Today, Q are abandoning our offices in Mappin House after 17 years - moving on to better walls and all that. To commemorate this dusty and box-filled event, we take a few moments to remember a time when the paint barely had dried:
It's January 1993. The world has yet to discover britpop, nu-metal, emo and Nickelback, Kurt Cobain is alive and the most famous Cyrus is Billy Ray.
This was also the month Q moved into Mappin House, 4 Winsley Street. In the 17 years that followed, your favourite music mag has gone from a bare-chested Brett Anderson to a (paradoxially more offensive) bare-chested Lady Gaga, all the while keeping you posted on the hottest music around.
January 1993 marked the 77th issue of Q and, apart from the Suede frontman's nipples, provided you with no less than an exclusive free MiniDisc, which inexplicably didn't have any music on it.
Also in Q77:
- Shane MacGowan is interviewed in a boozer. Retrospectively, he looks pretty healthy.
- Joan Baez says thank you and farewell to the music scene.
- An ad for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. On VHS. From Woolworths. That's just a bit sad really.
- A 'concerned' feature outlining the similarities between 1993 and 1973. Mike Oldfield and Status Quo are both considered 'major albums-market artists'. Which is nice.
- But wait, what's this? Sir George Martin is by some devilish form of black magic drawing a circle of blue light in a dark room. Oh, hang on, it's just an ad for Pioneer Laserdisc.
- An infomercial on AIDS delivers the line "He's not immortal. He's just young. He's also gay".
- In the reviews section, The The, Jesus Jones and Ladysmith Black Mambazo all gain favourable marks. No love for Genesis though, as their live album The Way We Walk Vol.2 gets the one-star treatment.
Q will of course live on, but for Mappin House it's finally good night and good luck. And what better way to tear the old roof down than with arguably the finest moment of Q77's cover star?
See you on the other side.
11:00 AM | 16/04/2010
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Ah, Suede. One of the defining bands of my puberty reaching era. By the way, where have all the free CD's gone?
Posted by Semtex at 8:11 PM | 18/04/2010 | Report Abuse
quite possibly the most underated band ever! not Coldplay, Oasis or any other saggy white middle aged song of choice. Probably why they only graced Q cover once. Shame on you!!!
Posted by leighton carter at 9:08 PM | 28/04/2010 | Report Abuse
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