Hello & info required about JD / Sisters fanzines

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perspexorange
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Wotcha!

I've been meaning to join this forum for a long time but never quite got around to it.

Just wanted to say 'Hello', introduce myself a little and ask a question, if I may.

So, firstly, I've been a fan of the Sisters since 1987, when I first saw them on TOTP (at age 15) performing 'This Corrosion'. I promptly went out and bought the 7" the very next day and played it to death.
When 'Floodland' and 'Dominion' came out, I did the same (respectively, these were the first album I ever bought on CD and my first CD Single).

Again, I played these on repeat in my bedroom but, for some reason, I never thought to research the band and identify whether they had ever released anything previously. I assumed these were their first ever releases and left it at that.
I put this down to the fact that, at age 15, I was only really familiar with chart music (that was to change as I got a little older).
Also, as you know, in the pre-internet days, it was difficult to find out anything about bands you liked. You had to rely on word of mouth (I didn't have any friends into 'alternate' music), decent record stores (our town had none) or Peel (who I hadn't discovered at that point).

It wasn't until the remix of 'Temple Of Love' came out that I had any inkling that the band had a previous back catalogue. I loved the remix and wanted to delve into the back catalogue, but due to low funds, I kind of put this on hold. By the time I got to the late 90s, I had managed to buy their other two albums and the two compilations and haven't looked back since.

Favourite tracks include Temple Of Love, Alice, Marian, Nine While Nine, Driven Like The Snow, Amphetamine Logic, Lucretia and Floorshow (for a start, anyway).

I've sadly only seen the Sisters live once (mainly due to family commitments). This was at the Birmingham Institute in 2016. I waited a long time to see Alice live and it didn't disappoint. I just wish I could've seen Mr Eldritch through the dry ice...':D'

So, onto my question:

Does anyone know anything about the 'Standard' fanzine released in the early 1980s? It basically started off as a Joy Division fanzine but, by #4, had started to feature the Sisters Of Mercy. Here's a link to a little bit of info on it - https://www.joydiv.org/bk42.htm

I think it was produced in Europe (probably the Netherlands).

I have scans of some of the pages from some of the issues (none of which feature Sisters material). These appear to have come from different issues and feature various JD articles. I am massive Joy Division and New Order fan and I got photocopies of these years ago from a like-minded fan in about 1990 (can't remember who; I used to liaise with lots of fans back in the 80s and 90s).

I'm wondering that, as I got the photocopies (which I subsequently scanned) from a JD/NO fan, perhaps, if he didn't have any interest in TSOM ':eek:', he just didn't photocopy those pages when he got himself copies.

I've tried to piece my scans together to try to find out which pages I'm missing from which issues, but this isn't the easiest thing to do.

Does anyone know for definite whether the Sisters were featured in these 'Standard' fanzines?

Also, does anyone actually have copies of these fanzines that they'd be willing to scan and share? I hope I'm ok in asking for this; please forgive me if not.

It would just be nice to try to either have scans of the whole things or, at the very least, piece together (as best I can) the fanzines, using my JD pages and others' Sisters pages.

Any information about the fanzines, however small, would be gratefully received.

Best,

C
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Hello & welcome to the forum
Great first post :)
Cheers.
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Zacharias
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Willkommen!
Haven't seen those zines previously. Will follow this from afar!
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perspexorange
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Many thanks for the warm welcome both.
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Charlie
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Sorry i can't help with the fanzine but i can offer you a great big hello and welcome! :D :D
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perspexorange
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Many thanks Charlie.

The fanzines were a bit of a long shot, I know. I've been trying to source them for years with Joy Division / New Order fans, with no luck.
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