{"id":9682,"date":"2018-11-04T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T14:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?page_id=9682"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:53:37","slug":"encyclopaedia-of-ecstacy-fanzine-issues-1-2-3-alternative-sex-fanzine-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/encyclopaedia-of-ecstacy-fanzine-issues-1-2-3-alternative-sex-fanzine-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Encyclopaedia Of Ecstasy fanzine issues 1 \/ 2 \/ 3 – Alternative Sex fanzine issue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 1983 until 1985, Alistair Puppy, who contributed to Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine, created his very own fanzine Encyclopaedia of Ecstacy,\u00a0<\/em>which run for three issues – All three issues are scanned and displayed on this post.<\/p>\n

The text below highlighting issue one is taken directly from the Dangerous Minds blog… Thank you to those people in advance.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve hardly encountered a specimen from the postpunk years of the early 1980s that better exemplified how mixed up and stimulating all the categories were getting, than Encyclopaedia of Ecstasy<\/em> issue 1, an utterly mind-boggling zine put out by Alistair Livingston in 1983. Livingston had \/ has associations with the anarchist collective \/ zine Kill Your Pet Puppy, which ran from 1979 to 1984\u2026.<\/p>\n

He references Crass and Bauhaus and Blood and Roses. While one wouldn\u2019t necessarily expect that a \u201cpsychedelic goth punk fanzine,\u201d as Livingston himself termed the project, would contain visions that might have emerged from Arthur Rimbaud\u2018s absinthe-drenched writings, the fact is that any movement led by Crass and Psychic TV was going to be awfully erudite and aestheticized, fuelled by some pretty foreboding concerns over technology and culture. It\u2019s so \u201cpolitical\u201d that it fans out into almost pure (hyperverbal, psychedelic) sensation. In keeping with the absinthe feel, one page is titled \u201cViv\u00e9 La Decadence, Paris 1893-London 199?\u201d<\/p>\n

The cover, complete with an all-seeing Masonic pyramid, reminds me a great deal of Gustav Klimt, which when you consider that it appears to have been executed purely with blocky magic markers, is awfully impressive. (The Klimt association is far from accidental\u2014page 6 features a Xerox\u2019d shout-out to Klimt\u2019s \u201cJurisprudenz,\u201d which was later destroyed by the Nazis.) At one juncture Livingston inquires, \u201cwhy aren\u2019t Crass the Psychedelic Furs?\u201d (Good question!)<\/p>\n

There are suggestive cut-and-paste headlines such as \u201cwhoops there goes another nuclear plant\u201d or \u201cman sees world saved by robots.\u201d At the bottom of page 1 is an exuberant shout-out to the like-minded: \u201cThere is more\u2026 Like Kill Your Pet Puppy, The Anarchy Centres, the Black Sheep co-op, punk lives, the people, the music, the squats, the whole beautiful chaotic-ness.””<\/p>\n

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In 1983 Kill Your Pet Puppy house mates: Nikki and Val along with others including Angie, Mouse and Debbie contributed to the Alternative Sex<\/em> fanzine, which run for one issue only.<\/p>\n

This is a very rare and largely unknown fanzine, but an important fanzine, coming from a strictly feminist position.<\/p>\n

Along with the better known Kill Your Pet Puppy<\/em> and Excyclopeadia Of Ecstacy<\/em>, Alternative Sex<\/em> was created in the same Black Sheep co-op property at Grosvener Avenue, Islington.<\/p>\n

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Between 1983 until 1985, Alistair Puppy, who contributed to Kill Your Pet Puppy fanzine, created his very own fanzine Encyclopaedia of Ecstacy,\u00a0which run for three issues – All three issues are scanned and displayed on this post. The text below highlighting issue one is taken directly from the Dangerous Minds blog… Thank you to those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9682\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}