Bar Code the World

LOCATION Sydney, NSW

GENRE: Punk / Music Zine

YEARS ACTIVE: 1995-1999

NUMBER OF ISSUES: 20, plus 2 issues of spinoff-off zine Victim Culture (at bottom of page)

ISSUES IN THE NOISE LEVELS ARCHIVE: Issues #2, #4, #5, #7, #8, #10 #19, #20, Issues 1# and #2 of Victim Culture.

EDITOR: Con Barcode, initially co-founded with Putter (drummer of Back to Back), who contributed to issues 1-8.

CONTRIBUTORS: Stikla, Farnz

 

ISSUE #2 - September 1995

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Beanbag, Downtime, No Reason, Oppressed Earth

ISSUE #4 - December 1995

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Animus, Lawnsmell, Subversion

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Box the Jesuit, Lawnsmell, The Mark of Cain, Worst Case Scenario, WWXXIV

ISSUE #5 - 1996

NOTE: Split with Fisted System

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Persecution, Slipheed

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Barfly, Crankcase, Forward Defence, Mergatroid, Mope, One Inch Punch, Ragewar, Toe to Toe

ISSUE #7 - November, 1996

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Game Over, Self Reliance, I Spy, Forward Defence

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Vicious Circle, One Inch Punch, Crank

ISSUE #8 - February, 1997

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Mope, Lentil Soup, Sadistik Exekution 

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Lawnsmell, Crank, Spelfish, Melancholy, Sphyzein, Control, Infected, Sulkus, Eye, Sterile

ISSUE #9 - May 1997

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Mindsnare

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Mutiny

AUSTRALIAN BANDS LIVE REVIEWED: Jim Cobain, Dogbuoy, Pitbull Attack, Dancing Outlaws, Straight to a Tomb, Fallout, Mindsnare, Not For You, Half Mongrel, Ceasefire, Fahrenheit 451, Pitfall, Subversion, Forward Defence, Drawback, Heads Kicked Off, Price of Silence, Coach, One Inch Punch

ISSUE #10 - July, 1997

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Subversion, Mindcrack, Magnacite, Noisam, Red Stain, Fester Fanatics, Kermit the Fascist, Playground of Hate, Pitbull Attack

ISSUE #17 - November 1998

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Unclean, Whopping Big Naughty, Bleeding Face

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Scrumfeeder, Godnose, Scuffy, Mother Negative, Skulker, Cult 45, Johnny Dole and the Scabs, Melancholy, Ballistic Allshorts, Jim Cobain, Bastardos, Mope, Arms Reach, Seconds Away, Fallout, Francis Xavier Death, Ceasefire, The Useless Fucks, The Blurters, Unclean

AUSTRALIAN BANDS LIVE REVIEWED: The Useless Fucks, Spendthrift

NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN BANDS: Vocabularanist, Skulker, Cult 45, Toe to Toe

ISSUE #18 - February 1999

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Inflection, Mark Erber (Iron Duke management), Mindkill

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Infliction, Shitmen, Hindsight, Toulouse, Suffragettes, Nihilist, Peter Penis and the Transformers, The Ghouls, Meanderthal, On, Onan, Mindkill, Refusbaton, Rats Vs. Pimps

ISSUE #19 - July 1999

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: DJ Urinal Cake, Magic Lunchbox, The Blurters, Veto

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: 50 Million Clowns, Bastard Squad, Fugg, H-Block, Irrelevant, Playground of Hate, Rupture, Stanley Knife, The Blurters, The Hasslehoff Experiment, The Last Hemeroids, Voice of Dissent, Walsh Street Cop Killers, Where's the Pope?

 

ISSUE 20 - October 1999

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: The Last Hemeroids, Upside Down Flag

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Age of Distrust, Captain Cleanoff, Charcoal Human, Henry's Anger, The Shirkers, Vorhees

AUSTRALIAN BANDS LIVE REVIEWED: H-Block, The Last Hemeroids

ISSUE 21 - March 2000

AUSTRALIAN BANDS INTERVIEWED: Arms Reach, Sewer Cider, The Oppenheimer Project, Chunky But Funky (zine interview)

AUSTRALIAN BAND RELEASES REVIEWED: Alien Christ, Francis Xavier Death, Consumer Productions, Fatigue, Psi Kore, Alchemist, Destroyer 666, Earth, Ebolie, Sadistik Exekution, Deadspawn, AVO, King Krill, DJ Urinal Cake, Volatile, Bent Root, The Hoax, Three Found Dead, The Hassle Brigade, The Blurters, Seconds Away, Stitchface

ISSUE 1 - Victim Culture (1996)

NOTES: Also released by Con, this one-off zine has some flyers and cut 'n' paste commentary throughout it. 

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