What's Happening

Shindig! is back! Bigger! Better! Sexier! More exciting! Shindig! is back! Shindig! is back! Shindig! is at the printers as I type and will be available to buy in the next two weeks. Better still, there'll be another one eight weeks later... and then another... and then another... and so on. Hurrah! Now with Volcano Publishing behind us we won't be wasting time trying to sell the mag ourselves and getting ripped off by distributors ... and ermm being pissed off when we should be really loving some bloody great music. I must be blunt, Shindig! had become more of a nightmare than a pleasure, but now that's all changed! Without fussing around and losing our minds my right hand man Andy Morten and I can edit this wonderful magazine whilst our Volcano saviours deal with the business. So with no further ado let's tell you exactly what's happening... and what will hopefully continue to happen, happen, happen...

Wanna buy the magazine now? Wanna miss out on having to search the web or walk to your local record shop or newsagent? Well, we have just the thing. At The Shindig Shop you can subscribe to Shindig! directly. That's right, you can finally subscribe me hearties and never miss out! In doing this we have cut corners and will save you so much in shop price mark up! In the UK, for instance, a yearly sub for the SIX issues will cost only £23! Yes £23! And what will it get you? A perfect bound, glossy magazine that is full of interviews, features, unseen pictures, columns and reviews! Basically everything you loved about Shindig! of old, but bigger and better! And yes, the beloved reviews are back.

It's an exciting, and somewhat nerve wracking, time for us, but we hope that our new found profile will reach out to new readers, turning them onto music they knew little about! How long have serious rock and roll and pop fans of a certain vintage had to put up with constant recycling of The Fabs, Dylan, Stones and Zep? Too long! Shindig! loves the big bands too but we feel that they have been spoken about enough, for too long.

When was the last time you read and in-depth interview with MOBY GRAPE? Could that be.... NEVER? Shindig! will be the magazine that vinyl hounds, CD reissue fanatics and culture vultures swoop upon. We will be their magazine... and yours too. Our doors are open so please come in and play.

Jon 'Mojo' Mills
Editor-In-Chief
October 2007