Magazine Graveyard: Vox

I fail to remember exactly what happened to this magazine — I think it was swallowed up by one of it’s rivals — The NME if memory serves correctly. I know with these articles I should sit there on wiki and painstakingly research stuff but they are, after all, supposed to be opinion pieces and [...]

Magazine Graveyard: The Face

It led the way in a lot of respects — taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, but there was some kind of imperceptible shift and suddenly it seemed to be running [...]

Magazine Graveyard: Q

OK, so it’s not dead yet, but God, considering what it’s become it should be. I used to love this magazine then we had a run where they had Cliff Richard, Ronan Keating and the Spice Girls on the front cover and I would cringe with embarassment walking out of the shop with the bloody [...]

Magazine Graveyard: Level Magazine

The notice on the website of this now defunct magazine has to be one of the saddest things ever. Just before it died, in common with a couple of the other magazines I intend to feature under this umbrella there was a format change and goddamned if I know why it died shortly after. It’s [...]

Magazine Graveyard: Sleaze Nation

God, how I miss this magazine. I had to hunt for it — weirdly Suffolk was strangely backwards when it came to stocking anything thought of as vaguely dodgy. How do I know that they thought of it this way? Because, as with almost every publication I bought, they would start giggling when they talked [...]