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Topic: The Blues Magazine UK no more

The latest edition number 31 celebrating the 50th birthday of the Beano album is the last.

Their distributor started charging p&p so that's that. It was great advertising for the UK bands.

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sad ... between this Forum and The Blues magazine .. I learned much more about established and historical artists ... and discovered some really great new ones.

"I was in Space for less than 2 weeks … and suddenly Jeaniene’s back … half the Band is off the gd wagon … we have comedians opening for us … and the nice kid that ran our website is now a kleptof’nmaniac.  Boy ... did you guys miss me!!"  Phil Valentine - Road Manager - Staton House Band

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Re: The Blues Magazine UK no more

A real shock Just read issue 50 on the train yesterday I found so many new bands from the CD

Its a good job we have this forum any suggestions for another magazine I read Classic rock second hand bit bored with it

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Re: The Blues Magazine UK no more

Sad news - support Blues Matters, an excellent little magazine.

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trdb wrote:

Sad news - support Blues Matters, an excellent little magazine.

Tom, I don't think it's BM that Kenny is talking about but I'm sure he'll clarify.

Phil

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Wooders wrote:
trdb wrote:

Sad news - support Blues Matters, an excellent little magazine.

Tom, I don't think it's BM that Kenny is talking about but I'm sure he'll clarify.

Phil

I think Tom is saying to support Blues Matters now.

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It must be hard for blues magazines to stay afloat these days as how large of a market is there?
But I will say there are what seems to be an endless supply of talented artists and bands playing bluesy music which  is always a good sign.

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Kenny wrote:
Wooders wrote:
trdb wrote:

Sad news - support Blues Matters, an excellent little magazine.

Tom, I don't think it's BM that Kenny is talking about but I'm sure he'll clarify.

Phil

I think Tom is saying to support Blues Matters now.

Yes - not so glossy, but more bang for your buck.

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Kenny wrote:

The latest edition number 31 celebrating the 50th birthday of the Beano album is the last.

Their distributor started charging p&p so that's that. It was great advertising for the UK bands.


This shocked me!  I love that magazine. Damn shame.

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Yeah I got the e mail as well. such a shame but I hope that classic rock magazine will do some blues stuff instead

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Well, Classic Rock has always had Henry Yates doing a small block of Blues Album reviews; maybe a re-think and devote a page (at least) to Blues releases ; and other genre supposing the Prog magazine goes the same way. I have noticed that on more than one occasion, interviews & features on the more contemporary Blues artists have appeared in Classic Rock, albeit in an abridged form, so maybe all is not lost, but I do agree, some of the newer bands coming through are going to miss out on a great springboard; I know from the bands I've picked up on over the last couple of years.

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