Q magazine closes...

Well that's too bad. Fingers crossed that Prog magazine manages to keep going. It's the only music mag I buy every month.

 

The Vines first album was, and still is, brilliant. But the NME went overboard even by their standards, I remember a reader letter that said they ought to rename themselves the Vines fanclub newsletter.

 

Is any of it on RocksBackPages?

 

I don’t know. But I’m sure Q had their own website with archive features and reviews back in the day.

 

no more issues and covers on Oasis

 

The pandemic just accelerated what was already happening in print media. I would have been surprised if Q had last 5 more years.

 

A convenient excuse......

 

'Poring', not "pouring."

 

While Covid may have been the final straw Q was in bad financial shape for years.

It became a gossip rag for UK pop stars and had probably overstayed its welcome anyway?

Fingers crossed that Mojo and Uncut weather this storm...

 

Classic POP eighties themed mag is essentially the new Q.

 

Not a surprise. Shame.

 

Sad to see. Had some very good critics work there over the years. But when I was following it. It was a little to slick for my tastes. I hope everybody involved lands on their feet.

 

I spent a fortune on this magazine in the 90's.

 

Too bad. I was waiting for that awesome cover story when they get the band back together.

You may say I'm a dreamer...

 

I still get Uncut and Mojo here in the US. Expensive but worth it to me. Seems a lot of their ads were promoting upcoming festivals/tours...that has dried up so we will see if they survive.

 

I regularly bought Q from 1998 to around 2011. I still have them in boxes in the shed, but I haven't bought music mags in a long time.

 

Q ., has gone for music fans.
But .. UK music fans are buying loads of prerecorded cassettes. 65.000 were sold in the first six months of 2020.

 

Yes it was great at first albeit with wonky design but them MOJO came along with wonderful art and design...and better writing. Also Mojo seemed a little me Brit-Sensationalistic than Q

 

I loved the reader-submitted interview questions. The Bobby Gillespie and Ian Brown ones were insane

 

and every third issue after that

 

It doesn't surprise me at all that Q is closing. I've gathered the impression (from these forums) that a lot of younger music listeners don't really care what anyone else thinks about an album, so there's no need for music reviews. Meanwhile, the older readers either die off or have firmly established collections and know what they like, so they too don't need a magazine about new bands, or recycled articles about their favorite older bands which they probably know the stories of by heart anyways. I've always been a Mojo fan, but haven't read an issue any many years. Are they even still around?

 

Great looking back at the old issues from the 1980s. Discovered Blue Nile from Q’s 5 star review of Hats.

 

I'm sorry to see any magazine go and its tragic that 2 are folding at the same time. It's a long time since I bought Q but I have been buying Mojo and Uncut recently. Without these magazines imo it's difficult to come across interesting new acts if you dont bother with streaming.....

 

I bought Neil Young’s Unplugged on the strength of its 5-star review in Q - my first Neil Young album. I remember, the last few lines read “The only thing remaining, then, is to shoot the member of the audience who whoops incessantly throughout The Needle And The Damage Done. Such is the strength of this set, his guilt is likely to pursue him through the years.”

Great stuff.

 

I never read it - maybe I had the wrong impression, but it struck me as glossy and superficial and only of interest to fans of superstar acts. Kind of like if Maxim was a music mag. Its supposed imitators seemed a bit more "with it".