RIP Q Magazine

[DiBiase is Good]

It was going to happen sooner or later as its circulation was a fraction of what it was in its glory days but Coronavirus claims another victim.
I hadn’t bought it regularly in years but it really was one of the best music magazines around. It will be missed.

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[SmashTV]

As I said to a friend on social media, I’m not a music obsessive by any means but I’d dip in and out of it and always saw it as a mainstay of the newsagent. Sad news.

Will Empire be next?

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Oh man.

This is a real bummer.

My ambition as a teen was to write for them. I went to university to study journalism, only to learn the industry I was three years away from joining was several years into a death spiral.

I also used to subscribe. I never got to freelance for them even, despite an extremely close call with their editor in 2010 or so.

Even though I have given up on music journalism as a job, and mainly even as a hobby, a part of me still wanted to get to write for them sometime in my life.

This magazine shutting down is part of my teenage years shutting down.

[Jaws the Shark]

I must admit to not reading it much - I always found the music it covered a bit "safe" for my tastes - but this news has got me feeling a little maudlin. Music magazines in general were a huge part of my musical education and growing up, and in this topsy-turvy, ever-changing world it was something that had been there as long as I could remember and was a weirdly reassuring presence in newsagents.

I only bought a couple of copies of Q many, many years ago, the last one on a cross-channel ferry during a school trip sometime in the early/mid 2000s. It's funny how you remember things like that.

[DiBiase is Good]

Jul 20, 2020 15:06:32 GMT -5 SmashTV said:

As I said to a friend on social media, I’m not a music obsessive by any means but I’d dip in and out of it and always saw it as a mainstay of the newsagent. Sad news.

Will Empire be next?

It’s currently selling three times the amount of copied that Q was selling recently, so it might not be in immediate danger. But they didn’t do Empire Awards last year, so it may be an indication of things starting to close up. If they do move away from printing magazines, I hope they revamp their website because it’s utter shite.