Q magazine. How I fondly remember it. Andy Potter bought the first edition in, oh, about 1984 and I instantly felt like I was at home. I religously bought it every month for its first fifteen years, then rather patchily in the last five or so. I was more than happy, when I discovered this here intarweb, to find their web site at http://www.q4music.com/ and have linked to it extensively on this here little corner of the wibbly wobbly web.
But no more.
The magazine, as all good things do, has changed over its lifetime. Sadly it’s moved away from me over the last few years and I’ve almost given up buying it. Probably something to do with their promotion of artists who just don’t light my fire. If I was being harsh I’d say its following in the footsteps of Sounds and the NME, lauding bands which whilst they may be cool just aren’t very good.
But each to their own. There was still their website, with its treasure trove of twenty years worth of music reviews both mainstream and slightly obscure. Or at least it was. I tootled over there this afternoon and the archive has gone. The site is now just a thinly veiled front for HMV’s music store, concert ticket sales and a subscription service for a music related weekly email that is probably chock full of ads. No thanks, and sayonara Q.
The day had to come…May I suggest ‘Classic Rock’ magazine instead?
You may suggest, but I’ll stick my fingers in my ears and sing “la-la-la-la”. Next you’ll be saying that Mojo isn’t completely up its own arse.