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32-609: In the 1940s and 1950s it became known as the Butcher's Shop because of its reputation for fighting and spilt blood. From 1962 until the pub closed in 2000, the landlord was Eddie Johnson, father of Matt Johnson , lead vocalist of the The . Performers included the Who , the Small Faces , Screaming Lord Sutch and David Essex , who played his first gig there. On the first floor was

64-550: A snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Q ' s 200th edition, is that a single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands. In January 2008, EMAP sold its consumer magazine titles, including Q , to the Bauer Media Group . Bauer put the title up for sale in 2020, alongside Car Mechanic , Modern Classics , Your Horse , and Sea Angler . Publication ceased in July 2020 as Kelsey Media decided to buy

96-600: A London pub run by his family over the course of 40 years. In 1979, Johnson placed an advert in NME looking for like-minded fans of the Velvet Underground , the Residents and Throbbing Gristle to form a band with him. The The began as a duo, then a four-piece, then a singular entity with a rotating cast of musicians that has included Sinéad O'Connor , Gail Ann Dorsey , Simon Fisher Turner , Johnny Marr of

128-403: A Special Collector's Issue of the magazine (Q414), which it had intended to be the last edition before deciding to attempt to sell the publication to another media group. This issue was more of a 'throwback' publication, similar to what Mojo had been doing, and featured articles and acts from 34 years of Q magazine. With other firms, such as Long Live Vinyl's owner Anthem Publishing, ending

160-423: A free copy of "The Greatest Rock and Pop Miscellany … Ever!", modelled on Schott's Original Miscellany . Every issue of Q had a different message on the spine. Some readers tried to work out what the message had to do with the contents of the magazine. This practice (known as the "spine line") has since become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including Q ' s sister publication Empire and

192-522: A full-service radio station with a complete roster. Shows and presenters include Drivetime with Danielle Perry and Q the 80s with Matthew Rudd . The station was transmitted on the digital television networks in the UK and online. Coldplay were involved with the launch of the station by giving an exclusive interview on Q's flagship programme QPM on the launch day. It was based in Birmingham alongside

224-547: A new magazine called Empire in 1989 (the idea being that Empire would be 'Q with films'), the movie reviews migrated to the new publication, with Q becoming a magazine focused on music (one found for sale alongside Select and Vox in various magazine racks). In the 1990s, former NME staff writers, such as Andrew Collins , Danny Kelly , Stuart Maconie , and Charles Shaar Murray joined Paul Du Noyer and Adrian Deevoy at Q . Music coverage in IPC's 'inkie' indie weekly

256-714: A new single, Johnson released the Radio Cinéola Trilogy box set on vinyl and CD format. In October 2017, the The also announced a comeback series of dates in June 2018 and will be playing live at three venues in London, UK including the Royal Albert Hall . The The appeared as a headline act at Festival N°6 in 2018. In November 2017, Johnson announced that he was hoping to form a new band and release new music by 2018. In June 2018, The The kicked off

288-464: A number of non-music titles from Bauer ( Sea Angler , Car Mechanics and Your Horse ), making the 28 July 2020 issue (Q415) the last to be published. The end of the print version of Q was blamed both on lower circulation and advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic , as well as being "a symptom of an expert-free internet age." Following the sale of the brand to Empire Media Group, Q

320-466: A special edition magazine called "The 150 Greatest Rock Lists Ever" published in July 2004. Q also produced a number of special editions devoted to a single act/artist like U2 or Nirvana , but these magazines stopped in 2018, with its sister magazine, Mojo (also owned by Bauer) continuing to produce specials devoted to artists like Bob Dylan . Promotional gifts were given away, such as cover-mounted CDs or books. The January 2006 issue included

352-399: A star-rating system from one to five stars; indeed, the rating an album received in Q was often added to print and television advertising for the album in the UK and Ireland. While its content was non-free they hosted an archive of all of their magazine covers. Much of the magazine was devoted to interviews with popular music artists. According to Alexis Petridis of The Guardian , it

