With the band’s debut album having been given the 25th-anniversary treatment,founder member Bob Stanley explains how the record came aboutIf we’re using DIY as a starting point for the sage of Foxbase Alpha, when did you first become aware of DIY culture in pop? Was it through music fanzines?Yeah, and totally. I used to get sold them at gigs as far back as I can remember. The Birthday Party,the Fall, Dead Can Dance, and Factory bands. The first ones I remember were pretty insensible,because I was buying them in 1982 and 83, and they were writing approximately bands like the Inca Babies or the Folk Devils or the Luddites. It was all pretty boring. I didn’t see the point of them for a while, and because the music papers existed and these fanzines weren’t really doing anything different. It wasn’t until 85 that I started seeing fanzines that made sense,because by then the NME was putting Courtney Pine on the cover and writing approximately Green on Red, and things I didn’t get.
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Source: theguardian.com