Thought that might catch your attention!
Received the first issue of "Dirty" magazine in the post from "The Magazine Man" this morning.
It's one of a range of "pocket sized" lifestyle mags on the market at the moment- about 6" by 8" & covering everything from hotrods to bobbers to vintage stock car racing, to pinball machines & even a feature on a guy who makes tinbox guitars from household scrap. Quite a lot of adverts in this first issue, but I guess they need to get some revenue in, as well as build up a bank of vehicle features for future issues.
Not bad. Like a lot of these small mags, it's mainly lots of cool photos of cool looking dudes with beat up vintage machines -which is just the kind of thing I like. Some interesting reading, including a "Bodger's Corner", which this month shows you how to mold your own rubber handlebar grips. Like others of it's kind, such as Dice or Greasy Kulture, I'd pick up a copy if I saw it for sale at a meet, but not sure I'd subscribe to every issue. I find the photos in these mags capture the whole atmosphere of the retro/custom scene better than expensive studio photo shoots can & often spark ideas for your own projects.
At £3.95 a copy, (not the 1 shilling & 6 pence price on the cover unfortunately, though I haven't had any tanners in me pocket for a few years), it's the same price as a full sized mainstream bike magazine, but then I never read half of the content of most mags cos it doesn't interest me.
Although we only hover on the edges of the media world here, we know how much work goes into publishing anything, whether it's online or in paper, so we wish this new venture well. Anything that helps publicise the custom scene & maybe inspire more to get involved can only be a good thing can't it?
Dirty mag is published by Chris Simmonds & Scarlett Rickard of
www.dirtybobbers.co.ukI bought my copy through
www.themagazineman.co.uk/
