Two from Nottingham, Big Daddy and Magic Feet.
Echoes was good with columns from Kris Needs/Chris Wells/ John Masouri etc
Keep On Notts as well I think but this century.
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If all they had ever published was the Serch interview and the edits/cut-ips article it would still be a top ten magazine to me.
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Just checked and think first issue out 98/99 but most were 2000s. Few copies on ebay and not too expensive.
They also put some good nights on in Nottingham like Keb Darge at Lenton twice I think and Jurassic 5 at Sam Fays.
are there complete jockey slut scans knockin about ?
Do you have this magazine? If so do you have anymore photos of it because I think my old man is in one of the pages and we’ve been looking for this for years !!
Jockey Slut. Still have most of them in my attic. Had to drive 200 mile round-trip to get them as imports.
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Grand Royal was really great, I liked Herb Garden a lot and arranged to distribute it Brighton. That didn’t work out so well and I ended up with boxes of the Robbie Williams edition.
I remember we got everyone who came to the club on a saturday night to fill out the nomination for best club 1994 which led to Evening Standards/Bumpy Capers being voted second best club in the Uk by DJ Mag, just behind Misery of Pound 
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I threw out my collection of The Face and i-D about 10yrs ago. I especially regret the i-D cull, they went back to 1986 
including that Smiley issue. Only one I kept was the Amnesiacs issue
I think magazines are so vital as they do (obviously) really capture that time without any revisionism but they are a pain in the arse to keep. I just had to get rid of so many. I kept the first 100 Faces as I find that 80s period fascinating when youth culture really swung in and I kept some i-D’s and Jockey Sluts and then some other bits and bobs… It was hard getting rid of them though…
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There’s nothing that’ll take you back there quicker than leafing through those old magazines. The smell of them, the adverts, everything is of the time. Analog all the way 
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I’ve tried on numerous occasions to part ways with them but every now and then I’ll start flicking through them which brings back so many good moments and memories of times gone by,
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Just had a quick look on ebay… THE HERB GARDEN Issue 17 - Suede, Robbie Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pam Greer + | eBay £25 quid… still got that box?!!
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If you’re feeling nostalgic for i-D in the 80s then this is a really good book that you can pick up for less than a fiver on eBay.
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Oh don’t! I gave away all my Grand Royal magazines to someone I didn’t even like that much, they go for a lot of money too now. I remember taking the Herb Garden to the tip many years ago 
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Still got all the Grand Royal’s apart from number one, number 2’s a classic, that was the one that popularised the term ‘mullet’ 
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I remember a noodle article in one issue? And Lee scratch Perry?
Lee Perry’s on the cover of number 2 along with a big piece on him, can’t remember the noodle article, possibly in number 1 which i’ve never read.
They did an issue dedicated to Miami Bass as well.
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the writers on those mags never got nearly enough credit for what I still think is a incredible skill - the ability to review dance music. With traditional music press, the focus would fall on the personalities, the psychodramas, the lyrics, the obsessive fans… whereas I’d say reviewing something by Umek or Chris Liberator presented more of a challenge
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