Meltdown is missed 
Meltdown (its a goth thing) magazine was the UK's biggest selling magazine for Goths. That does not mean that it was anything more profitable than a labour of love by its editor, Natasha Scharf: according to the site, over the years, she ... had many offers from companies to buy out meltdown.
If you subscripted to that publication, with its unbiased and progressive flavour, very topical interviews and reviews and ever-welcome goth shopping tips, I dare say that you were most glad she didnt! It was the sort of magazine you just had to read from cover-to-cover on the day you received it as you knew that that week its innards would be a guaranteed topic of conversation down the club, around the coffee table or in the chatroom. The magazine even spawned its own slot on internet radio, The Batcave on totalrock.com every Tuesday from 21:00 to midnight (GMT): thats 3 blissful hours of goth, goth rock and a lil industrial before and after returning to Slipknotty every Tuesday night.
Sadly, Meltdown the magazine ceased to be in April last year, but the letter that accompanied the outstanding monies from my active subscription promised something very exciting: Meltdown the television show!
Meltdown the television show was to appear on the at that time yet-to-actually-appear online channel detonator.tv. I waited patiently but with a definite degree of excitement, tuning in to The Batcave eagerly each week for news. Eventually, detonator.tv did appear and... well, lets just say that pushing the plunger did not cause the explosion it promised, rather all I heard was a whimper and a lot of almost muted grunting where I had hit the volume-down button in response to the fearsome grunting of whatever death/gloom/black/blacker-metal band greeted me.
Still, enthusiasm remained as Meltdown was to be just one of the programs the station would air and that suited me: I could pick n choose exactly what I wanted to view. I waited patiently for the Meltdown show to appear. The Batcave radio show promised it would be soon... then soon again... and... *sigh*
An actual 'Metdown' show has still to appear, but Natasha is there, interviewing and introducing, at which she excels in the extreme, and that is a pleasure, if not quite the compensation for the loss of the magazine I'd hoped for.
detonator.tv at the moment is a piece of poo aesthetically. Its design is cheap n nasty lookin and it really needs to address that if it is to bloom: anyone who still doubts the necessity of appearance and basic functionality for a successful website is best squashed by a ton of their own W3C guidelines before they cause too much unnecessary embarrassment. It is letting down a genre that prides itself on it's sense of identity.
If an actual Meltdown TV show doesnt appear I think Ill be using the word tragedy repeatedly. My sincerest best wishes are for Natasha Scharf and her continued success!!! I would urge you to tune in to The Batcave and detonator.tv and perhaps if enough of us continue to wait eagerly....
(`.Album-of-the-Day.`)
'WWIII'
KMFDM (2003)
(`.Bunkum, Bothersome Bollocks of-the-Week.`)
Tairrie B. of My Ruins vocals on detonator.tv
Fearful grunting... fearful! Last time I heard something like that they called it Napalm Death, but I called it something completely d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t....
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Meltdown (its a goth thing) magazine was the UK's biggest selling magazine for Goths. That does not mean that it was anything more profitable than a labour of love by its editor, Natasha Scharf: according to the site, over the years, she ... had many offers from companies to buy out meltdown.
If you subscripted to that publication, with its unbiased and progressive flavour, very topical interviews and reviews and ever-welcome goth shopping tips, I dare say that you were most glad she didnt! It was the sort of magazine you just had to read from cover-to-cover on the day you received it as you knew that that week its innards would be a guaranteed topic of conversation down the club, around the coffee table or in the chatroom. The magazine even spawned its own slot on internet radio, The Batcave on totalrock.com every Tuesday from 21:00 to midnight (GMT): thats 3 blissful hours of goth, goth rock and a lil industrial before and after returning to Slipknotty every Tuesday night.
Sadly, Meltdown the magazine ceased to be in April last year, but the letter that accompanied the outstanding monies from my active subscription promised something very exciting: Meltdown the television show!
Meltdown the television show was to appear on the at that time yet-to-actually-appear online channel detonator.tv. I waited patiently but with a definite degree of excitement, tuning in to The Batcave eagerly each week for news. Eventually, detonator.tv did appear and... well, lets just say that pushing the plunger did not cause the explosion it promised, rather all I heard was a whimper and a lot of almost muted grunting where I had hit the volume-down button in response to the fearsome grunting of whatever death/gloom/black/blacker-metal band greeted me.
Still, enthusiasm remained as Meltdown was to be just one of the programs the station would air and that suited me: I could pick n choose exactly what I wanted to view. I waited patiently for the Meltdown show to appear. The Batcave radio show promised it would be soon... then soon again... and... *sigh*
An actual 'Metdown' show has still to appear, but Natasha is there, interviewing and introducing, at which she excels in the extreme, and that is a pleasure, if not quite the compensation for the loss of the magazine I'd hoped for.
detonator.tv at the moment is a piece of poo aesthetically. Its design is cheap n nasty lookin and it really needs to address that if it is to bloom: anyone who still doubts the necessity of appearance and basic functionality for a successful website is best squashed by a ton of their own W3C guidelines before they cause too much unnecessary embarrassment. It is letting down a genre that prides itself on it's sense of identity.
If an actual Meltdown TV show doesnt appear I think Ill be using the word tragedy repeatedly. My sincerest best wishes are for Natasha Scharf and her continued success!!! I would urge you to tune in to The Batcave and detonator.tv and perhaps if enough of us continue to wait eagerly....
(`.Album-of-the-Day.`)
'WWIII'
KMFDM (2003)
(`.Bunkum, Bothersome Bollocks of-the-Week.`)
Tairrie B. of My Ruins vocals on detonator.tv
Fearful grunting... fearful! Last time I heard something like that they called it Napalm Death, but I called it something completely d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t....
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