Did you say fanzine?

“ Zip up your leather jacket and draw on your lucky, dude, you’re nearly the Maltese falcon ” wrote Patrick Eudeline, singer of the band Asphalt Jungle, in L’Aventure Punk, 1977.

Memoz, punk? Yes, the little Montreal diary owes its birth to the punk protest movement! The idea of an amateur free press, called fanzine, was born in the United States around 1930 with The Comet, published in Chicago, and blew up in 1970’s in Europe. Punk fanzine was published in New York, while Sniffin’Glue was published in London, among many others, mostly associated to the punk protest movement and its “ Do it yourself ” slogan.

For that, the recipe is simple: a passion and passionate buddies who don’t want to be part of the huge media machine.

Punk kids, “ armed with scissors, glue and photocopiers, create a priceless alternative press… ” has written Pierre Mikaïloff in his Dictionnaire raisonné du Punk. The home-made dimension gives to fanzine its unusual and precious side, so the “survivor” copies from the 70’s are now almost unobtainable. It’s a valuable, original and looked for magazine, which is spread from the word of mouth… Memoz relies on you!

Music, cinema, comic books, literature or all at the same time, the fanzines domain is very extensive. Memoz is passionate about culture and craves to discover what is happening in Montreal day by day!

So safety pins, crests, studded clothing and Doc Martins stay in the drawer (but nothing keeps amateurs from opening it), so that we fully dedicate ourselves to our sweet and lovely new recruit: Memoz fanzine, underground, free, ecological (it’s recyclable and distributed with bikes), eclectic and for all ages! Memoz was conceived under the structure of a non-profit organisaton. As so, voluntary work and reinvested money in the project are our policies.

Hey, my friend, speak about it to your buddies, tell them to warn their gang and everybody if they want it! Memoz, it’s free, and it’s for you!

Let’s be underground and Do it yourself!
>Léna