Who do the British seemingly hate Q Magazine?

MC's Geir sock was too strident, he could never get the unflustered tone right

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The Soft Bulletin on the cover i note. 2/5 they gave that, first time round. Blue Lines getting pride of place as usual. wasn't even in their Top 50 *of that year* when it came out.

it's almost as if stuff has to hang around for a few years before it gets to be in the middlebrow canon

Rod Stewart's Ultimate Guide To Life? Guy Garvey Solo LP

I had that edition as a kid, and remember the list well.

you had this edition? easy to think that looking at it, but it isn't out til Tuesday!

For my sins I did buy Q fairly frequently when I was a callow youth, until I got wise to the fact that those "Top 100" lists they are always running are pure empty page filler. For such a chunky mag it was often surprisingly short on content, you could get through the meat of it in about an hour and were left with a nagging feeling you'd wasted your money.

The bigger problem has always been how it continues to reinforce an extremely conservative rock/pop orthodoxy, never challenging received opinions and always dishing out five stars to the same canonical big names. I guess that's the answer to how it keeps selling, it's like comfort reading for people who have a passing interest in music but aren't really interested in anything they don't already listen to.

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bauer-reveals-plans-to-close-merge-or-sell-ten-magazines-q-planet-rock-simply-you/

Magazine publisher Bauer Media plans to close, merge or sell ten of its print titles it says will not be sustainable once the Covid-19 crisis is over.

The titles affected are: music magazines Q and Planet Rock, car brands Modern Classics and Car Mechanics, “true-life” title Simply You, Mother and Baby, Golf World, Practical Photography, Sea Angler and Your Horse.

Bauer said for each of these titles it is currently looking at whether to move them to a digital-only format, merge them with sister titles, sell them, or close them altogether.

rip big man, heaven needed a magazine i assumed had stopped production at least a decade ago

Claiming Sea Angler and Your Horse for the name of my terrible new band.

I'd be surprised if some other publisher didn't step in and buy Q tbh. But who will save poor old Sea Angler?

Call him Ishmael Reed Publishing Company

* advertising jingle plays* Pick up your monthly copy of Golf World, now incorporating Q Magazine.

Uh, anyone on here ever write for Q?

sure, music can be timeless, but what's wrong with music also being fleeting, ephemeral? something to enjoy one day and forget the next? the joy of pop music doesn't require it being 'timeless'. you don't need to get married to every single record you buy -- there's room for plenty of one-night-stands, too
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003

i wish i could still have one night stands

With a magazine?

The magazine in Darlimg Nikki was probably not Q.

cover of the last issue answers the thread question nicely

begging to be polled. somehow.

i like it when you tag crappy old pop stars with their first names only because they're our friends

I thought Q was good in the late 80s and early 90s. It once got the Trouser Press record Guide’s endorsement.

I wish Geeta still posted here

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK)

geeta's presence on this board was fleeting, ephemeral, something to enjoy one day and forget the next

I have some bad news about @QMagazine. The issue that comes out on July 28 will be our last. The pandemic did for us and there was nothing more to it than that. I have attached our final cover and my editor’s letter for context.
On the plus side, we’re all available for work. pic.twitter.com/rm8qOcUBtB

— Ted Kessler (@TedKessler1) July 20, 2020

I haven't read it in a few years, mostly because it seems to have nearly disappeared from shelves around here, but that was formative for me in the 1990s. Really sad news.

I'm guessing this is a direct result of advertising budgets getting slashed in the pandemic?

The reader-submitted interview questions feature yielded some amazing results. Bobby Gillespie and Ian Brown’s were jaw-dropping

aw man, that's sad

good riddance to this fucking pile o' shite.

^ The genuine voice of the British

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aka Pyjama Boy and the Wifebeater

what's wrong with being sexy?

The Beatles!

Plus! Paul Weller

somewhere in Equatorial Guinea is a landfill site full of 80,000 tons of Q FREE CD!(s).

Q has never been my thing but it doesn't seem a good thing that it is going.

why? will a dearth of Noel Gallagher magazine covers in W H Smiths bring a famine or something?

Like I said, haven't read a single issue in years and, by 2010, it was so far away from what I'd look for, but at this point the death of almost any print publication dedicated to music is kind of a disappointment, esp considering the larger implications for other magazines.

brit-pop industrial complex would have been supported by the state if you cunts had voted for Corbyn!

Well, I don't generally believe people losing their jobs is a good thing - and there will be decent people losing their livelihoods.

For all the tedious Gallagher (or whoever) covers, I'd also guess that lots of other groups, who are easier to care about, will be affected by this.

it's always a good feeling when people you can't fucking stand lose their jobs, anyone who says different is lying!

lol

Dipped back into Q again during Ted Kessler's recent stint as editor and it had massively improved from the dark and increasingly vacuous days post-2000, seemed to be gearing itself back towards it's better years, even if it was sadly too late.

At my barber it is either this or a men's "health" magazine.

thank fuck for phones, Kindles, staring absently into the void

rip big man, heaven needed a magazine i assumed had stopped production at least a decade ago

― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 May 2020 20:31 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was often great the last few years. Fascinating behind the scenes stuff here from Ted Kessler

https://www.qthemusic.com/articles/almost-famous-ted-kessler

Who do the ilxors seemingly hate Q Magazine?

thank fuck for phones, Kindles, staring absently into the void

― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague)

being stared into absently by the void

lol yeah that too