Plan B Magazine to go (1 Viewer)

[dudley]

Boo

We're sad to announce that issue 46 of Plan B, out on 1 June, is to be the final issue of the magazine.
After a lot of deliberation, we've come to the decision that it is no longer financially possible for us to continue publishing Plan B. To do so in the current economic climate would involve us making cuts in staff, print quality, amount of content, and the size and/or frequency of the mag - and those are compromises we don't want to make, not least because we don't think they will, in the long term, benefit any of us. We're really proud of what we've done, and choose to end on a high note, while things are still relatively stable.

earlier thread deleted 'cos of embargo

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

What's Plan B magazine?

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

just renewed my subscription a couple months back.

 

[theoootini]

why was the earlier thread deleted? embargo?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Dudley and dutchy are different people?

This day has been one enlightenment after another.

 

[dudley]

why was the earlier thread deleted? embargo?

yus

 

[theoootini]

debating whether to add my 2 cents again...

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

Dudley and dutchy are different people?

shut up mitchum!

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

print is like soooooo fucked!!

 

[Unknown Convict]

 

[GO]

debating whether to add my 2 cents again...

Go on sure.I read your post.Seemed legit to me.
What the heck is going on anyway?

 

[Pilchard]

ah fuck. was looking for it in easons earlier on too and no sign of it.

Maybe they could do like Paste magazine and rattle some cans

http://www.pastemagazine.com/paste/the-campaign-to-save-paste.html

 

[cletus_buckley]

What's Plan B magazine?

A pretentious Foggy Notions. Are F.N. ever going to launch their "NEW ONLINE MAGAZINE COMING SOON".

http://www.foggynotions.ie/

Its been like that since the pulp got pulped.

 

[Jasper]

Sad to see it go although some of the writing was truly awful.

 

[CitySickness]

debating whether to add my 2 cents again...

Go for it.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

yus

 

[sweetoblivion]

aw man, only renewed my subscription at christmas so sad to see it go. Some of the writing could be totally obtuse and willfully self-important but some of it was lovely, and above all they always introduced the reader to so many new bands that they were genuinely passionate about, rather than bands who were the new 'in' thing or whatever...some of the bands on their covers would never ever get to be on another magazine cover. Sigh.

 

[Unknown Convict]

q: whats a tautology?

A pretentious Foggy Notions..

 

[theoootini]

A pretentious Foggy Notions.

yup.

writing was truly awful.

wasn't it?

Go for it.

i am.

the writing could be totally obtuse and willfully self-important but some of it was lovely

i read it once and vowed never to read the magazine again. horrible "voice" or whatever the editorial equivalent is (is there such a thing?)

i have a subscription to the wire which i enjoy even though there can be a lot of guff in that (recent sycophant jeff mills interview, disappointing care taker interview this issue, pointless critical beats section).

I also love the design/art direction in the wire too, like sometimes there'll be a theme running through all the main interview pics.

cds are usually good too.

er, that's it.

 

[sweetoblivion]

if you read it once, then you missed out on some good stuff.
I'm finding the Wire a lot easier to read these days as I take my time with it and really read what they say rather than just skimming.
I think with Plan B with a lot of the main writers they wanted to write really 'avant garde', out-there articles, playing around with the traditional format and sort of creating their own anti-journalism style. There was also a real emphasis on the personal aspect to it - the articles were very subjective. In one way I love that as it really brings across the enthusiasm and love the writers have for the bands/music.
But on the other hand, in many cases it put up this wall between the writer and reader - sometimes the articles actually made no sense and were very inscrutable. In some cases it was less about the music and more about the life of the writer - like Everett True for example, some of his pieces just leave me cold. But it's a personal thing - that's just my feelings on it. As someone who writes about music sometimes I had my eyes opened by how they didn't conform to certain 'standards' and other times I was really frustrated.