Best and worst specialist music magazines...Irish or otherwise (1 Viewer)

[Mitchum]

'Adventures In Modern Music ' says it all for me.
Well that and the fact that like a lot of people on this forum I've got thousands of records and my passion for music hasn't waned over all these years. The Wire makes me feel like I have no records.
And rightly so.

In each issue there's at least ten albums I put on a mental 'must buy' list. Invariably the reviews are better than the records. That's the skill of the writers perhaps.

 

[quasiquasi]

I live in Cambridgeshire in England and work in London. I live on a train.

The tag line needs to be "tongue in cheek".

Billy and I can coordinate the "International Edition" which contains none of the glossy supplements of the Irish edition and costs twice the price.

 

[Mitchum]

Don't see it in April-October 2005, not going to dig out the rest now. Why are we doing this again? It's not like we're checking up on your claim that your letters were published. Or is it?

*shrugs*

I'll find it myself and PM you the sexy results. A letter in WIRE eh? Ker-rist.

 

[quasiquasi]

The Wire makes me feel like I have no records.

Good summary.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

not doubting you Mitchum, just curious to see what you said.

 

[Mitchum]

not doubting you Mitchum, just curious to see what you said.

Thanks man. Favourite issue of Wire Magazine?

Heh.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Thanks man. Favourite issue of Wire Magazine?

Heh.

probably the one with The Residents' primer.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

or in praise of THE RIFF.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

so does anyone remember UPROAR then?

 

[Mitchum]

probably the one with The Residents' primer.

I know nothing about The Residents apart from the eyeball gimmick/myspace choons.
Must remedy that one of the days.

My fave was an Andrew Wetherhall cover/Dub primer/ Big Cat cover mounted cd. 1993.
Introduced me to Dirty Three. Life changed utterly. A terrible beauty was born (!).

Of recent times I liked the one with the non-cover 'obscured' Neubauten logo. Very brave. Almost an affront to the casual buyer or a statement of intent.

 

[Umfufu]

Anyone read Rock-a-Rolla yet?

Heard of them through MySpace. Seem to have cool bands on the covers.

 

[pete]

i liked Sounds.


I'm still looking for people to write for here, incidentally.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I know nothing about The Residents apart from the eyeball gimmick/myspace choons.
Must remedy that one of the days.

some discussion on this thread.

I finally got hold of the four disc Our Tired, Our Poor.... over the summer.

 

[pete]

the best

i wonder how many people would be able to name that band from the list provided

 

[Mitchum]

so does anyone remember UPROAR then?

Alas, no.
Were the D11 Runners featured?


I'm just trying to think of a short-lived Irish music mag from the Mid-Eighties that tried to trump Hot Press' monopoly. Lasted two, maybe three issues. Cry Before Dawn flexi-disc with #1. Free Tampax with # 2. Sank without trace. In Beaumont at least.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Alas, no.
Were the D11 Runners featured?


I'm just trying to think of a short-lived Irish music mag from the Mid-Eighties that tried to trump Hot Press' monopoly. Lasted two, maybe three issues. Cry Before Dawn flexi-disc with #1. Free Tampax with # 2. Sank without trace. In Beaumont at least.

No. D11 Runners were well out of it by then.

Cry Before Dawn flexi ?

Wow. They caused a big stir in 1986 / 1987. Pity they were so crap.

 

[Mitchum]

i liked Sounds.


I'm still looking for people to write for here, incidentally.

Sounds changed my life. In hindsight all their writers wanted to be Lester Bangs or Hunter Thompson. Different times though-less media saturation.

I'll write for you as long as I can be honest. Dare you cross the Rubicon?

I won't write about

My contempt for rockist arrogance
Coz I respect footballers more than a
Dead horse.

Nabokov innit.

;-)


PS

What was the name of the glossy early-Nineties Irish mag that Thumped's Lolo wrote for/edited/produced?

That was good.

 

[cephalopod]

Sounds changed my life. In hindsight all their writers wanted to be Lester Bangs or Hunter Thompson. Different times though-less media saturation.

I'll write for you as long as I can be honest. Dare you cross the Rubicon?

I won't write about

My contempt for rockist arrogance
Coz I respect footballers more than a
Dead horse.

Nabokov innit.

;-)


PS

What was the name of the glossy early-Nineties Irish mag that Thumped's Lolo wrote for/edited/produced?

That was good.

Sting likes to reference Nabokov in his lyrics.

 

[billygannon]

How about a website dedicated to Independent music from an Irish perspective?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Sting likes to reference Nabokov in his lyrics.

He was referencing a famous book, that it was by Nabokov was pure coincidence