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384-550: Is a subject of the 2017 documentary The Inertia Variations , directed by Johanna St Michaels, which focuses on the life of Matt Johnson and the team who surround him. The film is named after an original collection of poetry by John Tottenham, and was later shortlisted for the 'Best Q Film' award in Q magazine's 'Q' Awards. Despite not releasing any new music as The The over the course of 15 years prior to 2017, Johnson worked as founder and broadcaster of Radio Cinéola, and also heavily collaborated with his brother Gerard, composing

416-444: The Q Awards from 1990 until 2019. The Q Awards came to an end along with the publication itself. According to the global business magazine Campaign in 2008, Q had been criticised for "playing it safe" with its album reviews and cover mounts. In its early years it was sneered at as "uncool and lacking edge", with Steven Wells from NME calling it "the magazine that says 'Hey kids, it's alright to like Dire Straits '". In

448-587: The UK Albums Chart and remained in the chart for 30 weeks, making it the band's most commercially successful album to date. Infected: The Movie was the screen accompaniment to the album. The The went on to release further albums through Sony Music including Mind Bomb (1989), Dusk (1993), Hanky Panky (1995), NakedSelf (2000) and compilation album 45 RPM: The Singles of The The (2002). Johnson's younger brother Eugene died in 1989. The impact of this death on Matt Johnson and his creativity

480-451: The Devil's Kitchen which is believed to be one of the first discos in the UK. Eddie Johnson retired to Long Melford , Suffolk, and died in June 2018, aged 86. 51°32′26″N 0°00′05″E  /  51.540454°N 0.001283°E  / 51.540454; 0.001283 Matt Johnson (singer) Matthew Johnson (born 15 August 1961) is an English singer-songwriter best known as

512-545: The Mambas released their debut studio album called Untitled and Johnson was part of the ensemble put together by Marc Almond of Soft Cell . By 1983 Johnson and Keith Laws the artists signed to Some Bizzare Records that place the record with CBS Records to distribute Some Bizzare released The The's debut studio album Soul Mining now distributed by Sony Music . By 1986, Some Bizzare produced and released their second studio album Infected , which reached number 14 in

544-521: The Smiths , and David Palmer of ABC . "I like to think of The The as a fluid thing", Johnson said in a 1993 Melody Maker interview. "People can work with me, then stop for a bit, then work again." In 1981, Johnson released the studio album Burning Blue Soul on 4AD under his own name (since re-released under the name the The), still regarded by some as a much overlooked masterpiece. In 1982, Marc and

576-482: The first three London dates of the tour, which was expanded in-flight to accommodate not only North America but also four Australian dates in both Sydney and Melbourne. The original line-up for the tour was: During the course of the tour the line-up was changed slightly only twice; due to prior commitments Earl Harvin was replaced for the Australian leg of the tour by Geoff Dugmore . Q (magazine) Q

608-592: The football monthly FourFourTwo . The magazine had a relationship with the Glastonbury Festival , producing both a free daily newspaper on-site during the festival and a review magazine available at the end of the event. This was first started as a Select magazine spin-off, though as Q moved its focus to the Britpop and indie rock stars of the 1990s, it was decided that EMAP did not need two monthly titles (and Raw magazine as well) covering

640-414: The full soundtrack for two of Gerard's films; Tony (2009) and Hyena (2014). To coincide with the 2017 release of The Inertia Variations , Johnson collaborated with Johnny Marr again and released the The's first single in over 15 years – "We Can't Stop What's Coming" under his own record label Cinéola. Johnson dedicated this track to his late brother Andy Dog Johnson who died in 2016. As well as

672-460: The lead vocalist and only constant member of his band The The . He is also a film soundtrack composer (Cinéola), publisher (Fifty First State Press), broadcaster (Radio Cineola), conservationist, and local activist. Johnson grew up with his three brothers, Eugene, Andrew (the artist Andy Dog Johnson), and Gerard, in east London . Much of his youth was spent in or around the Two Puddings ,

