Juice (issue #1)
YEAR: 1977
CREATED BY: Chris
LOCATION: Liverpool
SIZE: A4
WHAT'S INSIDE....
This is the first edition of an obscure Merseyside arts magazine, which took its inspiration from the fact that in Liverpool "there's a comedian behind every market stall, philosophers driving taxi cabs, poets sitting beside you on the bus, artists and musicians in every basement"....
It includes three pages devoted to Eric's club and the men behind it: Roger Eagle, Ken Testi (manager of cult Liverpool band Deaf School) and Pete Fulwell (who went on to form indie record label Inevitable and also became manager of It's Immaterial and The Christians). Eric's opened in October 1976 in a basement on Mathew Street and became notable for hosting early performances by many punk and post-punk bands. Elvis Costello and the Attractions played there on 2nd August 1977 and somebody from Juice turned up to review their brief set (the gig was also filmed for Tony Wilson's Granada TV programme "So It Goes").
Chris was looking forward to the re-opening of the Everyman Theatre in September 1977 after two years of rebuilding work. The Everyman was a regular hangout of mine when I lived in Liverpool in the 1980s, as was Probe Records, which at the time was located on Button Street (just around the corner from Eric's) - although it's since moved a couple of times. There's also an informative two page article about the history of Probe (where I bought a lot of vinyl), and plenty of other interesting stuff about what was going on in Liverpool back in the late 1970s.
I’m not sure what happened to Juice, but after this promising debut it seems to have disappeared without trace....
Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages....
my box of 1970s fanzines
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