Issue 8/2012
£ FREE
FULL REPORT
IT’S THAT SUNNY TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN
We talk to Cattle Decapitation, Job For A Cowboy, Carnifex, Deathstars, Emilie Autumn, Rolo Tomassi, Jettblack, Micki Free, The Vex, Jubilee, Guitar George, Rival Sons, Sabaton, Jonny Cola & the A Grades, Firewind, Cancer Bats, Exumer, Decapitated + reviews, live, burlesque and much more!
30 YEARS OF
Brian Slagel (that guy who discovered METALLICA)
talks to Sonic Shocks
SUMMER FESTIVALS 2012: LEAVE YOUR WELLIES, PAY TO WRITE PACK YOUR PASSPORT How did we get to this?
AS ARTISTS KEEP FALLING VICTIMS OF DODGY ‘PAY TO PLAY’ DEAL, THE INDUSTRY REACHES NEW LOWS
in the London area alone returned 82 results (source: UCAS coursefinder), including ‘Sport and Exercise Science with Sport Journalism’ or ‘Journalism Studies with Animation’; extending it to media is just too painful, with stuff like ‘Media Make-Up’ included in the pick for ‘course of the week’. In such a state of affairs, it was only a matter of time before the ‘Pay to Play’ culture invaded the journalistic profession.
by Cristina Massei With ‘reviewer’ and ‘photographer’ being two of the new ‘cool’ jobs for all those too shy to earn themselves direct celebrity status on reality TV, useless Uni courses have multiplied like disease, breeding more unemployed wannabes who have never heard of punctuation, aperture and shutter speed or know how to spell ‘definitely’. My search for journalism Uni courses
So here comes yet another free digital magazine in Guitar Media, at its second – well done I must admit – published issue, coming up with a ‘Gig Reviewer Membership Scheme’: IF you are one of the few talented journalists out there AND pay £50, you get a chance to WORK for them. Let me quote: ‘At the end of the day you will be getting into these concerts as a member of the Guitar Media Press Team for free and we could be sending you to many concerts every year. If we offered this for free we would be inundated with people just wanting free concerts tickets and ITS possible (yes, no apostrophe there) that no reviews would be sent to us’. How’s that for an excuse to make a few quid? You don’t believe me? Well, they’ve taken it offline now, so if you continue to page 2 we’ve kept a screenshot of this ludicrous ad…