Coffee table.

[stuhuggett]

Magazines: what ones do you read regularly and recommend? Bit lifestyle-quiz this, I know, but it's info often worth sharing.
As I've indicated here before, I buy NME every week, and have an ongoing subscription to The Wire. I also buy most copies of Uncut and (nowadays) Mojo, the occasional Q, and Plan B and Loose Lips Sink Ships when I'm able to. I've also a large pile of The Big Issue, and a tendency to pick up any free local or national music/listings magazine when I find them (eg The Fly, Vice, Fact, Juice, The Source, Ultimate Alternative, Spill, Filter). And I always buy the Hastings Observer, and The Trawler (previously The Hastings Trawler).
Lifestyle magzines: music is my lifestyle! And being hard-up all the time, of course. From spending all my money on the music press...

[rashamon]

Stu, can't you get more through more than thirteen words before mentioning sex?

[Michael]

'Sound on Sound' and 'Asylum' each month and 'Future Music' if I miss my train.

[carrie]

i don't have the attention span for magazines! although sometimes i have a read of postman pat,bob the builder, fifi and the flowertots etc... courtesy of barney, they have lots of bright pictures...

[stuhuggett]

Lee, you also only managed thirteen words before mentioning sex!
Damn, just done it in ten.

[stuhuggett]

This month's Uncut (gratuitous Beatles front-cover aside) has by far and away the best covermount cd they've managed for years: an overview of "...the new psychedelic outlaws" (Entrance, Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance, Black Mountain, PG Six, Ghost, Dead Meadow, Wooden Wand, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Jackie-O Motherfucker et al). Guitars!!! And Organs!!! You won't regret it. So what if they smoke pot?

[alfie]

Lucky you Stu, i cant get through 5 words without mentioning or thinking about sex! Do you think we are perverts? Or just outgoing? I'm sure a lot of people think i'm a pervert!

[marcusjr]

Absolutely Stu, best Uncut cd in years. And quoting Jeff Tweedy stating that alt-country has become the equivalent of Poco, without being critical! Really good.

[stuhuggett]

Are you paying attention, Nick? You gotta pick up this Uncut while you're over!

(Alfie, I'll return to your comments later on this evening, but I'll bring the comedy 'Sex' thread back-up so that we don't mix the psychedelic with the physical!)

[alfie]

I strongly suggest buying a copy of WORD this month, great Tom Waits feature and loads of other great stuff.

[the colonial]

I am paying attention. Luckily i can get that quite easily here!
Word magazine, that written by Terry Christian?

[stuhuggett]

Andrew Collins and Stuart Maconie contribute, so you're not far off! Actually, I bought Word for the first time this summer: it's alright really, kind-of like Q would be if they had intelligent writers with actual opinions.

[carrie]

it's alright innit....

[mooominmama]

im very lucky livin with a man who clearly has too much money and lack of other amusemnets on this island so spends possibly hundreds of pounds a month(poor postman) on as many of the music press as he can... yippee... all those lovely free cds for me to listen to...

[carrie]

hullo miss..

[stuhuggett]

Check out Britney Spears on the cover of the current issue of Heat: she looks EXACTLY like Genesis P.Orridge!

[stuhuggett]

Three good things from the new issue of Uncut:

1. Covermount cd with an exclusive Fall track! Well, exclusive alternate take from the forthcoming album, but that'll do for me.
2. That's My Bush coming out on dvd, at last.
3. Tindersticks-curated album of children's songs (again! But this time it's covers of old film/tv themes etc), titled Songs For The Young At Heart, featuring Stuart Murdoch singing, oh God, 'Florence's Sad Song' from Dougal & The Blue Cat... This may possibly be the best thing we'll hear all year! Be still, my breaking heart.

Oh, and there's five (five!) pages on Ted Chippington in The Independent. Today is a weird day.

[Captain Weirdbeard]

the bastards! jumping in my grave... i'm gonna use one of those thingys... soon as we stop doing the a-team a big act tries to corner the tv themes market. sickening.

[carolyn]

Stu - have you really been waiting for That's My Bush to come out on DVD? I don't remember it is being that good - but I may have forgotten.

[stuhuggett]

I'm just glad more people are gonna get to find out about it, 'cos it's obscure by Trey Parker/Matt Stone standards. It's...good enough.

[stuhuggett]

The new issue of The Wire (#281): Exhaustive Throbbing Gristle features (in case you'd been wondering what Carolyn & I had been up to recently), an Epiphany about Matt (Sarah Records) Haynes' Are You Scared To Ge Happy? 'zine, and a mention in the listings (p78) for "electro-comedian" Lee Hume!

[stuhuggett]

I'm not a regular reader, but the latest issue of Star magazine ('The hottest celeb weekly') features, in it's Beauty section (p100), 'Lily Allen's Powder Room Secrets'. Shome mishtake shurely? etc.

[stuhuggett]

Chrome Hoof double-spread in new issue of Plan B (#25), pp10-11. Emma second from left, or other, or not there at all - anyone? It's difficult to identify people you used to know when they're wearing silver hooded robes...

[petra]

Not there at all. None of those is Emma, I don't reckon.

[petra]

In other news, though, Emma guests (on trumpet) on the new PRE album, which is a fucking stonker.

[stuhuggett]

petra said:

Not there at all. None of those is Emma, I don't reckon.

Agreed: she'd have had to have changed quite a lot to be one of those people (unless she really is).

[stuhuggett]

Picked up a mag I'd not seen before in Borders this week, called The Illustrated Ape (shades of 'Nathan Barley'), which - in a 15 years too late way - has a Heavenly Records special issue with, get this, a new St Etienne 7" ('This Is Tomorrow'/'Stoned To Say The Least') stuck inside; and, unrelated, a rather-good-actually short story by Salena Godden (nee Saliva). www.theillustratedape.com

[stuhuggett]

Oliva & Salena in the new October issue of Gay Times magazine (or GT, as the cover type has it), pp76-78, feature 'How We Met' (answer: in Cherries, back in the day, so worth a read as, most likely, you were there too?), plus 3 big photos out & about in Hastings (more pics on their Facebook pages though).

[stuhuggett]

Artrocker magazine gets mentioned on these boards semi-regularly: For some reason, they seem to be getting really into The Guillotines these days, at least since Heidi Heelz started playing bass for them, ie either they, or she, or her club (Dice Club up in London) is in there every month at the moment...
I'm assuming people remember them all coming to the Brass Monkey a couple of years (or more) back for semi-regular gigs and DJing slots?
Anyway, so Artrocker's building a scene around all that lot. Er, that's it.

[stuhuggett]

Bit late remembering to mention this, but the Smalltown Supersound sampler CD with the current Plan B mag is excellent - one of the few CDs to really strike a chord with me for ages. Probably only on the shop shelves for a few more days, but worth picking up, I reckon.