Return of The Slate?

steppen

Wouldn't mind if The Slate made a reappearance...anyone remember it or heard of it's return?

Chinafoot

god dammit!

and there was me thinking you had some valuable and welcome information on the return of the mag.

*shakes her fist*

grrrrr

spyro_2001ie

never gonna happen, The mag might be resurrected in true hollywood form, but theres no chance of the original writers working for it again, i think there doing other projects but with a serious approach. (real journalism)

kasintahan

I particularly liked the "Blacks in the Jacks" issue which they threatened to follow up with "Wogs in the Bogs"(sic) if the conditions for asylum seekers didn't improve.

jonny68

kasintahan wrote:

I particularly liked the "Blacks in the Jacks" issue which they threatened to follow up with "Wogs in the Bogs"(sic) if the conditions for asylum seekers didn't improve.

aye that was deadly alright very funny,remember the one with the picture of the scumbag on the cover with the fake umbro jacket with an assortment of drugs in it,quality,i really liked that magazine as it didnt give a f uck and just they just wrote what they felt,would like to see it appear again.......

Mimikyu

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Deadwing

peachypants wrote:

god dammit!

and there was me thinking you had some valuable and welcome information on the return of the mag.

*shakes her fist*

grrrrr

Return of the mag!
*it is*
Return of the mag!
*c'mon!*
Return of the mag!
*watch my flow!*
You know that i am back!
*here i go!*

I say we petition mark morrison to release a remix of return of the mack in support of this cause..lets face it his career needs it tbh

JoeSchmoe

one of the main guys behind it is now the producer of Eamon Dunphys morning show on newstalk, I think the slate originated in trinity so maybe the team doing it just graduated and went on with their lifes

whiskeyman

they did a best of magazine for Christmas... was available in Tower Records.. not sure if still about.
THis was one of the many things i loved about college life...
I still have many of the old editions.. classic stuff!

flogen

yeah, would love to find out what the original writers are up to now, they probably are all doing proper things after graduation.

I remember how much The Sun hated it, it was so funny. The Jamie Bulger and Blacks In Jacks issues really got them noticed

flogen

gobby

flogen wrote:

yeah, would love to find out what the original writers are up to now, they probably are all doing proper things after graduation.

I remember how much The Sun hated it, it was so funny. The Jamie Bulger and Blacks In Jacks issues really got them noticed

flogen

Wow, never saw the Jamie Bulger one. Christ I'd say that was hillarious!

steppen

The edition that ripped into the private schools was very good too, included lines like "Clongowes is a prat factory that turns rich boggers into D4 díckheads." There's just no magazine around now like it

Nuttzz

samantha mumba race slur!!! etc etc

Chinafoot

just rooted out "last issue ever" from october 2003.

class stuff

Chinafoot

gobby wrote:

Wow, never saw the Jamie Bulger one. Christ I'd say that was hillarious!

This is from the last issue.....the reaction was nealry funnier than the piece itself!

"Most people will remember how numerous low-rent tabloids became incensed when child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were due release having served 8 years for bumping off Jamie Bulger. Bulger's mother, an unstable bítch called Denise Fergus, was appointed judge in relation to the issue of their release by the tabloids, who wheeled her out for an incendiary quote anytime it looked like a rational atmosphere was going to break out.

The redtops kept whipping up a great old storm and eventually threatened to print the two lads' new names and whereabouts once they got out, thus allowing their ignorant hooligan readers to wreak vigilante havoc the length of England. In light of this prospect The Slate ran with a cover which 'revealed' the whereabouts of Thompson and Venables. Readers were exclusively informed that the duo would front a new Louis Walsh boyband and were receiving dancing lessons fromt he Billy Barry kids.

Not everybody saw this as the brilliant piece of satirical genius it blatantly was, and to our great surprise, The Paddy Sun had us on the front cover of their rag declaiming the piece as 'sick'. Allegedly poor Loius Walsh was very upset - he probably hadn't even heard of The Slate let alone seen the piece - and Keith Duffy, who is so stupid that he should be locked up, actually apologised to Jamie Bulger's parents on behalf of Boyzone. It got even better when some díckhead from the Billy Barry kids went on the Marian Finucane show and hysterically denied that either Thompson or Venables were joining the Billy Barry kids. Honestly, that all actually happened."

gobby

rofl... :D:D

Miguel_Sanchez

The Slate is not going to return. They never made any money off it and I suppose at some point they just had to pay the rent. Despite a few threats of legal action nobody ever went through with it - but I suppose there was always going to be a risk if they kept going.

One of the two main writers is (was) working on the Dunphy show and he also worked with the second guy for Village magazine. Not sure if either of them still work there.

