Comments on: Analogue Magazine stops print edition

By: Simon Roche

Simon Roche — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:10:01 +0000

I think to be fair we can’t really put the blame at the feet of readers. When we were a commercial magazine here in State our problem was simply A) getting into shops and B) getting enough advertising. I think if there’s a print revolution in Ireland (and now is REALLY the time to be supporting anything you think is good that’s produced in the country) it needs to be industry lead. Distributors and advertisers need to start fostering the homegrown stuff and try to look at a bigger picture down the road. That picture is of building up companies that will eventually be employing more people in Ireland, and paying taxes there. I’m not suggesting that advertisers pay for advertising that they won’t benefit from, I’m saying they need to see who these magazines are reaching on street level and not necessarily just working off mathematics that only established titles can supply. Perhaps a leap of faith. Perhaps distributors also need a leap of faith, offering special systems and assistance in the distribution and marketing of Irish titles.

The readers, it seems to us, were always there and always hungry for more. Just thinkin’ out loud.

By: Martin A. Egan

Martin A. Egan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:24:04 +0000

Pity about Analogue going cyber only. I got some of the Issues and particulary liked the one with the write-up on Katie Kim and Terry Cullen. I think its because the majority of people read so much crap on-line that they think thats musical critical political reality these days. So its good that Mags like State Analogue etc are going online. It might stem the tide of absolute dreck and lurkers with stupid comments with some decent balanced opinion of a few things musical and continue giving dspace to good innovative experiemtal and genre bending Bands and Solo Artists(not independent which is fast becoming a new word for safe formulaic copycat shite). Keep her lit all of you. Martin A. Egan

By: AstonishingSodApe

AstonishingSodApe — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:54:01 +0000

Sorry people. We won’t be giving up though. The website’s still going strong and Brendan’s still dedicated to doing a great job, maintaining a presence through regular online content and hopefully continuing the Analogue gigs.

Don’t forget – and I hope it’s not inappropriate to mention it here – Oh Francis just put out its first print issue. It’s online too. There are plenty of Irish blogs and indeed magazines to be found online these days, so all is not lost.

Oh and Dan: hell no.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:39:35 +0000

This is a real shame. I honestly thought it was the most well written music magazine in Ireland

By: BSB

BSB — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:52:42 +0000

At least they, like State, still have an online presence. Now if only Metro and Herald AM would go the same route, landfills beyond the ‘burbs would be well happy.

By: Phil Udell

Phil Udell — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:40:06 +0000

Ken – yes, we ceased the print magazine in January I’m afraid.

By: Zane

Zane — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:54:49 +0000

It could be the fact that Irish magazines get no publicity or recognition in shops, news-agents etc Every shop in this country is plagued with US and UK editions of top named magazines what hope is their for Irish print media??? Maybe we need a Irish print media revolution?

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:31:40 +0000

Bit perplexed at the first comment.

I certainly wasn’t trying to be funny, and if the words were ever big, it wasn’t because I was sitting with a thesaurus open in my lap. But that’s the reader’s prerogative I suppose.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:10:21 +0000

Please excuse my ignorance, but has the print version of State ceased completely? I was under the impression it became a free mag, has this now stopped too? Shame if so.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:55:03 +0000

Magazine culture in Ireland? Clearly is dead but not because there's no magazine readers in Ireland. If no-one pickups a free magazine clearly there must be something wrong with it. Mongrel didn't shut up shop because no-one wanted it, they'd had enough and were moving on much to the disappointment of many. They were successful enough to sell a collection of already published articles for money. Hell, I bought it. If a free magazine fails its because it fails in its aim. Analogue announced in one issue that they were publicising indie bands such as Wolf Parade and LCD Soundsystem among others, to help them reach a bigger audience. This is a clear misunderstanding about their audience. Anybody who would be interested in reading a free music mag like that will already know full well of these bands. They should also stop the quirky attempt at being funny and using big words to describe every band, it really doesn't make the article any better. They're not TMT who do it very well, a lá and