This is the thread where I post the front covers of magazines I collected from the 90s, mostly now defunct.

you've got the look
do you really need the guns?
Phat BLOWS THE MYTH AWAY

never heard of this mag but it looks astounding

International Info Overload!

Published in 1993. Managing editor was Tim Leighton-Boyce who founded knowhere.com the following year. Editor was (the late) Gavin Hills who wrote for The Face primarily. I have no idea if there was an Issue 2 as there was a bit of a media panic when this came out thanks to the 'Hot stuff for Hoodlums' title and..er..hoodie with a gun on the cover.

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we didn't call them hoodies then. dunno how people coped.

knowhere is that old? wow

Good god that Modern Review looks like the worst publication in the history of mankind.

that girl's obviously standing on tip-toes. shoddy.

you obiously don't get it, Matt DC.

The gun has a flower coming out the front of it FFS but good job in predicting hoodie hysteria a good 10-12 years early.

Modern Review "yor avin a larf aintcha?!"

i'm assuming TMWRNJ's Ironic Review sketches were a direct parody of this particular publication

A+ for the Britnaissance wet blanket tho - would like to read this!

Oh, it was pretty bad! The people involved will be well known to ilxors. Burchill, Toby Young, Will Self, John Harris. All paid for by Peter York's largesse.

And then they all fell out. Presumably for reasons of irony.

I can't believe it's actually real. 'Bye bye baby' title for abortion article must've felt so CUTTING EDGE in '97. Like Techstep.

The magazine's circulation started at around 5,000 copies, rising to a peak of 30,000 with the controversial Elizabeth Hurley edition, containing a cassette tape of the actress reading passages of erotic prose from Burchill's latest book. By 1995, with the magazine hit by financial difficulties, the circulation subsided to 10,000 copies and soon after it ceased publication when its founders fell out, Toby Young "torching" the magazine with its final issue after Burchill had an affair with writer Charlotte Raven.

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THE ENORMOUSLY INFLUENTIAL TELEVISION MAGAZINE

I'm presuming Phat magazine's 'Three Mags In One!' gimmick didn't catch on?

the controversial Elizabeth Hurley edition, containing a cassette tape of the actress reading passages of erotic prose from Burchill's latest book

Crikey

Cassettes in the 90s?!?!

TV mags aimed at LADS C/D?

of course. until that nasty Mr Blairs put a stop to them. xp

^That MR is the Charlotte Raven as editor relaunch. It lasted all of three issues, maybe? Toby Young's idea to torch the mag in the first volume was simply to reprint every article he'd ever written in it for use as CV or TP, your choice.

CRUEL BRITANNIA a popular meme in '97 once OD/accident/breakdown/suicide season began late summer.

xp

Basically Phat was a skate mag - all the ads are for skateboards or clothes - but I guess they thought they ought to broaden their appeal, there's even an internet advice column "stick a question in alt.skate.board newsgroup...".

haha - sorry about the scanning of The Box - it's slightly bigger than the others!

you are a star for buying such tat

And a mentalist for holding onto it for ten years.

That MR is the Charlotte Raven as editor relaunch. It lasted all of three issues, maybe?

my then-gf and i were sort-of approached about contributing to this at the time, as we both wrote zines, and someone had put our names forward to their editorial. i think they wanted some joint-written column or something, but we sent off our ideas re: things we were obsessed about at the time (the make up, GvsB, Camp Lo, Jeru) and they never got back to us. which is probably for the best.

I have that hurley cassette somewhere. I was amazed:

1) to find the cassette was a c90 (at least), and the reading was an abridged (but still very long) version of the book.

2) that the cover on the cassette had a credit for photography, even though it was black. I eventually discovered that it was *going* to have a photo from EHurl's Loaded photosession, but someone objected.

xpost yeah the Modern Review was a newspaper format then.

Mentalist

The Magazine-format Modern Review was fucking brilliant! Way better than anything else out at the time. I was ;_; when it ceased publication. I still have a set of them somewhere in the attic. The newspaper format one was godawful.

I got roped in to write for MR1 and did a couple of music columns (one of which was for final issue, cut like all others so Toby could print out his CV). Kodwo Eshun was the music editor so it was fun to write them for him, but that's about the extent of it. I was asked to join MR2 but I didn't like their proposals for what I'd do there. Pash if you liked MR2 I promise I saved you from some piss-poor ideas.

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Oops, wrong thread.

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I still dress like this.

More mags plz.

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Handbags Human Rights

I wrote for that one too. The day after it closed down I got a phone call. "Hi, it's Sonic Youth's office. Can Kim use your article as song lyrics? You *will* get a co-write." HELL YEAH.

Song is called Eyes and Teeth and article was about stage school bratz at 1t4l14 c0nt1.

