Skin up

File: Skintonic No. 1.jpg

The first edition was published in 1987 as the only edition in A5 format. The first three numbers were copied, and the Skintonic only went to the print shop from the fourth edition.

Skin up
The semi-professional Skintonic or SkinUp determined the media appearance of the non-racist skinhead scene for many years
General information
Genre (s)	Skinhead
founding	circa 1987
resolution	around 1999
Founding members
Hermann and UGLY
Last occupation
Chief editor	Filthy McNasty
Chief editor	Emma Steel
Art director / author	Sgt. Blackpool

The SkinUp fanzine was founded in 1987 by Ska fans and skinheads under the name Skintonic . The anti-racist and anti-fascist magazine grew in the early 1990s with the rapidly growing ska scene in Germany to become the leading magazine for the skinhead scene with reports on ska-, Oi! , Punk and reggae music. As a semi-professional magazine, it soon acted as a mouthpiece for non-racist skinheads - at times also for the SHARP skinhead movement and provided interviews and articles from Jamaican ska and reggae greats to contemporary ska bands from all over the world and Oi! And street punk bands .

After a dispute in the editorial team, the fanzine Oi! Reka was created in parallel to the Skintonic, but after a few years the makers reunited with the Skintonic under the new name SkinUp to become the leading magazine for the German skinhead scene. With a print run of up to 3,000 copies, SkinUp and Skintonic were also an important medium for advertising for well-known record companies, textile distributors and the like. Ä. Who were looking for sales of their products in the scene.

The last edition appeared in 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skintonic Archive: http://fanzines-archiv.de/contents/de/d6.html
2. ↑ Oi! Reka Archive: http://fanzines-archiv.de/contents/de/d820404_Dolores.html
3. ↑ Skin up archive: http://fanzines-archiv.de/contents/de/d820403_Ipsum.html