The First Annual Moon Records Ska Zine Convention

1997 - Tim

  • Well on the evening of August 9th I began to photocopy all of the issues of Schroeder ever! In total I copied about 250 zines. Now I know why I’d like to go to newsprint, photocopying sucks! Anyhow I was up until 4:30 in the morning photocopying those stupid things. I woke up around 10:00 got my friend Ted and trekked down to the Ska Zine convention. Boy was it fun, I got in for free, Ted had to pay $5. Sucks for Ted, especially since he carried the heavy bag with all the zines from Grand Central. We got there and set up shop downstairs on the large round table in the Wetlands. I’m not sure exactly who played. I’m certain that Mealticket played and so did the Executives, a nifty band out of Chicago, and Edna’sGoldfish. Anyhow, the atmosphere wasgreat, we all were wearing our ‘Hello,my name is...’ stickers and they really seemed to work. Some kids even got them ‘cause they felt left out. I have one thing to say to them, YOU HAVEN’TEARNED THE HELLO MY NAME IS STICKER. But it was cool anyhow. I met alot of really cool writer cats and hung out with them. There was even some guy from Montana out there. We ran arond like morons and collected peoples zines. We even had a pitch phrase to get rid of all of our free zines: “You get to have sex with Tim if you take our zine”. Needless to say it didn’t work too good. At one point I just began shoving my zine at people saying ‘here take it, it’ll give you something to do on the ride home’. I am pleased to say that there are 250 copies of various issues of Schroeder out there right now, Thanks Moon Ska! I kept in touch with some of the people from the convention via e-mail. I’m sure they really liked the fact that I remembered them (they are probably changing their e-mail right now). Anyway, it was great to see the support on the zine scene and it was great to see all the great and crappy zines out there. To everyone at the convention see you next year, and good luck!(See next page for listings of zines).

Zines featured at the convention

  • The People's Ska Annual

  • Moon Skazette

  • Ska-Toons

  • Ford!

  • Easy Life

  • Boricuas Bestiales

  • Caution Zine

  • Journals of the Insane

  • In Whores We Trust

  • Underling

  • Mt. Stemming

  • Ska, Punk, & other Junk

  • Distant Voices Zine

  • Mind Toilet Magazine

  • File Under Ska

  • Ah Sookie

  • Total Culture Shock

  • Two Left Feet/Rudies For Rush

  • Vespa Magazine

  • Rather Be Dead Than Cool