The People’s Ska Annual

The People’s Ska Annual was NOT created by nor published by Moon Ska Records. It is the sole creation of a former employee at the label. The views, opinions, words or expressions are not those of the (defunct) Moon Ska Records label. They are also NOT that of the creator of this (archives) web site.

These newspaper print ‘magazines’, or ‘zines’ were created by the author and printed as a means to commentate and inform the ‘scene’ about news and other happenings within the ska world.

Jpegs alongside the text has been posted. Eventually vector PDFs will hopefully be able to be produced and made available.

If you have any issues that are not in the archives, please feel free to reach out.

Unless noted, everything is by me, Noah Wildman.
~~Please write to: TPSA, c/o Noah Wildman, 65 Nassau St (Apt. 8C) NYC, NY 10038~~
Proofreader & contributor: ‘Little’ Abby Van Deerlin

The purpose of this zine is to A) vent my own personal feelings on the subject of ska and B) publish some of my backlog that has fallen between the cracks of other zine’s irregular and infrequent publications schedules.

Feel free to reproduce any and all contents of this zine. I only ask you send me a copy of whatever you do. If you would like a contribution to your own publication regarding ska, give a hoot.

The original name of this publication was ‘One Man’s Ska Thing’, for lack of a better name (“Well, what is it?”, “Umm, one man’s ska thing?”) When the next issue came out a year later, it logically became ‘One Man’s Ska Annual’. Another year down, and I found after I wrote, edited, and laid out this zine, once I plunk down my $$$ and get 3000 copies of this baby out there, it’s not mine any more. I love ska and you should, too. (Don’t forget the fact that I’m an ego maniac, of course….)

In the masthead of the first OMST I solicited for two things: a job and a date. By the time got OMSA#2 out, I had become the official coffee-boy and change-maker for Moon SKA NYC. (In NO WAY are the opinions expressed within representative of Moon Records. Read me now and believe me later, if writing about Moon stuff wasn’t such an ethical violation, a good 3/5 of this publication would be dedicated to it’s discussion. STILL, Moon weighs heavy here [a la pages 8-10, 15] Tough, This is my zine and i’ll do as I please, contradictions and all!)

In the second issue I was still trolling for a date, and now…my dating life is none of your damn business! What do I want now?

I want you to buy me a beer.