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Phil Jones at the launch of the eight hundred lives project

Phil Jones

Phil was born and brought up in Kirkdale, North Liverpool in 1962. He lived there for 13 years until his family were moved out to the housing estate Cantrill Farm as a part of the large scale re-housing programme of the 1960s and 70s. Phil continued to attend school in inner city Liverpool and during this era developed further his twin passions for music and football becoming a regular at legendary punk club Eric's in Mathew Street and supporting Liverpool FC home and away.

Inspired by the punk 'do-it-yourself' ethic of the time and the music of The Jam, Phil founded the mod influenced fanzine Time For Action. Soon after that in the early 1980s he co-founded, with Peter Hooton, the cult fanzine The End. The magazine, essentially about working class street culture - football, music, and social life, has among many things been credited with acknowledging the Scally movement of the period.

Phil continues to live in Cantrill Farm, now known as Stockbridge Village, and has four daughters. His great interest in community welfare as a volunteer has led him to his current employment as a student welfare advisor.

He has kindly donated original copies of The End for the project.

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