Are there any budding writers out there? What ever happened to fanzines that we had in the 80's like The End (written by members of the Farm) and Subliminal Cuts etc and why is the youth of today not doing anything like this anymore?

These where witty magazines that we raced to HMV or Probe if you wanted to be cool and more importantly they gave rise to some wonderful writing talent because aside from their jokes and what was in or out that month, there was also reviews of gigs and the point I am getting to here, was band interviews.

Fantastic scoops like one guy who got talking to Bono after a gig in the Royal Court and when asking him about being in the band he said to Bono "can I quote you on that" Bono's reply? "sure" and a few weeks later a real conversationalist interview with the great man was printed.

Now I'm not saying you will get U2 who back then were just taking off, but today's equivalent could be bands like The Wombats or a bit bigger, The Zutons. C'mon there must be someone who can get a chat going with them and tell them you will post it on Music-Net for us to share and who knows we may be able to get a weekly interview forum going.

If your going to a gig talk to the artists and tell us all on the forum what they said, I'll buy anyone a pint if you can get Michael Head (Shack) or for those old enough like me the legendary Pale Fountains I'm desperate to know whatever happened to Fred, a dog he bought for a video that he then kept as a pet only to move out and lumber his poor mum with it. Great days the 80's rrrrrrrr.