Never officially advertised, ALBOE (an acronym of “A Little Bit Of Everything”) was the second tapezine ‘pilot issue’ tapezine that Paul Chandler produced, the first having been 1989’s Who’s Next... By the time of ALBOE – June 1990 – Paul had begun to contribute features to Rayphase Shift and ALBOE was conceived as another ‘friendly rival’, much as Keith Musselwhite’s Death Zone had been. However, it would work on a wider canvas, offering Doctor Who and a little bit of everything else.

The surviving recording of ALBOE is incomplete, with its second side going terribly quiet after the first two items. After a period of silence, sound is restored, but at a point when Russell Buer’s piece about Doctor Who companions is already well underway. This leads on to a feature by Jon Kolchak Pertwee. It would seem that neither form a part of ALBOE and were on the audio cassette that Paul was using as ALBOE’s master tape. Alternatively, the beginning of Russell’s piece might have been accidentally erased by Paul - and this could even have been the reason that ALBOE was ultimately not completed or distributed.

Since Paul Chandler’s early attempts at tapezines, he has moved on to other creative pursuits – writing many unpublished scripts and stories whilst still at school. Once at University, he moved into improvised video projects such as the spoof soap opera, Sutton Park, which ran for eight years from 1992 to 2000 and more than 3,200 episodes. Around this time, he was also an actor for hire, appearing in many of Nick Goodman’s video projects. In the first decade of the new millennium, Paul focused on verse, self-publishing his poetry collections, and also writing novels and short stories about The Mouse of Commons. By the early 2010s, Paul was a regular performer at Covent Garden’s renowned Poetry Café, making over one hundred recordings of his performances. He has posted these, along with videos of his worldwide travels, on his MrShyYeti YouTube channel. He also published three series as scripted novels: The Beast of Friends, Hot Stuff and Kensington Gore (see www.lulu.com/spotlight/shyyeti). Since 2016, he has been an avid podcast producer, releasing to date over 650 episodes of The Shy Life Podcast, a show that covers all manner of topics, features many returning guests, and an intriguing ongoing fictional subplot! He also regularly contributes to a number of other podcasts such as Round the Archives, The Smellcast, Vision on Sound and Big Fatty Online. In 2020, Paul contributed to Nick Goodman’s Life After Magnet Memories book and in 2022 published a script novel, A Woman for All Reasons, also with Nick Goodman.