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THE END (Fanzine)

The End (1981-1988)

Issues: 20

Editors: Peter Hooton, Phil Jones

Contributors: Tony McClelland, Joey Lowry, Paul Need, Kevin Sampson, Michael Potter, John Potter and Anthony Gillon.

The End was a fanzine that originated in Merseyside in 1981. Started by future The Farm (band) member Peter Hooton, Phil Jones and championed by the late John Peel.

The fanzine focused on football, beer and the heyday of football casual culture. In its twenty issues The End ridiculed and lampooned almost everything that it could think of and according to contributor and author Kevin Sampson (writer) it was "both ahead of and behind its time".

The last issue was released in 1988 before Peter Hooton was about to have decent success with The Farm. Local bands were often featured and ridiculed such as Wah! frontman Pete Wylie and Dead or Alive (band).

Other famous features of the magazine included the 'ins and outs' which has been copied since and was first seen in the fanzine. Other local bands that were featured include: Personal Column, Cook da Books, The Chords, Come in Tokyo, Wah! Heat, Colin Vearncombe and Afraid of Mice. The music scene was always done in a sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek kind of way.

The fanzine also spawned the magazines Loaded, FHM and London clubbing bible Boy's Own which was written by DJ Terry Farley. Despite the fact that 'The End' had a distinctly Liverpudlian flavour it was popular in Leeds as the city was often picked on for being 'woolybacks'.

In 2012 'The End' was printed with all twenty issues and available from Liverpool book shop News From Nowhere. It was edited by Loaded founder James Brown.