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Positive Vibrations is a now-defunct fanzine which was dedicated to news, discussion and whatnot regarding Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys and Kimberley Rew. It was published by Aidan Merrit and enjoyed a five issue run before disappearing.

Features

The following articles were featured in Positive Vibrations' five issues:

Issue One

• Respect reviewed
• Spectre reviewed
• The Soft Boys And Peter Buck - October 17th 1992
• 1976-1981 reviewed
• The Complete Discography part one - The Soft Boys
• The Edge Of A Lifetime
• How Do You Like This Thing?
• Jibber Jabber Jibber Jabber
• NME A Can Of Bees review
• Grave Robyn - When I Was Dead Explained
• Respect on tour
• Have You Heard...Julian Cope
• Cambridge Grapevine - A Can Of Bees review
• Melody Maker 1/11/80
• Information and Classifieds
• "Visions of Johanna made me a singer"

Issue Two

• A Brief Encounter - Brockenhurst Station secret gig reviewed
• Katrina & The Waves concert review
• The Soft Boys reunion tour reviews
• How Do you Like This Thing?
• The PVs Reader Survey
• I Got A Message For You/Out Of The Picture Competition
• Sounds Kim 'n Kat Interview 11-May-85
• 27 Stray Thoughts About Robyn Hitchcock & Friends
• Flora & Fauna - Robyn Hitchcock Interview from Reflex 22
• Have You Heard...Captain Sensible?
• I Wanna Appreciate You
• Some Words About Robyn
• The Complete? Discography part two - Robyn Hitchcock solo
• Fellow Travellers
• "Live Death" reviewed/Jibber Jabber Jibber Jabber
• Ian Penman: 'The Soft Boys - Just Clever Dicks' (NME 15-Jul-78).

Issue Three

• I Got A Message For You
• Robyn solo St James' Church Clerkenwell 14-Jul-94 review
• A Boring Chat With Robyn Hitchcock - Forced Exposure
• Melody Maker review of Respect
• I Wish To God They'd Say What They're Doing
• The Complete? Discography Part 3 - The Egyptians
• The Kershaw Sessions CD reviewed
• Excerpt from The Crow comic
• Phantom Of Psychedelia NME 8-May-82
• The Unpleasant Stain
• Now They're Gone - The Soft Boys' Cambridge Today
• Softcore Part 1 - the complete A-Z guide
• Fantasy Soft Boys
• So You Think You're In Luck - The Competition Page
• Essence of Song - Chicago Tribune 23-Feb-92
• Have You Heard...The Monochrome Set?
• Give it To The Thoth Boys cassette reviewed
• Have You Read?

Issue Four

• Subscriptions/back issues details
• Editorial
• I Got A Message For You
• Jibber Jabber Jibber Jabber
• Invisible History & Stand Back, Dennis bootlegs reviewed
• Sound Info, Southampton, August 1993
• The WXRT Chicago Sessions
• Possibly The Least Funny Cartoon Character In The World
• The Soft Boys Price Guide
• Strange Things Are Happening - March 1988
• The Reissue Programme
• Oscar reviewed
• SoftCore: The A - Z of Robyn Hitchcock (an excerpt only)
• The obligatory bad-tempered article by Barb Lien
• Have You Heard...Paul Roland?
• Addresses, classifieds and the other bits nobody reads.

Issue Five

• Subscriptions/back issues
• The bit I write at the last minute
• I Got A Message For You
• Robyn & Martin Carthy, Jongleurs, Camden Town, 2/3/95
• I Something You reviewed
• Robyn Hitchcock 1995 UK tour dates
• Robyn Hitchcock Solo Price Guide
• Two Halves reviewed - Melody Maker 17/10/81
• Viv Stanshall remembered
• Info Freako - Melody Maker 1/4/95
• The Rout Of The Clones reviewed
• Love Not Violence - Melody Maker 5/7/80
• Robyn Hitchcock Live - Jet Lag, 1988
• A waste of space if ever I saw one
• A Man With A Woman's Shadow
• Jibber Jabber Jibber Jabber Smug Hindsight Special
• Silver Wands lyrics and &explanation&
• The Egyptians - Flipside July 1993
• NME 31/10/92
• Jivealive - CNFM Radio Cambridge, 16/1/92
• Melody Maker 21/8/93
• Friday Night Is Folk Club Night - Cambridge Weekly News 9/11/94
• The Egyptians; A Living Epitaph
• Have You Heard...Richard Thompson?
• Addresses

Issue Six and Seven

Issues 6 and 7, the final issues of Positive Vibrations, were to be combined into a large magazine/short book and accompanied by a book/disc complete-guide-to-robyn-hitchcock thingy. Had it been published, it would have included this transcript of The Egyptians interviewed on Modern Rock Live and an article written by Robyn discussing his trip to Rio.

Credits

Thanks to Aidan for allowing this to be made available on the net and to Jonathan Turner for doing the original work to do so.

All articles are © 1993-5 by Positive Vibrations and Aidan Merritt. They may be freely distributed, but may not be sold without the permission of the author and publisher.