I Liked You Straight Away

Those of you who bought the zine might remember that we wrote a bit about the Middle Ones, and mentioned that they were going to be on tour with Jack 'Lesser' Lewis' Awkward Energy. Well, last night was the Manchester leg of the tour.

We never tire of seeing the Middle Ones, even though we've probably seen them about thirty times or something daft like that. Their new songs sound great, and they have a new album called 'Slow and Steady' that you can buy if you click on the bit that says 'Slow and Steady' back there.

I always thought of Jack Lewis as the sexier Lewis brother, but last night I came to realise that I think I probably prefer him to his more famous sibling. He was great! His album, which is out on the same label as the Middle Ones' thingy, can be bought here.

That's the album cover next to this bit of writing. At the end of Awkward Energy's set, they got Grace and Anna from the Middle Ones to do a bit of backing vocals and it was a lovely end to the proceedings.

If you happen to be reading this and you a) live in Liverpool and b) have no plans for this evening, I'd suggest that you go to Mello Mello this evening and see the Middle Ones. Jack Lewis is going home today, so he won't be there, but the Middle Ones will definitely be worth going to see.

Hello!

This is our first ever blog post, and that image you can see over there is the cover of our first ever zine! We're hoping to do these quite regularly, and when we can't afford to get loads of zines printed, we'll just blog about things on here instead.

The theme of the first issue is 'Home and Away'. Sadly this doesn't mean that we've made a zine about the Australian soap, although in hindsight that probably would have been quite good. No. It's about being at home or going away, kind of.

So there's a bit about where one of us was born, a bit about where we've been on holiday and a bit about the general area we live in now. Also there's some other stuff about music and it doesn't really fit in with the theme, but that's okay.

We're debuting the first issue of Young Explorer at the Victoria Baths Zine Convention 2012, which is at Victoria Baths in 2012. More specifically, 19th May. As well as the first issue of Young Explorer, we'll also have copies of 'Crime Zine' available, an a6 mini zine with monoprinted portraits of your favourite TV detectives. On top of that we'll have some badges and things like that so we can try and squeeze as much money out of you as possible. We'll probably post some pictures when we've got all these things ready.

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