No please, carry on typing normally!

The first obvious thing that springs to mind (which I suppose you’ve thought about already) is that a lot of your content will be associated with the past and you will eventually run out of material…. mind you there seems to be a bit of an old skool revival going on at the moment, plus breaks music seems to be drawing on old skool influences more and more.

I reckon i’d buy it though. If it was at a reasonable price. Especially if there was a mix cd or some such on the front… either a brand new mix from an old skool legend or a classic mix from the past. Articles about the way the media treated the explosion would be a good one… and I suppose you’d have to mention something about the drugs of the era, good and bad.

Used to like Eternity…. (second friday of every month!!). There were plenty of others but eternity sticks in my mind as one of the best.

ISTR eternity sort of ran aground by the late 90s, it tended to be based around the old skool commercial raves. These were heavily targeted and eliminated in some areas by the CJA and the scene split into todays free parties and the superclubs (both of which are still sufferering from government clampdowns)

the free party crews shunned mainstream publicity (understandably, as it was tantamount to admitting to criminal activity) and the superclubs created their own magazines which helped “bury bad news” such as logistics/customer service problems within the clubs and/or oppressive door staff régimes/the involvement of gangsters.

Also it was getting a lot harder to put across a positive view of partying by the mid 90s when people were getting sucked into addictive class A use and the scene wasn’t as “innocent” as it once looked.

but I definitely think the overall positive ethos of eternity and blaze (whilst still running hard-hitting articles) is well up for a revival.

as for music policy if you covered techno of all kinds, hardstyle, gabba etc (basically the whole spectrum of stuff that storm/project mayhem play!) , breaks, D&B, breakcore (the mad disjointed and sometimes frightening stuff) and of course old skool rave there would be plenty enough for everybody on the underground music scene.

I consider garage and grime to be commercial music anyway, its obsessed with making money rather than having fun and everyones hungry for fame and money; I might be old fashioned but can’t really see how a music scene which has 5 16 year old kids fighting for the mic to chat about how they are going to kill an entire family and use their rivals bull terrier as an ashtray fits in with the party ethos…

indeed as a uni project is less likely to increase the risk for anyone else (unless the college themselves refused to allow the controversial content, hopefully this shouldn’t happen at graduate level, although I know of a girl whose a-level project on drugs was vetoed by her college as it would give the place a bad name)

if they however refuse to comment then make sure you publish that as well. I have always felt a “no comment” answer from a public sector official is unacceptable; I can understand when they have to protect individuals case details but they should always be prepared to make a public statement (even if only via a press office) as to why a certain decision was made.

hey hey..

i have a few really beat up old copies of eternity that i have kept for sentimental value…

i could lend them to you but would like them back… sad i know…

BUT

magazine sounds wicked, throw in some politics, some eco awareness stuff, a magazine for people that like to be informed, some fun and games but please no pictures f scantily clad ravers… it just makes it so cheesy… there is porn aplenty these days…

i;d buy it or subscribe to it and if you need any help with numbers and legal stuff just let me know.

baz

Man, you have to write a magazine on party drugs. No one ever gets down like they did back in the day. Raves, Free love and hippie shit. When is the last time you have seen some one standing up for something. The sixtie’s where bad ass. Womans rights, the black movement and all of that. Make it on the people man not on the bullshit that most people right about. Look at surfers and then at what people are doing up north. There’s alot of shit people miss. Plus add how to enhance highs of all kinds of drugs. You think I am dumb take a look at how much high times makes. Peace out dude

thanks for the US perspective from “blue sparrow” / The clan. incidentallly if you are into alternative zines check out http://www.ironfeather.com (the clan should like it as its US-based as well.)

I totally agree with what they say, particularly as in the USA whatever gains the “hippies” made back in the 60s are being eroded and reversed by a conservative backlash – women and minorities continue to be oppressed there….

copyright laws unfortunately exist for 50 years after the death of the author, unless they waive their rights or sign them over to the publisher.

if the publisher is no longer extant the rights may pass over to whoever has bought them out; however if they have simply gone bust its possible that the intellectual property rights have been abandoned

if you just scanned a few pages though though then it could be argued (if anyone ever complained) that this is fair use for historical and journalistic purposes. a whole mag scanned to a readable standard, particularly with early 90s typographic effects is several megabytes of data as well!

come to think of it I remember now one of their paid reporters borrowed a very large chunk of one of my Advance Party articles about 10 years ago, so it would be perfectly fair IMO