![]() Paul Geoghegan, the editor of global music magazine Songlines and managing director of Mark Allen Group music publications including Gramophone and Jazzwise, said the brand’s titles were sustainable before March. “Most of our issues in 2019 were actually up year on year.” “The huge drop-off that most magazines experienced in the early 2010s has, relatively speaking, flattened out for many brands,” says the editor of Metal Hammer, Merlin Alderslade. Every year brings headlines about shrinking sales figures.īut many British music magazine editors and publishers say they were thriving in straitened times, at least before the pandemic. Key titles have closed: in 2018, NME axed its 66-year print incarnation (the brand survives online). There are plentiful free online publications. Music magazines have “been on the edge of sustainability” for a long time, says Douglas McCabe, of the media research group Enders Analysis. “We’ve got a little way to go before we’re out of the woods.” “We’re not going to have a flourishing events industry to support us with advertising,” says publisher Luke Sutton. They don’t know whether the print magazine will return this year. The edgy, Bristol-based Crack moved quickly to produce a “dynamic” digital version of their summer issue for subscribers. “We undervalued ourselves quite a lot, which I regret.” Stubbs says he had felt embarrassed to ask readers to pay for a free product, even after they upgraded from newsprint to a glossy magazine in 2018. ![]() Two freesheets recently sounded the alarm over their future: Loud and Quiet and Crack launched emergency subscription packages, stressing they would close without reader support. ![]() *Note - Quarter sawed means to saw a log into quarters lengthwise along its axis.A recent cover of Loud and Quiet magazine. The stand can be finished in any one of the many mission stains supplied by the trade for this purpose. When applying the finish, remove the top board and the shelves and finish them separately. They should be fastened to the legs with round-headed screws. They can be glued in this position, and when dry they should be carefully gone over with fine sandpaper to remove all rough spots. The legs can be assembled in pairs with the slats and crosspieces in place. The end slats are joined to the crosspieces in the same manner. The four crosspieces are fastened to the legs by means of tenons and mortises. The curve of the legs can be cut with a bracket saw or a drawknife, care being taken to get the edges square and smooth. bevel cut around the upper edge as shown in the drawing. The four shelves and the top are so wide that it will be necessary to make them from two or more pieces glued together. 2 upper crosspieces, 3/4 by 2 by 9 in., S-2-S.2 lower crosspieces, 3/4 by 3 by 9 in., S-2-S.Order the stock from the mill ready cut to length, squared and sanded. Quarter sawed oak is the best wood to use, as it is easy to work and looks best when finished. This handsome piece of furniture can be used as a magazine stand as well as a music stand. Click here for detailed music/magazine stand plans.
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