Pat the Bunny was a seminal figure in the folk punk scene who documented his life journey through three bands over 15 years. His early band Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains sang about drugs, alcohol, politics and giving up on life from age 13. His next band Wingnut Dishwashers Union showed more musical skill and sang angrily about politics and restraints. His final band Ramshackle Glory, formed after rehab, featured more hopeful lyrics about finding meaning in small things and moving past previous destructive beliefs. Through his raw, emotional lyrics performed across different styles, Pat the Bunny gave listeners an inside view of his struggles and growth out of an anarchist punk mindset into sobriety and appreciation for life

1. 3. Copy

2. Interview:
You should document the process of getting your interview. You should produce a range of questions and also a list of
interviewees.
You should provide an unedited transcript of the interview as well as at least one draft of it.
Interviews can be written in whatever style you prefer.

3. Interview: CRYWANK
I would like to try and contact James through social media and approach him with various questions related to his music but also the scene and
community he works within, although this may not be possible I will also make a list of questions I could ask other people more fans rather then as
involved.
Questions:
Why do you write your music in a folk punk style usually coming across sad or broken?
What makes you so passionate in the way you write? Is it people? Or experiences?
Did you intend to fall into the folk punk scene when you first started?
What makes you stay in the community when you have enough talent to progress?
And do you find it hard to work with a band name like CRYWANK?
Would you say that the people you have met from this career welcoming and passionate?
Interview: fans of the folk scene
Questions:
How long have you been interested in folk punk music and the movement?
How did you first find the music? First band?
What aspects of the music interest you?
What makes a person a member of the community to you?
Which band or artist is your favourite? And what's makes them stand out to you?
Interview: CRYWANK fan
I could include a review on the band but include interviews with my friends who have seen them live w me, asking them about the show and how they
found the performance and more general questions about the band.
Questions:
How was the show?
Have you seen them before and how can it compare? Are they consistent?
What side of the bands music do you like and what keeps you engaged?
Do you believe they should have more recognition? And why?
Do you have a favourite song performed here tonight and why?
Is there a particular song that wasn’t performed you would have liked to here? Why?

4. Copy:
All the other written elements of your fanzine are up to you but should be documented here. If you decide to write a
review, a polemic, an article or anything else, it needs to be documented here.
Drafts are good so it is worth writing a first draft then producing a second which not only checks for spelling and grammar
errors but also ensures that your work has a consistent style, quality and structure.
Recording your research, as and when it happens, is also a very strong idea. If you need to look up a fact or read an article,
record that.

5. Plan-it-X Records: Rise and fall• An independent Set up in 1994 by Samantha jane Dorsett with a DIY punk ethic
• Sadly Sam died in 2009 leaving the label to Chris alone.
• The label sold all CDs for 5 dollars or less
• PIX’s slogan was “ if it ain’t cheap, it ain’t punk”
• the labels goal was to show other independent labels that they didn't’t need to duplicate the practices of the big record labels to succeed.
• But also giving bands who cant afford or get a record label or just couldn’t be bothered with all the office work.
• They supported other small time labels even suggesting to people to start there own.
• The operation is ran by Chris Clavin from bands such as ghost mice and operation Chris Clavin.
• Aside from the various albums released from PIX they also have several books and the zine “my friend bubby”.
• Since 2004 The label used to hold a yearly festival known as “Plan-it-X Fest” hosting many bands from the label but also small time bands
who just wanted recognition in the scene.
• The festival would go on for several days with various activity's and bands playing throughout, raising money for charity's as it went on.
• Teddy H elmick of this bike is a pipe bomb (under the PIX label) ran Plan-It-X south a small label that came from the original sharing the
same ethic.
• However the label was discontinued in 2016 by Chris saying “writing that since it was not financially possible to release music in a physical
format, and since bands could now easily release their music on their own, the label had outlived its original purpose”
• And then later in 2017 Chris was accused by many of sexual assault on minors and such, making some of the bigger names such as AJJ,
kimya dawson and ramshackle glory completely cutting any ties they had with the label and apologizing for ever being apart of it.
• Giving many people to feeling that folk punk is now dead, especially after losing mischief brews Erik Peterson and the retirement of Pat ”the
bunny” schneeweis two of the music's biggest and most influential people.
• BANDS:
Against Me! Emperor X This Bike is a Pipe Bomb
Andrew Jackson Jihad(AJJ) Paul Baribeau Wingnut Dishwashers Union
Antsy Pants (Kimya Dawson) Ramshackle Glory
Captain Chaos The Sissies
Defiance Ohio The Tax Payers
The folk punk scene is a community of people with the same views
on the world, mainly being quite misanthropic towards people and
the restraints people have put on us in life. They all share the same
problems which is what brings them together, giving them like
minded people to talk to weather it being about mental problems
or just finding people with similar music tastes.
Giving people who have problems communicating that chance to
find friends who share the same stuff.

6. Pat the bunny Article:
I would like to include several articles within my zine, and to
do this it may be easier if I make one main article and then
several smaller ones. So one of my smaller articles will be on
a folk punk artist who has been in the scene from a young
teen, and who's life people have almost listened to through
his 3 bands and then coming to a close with his last split
album.
Pats bands:
Johnny Hobo and The Freight Trains- pats first band formed when he was just
13, an anarcho punk band that had songs about drugs, alcohol, politics and just
simply giving up on life. The band originally was just pat alone with a guitar
played atop programmed drums, after forming a full acoustic band they were
touring constantly the 7 years active, many times it would just be pat on his
own at some shows.
Wingnut dishwashers union- the second of pats bands formed when he was 20,
this band showed more musical skill including electric guitars and well thought
out lyrics. Constantly singing about politics and the restraints of life, having a
real anarchist feel to the music picturing freedom and a utopia far from here.
Ramshackle glory- This was his final band formed 2 years after he had stopped
wingnut, at this point pat had been through rehab and was sober from
everything. The music showed a big change in his character singing about
whatever little things in life give us hope and almost talking back on the way he
was before as something he's escaped and the beliefs he had he now has given
up ion e.g “I want something more than lying in the front yard naked ,
screaming at the constellations”.
Pat the bunny was a young strung out punk with a sour
disposition on the world, and as he began writing music and
forming bands the folk punk scene fell in love with him and
the music he was making. He started out as a raw anarcho
punk band singing songs of desperation, sadness and self
destructive behavior, moving on to a political angry punk band
singing songs about pissing on cops and love, then finally
ending his drug filled trip with his final band singing about
hope and what it means to be alive not what it means to live a
nihilistic life.
He showed everyone his life through his music then with a
final album explaining his retirement and his change in the
beliefs he once sang and why he must stop now.
Song lyrics
Johnny hobo- whiskey is my kind of lullaby “And I'll drink myself to death Or at least I'll
drink myself to sleep Chain smoke my way through the gaps in between My aspirations and
my apathy”
Acid song “I swear I left my sanity someplace in this mess Crumpled between empty beers
and packs of cigarettes Kick my last hope to pieces and just hope for the best I guess this is
why my friends warned me against hopelessness”
Wingnut- Proudhon in Manhattan ”And the anarchists have started
Filling potholes, collecting garbage To prove we don't need governments to do these things
And I'll wake up, burning Time's Square as we sing "Throw your hands in the air 'cause
property is robbery!”
” I don’t believe in cops bosses or politicians, some call that anarchism
I call it having a f***ing heart that beats”
Ramshackle-”Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist Keep on loving. Keep on fighting
And hold on, hold on Hold on for your life”