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Alternatives To Valium

Alastair McKay

An online journal by Alastair McKay. An extension of the book Alternatives To Valium: How Punk Rock Saved A Shy Boy's Life. The rules of the original post-punk fanzine apply. This is one word, this is another: now write a sentence.

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Latest Issues

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30 Years of Cultural Agitation: A final reckoning for one of the great post-punk record labels

This Substack, like the book that spawned it, is rooted in my post-punk fanzine, Alternatives To Valium. The fanzine had an ethos. We don’t need to go into it. It’s a bit like me trying to explain why I became vegetarian, yet still eat fish...

a month ago
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Buzzcocks interview on Radio Forth from 1979

I was a bit startled to hear Orgasm Addict by Buzzcocks on Radio Four the other day, in a discussion of the exhibition by the artist Linder. It reminded me of this interview I taped with Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle on Christopher John’s C...

a month ago
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From Teddy Boy to Hitler To Christ

Alternatives To Valium is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

2 months ago
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Poetry. Full Stop.

A happy new year card from Ivor, bringing wishes of “a deeply satisfying 1995”. The painting is by Peter Edwards.

2 months ago
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  • Alastair McKay

    Off-piste writing by Alastair McKay, award-winning journalist and author of the punk memoir Alternatives To Valium: How Punk Rock Saved A Shy Boy's Life.

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