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704-417: The now-closed Kerrang! 105.2 after moving from London in 2009. The station was closed in mid-2013 after owners Bauer Media decided to use the station's bandwidth on various platforms (DAB, Digital TV) to launch Kisstory , a spinoff of their Kiss brand. There was a Q TV television channel in the UK, which launched on 2 October 2000 and closed on 3 July 2012. Q held a yearly awards ceremony called

736-609: The publication of a number of monthly music magazine titles, a buyer could not be found for the title, with editor Ted Kessler announcing that issue Q415 would be the last, on 20 July 2020. In the early days of publication, the magazine's format was much closer in tone to that of Rolling Stone (though with some of the characteristic humour of former Smash Hits staff shining through), with Tom Hibbert 's "Who The Hell..." feature (including interviews with people like Jeffrey Archer , Robert Maxwell , Ronnie Biggs and Bernard Manning ) and film reviews. After EMAP started to publish

768-441: The same genre of music; Select was shut in late 2000, with Q continuing. In January 2008, Mojo was launched by EMAP as a rival to Uncut and focused on all the rock stars, now viewed upon as being heritage and classic, that Q originally featured in its pages in 1986. In late 2008, Q revamped its image with a smaller amount of text and an increased focus on subjects other than music. In February 2012, Andrew Harrison

800-552: Was a popular music magazine. Originally published in print in the UK from 1986 to 2020, it was inactive from 2020 until 2023. In 2023, Q was revived as an online publication. It was founded in 1986 by broadcast journalists Mark Ellen and David Hepworth , who were presenters of the BBC television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test . Q 's final printed issue was published in July 2020, but began posting new articles to their website in 2023 before being fully relaunched in 2024. Q

832-437: Was becoming more serious after Melody Maker closed down and so writers like Maconie felt more at home at a publication that would still run tongue-in-cheek articles such as "40 Celebs About Whom We Only Know One Thing" and "Do I Have To Wear This, Boss?" (Du Noyer's feature about every band having a member who looks out of place in the line-up). In 2006, Q published a readers' survey, "The 100 Greatest Songs Ever", which

864-469: Was originally published by the EMAP media group and set itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled "The modern guide to music and more". Originally it was to be called Cue (as in the sense of cueing a record, ready to play), but the name was changed so that it would not be mistaken for

896-473: Was originally set up after the success of "rock’s old stagers" at Live Aid , which co-founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth had co-presented, to focus on long-established acts that appealed to an older music market, such as Paul McCartney , Rod Stewart , Paul Simon , Elton John , Genesis and Eric Clapton . It also compiled lists, ranging from "The 100 Greatest Albums" to "The 100 Richest Stars in Rock", with

928-415: Was recruited as editor, replacing Paul Rees during a difficult period when on-line publishing had led to a 17% decline in the magazine's circulation in the first half of 2012. It had fallen to 64,596 units; a reduction in volume described by The Guardian as "the worst performance of any music magazine in the period". Direct reporting to Publishing Director Rimi Atwal of Bauer Media Group , Harrison's brief

960-683: Was soft launched as an online publication in November 2023, posting new content along with articles from their archive. It was officially relaunched in January 2024, with a new editorial team spearheaded by Los Angeles-based US Editor Andrew Barker and Oxford-based UK and Europe Editor, Dominic Utton. In May 2024 the magazine ceased operations. Six full-time journalists were laid off. The magazine had an extensive review section, featuring: new releases , reissues , compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio and television reviews. It used

992-675: Was to "refocus" and revive the magazine, and to that end he took on a number of new journalists and launched their iPad edition, but decided against a rebranding. Under his tenure, Q was named "Magazine of the Year" at the 2012 "Record of the Day" awards. He left just 14 months later, according to the Guardian , "as print music magazines continue to endure torrid times" and even free titles were failing to compete against blogs and platforms dependent on online advertising . In July 2020, Bauer published

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1024-540: Was topped by Oasis ' " Live Forever ". In the April 2007 issue, Q published an article listing "The 100 Greatest Singers", which was topped by Elvis Presley . Lady Gaga posed topless in a shoot for the April 2010 issue of the magazine, which was banned by stores in the United States due to the singer revealing too much of her breasts. After a few years as a radio jukebox , Q Radio launched in June 2008 as

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