The War Years

Editor
Errol “Spike” Waltzer

Contributors
spike, Jacob Laurent, Malcolm
Hamilton, Roger Pinnell, Ryan
Murphy, Matt Kajiwara, Martin
Inane, Fish & carl pecker

K.Y. djs
Spike
Mike Trombley
Jacob Laurent

KY Website
http://www.spike00.com/clubky

ymail
spike00@pacbell.net

Club K.Y.

2nd & 4th sunday of every month

Amnesia Bar
853 Valencia St @ 20th
San Francisco, CA 94110

This is the first issue of the Y-Files, Club K.Y.’s zine that will feature (our own brand of) news, band interviews, political commentary, music charts, reviews, art, and opinion pieces from Club K.Y. regulars and other queer/indie/punk characters.

K.Y. is a queer/indie/punk club in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Spike (that’s me), Mike & Jacob spin the newest, loudest, and nastiest US/UK indie, noise-pop, punk & rock sounds around on vinyl, cd and mp3. The club is small, very friendly and well mixed, with the majority of the crowd being LGBTQQ.

KY was started in April 2001 by friends Spike & Mike, two San Francisco-based queers who were fed up with the lack of clubs that catered to queer punks, rock & indie fags/dykes and gender-benders, and with the apathetic tone of the San Francisco *queer* scene. Spike got the idea after living in London and hanging out at Club V (originally "Vaseline"). Jacob later joined as our third dj (and my roommate) and brilliantly rounds out the team.

KY is run as a non-profit operation and supports universal health care, the protection of our civil liberties, a living wage for all, immigrant rights, social justice, freedom of choice and fostering unity. We oppose military intervention, the war, prejudice, racism, homophobia, classism, sexism, ageism, gentrification and police brutality.

This first issue of the Y-Files is dedicated to Sarit, Neil, Mel and Phil of Club V and to the V-Files.

Cheers, Spike