VAGUE VOLUME 1 1979-1984 (PC PRESS) ::  THE BOOK IS NOW IN PRE-ORDER AT RIZOSHOP

THE AVAILABLE COPIES OF VAGUE VOLUME 1 ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT. THE BOOK VAGUE VOLUME 1 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER, MEANING IT CAN BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE. RIZOSFERA HAS ALREADY REORDERED THE BOOK FROM PC PRESS TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE AGAIN TO THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC AFTER MARCH 17, 2025, VIA POSTAL SHIPMENT.

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Thanks to the distribution agreement in Europe between PC Press and Rizosfera, we are pleased to present the first book available in our catalog. This is the first volume, comprising issues 1 to 15, from the years 1979 to 1984, of the legendary English fanzine *Vague*, led by the equally legendary Tom Vague. The volume is published by the remarkable PC Press of London and is exclusively distributed in Europe by Rizosfera. Here’s the link to order

CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE OF PC PRESS CATALOGUE AVAILABLE

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Vague was the Post Punk Fanzine that tuned so many people into the joy of punk and the futuristic and hybrid styled music that followed it, that became known as ‘Post-Punk’ or for a period of time ‘Positive Punk’. Vague promoted the notion that a band meant something more than the music and that meaning could be shared amongst like-minded folk, the ‘lovable spikey tops’ or the like-minded ‘tribe’ that people were looking for. Vague though was critical enough to see through the growing number of punk bands who were seduced by the world of pop stardom and teen adulation. That disillusion often turned into a searching for the counter culture, or philosophy and radical politics, to find something that could inspire us to be different and to change the world around us. Vague became the go to critical counter cultural fanzine that still found music irresistible but wasn’t just a fawning FAN zine. Vague also importantly had a sense of humour, it could laugh at itself as well as brag about how good it was and slag off those it found wanting!

Vague, the 20th century’s most fashionable and counter cultural fanzine featuring: Adam and the Ants, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd, Southern Death Cult, Bow Wow Wow, Sex Gang Children, Crass, The Pop Group, The Clash, Talisman, Bauhaus, Theatre Of Hate, Killing Joke, The Cure, Iggy Pop, Getting The Fear, AND Situationism, CND, Anti-vivisection, Stop The City, Greenham Common, Charles Manson.

Intros and texts by Tom Vague, Pete Webb and Matthew Worley.