOTEL is quite interesting
because it's rather various, from columns, little stories
to punk rock record reviews, show reports and all kinds
of info, from fun to more serious stuff... That's what
I'm waiting from such a zine even though its musical
content doesn't always reflect my personal tastes, but
well, they mostly talk about punk pop so that's ok to
me. REPLACEMENTS fans will even find two pages about
the band and their lyrics. I'm sure that most of you
are getting bored with reading webzines so this is the
perfect occasion to start flipping through paper pages
again.
/Laurent.
Click
here for the original... |
Scanner
Review Found 20/06/05
BEAT MOTEL, #1 (A5, 64 pages, £1.50+SASE)
Impressive debut issue of a new UK zine with already
a big page count. Musically, it has roots in Punk, although
it does diversify to feature all sorts of independent
music. There’s only one band interview here –
SICK 56. There are a few reviews of records and shows
and a whole heap of contributors. And it is here, with
the contributors, that a little bit of editing needs
to be implemented. Y’see, a good 40% of those
who have columns in this zine say fuck all. Can too
many contributors be a bad thing? Have Status Quo made
too many records? Point proven. What IS a benefit of
all the contributors is the fact that it is easy to
pick up and read in 5 minutes bursts or in longer sittings.
The negative is a loss of continuity and interest. What
the zine does clearly have already – and at this
ridiculously stage – is an identity. Sure, it
has hints in attitude and style to REAL OVERDOSE and
R*E*P*E*A*T and a light-hearted outlook similar to GADGIE,
but there’s enough originality from the pen of
editor Andrew to prevent boredom or the suggestion of
plagiarism creeping in.
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here for the original... |
OX Fanzine
Review Found 21/06/05
Kindly translated by superstar Nisha
Lathigra
| A new fanzine from England, Ipswich
that gets everything right first time and their
wit is something we understand imeadiately and
is summed up in the contents of the title "Stories,
reviews, articles, random crap and more columns
than you can shake a pooey stick at." and
it's exactly this that you then find in the simple
writing syles. The opinion and ??????? is quite
clear upfront, the interviews with sick56 and
a renowned Mr.T are ???? . Mr.T then also emerges
as being a writer for Beat Motel. Most of the
bigger part of the pages is taken up by columns
otherwise there are funny writings or funny text
lines or replacements lyrics, and hangover rating
system. Film discussion/ debate in the form of
a photo essay. Also a very sarchastic list of
things that every fanzine must follow unconditionally,
a short report on the mistakes of trouser shitting
and yet more quantities of nonsense. The sheer
of class is the idea of the boss Andrew Culture
to have themed columns, threee people give thier
thoughts on the internet (cool or crap), the themed
columns are altogether a very enviable idea. Altogether
a very ingenious debut, hopefully there will be
more of it to come soon. |
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Postive Creed
Review Found 18/07/05
Well, it's been quite a tiem
with regards to fanzines. Here comes the next
one. This one is truely amazing, and it is the
debut issue. If this one is good what the hell
will the next one be like! This is not your
average punk fanzine, though there is punk in
it. I liked the eclectic mix of things. It is
jammed with stuff, the usual gig/ album reviews,
interviews (Sick 56 - who seem to be everywhere
a the moment) But I liked it most of all in
that I saw something of myself in there. This
zine scrapes away at the myths of modern society
and reduces it to a pile of pulp. What more
do you want? I can't think of anything better
on which to spend £1.50
(SS)
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Runnin' Feart
Review Found 17/08/05
I enjoyed this zine, it's got
loads of stories, articles, columns and loads
of reviews. I think Wolfie from Real Overdose
has helped out a lot in this issue, so if you
like RO you'll like this one. |
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Satans Fishtank
Review Found 17/08/05
Ohhhh, a new one! Beat Motel
bills itself as the 'zine full of punks, bands,
writers and idiocy' and weighs in at an impressive
64 A5 pages. There are literally tons of columns
and features - including one about poo! The
best bit is the "things zines have taught
me" section stating that "zines titles
should consist of 1 to 4 random words that just
sound cool and must feature reviews of other
zines". Fucking Hillarious! |
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Killer Question Instant Classic
Review Found 11/10/05
Currently my favourite zine
- I think they would agree that it's best read
'on the crapper'. Tales of poo, politics, Ipswich
rock and bizzare problem pages await the prudent
reader who purchases this weighty item.
By Penny
Broadhurst |
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Got the fidgets
Beat Motel #1: A sloppy upstart from the UK, complete
with unedited MRR-style opinion columns (generally dumb
but rather fun anyroad), internet reprints (including a
piece by deceased Infiltration publisher Ninj that mocks
internet reprints), doo-doo humor, music coverage, scenester
satire, and other hey-hey. I enjoyed the urban exploration
story and kinda slogged through the rest, but Beat Motel’s
got heart, and I’m rooting for it. Andrew Culture,
71 Rectory Road, Ipswich Suffolk, IP2 8EQ England, crap@beatmotel.co.uk,
beatmotel.co.uk [$3 US to all addresses, £1.50 or
2.5 euro in UK, or trade 64S :26]—Emerson
from http://www.undergroundpress.org/
There were loads more reviews, so many in
fact that I fell off my chair |
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