Bigwig

As far as I recall, a fortnightly magazine which, showing up in 1995 or so, would have been the first attempt at a ‘proper’ magazine in Scotland since the much-missed TLN and Cut from the early 90s.
I was never entirely sure who was bankrolling the mag, though it did draw in some decent advertising – I suspected that someone had family connections in the brewing or club industry – and it did also see a few writers start their careers there – most notably Andrew Eaton (now Arts Editor at The Scotsman) as well as Martin Bate (better known perhaps as Xfm Scotland’s ‘Rock DJ’ (ho ho).

I did a bunch of live and CD reviews for them, as well as a series of 12 profiles of US indie labels.

I was just lining up a similar series on Scottish labels when the whole thing collapsed (the new editor Gill Mills – who readers of this parish will remember from Radio One with Vic Galloway – had the unfortunate distinction of overseeing only a couple of issues before the bailiffs arrived).