STEFFAN CHIRAZI Signature “Bubbsy” T Shirt & Fanzine

Eddie suggested that perhaps there was a way in which a writer could be celebrated with a t-shirt. I was honoured that he asked me plus I liked the idea. What image would work for such a project? I quickly settled on cats as several of the musicians I’ve interviewed over the decades loved cats. I have had a few, but the best ever was Bubbles aka Bubbly, a wonderful Maine Coon mix with whom I had the most special of relationships. He would sometimes hang upside down off my lap with his ‘dead’ face, an extraordinary sight that I photographed often. One particular capture just screamed ‘black metal’, and that is the image we agreed on. Next came my name. Look, it ain’t a market banner, but I felt that given the unintelligible ‘Scandinavian-style scrawl’ it could work very well with the image. Eddie and his team hit that one out of the park too. Finally, the ‘writer’ bit. How? We agreed to send a fanzine-style photocopy of one of my pieces of writing, and given the general ‘black metaln