Heheh. The editor, Tina Gaudoin, went on to supposedly give it all up and caused a bit of a "can women have it all?" handwringing at the time, although I notice she is now something at The Times.

I really liked it, as did Mrs. Trifle (who never buys magazines - for obvious reasons). Pity it didn't last. I wonder if it would do any better now?

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A bit older that one - I was ahead of the curve.

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That was a pretty good mag

Used to get free cassettes with various stand-up comedy routines on it... that American dude who does the "Seven stages of drunkenness" routine, that kinda posh old dude who hung out with the alternative set in the 80s, Michael Bentine. Good shit.

I won a competition to design the front page of Environment Now in my GCSE art class.

Is that your work above?

Very little nudity, no naked bosoms for instance, although there is a shot of E Hurley in some lingerie and a nameless woman spread out on a bed to illustrate an article about hotel sex.

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Also very little nakedness, even the article on orgies is a pretty tame expose of swingers with the only naked person a somewhat overweight German fellow.

Not the first issue this rather a re-launch, not to be confused with the more recent relaunch of the same mag.

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PH.UK geddit?

If you like this kind of thing then it's pretty good. Photoshoots by Corinne Day, Tony Ward and Ben Westwood, an interview with Will Self, some interesting takes on porn. Naturally, doomed to failure in this incarnation.

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Didn't last long.

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^^^ Fucking hell, that's actually pretty stylish for a bongo mag.

That relaunched Penthouse was SO DULL. Too 'classy' w/all that entails. I think it had some Manara comix (Click?) in the back.

Does yr Bizarre have ALL the pages in it? I remember some got snipped in a legal beef. (actually just seen the sticker at bottom left--forbidden Planet in Newcastle had the unsnipped version but I can't even remember what rthe additional page was.)

this thread had my unreserved approval. more please.

"Your lunch's in my knickers".

I may post screenshots of the short lived "Music Box" magazine from 1994/95 when I'm home. It tried to indoctrine kids into the world of classical music through the adventures of two "hip" kids on a compact disc.

Not a collector's classic.

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Jarvis Cocker Cover Star = Failed Magazine Part 2

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Snug looks like a mag you'd get free on a plane.

The names on the green strap at the bottom are pretty wtf? I also had to think for a second before remembering who David Holmes was.

It's always time for the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, in my book.

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x-post The Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe was that paranormalist vicar, no?

Oh and lol Michael Stipe "the wild one"!

The Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe was that paranormalist vicar, no?

Yeah, he presented Fortean TV and sang a song about the respective topic at the end of each programme. It just was on before Brass Eye. That used to be a great night of TV.

I'd forgotten all about Fortean TV, that was a good programme!

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One for the ladiez.

And another relaunch, albeit of a long defunct magazine.

Ikon was weird and a bit rubbish. And yet another attempt to have a manmag that didn't have nakkid ladies in. The editor was Chris Roberts who is now at Uncut, which is a bit like Ikon minus the sport.

Ikon was a bit more DadGlam rather than DadRock. It also gave Morley carte blanche to write 10,000 word features on Eric Cantona, OJ Simpson, etc etc. I have fond memories of it!

Frank was really good.

And printed on lovely paper!

has/will the internet kill these types of mags?

That issue of Deluxe had a really good article about the drug tsar.

I vaguely remember Ikon, I think it reviewed Butterfly Child's "Honeymoon Suite" about a year before it actually hit the shops.

has/will the internet kill these types of mags?

Err, they're already defunct?!?!?

TS: Ikon vs Icon

Ikon vs. Icon vs. Icon

the linked Icon is not good.

PORNOGRAPHY: WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE?

Um, at Jarvis Cocker sucking his fingers?

the linked Icon is not good.

-- jed_, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 18:33 (Yesterday) Link

Which one? I quite like the architecture one but too expensive when I just like looking at the pictures.

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Lasted about 8 issues. Editor was one 'Push'. Kind of Loaded with attempts at style.

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Not Living Marxism, rather "A Lively Magazine". The editor was Roger Kean, from legendary Spectrum mag, Crash.

It actually had 2 covers...this was the one inside...
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"Push" was a regular Melody Maker writer as I remember.

Yeah, I recognised the name.

One more oldie...

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Came with a free EP featuring Style Council, Jesus and Mary Chain, Redskins and Simply Red. Lasted 6 issues.

I had all 6 of tem at one point. It was a REALLY BAD magazine. the EP w/the J&MC track was great though, "Taste of Cindy", I think it was, I remember listening to it over and over and over.

I still have all 6 of them! Yes, not good. I don't know why are persevered with buying it. The editor went on to the Express (might still be there).

and it has that VITAL version of TOC, with the sharp intake of breath that was edited off the album version.

Yeah, all minute and a half of it!
(not a minute and half intake of breath obv.)