Heyooo - echoing a post from the old forums for this great new one... a spam/plug for a book version of the BARELY HUMAN project that I self-published a few months back... from a project that's been running about 10 years covering ideas that circle the DIY underground and its historical precedents. Began as a zine series that spun off into the BH Podcast in 2020, a 12 episode documentary style podcast covering bands from THE FUGS, CRASS, FRANK SIDEBOTTOM and LUCILLE BOGAN through to R.L. BURNSIDE, X-RAY SPEX, ROKY ERICKSON, THE RAINCOATS, LOS CRUDOS, CHEATER SLICKS , COUNTRY TEASERS and more, including TOTAL CONTROL, LOW LIFE and HARAM as the most recent bands covered.
The book collects parts of those podcast scripts, and adds to it a bunch of other zines through the years, all available through the alongside some other bootleg tapes and stuff with similar themes: a long essay on folk and country through a punk lens, some discussion of people like NEGATIVLAND, RON HOUSE, DEAD MOON & WIPERS, and three polemics: one on the punk community embracing philistinism, another on bringing back the punishing frontperson ala Jello & M.E.S., another on the punk internationale..
Cop the book direct from the bandcamp (shipping from Sydney, Australia) at barelyhuman.bandcamp.com or from these stockists internationally:
USA: Extreme Noise, Sorry State (sold out)
UK: Good Press Glasgow (2 x remaining)
ITALY: Volume Milano, Radiation Records (sold out)
FRANCE: Urticaria Records
Working on some more overseas stockists, but hit me up if you'd like to some copies in yr record store or distro. I can whole overseas for orders over five copies to AUD$15 (approx. €9 / USD$10) to help lessen the blow of postage, which is pretty crazy atm, but seems to work out okay per unit after about 6 or 7 copies..
