4.52am: A Free Weekly Guitar & Music Magazine - Please Spread the word chaps :)

JookyChap

I know this is perhaps the worstest of worst kept secrets, but we have finally announced that our Print-only magazine Guitar Quarterly, will have a 'companion' web-based magazine to be known as 4.52am.

This is quite different - it is entirely web-based, will be published Weekly (at 4.52am on Sunday morning) and will be Free.

Yep, Nada, Nowt and Zilch

It is a mix of Boutique and Vintage Guitar Gear & some nice music, with very little Blues and Classic Rock.

We'll also have some cool music from these very shores, and as we are very much concentrating on UK Luthiers, Amp & Effect builders and everything else, there will be some new and familiar faces.

We're really aiming for it to be old school NME/Melody Maker meets Guitarist, when all these things were good.

Anyway, there is a blog post HERE and a list of what is in the first magazine HERE  and all are welcome.

Sorry for this Spamfest, but if you can spread the word, it would be lovely that.

4.52am launches at 4.52am on 25th September 2016

GQ launches 15 January 2017

Cheers M'dears

Richardj

There goes my Monday morning lay-in, ya bastid.

JookyChap

@Richardj said:

There goes my Monday morning lay-in, ya bastid.

Genuine LOL there. You could read it Sunday, mind

Richardj

JookyChap said:

@Richardj said:

There goes my Monday morning lay-in, ya bastid.

Genuine LOL there. You could read it Sunday, mind

Oh. you just have to point out my inability to tell which day of the week it is in public, don't you! 

Or maybe I'm a slow reader. 

camf

Looking fine!

JookyChap

@camf said:

Looking fine!

Cheers Cam

They won't all look like 1970s Knitting Patterns though (c) @DrBob ;

monquixote

Cool idea 

Hope it works out marvelously 

kin

Good luck with it , i'll be reading it for sure

bingefeller

Good luck with the mag Jooky.

JookyChap

Cheers chaps

lasermonkey

The Microdance picked a fine time to split up then!

JookyChap

@lasermonkey said:

The Microdance picked a fine time to split up then!

Yes, sadly the original mock-up of the cover was cursed - there were two bands who split up (although Alex is carrying-on with Microdance as a solo thing, I believe) and then the awful news that the luthier we were originally going to be covering in issue one had passed away.

We have an around the clock watch on @ThorpyFX, just to be on the safe side

iseverynamegone

Sweet. Relevance of the time? 

professorben

Subbed. 

Sesh

You had me at free. 

TTony

Sesh said:

You had me at free. 

You're too cheap.

JookyChap

@iseverynamegone said:

Sweet. Relevance of the time? 

It's when I get in, being a party animal-in-extremis

Either that or me water tablet has kicked in about then, dunno.

TTony

I've just had another look at the GQ website.

(a) there's a lot of content in there - that's taken some time & thought.
(b) there's some clever design in there - that's taken some cleverness.

So, based on that, I can confidently predict that the age of Guitarist is over.  Now is the age of GQ.



Good stuff Mr Jooky.

JookyChap

I knew I should have called it 'Aquarius' we could have had a sing-song

taveymuch Mr TT. 



(Starting to worry I'm over-selling it now *gulp*)

TMD Alex

JookyChap said:

@lasermonkey said:

The Microdance picked a fine time to split up then!

Yes, sadly the original mock-up of the cover was cursed - there were two bands who split up (although Alex is carrying-on with Microdance as a solo thing, I believe) and then the awful news that the luthier we were originally going to be covering in issue one had passed away.

We have an around the clock watch on @ThorpyFX, just to be on the safe side

Just to be clear, The Microdance lives on - with two major differences: firstly, there will be lots more music; the four piece live element of the band was a frustrating inhibitor on our productivity - and so we only put out about 10% of what I wrote.It's an exciting time; I just have to figure out how to get some of the wildly different stuff out there without confusing people too much! Secondly, foe the time being, there is no live band - but that will come back around!  Gav will be greatly missed but I am more than capable of going alone - something I have done many a time before

x

NorthernPaul

Looking good, I've signed up