A big hi goes out to Stevyn from the great fanzine/website Iron Feather Journal for sending us this picture above of the first issue of Steroid Abuse up on the wall of his Nandalow Bookshop in Hokkaido, Japan. “The pic is a view into the bookshop, notice at the top of the door (top left) a poetry paper scroll, also featured in the drawing of the inside view (pic below)” “The pictures hanging include the old late King of Thailand who loved dogs and Richard Francis Burton’s tomb in Kew Gardens”. We love that duck!
Do have a look a the Iron Feather Journal Website here for all sorts of interesting stuff. Thanks Stevyn as well for all of the support for Weeds, Madtone and Steroid Abuse over the years!
Also here’s a wonderful couple of tunes that were on a free record with Iron Feather Journal 17 many moons ago which we’re sure we bought at Atlas Records in Soho. We could be wrong as it could have been by mail order but it was a long long time ago and our memory is a bit shot here. Both great tunes but we do love that Laura track.
Also a mention of the great project Stevyn is also involved in which is the Pink Floyd Breakfast Remix here on Towne Club Records, Japan. Cheers for all your support and big up IFJ, the Nandalow Radio show and the bookshop!
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Yep, Iron Feather Journal 17 was sold at the Atlas Records and one of the Atlas Records co-founders relocated to Chitose Hokkaido and lives few blocks from my house. A beautiful memory was hearing Andrew Weatherall play a track off that record and your record on the same radio show. The other wild memory was visiting a fashion shop, Mona Lucero, in Denver Colorado that had a bolt of fabric which design was made up art from Steroid Abuse magazines. She said it was imported from Italy!
That’s it Stevyn, I remember you saying about the chap from Atlas who now lives a few blocks away. It sure is a small (musical) world!
I can remember you letting me know about that, both our tunes were on the 10″ special of his. This was the show.
https://www.nts.live/shows/andrewweatherall/episodes/andrew-weatherall-13th-september-2018
That was so bizarre that the fabric had a bit of the steroid abuse fanzine on it! If you can ever find a picture of that again that would be so good. I am sure I even took a while working it out as it was used so oddly.