Don Ruba: thanks for the website link. I like some of the photos but like you it doesn't look to me an essential purchase.
Blackdown/Gumdrops: I'm so disappointed with the current music/style magazines in the UK. Even when Jungle started at least Mixmag covered it (even if not accurately or extensively). I'm a magazine fanatic and have piles of mags from over the last 10 years stored away. I used to love visiting the newsagents to pick up copies of the latest mags I was collecting but nowadays every visit is a let down. Thank god for the internet (or maybe not as it seems there are parallels with regard the decline of good mags and increased use of the net).
I still think the net can't replace the magazine and I'm hopeful that we might have some sort of return to the form eventually. Mixmag has the odd good thing in it but seems totally lost generally, I hope they can recover with this change of publisher. RWD is great except that I cant get it anywhere. Some other mags like Wire and ID and similar I check occasionally and are certainly good but not exactly what I'm looking for personally.
I've started my Uni course in Publishing now and loving it. I hope one day soon I can do something myself
