Summary: Issue 6
Published: Jul 1995
Editor: Vince Rutland

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Table of contents

• DERT ’96 venue announced:
  Ryknild organise it in a brewery! 
• Street Collections –
  Advice from the Ring
• Snarks go to Antwerp
• Help, please!
• Meet the Team: Northgate Rapper, Bath
• International sword festival 1996 –
  team responses top the 40 mark
• Ricky’s Nifty Fifty
• Rappin’ About
• Replica attempt for Tyzack swords?
• Southern Teams Get-Together
• Green Ginger:
  Rapper missionaries?
• Raised standards at Leytonstone
• A North East Tour
• Letters

Summary

Issue 6 of The Nut (July 1995) reflects a confident, outward-looking rapper scene. It announces DERT ’96, to be organised by Ryknild Rabble at the Bass Brewery Museum in Burton-upon-Trent, signalling growing ambition and visibility for the tradition. The issue profiles Northgate Rapper, reports on Snark’s Belgian tour, and reviews Rapper ’95 at Leytonstone, where standards were judged to be rising, with Pengwyn Rapper emerging as standout winners. Extensive “Rappin’ About” coverage charts busy summer programmes, new teams, overseas links, and setbacks. George Wallace’s “Rapper Roots” continues across the Tyne into Northumberland, reinforcing historical depth alongside contemporary debate about competition structures, tradition, and change.