I agree the files of the previous mags are nice (and I am furiously downloading whilst I am still a member) but even here more effort could have been made in presentation and maybe a downloadable zip file?
brians wig · Member since
ITSM wrote: ...but what DO you get from the Fan Club in a year? -----------------------------------------------------
Well. This year fan club members got the following: 3 printed magazines A booking form for the convention. The yearly renewal slip for £18 A letter saying that the price was going up in June to £24 (for 3 printed magazines) and if membership continued to fall Jacky would have to get a job and run the club part time.
And for those people who didn't renew (because there was no way they were paying £18 in November and another £24 in June), they got an extra bonus of a free downloadable version of the Winter magazine and a begging letter.
If she'd asked for £10 in November, I would have been able to afford that, but no, Jacky wants the full 12 month amount for only 8 months membership.
As for pre-release ticket sales, the best tickets I got for the 2008 tour were the ones I booked myself, not the shitty ones I bought from the fan club.
If Jacky was to do a deal with QPL and offer the remastered albums for sale to members at a reduced price, then it would be worth re-joining. Of course. By reduced price, I mean at least £3 cheaper than you can buy them online...
Pim Derks · Member since
As long as the band don't actively support the fanclub by allowing them to sell exclusive audio/video material the fanclub is not worth the money. Stuff like Brian's 1998 Albert Hall performance, Roger's Cyberbarn concert, the 1992 Smile reunion etc would be ideal stuff for fanclub-archive releases. No-one in the general public is interested in these, but would I pay good money for professionally recorded 1998 video of the Another World tour? I think so. I wouldn't be expecting a 5.1 mix and lots and lots of editing - just a good stereo mix and a nice mix of camera angles.
But ofcourse, this is not going to happen.
ITSM · Member since
brians wig - Thanks ; ) from what you're writing it doesn't tempt me very much to join...
Mutant Mushroom · Member since
Decided going to save my money and spend some on the new reissues wth bonus material!!!!! (or am I being suckered again?)
I was at the Smile reunion would love to have a copy of that.
Nightjar_ · Member since
Mutant Mushroom wrote: Decided going to save my money and spend some on the new reissues wth bonus material!!!!! (or am I being suckered again?)
I was at the Smile reunion would love to have a copy of that. I was also at the smile reunion. I remember watching it on QTV in my room. I wish I had the VHS with me that day...!
