amazing, thank you

Lovely to read that, thanks for scanning it all in!

As a side issue it really did bring home how terrible Melody Maker was in is final years. Painful.

Thank you all.

Sturdy > Yes the Melody Maker was frightul - issues with Limp Bizkit on the front for one. But to a kid in Australia it was still a lifeline. My local newsagent didnt get NME but they did get in The Face, Q and MM. If I went to Sydney I was able to find NMEs at HMV.
Ian > Yes Hits - what a disaster. But everyone had moved on to The Strokes, White Stripes. I remember reading that it had come in at 75 and I thought it must have been a typo because it was so dismal.

Thank you all for your comments. Its as much for this community as well. I have been on here since 2007 - but I know I had another account before then.

My partner who is more tech bro than me is working on embedding it. I told him basically I want it to look like what you see in a museum. You see the label/didactic for contextual and then the artifact. Working with what I got.

Only a few days to go until they are in my part of the world. I feel like I'm now entering this weird phase 'please dont stress me out over the next few days + im focusing on getting enough food + sleep + energy for the gigs'.

Thanks Eamon! Yeah its sick huh bruh! I feel old saying that.

Oh thats a shame some of the text was hard to read - I scanned it in at 400dpi so you can zoom in. I'll look into that. Yes lots of stuff is probably from newspapers and mags here. But a few months ago at the local Lifeline bookfair they have a tables full of magazines and someone obviously offloaded their old Q Mags. I bought 12 and so much Pulp goodness because they were from 94-through to 98. Amazing find. I know scrapbooking is a thing for wellness and mindfulness so maybe I was always ahead of the trend!

It means a lot that you've taken some time to have a look so thank you.

Woah, where was that?!