With Andy Brown and Laurie Brown
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With just 11 issues over its ten-year publishing history, Fish Piss, a bilingual mash-up of the Montreal anglophone spoken word scene and comics scene, has been called Canada’s most influential zine. Rooted in DIY punk ethos, Fish Piss drew together literary writing, comics, essays, interviews, politics, and music, and its editor Louis Rastelli published the likes of Heather O’Neill, Jonathan Goldstein, Kid Koala and more—and the zine was eventually published and distributed internationally by Tower Records. Andy Brown dives into the zine’s history, its influences, its legacy, and situates it among 200 years of bohemian communities. Laurie Brown conducts what’s sure to be a fascinating conversation with Andy Brown about Fish Piss, and why it still matters.
Andy Brown is a writer and publisher living in the Annapolis Valley. He is the author of Why Fish Piss Matters (Vehicule) and is the founder of Conundrum Press, celebrating 30 years.
Laurie Brown has built a reputation as an accomplished interviewer, writer and seasoned broadcaster for TV (CityTV, CBC’s The National and CBC’s Newsworld), radio (CBCMusic’s The Signal) and for 7 years, as a podcaster with Pondercast, which featured Laurie’s original essays that straddled philosophy, culture, science and spirituality all with original music by Joshua Van Tassel. Intensely human and intimate, she built a loyal following for Pondercast through Patreon.