Kids in Sheffield call clubbers Sweaties :) and we have seen a big decline in numbers coming out to nights for the following reasons:
1. Lots of new late bars till 2.30am, that are free and usually have a student playing on the decks for beer or pocket money. 2. Dresscodes up here really p*ss people off, one club has a 40 point code! 3. Costs too much, DJ and there agents haven't dropped prices, so soon they will have nowhere left to play as all the small places go to the wall along with the big clubs. 4. No one in dance music has much to say, who wants someone their Dad's age as a hero? 5. Cost of drinks in clubs (£4 a can anyone) 6. Too many nights/clubs all fight for the same people 7. High level of visible security, people refuse to go nuts when they feel like they are being watched by a neo-nazi ape. 8. It not new anymore 9. Same old line ups. 10. It now seen as mainstream... md 3/7/03 3:40 PM Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'd definitely agree - I remember when the first edition of Muzik came > out, and they were giving copies away at the 1995 Tribal Gathering. By > that time I'd kind of stopped reading magazines for information on the > music *I* liked, but occasionally bought magazines like Muzik or Mixmag > for the sake of gauging the state of the larger dance and electronic > music scenes. > > As the years went by, however, the amount of "music talk" on the > internet grew to the extent that I could get a feel for the state of the > wider dance/electronic music scene more quickly, more cheaply and more > effectively than I could from buying the mass-circulation magazines. > That combined with the general descent of these mags into > lifestyle/drugs coverage eventually led to me not buying any magazines > whatsoever. > > I *did* buy a copy of Sleaze Nation earlier this year, but only because > I was in it! :) From over-the-shoulder readings on trains and tubes, > though, I get the sense that Jockey Slut is the only one of the > mass-circulation magazines in the UK that's stuck to its guns. > > Magazines like NME and Mojo aren't just getting readers from older > ex-dance-music people, though, I don't think - rock music as a whole is > being pushed by the majors as the "hot new thing" and so I wouldn't > underestimate the amount of 17 or 18-year-olds who are buying them, and > who probably see electronic/dance music as a bit of an old person's > thing! (I have certain opinions on this whole rock-renaissance thing > too, which I won't bother to share with this list ;) > > Brendan > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 03 July 2003 17:18 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tom Churchill >> Cc: 313; Cyclone Wehner >> Subject: RE: (313) Muzik (was 7 Magazine) >> >> >> I think the net and lists like this one have taken over as >> the source for information on dance music. >> The mags did not realise this and thought they had to include >> more and more "lifestyle" articles at the expense of record >> reviews and their sales slumped even further, hence the crisis. >
