Val Norris is a Dundee based artist who works within the medium of drawing.  Steven Myles is a musician also based in Dundee, the pair created a zine dedicated to Song–poems.  Song-poems peaked in popularity between the 1950s and 1980s in America, originating from the slightly dubious commercial enterprise whereby music publishing companies would place adverts in magazines, soliciting lyrics from the general public and for a nominal fee arrange, record and press the “song-poem”. The basic premise is “We’ll set your song, your poem, even your goddamn shopping list to music; we don’t care what you give us, so long as your checks don’t bounce.”The undiscerning, democratic nature of the genre allows the opportunity for the full spectrum of the imagination to be expressed – from the banal to the transcendent, to the downright weird.

The zine was launched at Drouthy’s in Dundee early January 2013.

Michael Lacey is an artist, illustrator and writer based in Liverpool.  He graduated from Glasgow Art School in 2009.  Michael’s work has been described as bold fragmented filmstrips, and boasts sharing wall space with Alasdair Gray in the famous Ubiquitous Chip.  For his guest zine project Michael created a comic  combining surreal drawings of giant birds, dying ghosts, haunted boats, dogs carved into cliff faces, enormous brains in glass spheres, waterfalls of pianos, mutilation to create an absurd and dark double sided zine.

He launched his zine at the Pipe Factory in Glasgow June 2012, where he hosted an evening of entertainment and presented a small exhibition stemming from the same themes of his zine.