Anybody remember ‘The Slate’ magazine?

Welsh Megaman

Just found this in the attic…

Did a lot of work for them back in the day, funny pictures and satirical pieces like a cut-price Ian Hislop!

Any memories?

L Grey

What work did you do for them?

Yeah, I remember it. It was definitely talked about back in the day.

Welsh Megaman

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Some illustrations and ‘fake’ music and movie reviews.

BrianD3

I have two editions. Is there an archive anywhere, Google tells me that there were 25 editions.

EmmetSpiceland

A great magazine. Still have a few of them knocking around somewhere.

Welsh Megaman

IIRC, Hugh Ormond was behind the magazine - he’s now a producer for most of the radio shows on RTE.

nice bit of green

Very funny. From memory they were free to be picked up in shops around Dublin?

EmmetSpiceland

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They were banned from college campuses but they’d be dropped off by the bins and be gone in no time.

The last issue was a “Best Of” that wasn’t free but not everyone released that.

nice bit of green

One cover story concerning lavatory attendants would certainly be frowned upon today.

BrianD3

The mag captures 90s/early 00s student/niteclub culture and humour well.

It's not just Blacks in the Jacks that would cause offence today. Just looking at my issue 2 there, there is a photo of a lad with his lad out, caption "it's not big and it's not clever". Also mention of "fat birds" here in issue 1.

Busman Paddy Lasty

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Blacks in the Jacks. *

I think there was a cartoon cover with a lad sitting in a chair with a car battery connected to his balls.

*not my words Mods.

John_Rambo

I worked on that magazine.

When the Fun Lovin Criminals were doing gigs in Ireland The Slate had an article on them titled: "will these fat bald cvnts ever fvk off"

Quiet Achiever

I remember one line criticising someone/something as being "as much use as Princess Diana's rotting corpse" and another thing as being "as funny as a puppy nailed tio a tree"

expectationlost

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why its true today as it was then.

Bellbottoms

Isn't this the edgy magazine that tried to put a postivive spin on pedophilia?

o1s1n

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Full issue here:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/909originals.com/2020/03/17/the-slate-selected-issues-for-your-reading-pleasure/amp/

Bellbottoms

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I cannot remember the content of the article. But going by the cover. Not a great look tbh.

silliussoddius

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Trying too hard.

Hangdogroad

Who remembers Fitz? Gawdawful Irish Viz clone that was around for about a year 1995/96.

Hangdogroad

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Viz got there twenty years earlier with early strip "Paul Whicker The Tall Vicar". Mainly featured him being an obnoxious misanthrope but this panel went a bit further.

Billy Mays

I still have a few of them in the house. Used to pick up a copy in Tower Records then go for a pint to read it. Some very funny stuff in them. Must have a look through them some day. 'Dublin's Top 10 Drugs' was another cover story I remember vividly.

EmmetSpiceland

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Ironically enough, that was probably their most “serious” article. Of course, no one shouting them down took the time to read it.

Made headline in the UK, and all.

o1s1n

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If you think that's bad, check out 'Chester the Molester' that used to run in Hustler.

Actually ran for 13 years up until the late 80s. Really horrendous stuff. To make it even worse, it turns out the artist himself had been abusing his own daughter.

maccored

a band I was in got slated in the Slate

hoodie6029

I was searching for info on this recently and could turn up very little. Great thread.
I remember a ‘rugger buggers’ issue with a Ross O’Carroll Kelly type on the cover being very funny and another on modified car scene ‘one man, his moth and his motor’ IIRC.
A regular was a column from an ‘excitable culchie’ they sent on a J1 and his various exploits with using decent coke and loose women with fake boobs

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122753513#Comment_122753513

Maybe that's where ROCK got his inspiration from!

Hangdogroad

Was it the Slate that got in hot water over a piece that described Arabs as "stinking sand n***rs"?

Quiet Achiever

That was when Paddy Cosgrave was the editor.

Will0483

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From my understandably hazy memories from back then all of the toilet attendants were African. I don't think it's racist if it's factuually correct. Anyway all this pc crap only came in later. Those were the good old days when you could state facts clearly and there was freedom of speech unlike the current stasi era that we have created.

As a side note, the slate was genuinely very funny so you can forgive it pushing things a bit. As someone in University at the time, it really nailed the scene around Dublin's nightlife and some of the characters were spot on. You couldn't release anything as good these days unfortunately.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122727463#Comment_122727463

I mentioned Black In The Jacks here in 2018. Some prick of a moderator gave me an infraction for it.

expectationlost

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122784313#Comment_122784313

no that was TCD's Piranha mag