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About: Chris 12-oh-5
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Email - christinasophiadixon@gmail.com
Profile - Chris is a punk lady who currently lives in Graz, Austria. She originally comes from Kingston and diverted via Leeds for a few years on the way to the mainland. She started doing twelve-oh-five zine when she was 14, which explains the teen angst and vulgarity, before jumping onboard the Rancid News ship a couple of years later. She also makes Sweetshop Syndicate (a fun personal zine about cats and the like) with Richard Phoenix. In her free time she likes to dream, read books at lightening speed, play poker, learn German, modify clothes, talk incessantly, go for long moody walks and cook curries.

I read some of these old columns and they seem stupid and childish, but I guess I meant what I wrote at the time and that’s what an archive is for, so here you go.

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I can’t think of a more underrated band than Red Lights Flash from Austria. They play a combination of intelligent political hardcore and technical punk rock, crossing genres and provoking thought from even the most closed mind. On their October 2004 tour with Pipedown, I caught up with the boys to chat about A-F Records, Outkast and alcohol.

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Plague Mass - an amazing band from Vienna/Graz, Austria - interview conducted via email May 2004 by Chris 12-o-5.

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I am so tired of magazines telling me what to wear, what’s ‘hot’ and what’s ‘not’…I think it’s about time we took clothing into our own hands- we should wear what makes us feel strong and individual, not whatever Vogue is telling us is this month’s ‘must have’. Why should we be slaves to fashion […]

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