The city is Ablaze!
Subtitle: the story of a post-punk popzine, 1984-1994
By: Karren Ablaze!
Publisher: Mittens on Pub
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780957427006
Subjects: Fan magazines; Interviews; History and criticism; Periodicals; Alternative rock musicians; Sources; Rock musicians; Alternative rock music; Rock music; Ablaze!; Zines; Pictorial works
Other titles: Story of a post-punk popzine, 1984-1994; Ablaze!
Description: "Ablaze! fanzine was published in Manchester and Leeds by Karren Ablaze! The best bits of this zine are presented here, along with new writings by Karren and other members of the Ablaze! team"--Back cover.
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

"Record store day : limited edition of 500 signed by author and numbered"--Sticker on cover.

Library copies are numbers 286 and 373 of 500 and signed by author.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Karren Ablaze!; title: Kill yr idols : memories of Ablaze! and the Leeds music scene / by Ross Holloway; title: Karanoia : early zines; title: Zine no. 1: The value of defiance; title: Eyeless in Gaza; title: The Smiths; title: Zine no. 2: Karanoia '86; title: Zine no. 3: Made in Manchester; title: Inca Babies; title: The Membranes; title: The Stone Roses; title: Tools You Can Trust; title: The Bodines; title: Record shop skulkers : teen zombies and 1980s capitalism; title: Ablaze! 1; title: The Pastels interview #1; title: Inspiral Carpets; title: Ablaze! 2; title: The Janitors; title: Ablaze! 3; title: Interview with Pik from DIY Radio; title: The gospel according to Andrew Truth; title: Tales from the psychiatric underground : the Simon Morris interview; title: Ablaze! 4; title: King of the Slums; title: DUSTdevils; title: The Shamen; title: CUD; title: Purple Eternal interview #1; title: Interview with Richard Johnson of Grim humour splatcore zine; title: Interrogations, confessions and Madchester conspiracy theories with Dave Haslam; title: Punk rock, DIY and the future : the John Robb interview; title: Ablaze! 5; title: Throwing Muses interview #1; title: Dog Faced Hermans; title: Sonic Youth interview #1; title: The Edsel Auctioneer; title: The Sundays; title: Nerve Rack; title: Thrilled Skinny; title: Dinosaur Jr.; title: UT; title: Rapeman; title: The Pixies interview #1, with Black Francis; title: Ross Holloway on the dying art of hitchhiking; title: Interview with top Ablaze! designer William Potter; title: Ablaze! 6; title: Sonic Youth interview #1; title: fIREHOSE; title: AC Temple; title: The Sun and The Moon; title: Henry Rollins; title: Mudhoney; title: Kilgore Trout; title: Live Skull; title: Chris Trout's Ablaze! memoirs; title: Ablaze! 7; title: Archbishop Kebab; title: Fluff; title: Happy Flowers; title: The Heart Throbs; title: The Keatons; title: Silverfish; title: Mayomberos Alive; title: The Pixies interview #2, with Kim Deal; title: The Stretchheads; title: Happy Mondays; title: Ablaze! 8; title: Mercury Rev; title: Babes in Toyland; title: American Music Club; title: Throwing Muses interview #2; title: The Wedding Present; title: Hole; title: Pale Saints; title: Andrew Johnson on his work experience at Ablaze!; title: Ablaze! 9; title: Pavement; title: Nirvana : three interviews; title: My Bloody Valentine; title: The Pastels interview #2; title: Leatherface; title: Purple Eternal interview #2; title: Shudder To Think; title: The lost scrolls of Pavement; title: DUSTdevils family tree; title: Gavin Bradbury on the day guitars turned sour; title: Ablaze! 10; title: Huggy Bear; title: Tsunami; title: Nirvana interview #4; title: Nation of Ulysses; title: Riot grrrl :  the expansion of punk rock; title: The Grrrlspeak manifesto; title: Five strategies for the unleashing of grrrl power; title: Sonic Youth; title: Huggy Bear; title: Hood; title: Lucy Cage on the genderisation of fandom; title: Riot grrrl map of the UK; title: Riot grrrl Yorkshire-style : six perspectives; title: Deborah Withers on DIY; title: NO! fastzine; title: Polvo; title: The Sonic Youth controversy; title: The Ablaze! 11 files; title: The end of Ablaze!; title: Epilogue / by Gary Jarman.