Chickfactor issue 18

Chickfactor 18, the legendary indie nerd fanzine featuring big, fun interviews with Kendra Smith, The Softies, Alvvays, Lindy Morrison & Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens), Girl Ray, Frances McKee (the Vaselines), Gerard Love (Teenage Fanclub, Lightships), Governess, Marisa Anderson, Tanita Tikaram, A Jukebox Jury with Kathy Foster, Rebecca Cole & Joanna Bolme; and our usual polls, loads of reviews & other stuff!    Chickfactor 18 is edited by Gail O’Hara, who co-founded CF with Pam Berry in 1992 (yes, belle & sebastian wrote a song about it). Design Direction is beautifully done by Jen Sbragia (from the Softies & All Girl Summer Fun Band). we couldn’t decide on two cover stars so we have made two covers—one in royal navy & one in espresso! our amazing writers and contributors for CF18 are: photographers Gail O’Hara, Laura Levine, Bret Lunsford, Curt Doughty & a host of others; illustrators Rachel Blumberg and Jen Sbragia; interviewers include O’hara, Lois Maffeo, Pete Paphides, and Blumberg; writers include Kevin Aalvir, Joe Brooker, Mark Butler, Wayne Davidson, Bryce Edwards, Gaylord Fields, Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), Alice Hubley, Kendall Jane Meade, Peter Momtchiloff, Thomas Mosher, Piotr Orlov, Chris Phillips, Sukhdev Sandhu, Dan Searing, Lydia Vanderloo, Doug Wallen & Michael White. Also available: Chickfactor 19 fanzine