I greatly enjoyed the section on fanclubs this month in the mag. I've been on both sides of the fence here. I belonged to the ELO fanclub too, much like Andrew Collins, and whilst I still love their slightly ersatz music, moved on quite quickly. Joining it in about 1980 when the hits started to dry up probably didn't help.

I also ran one for some time with my wife. It was the fanzine/information service for Boo Hewerdine/Eddi Reader/Gary Clark and associated artists called 'Ignorance!'. We became good friends with most of the artists and I even got a chance to play with Boo on stage a few times, and it was mostly a fantastic experience getting involved. It only went sour when it turned from a hobby into something approaching a job, and also anything like this attracts a mixture of people. It only takes a few hardcore nutters to scare you and make you think twice about it. I'd imagine that most folks who get into running clubs/fanzines experience this. Obviously it's worse for the artists. And that's scary (lyrical reference for Boo fans).

Anyone else done it?