Since we started out, we've had more than our fair share of column inches, awards and downright arse-kissing. It's been great. Below is the pick of the bunch...

JANUARY 2008 BBC RADIO 4
Mercy profiled in Zine Scene, a 2-part documentary on Radio 4: "Jarvis Cocker explores the history of fanzines, small publications designed and produced by devotees of popular phenomena. He looks at contemporary DIY publications, including a comic strip diary from Brighton called Morgenmuffel and the regional-based zines Mercy and Go! Zinemakers and historians, including Dave Haslam, Liz Naylor, Roger Sabin and Teal Triggs, explain the survival of paper-based fanzines in the age of the internet."
Download part 1 [mp3 file: 31.5MB]
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JANUARY 2008 EUROPRESS
Done a few interviews about Capital of Culture since the year started, one in European Magazine and one in the German Financial Times. Woop! Apparently, Doug said "Although people here are working class, they can still handle modern art. They don't view it as conceptional bullshit, but as something that keeps the city alive". He's not sure he did, but it sounds good, so he'll take it.

DECEMBER 2007 THE OBSERVER REVIEW
Mercy Curator Tomas Harold profiled in The Observer feature 'Maverick Spirits Keep the City's Flame Alive', detailing underground movers and shakers in the runup to Capital of Culture year.

AUGUST 2007 CULT OF DIESEL
Mercy selected as a 'Preacher' in Diesel's new online zine.
Check out our articles [go to the Cult of Diesel link]

MAY 2007 THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE
"Going Up: Liverpool - Less shell suits and Cilla Black; more Hot Club de Paris, Mercy and City of Culture 2008."

APRIL 2007 DAZED & CONFUSED
"Thanks to its port status and the waves of foreigners passing through, Liverpool's history is an ideological melting pot of ideas. They're evident everywhere, from the city's architecture to diverse local bands Hot Club de Paris and Delta Fiasco and, on the peripheries, guerilla art collective Mercy who have been getting up to conceptual anarchic mischief at bus stops."

NOVEMBER 2006 METRO ]BracketTHIS[3 PREVIEW
"From its humble beginning as a lo-fi fanzine a few years back, little overachiever Mercy has grown up into a well-connected gang of cultural guerrillas incorporating a literature arm, Fiction, and a growing series of events and exhibitions that showcase the city's untapped talent. With its battle cry of 'you are culture' attracting commissions from Levi's and plaudits from the NOISE festival, it's only a matter of time before it has to leave its underground cred behind. Mercy's most ambitious undertaking is )BracketTHIS(, an ongoing art project that explores the complexities of cultural identity. Following successful events at past biennials, it's stretched itself this year with a month-long multimedia exhibition and an accompanying live programme at Arena Gallery. The space will be open late and, crucially, equipped with a bar. The Hive Microfestival Aftershow Party (Nov 11, 8pm to midnight) should get things off to a suitably grandiose start with a live set from Corporate Athlete, a DJ set from Highpoint Lowlife's Thorsten Sideboard, plus a special guest. But the real coup comes the following Friday (Nov 17, 7pm) when poetry collective Fiction takes up temporary residence inside the gallery's lofty environs to present international folk music and slick verse merchants Aisle16 (pictured) which performs its latest piece Service Station, a multimedia ode to John Betjeman."
Kate Feld