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An historical document for the first decade of the new century.
The Real Thing started as a flyer for the regular gigs being organised in the notorious Luna Bar and grew from there. It documented a corner of the Berlin music scene, and had a totally open editorial policy. The only items refused were usually only really bad poetry.
A combination of constant software malfunctions, computer meltdowns and printer fuckups meant that anything from a Mac Performa 450 and Claris Works to some other garage sale mac with some version of Quark and who knows where that copy of Photoshop came from (and all in a combination of languages) would be the tools used to somehow get something on paper in time for the gigs the advertisers had paid for.
The text was cramped in order to fit it all in and consequently hard to read - it was for afficiados.
Thanks to all the people who helped me make, print, fold and distribute the “thing”, and to the contributors. It was really one of those Berlin things.
As it was free, the end finally came when the advertising wouldn’t pay for enough copies to make it worthwhile.
There were eleven issues of the paper The Real Thing. Download a DJVU (Déjà vu) browser plug in and click on the links to the left to see it as it was printed.
Issue 1 – June 2001, reviews of Sascha Pushkin, The Never Readys and Bruno Adams and The Lost Weekenders, regular columns, good photo of Lee Viajereo and more. 4 pages, 380 kb.
Issue 2 - Juli 2001 Fete de la Musique, shit summer hits buskers, Keeley cartoon, reviews of Schlamazel, Hugo Race and the True Spirit, Luna Lounge, Acoustic Moon Club, Pierre Pouget, Toy Death, The Original Harmony Creek Dippers and others from Ostkreuz fete, Leunenberger cartoon, Kunst mafia and more. 8 pages, 788 kb.
Issue 3 – August 2001, sommerloch, Dave Cusworth, Kitty Solaris, Cesaria Evora, Smith and Jones, Neil Young, Dezibel, The Mullhollands, Super High 5, Gaston and Jullander, letters and more. 8 pages, 760kb.
Issue 4 – September 2001, Berlin band scene?, Luxedo, Johhny Zabala, Keeleys music trivia crossword, Machine Translations, the Copenhagen covers circuit and more. 8 pages, 1.1 mb.
Issue 5 – October 2001, free pictorial collectors edition, Mushroom season, Luxedo and Tav Falco Panther Burns, Kinch Blade and the Black Lillies, Zabala, Bruno Adams and the Lost Weekenders, Kitty Solaris, opinion, Leunenberger cartoons, 9-11 article, Keeleys music masochist’s crossword, Keeley cartoon and more. 8 pages, 1 mb.
Issue 6- November 2001, bar staff and techniker photo special, Prix de la Chanson de Shokovision, Idiot Child and Stripparo, Tindersticks, 99, Hugo Race, Legends of Motorsport, Six ft Hicks, Zoobombs, regular columns and more. 8 pages, 1 mb.
Issue 7- December 2001, Attencione Amici, Sand, The Death of Dezibel, Cocktail International, Impure Thoughts, The Methylated Spirits, Scott Bassham Band, Rock Agaisnt Racism, letters, Leunenberger cartoon, comment and more. 8 pages, 779 kb.
Issue 8- First quarter 2002, Golden Showers by Mail, The Methylated Spirits, Keeleys Nerd Word, Letter from America, Attilla the Stockbroker, Mike Russell Band, Australian correspondents, and more. 8 pages, 730 kb.
Issue 9- November 2002, Correspondents report, jack Ruby Tuesday, Mamas Weed, Suicide in Volkbuhne, letters and more. 8 pages, 996 kb.
Issue 10- Spring 2003, Kreuzberg article, drama from Phil Schonefeld, David Gray, Richard Ashcroft,Funny Van Dannen, Leunenberger cartoon, horoscope, opinion and more. 8 pages, 729 kb.
Issue 11- Summer 2003, Cellarfull of Folk, Mark Mulholland, Soifus, Berliner Weisse, Wackelkontackt, Rockass, Atom Spy, Freddys Dinner, articles and more. 4 pages, 435 kb.
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