Heard the editor being interviewed on Radio4 Today Programme this morning. This 90s throwback is bizarre. Do people really think there will be demand from this after the initial novelty?
I read a couple articles this morning and the “journalism” reads like a Sunday Sport article.
Interesting thought experiment - since the magazine is online only - are the nonces going to have to print out the magazine now to leave it in shubbery for kids to find? Those reddit threads where every man over the age of 40 seems to have a story about finding porn mags in bushes always had a creepy undertone. I’m not sure that the ‘porn fairy’ commenters sometimes refer to was a very savoury character.
I heard that and was quite surprised as it seems unnecessary and rather a blatant appeal to nostalgia. I can’t see it lasting long, a bit like the readership in the sack. Amirite?
No, Bizarre was like Loaded for goths and was a much better read. As a sister publication to the Fortean Times, it covered similar content but in a bit more in-your-face manner than the tweedy FT. It was also threatening a comeback a fee years back but nothing came of it. That would have been more interesting.