Best and worst specialist music magazines...Irish or otherwise (3 Viewers)

[Gambra]

Do you remember his one for Rydell in issue 10? I wet myself

Thats the one I had in mind "Dear Trev.."

No blog!!!

None whatsoever. Go for a site like the Wires. Thats a well designed site.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Also review/mention as many local bands as physically possible so they're all obliged to buy a copy.

 

[aoifeimc]

I'm definitely on for it, I could review, write the odd article, edit/proofread if need be, design i'm okish with, can draw stuff if really pushed . But we need someone who's really proactive about getting ads or else the non-profit route as Gambra suggested. Start small, concentrate on Ireland but not exclusive to this country, and sell in Ireland/UK/elsewhere.
No blog!!!

I'll get the advertising sure why not, I'm told I'm very persuasive ...but actually you could be a funded not for profit org and have advertising as well I think, plenty of subsidised organisations get sponsored or have adverts in their brochures or programmes etc.

 

[Gambra]

I'll get the advertising sure why not, I'm told I'm very persuasive ...but actually you could be a funded not for profit org and have advertising as well I think, plenty of subsidised organisations get sponsored or have adverts in their brochures or programmes etc.

So your basically saying something like the JMI except good?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Pardon my ignorance, what's the jmi?

 

[Gambra]

Journal of Music in Ireland, its alright except it really only covers classical and trad music.

www.thejmi.com

 

[Deleted member 3435]

I'm definitely on for it, I could review, write the odd article, edit/proofread if need be, design i'm okish with, can draw stuff if really pushed . But we need someone who's really proactive about getting ads or else the non-profit route as Gambra suggested. Start small, concentrate on Ireland but not exclusive to this country, and sell in Ireland/UK/elsewhere.
No blog!!!

You've been talking about doing a magazine for a long time, Mr S. This could be good.

 

[aoifeimc]

Journal of Music in Ireland, its alright except it really only covers classical and trad music.

www.thejmi.com

to be fair ...trad and classical is officially their bag though the definitely cover the more experimental/jazz side of things from time to time, and the writing is good as is the design/production

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Hopefully so.
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[Gambra]

to be fair ...trad and classical is officially their bag though the definitely cover the more experimental/jazz side of things from time to time, and the writing is good as is the design/production

The writing is very very good but they do say they cover "contemporary and improvised music in Ireland" and there's very little, if any of this at all. Even their gig listings have a single jazz gig and about 100 trad sessions for the month of November.

Design is brilliant too though.

 

[Deleted member 3435]

Design is brilliant too though.

yer man won some fairly big award for that, didn't he?

would be great (as someone sort of said) to have something that's like the jmi but with a slightly different focus. Make it happen you guyses.

 

[aoifeimc]

The writing is very very good but they do say they cover "contemporary and improvised music in Ireland" and there's very little, if any of this at all. Even their gig listings have a single jazz gig and about 100 trad sessions for the month of November.

Design is brilliant too though.

hmm, yeah but actually its really hard to find people who can write well on improvised and/or contemporary on a regular basis, Kevin Stevens covers jazz, he's good. If anyone thought that the could write with some feeling and authority on experimental,improvised or contemporary classical they could do worse than to submit an article to the editor Toner Quinn.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

"It's all noise"

 

[Gambra]

"It's all noise"

Thats the tag line right there

 

[shidheat]

i think the wire is streets ahead of all the other music mags out there. it's a bit po faced / high brow at times but it's always full of good information. the reviews are great.

i used to pick up the odd copy of the ptolemaic terrascope. that was a great read that covered psych mainly. haven't seen it around in years though and just haven't bothered looking it up for a subscription.

 

[Unknown Convict]

I honestly can't remember the issue numbers offhand.
One was in an issue with Alice Coltrane on the cover taking a writer to task on a sniffy Flaming Lips review and another was pointing out the glaring omission of Frank Zappa in their 'humour in rock' feature. I think Wilco were on the cover of that one.

My finest hour.

home to the shelves tonight, so. i seem to remember that zappa letter.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

So should we have a meeting about the "Rim" or is everyone too scattered about?

 

[aoifeimc]

I'm in, but eh where is everyone located??

 

[Gambra]

Limerick sadly. Me attending any meeting would be possible though as long as its planned

 

[CITY BABY]

Ive been meaning to ask ye general forumers for a while, whats a daycent music mag that ya can buy in the shops. outside the aul punkrock (which there are a billion zines to read about) me main musical interests are soul and ska, so I find that scootering monthly music section is quite excellent but is only about 3 pages long, I buy record collector if theres any articles about something im interested in, but is there any daycent non-rock music magazine- stuff covering the aforemention and shit like 60s beat, doo-wop, surf, and good articles about music ya mightnt like but would be interested in reading about.And doesnt have the clash or nick cave on the cover?????