In the meantime it looks like Mongrel magazine is starting to stir up some controversy (although having a go at Pat Kenny is fairly easy) - Mongrel is by no means as good as the Slate though and only has a few good things in it every so often.

In Galway - The Naked Galwegian is generating a bit of a following but it has a very low print run. Although I heard it is going online soon.

Victor

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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They wanted to burn out, not fade away.

flogen

aye, but Mongrel isn't really a satire mag, The Spanner is but it's a far cry from The Slate and I believe it doesn't want to be like the slate (i.e. as controversial)

flogen

jonny68

has anyone any links for any funny mags similar to the slate?

therock67

jonny68 wrote:

has anyone any links for any funny mags similar to the slate?

Satireland is one.

LoneGunM@n

Just had a look at SatIreland & nearly p!ssed myself laughing @ Harney Trolley Scheme Criticised & D4 Teenager Can Like Totally Relate to 50 Cent

LegacyUser

the slate was great, the early house article was v funny.

great mag.

Robbo

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

In Galway - The Naked Galwegian is generating a bit of a following but it has a very low print run. Although I heard it is going online soon.

I was under the impression that it was petering out? When I could pick it up, the quality of writing dropped off a long way from when it started.

Shabadu

The Slate was great, but Piranah did it first, and better.

projectmayhem

the slate was fantastic... it'd be nice to see something similar published again

darraghrogan

That was when I started my college career - it ended just as I started getting into it.

The spanner is basically an ad for some crowd called oxygen.ie. Some humourous content - more not the 9 o clock news than have i got news for you

Darragh

Victor

www.portadownnews.com

Ah memories

therock67

darraghrogan wrote:

The spanner is basically an ad for some crowd called oxygen.ie. Some humourous content - more not the 9 o clock news than have i got news for you

Darragh

The Spanner is owned by oxygen.ie which is some student website as far as I know. They had a couple of stories from satireland in the last edition plus their own stuff but I don't know if that's going to continue.

Kingsize

the final few issues of the slate were really well below par,i got the felling that
some of the original writers left & new people there were trying to emulate their style -just tried too hard & totally missed the point.
kinda like when there were loads of unfunny knock off versions of VIZ comic doing the rounds

Miguel_Sanchez

Robbo wrote:

I was under the impression that it was petering out? When I could pick it up, the quality of writing dropped off a long way from when it started.

Still going - picked up a copy last week. The writing is always up and down a bit but the last issue was pretty good I thought.

kirn

some of the slate was amazing - really funny and really clever, but a lot of it was just crap.
and they were much more establishment than they claimed, advertisers became fairly regular...

Superman

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Mongrel .

far too trendy for its own good but its alright

bagocans

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Still going - picked up a copy last week.

really!!

Bri

kirn wrote:

they were much more establishment than they claimed, advertisers became fairly regular...

Ah come on, regardless of how funny you are you still gotta pay the bills!

Robbo

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Still going - picked up a copy last week. The writing is always up and down a bit but the last issue was pretty good I thought.

Out of interest where can you pick it up at the moment?

Also, any sightings of Mongrel around Galway these days?

Miguel_Sanchez

Robbo wrote:

Out of interest where can you pick it up at the moment?

Also, any sightings of Mongrel around Galway these days?

Here's the places I have seen the Naked Galwegian:

Sub City, 2001 Video Library, Java's, Banana Phoblacht, The Roisin Dubh, Blue Note (off-licence bit), Clan Video, Redlight Records.

I think they used to put in NUIG but not anymore. It does go to the Art college though.

I doubt there's any of the current issue around at the moment (one came out on Easter Satuday) but you could try Banana Phoblacht as people tend to read it there and leave it as opposed to taking it with them.

Mongrel is around alright - saw it in Blue Note (off-licence bit), Banana Phoblacht and 2001 Video Library. I'm sure it's around other places too.

Miguel_Sanchez

kirn wrote:

some of the slate was amazing - really funny and really clever, but a lot of it was just crap.
and they were much more establishment than they claimed, advertisers became fairly regular...

To be fair to them - they did have to get it printed abroad because no printers in Ireland would touch it. I think that's a badge of honour.

Met one of the writers/founders of the Slate in Dublin a few months back. He was much younger than I thought he'd be (only around 23).

Just instead of starting a new thread, just decided to put a bit of information up for you slate lovers...

I'm currently sitting at a computer with a copy of "The Best of The Slate" in front of me. Tower Records are selling it again.

Viva.

PullMyFinger!

Myth wrote:

I'm currently sitting at a computer with a copy of "The Best of The Slate" in front of me. Tower Records are selling it again

Great news, never got mine. Why dont they just archive every single article from their hard drive on theslate.ie?? It'd get loads of hits, couple of Ads to pay the bills and everyone's happy.