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Spiral Scratch Magazine

Posted on June 11, 2008
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Spiral Scratch Magazine march 1989

In the late 1980s the magazine of choice for collectors of punk, indie, alternative and industrial music wasn’t Record Collector, it was Spiral Scratch magazine.

Run by Lee Woods who was the man behind Raw Records it started as a newspaper distributed at record fairs but after three issues became a magazine and was available in high street outlets.

I can’t recall why it closed but I remember that he expanded and had a more mainstream magazine called Music Collector so maybe it was too much too soon.

Spiral Scratch remains an excellent reference source for collectors but curiously has little commercial value. Click here for a list of issues.

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4 Responses to “Spiral Scratch Magazine”

  1. Darren Smith on June 29th, 2008 8:56 pm

    I won one of the two BLONDIE autographed editions that came out and became a telephone regular with Lee getting a ton of questions answered about Blondie, that article was the most exhaustive, nobdy has touched it to date, although a slew more releases have since surfaced…

  2. Steve Smith on January 16th, 2009 1:21 pm

    In August 1991 there was a ‘difference of opinion’ between the main editorial team (Myself, Alex Ogg, and Shaun Barrett) and teh publisher (Lee Woods) which resulted in us going our separate ways. Mr Woods managed to get a few more issues of both Music Collector and Spiral Scratch out but they folded soon after.

    Spiral Scratch, in particular, was a fanzine with bells on, in that most of our articles were provided by people with a real passion for the bands they were writing about.

    They were great days for me whilst they lasted

  3. jay on April 28th, 2010 12:20 am

    i have spial scratch issue june 1991 no.11, GO BETWEENS, STIV BATORS, DICKIES, RICH KIDS ETC if you are interested in buying it for 5 pound email me…

  4. Adam Sykes on June 24th, 2011 7:54 pm

    Hi,
    I wondered if anyone knew which issue of spiral Scratch had the 2 page spread on British Industrial Music in it. I used have most copies of this superb tome, but in several house moves have lost them. I’ve subsequently bought 3 back – fomr this excellent website – but really woud like the issue mentioned earlier.

    I look forward to your replies.
    Best wishes
    adam

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