Goole Magazine was not named after Goole, a town in East Yorkshire, England. Instead it came from a Spike Milligan book of phrases with improbable definitions. We never thought to check a map of England to realise that all of the words in the book were placenames. Around 1991 until 1994 there were nines issues of the magazine (for some reason we forgot to do Issue 2 - it may have been a joke reference about the tough second album issue - that may also be retrospectively misremembering). The magazines were distributed through local Brisbane record stores and venues for the hefty sum of $1.50 - it covered the cost of photocopying and not much more.
Special mention to Issue 8. We got enthusiastic so the cover included a free toy - a taped down plastic spider. We also struggled to find a proper long-arm stapler and this issue has staples so long that they pop out the back and can rip fingers (as I have proven multiple times over the years). We got away with a lot of silly things.
We borrowed heavily from samizdat publications and (looking back) didn't respect a lot of copyright or intellectual property either. There is also an early 90s Gen-X angst in there as well as a diary of world and local events with sometimes a level of detail. This was at the beginning of the very beginning era of desktop publishing so everything was ultimately laid out and pasted or taped to A3 before copying. There is an odd mix of letraset (we even invested in a Letraset sheet of acetate with white dots to make the images looks better) and influences from Neville Brody etc.
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