It was desperately sad to hear the news of Julie Pritchard’s passing. For those who don’t know, Julie produced the legendary Forest fanzine ‘Brian’ back in the day.
I once wrote and had published a three page article in The Brian. It was my proudest journalistic moment to date (right before I did the very first piece about Paul McGregor in 90 Minutes, and effectively wrecked his career in the process - but that’s another story).
Beautiful as ever. I used to buy Brian from Selectadisc as a ritual rather than at games. I don’t know why but maybe I used to go there so often it seemed right. I’ve got back copies somewhere in my loft. I need to dig them out. Thanks for the Billy reference - it’s one of my funeral songs. “If you’ve got a blacklist, I wanna be on it” was one of many lines I took from it.
Julie was a pioneer in the Forest fanzine world, you continue to keep it alive. Thanks.
I once wrote and had published a three page article in The Brian. It was my proudest journalistic moment to date (right before I did the very first piece about Paul McGregor in 90 Minutes, and effectively wrecked his career in the process - but that’s another story).
Beautiful as ever. I used to buy Brian from Selectadisc as a ritual rather than at games. I don’t know why but maybe I used to go there so often it seemed right. I’ve got back copies somewhere in my loft. I need to dig them out. Thanks for the Billy reference - it’s one of my funeral songs. “If you’ve got a blacklist, I wanna be on it” was one of many lines I took from it.
Julie was a pioneer in the Forest fanzine world, you continue to keep it alive. Thanks.
Dig them out - some fantastic writing in them. And it is indeed a terrific funeral song!
Love a Bragg reference!
Always!