jockey slut and sleaze nation publishers hit the wall

I am offering short odds on suzy, favourable (value) odds on Stelfox. Betting starts........now!

Whatever, I've known him since he was a researcher on Gaytime TV, and met him through friend working in telly at the time, at a Boxing Day dinner given by said friend. I just had a drink with him a few weeks ago about some work stuff and he lives three blocks from me. He's definitely Type A, but he's nice.

it's entirely informed.

The Mother fanzine was called Shoreditch Twat, not the editor.

I still haven't seen any official confirmation the magazines have gone under, either.

*ie i have no idea if it was him, but hes the manager, right?

i got the new loose lips today, which seems to give pride of place to writing, despite the great design, but its all a bit too earnest and touchy feely for me.

what stevem said.

every thread i read about magazines, i just think that the best magazine is ILX. I knowl oads of people bitch about it, but just to look down the list of threads, it just reads like a dream contents list. SO i stick to this. ILX = free (and freeish to run - hence possibility of crazy variety); magazines = always disappointing and expensive. ( and this goes for any type of magazine, not just music. the only magazines i like (and that are good value for money) that cover any topic are private eye in terms of current affairs, and when saturday comes for football)

an obvious point, but i have given up on reading print stuff, and will strick to the internet. I bought Deuce, Muzik and Jockey SLtu all in the same month and was depressed and pissed off after reasding 10 pages into each. I dont think that would have been different whether i had read CTCL, NME or Bang, Wire or Gramophone, The Economist, Spectator, or NEw STatesman, Four Four Two or Match etc etc etc; you get my point.

-- ambrose (ambrosewhit...), July 3rd, 2003 8:37 AM.</Q>

i said this ages ago!

From today's Guardian:

Now Sleaze falls victim to style cutbacks

Patrick Barrett
Tuesday June 1, 2004

Sleaze Nation and dance title Jockey Slut have become the latest glossy titles to close in the fast-shrinking style magazine sector.

The closure of the titles comes only a month after Emap announced it was shutting down the seminal style bible The Face due to falling sales. The last issue was published this month after Emap abandoned attempts to sell the magazine.

Swinstead Publishing, which owned Sleaze Naion and Jockey Slut as well as youth marketing company Espionage, told its staff on Thursday last week that the company was to close with immediate effect. Around 30 people are believed to have been made redundant.

The closure of the titles leaves just I-D magazine, Wallpaper and Dazed & Confused, as well as relative newcomers Flux and Vice, as the last bastions of the style magazine genre.

Sleaze Nation had established a niche audience with coverage of cutting edge fashion, music and art. The monthly title relaunched as Sleaze magazine in January this year, and ironically told readers the magazine was to close in a radio advertising stunt. The January edition of the title came covered in a black folder emblazoned with RIP.

The reinvention of the magazine was seen as an attempt to regain its underground appeal.

In editorial in the first issue of the new look title, editor Neil Boorman said: "Some people never know when to quit. They're so entrenched in their own sweet world, they fail to realise they are surplus to requirements. We don't give a fuck about celebs".

Jockey Slut was also relaunched recently, switching from monthly to quarterly while expanding its website in a bid to win back readers drifting away to the internet. No circulation figures for either title were available.

Boorman told MediaGuardian.co.uk that Swinstead's staff were given no warning of the company's closure.

"We were called into the foyer and it was announced that the investors had pulled funding from the company. We were completely astonished.

"I could understand it if the relaunch of Sleaze wasn't producing positive momentum, but it was. Sales were up and so was advertising. The crazy thing was that it was going so well it's inexplicable really.

"It was circumstances not connected to the title that meant that the company went into liquidation," he said.

What lunacy prompted them not to do a singles page though? that was the part I'd skip to straight away, racing tips and all that.

Brand Republic: Swinstead goes under as Sleaze and Jockey Slut close
http://www.brandrepublic.com/mediabulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=212426&Origin=MB01062004

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