Jockey slut are hoping to run a twice year magazine. If you bought their Weatherall book you may have a link to a survey in your email. Hope this goes ahead, it was a sad day when the slut ended. I found so much new music in their pages and still love the idea of physical magazines. The internet is great but having stuff curated into a single easy to read packages is something I really miss.
What with the return of Faith as well maybe the world is realising sometimes the old ways worked quite well.
Would be nice agreed, but so many obstacles these days.
The antiquated distribution channels are a complete nightmare to get your product out into the shops. Subscription is equally fraught with expense once you get into decent numbers you need to survive, Advertising too, another revenue area dying on it’s arse. Printing is all but impossible in this country economically. And that is before you get started on Office/staff etc. You need some deep pockets to get going.
Not to say that it is impossible, but it’s very very hard. The old adage about how to make a million in Publishing is to start with 10 still rings true. ( I think I stole that from another Industry but you get the drift).
I bought JS regularly from about '95 to '02 or something when i fell outta love with the music, would like to see it come back, i’m currently reading their book on Lord Sabre.
Is Faith coming back as well?
Used to love seeing a new copy when i called into Piccadilly Records, always a happy surprise.
Still got my old copies of both.
Will Faith be free in record shops like it used to be?
Are Defected really awful? Never really heard much about them.
I did laugh when Weller went on over of Faith, he hated House music until he saw he could make a few quid off it. His attempt at Promised Land was truly abysmal but it did make a bit for Joe Smooth so not all bad.
