Todd L. Burns - who many will remember as the founder of the excellent music webzine Stylus and subsequently helmed various important publications - puts out an unmissable missive, a weekly newsletter called Music Journalism Insider. One of the regular features is called Notes On Process, in which he invites a music journalist to go deep into the background (the writing, editing, etc) of a particular piece.
Todd asked me to do a Notes on the news story I did about the Castlemorton mega-rave at the end of May 1992. I realised that the article that ran in Melody Maker's news section on June 6 was significantly different (more newsy) than the fevered rave convert / eye witness thinkpiece I submitted. So we have both versions up there annotated with queries and comments, discussing the circumstances of the piece, the workings of a weekly music paper, the traveler-raver movement / moment, and the larger question of "the politics of dancing."
Here are the other earlier installments of Notes on Process. And you can subscribe to Music Journalism Insider here.
Oh and I just this minute noticed that Todd and MJI got nominated in the Multimedia / English category of an international Music Journalism Award done by the Reeperbahn Festival.
(My kid Kieran is nommed in a different category - his second time of being nominated - will he win again?)
The missus with a piece from 1994 about the Crusty-Raver-Traveler-Squatters versus the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill.
