Rave - editing without borders...

they only went and did it, those Rave Magazine editors... they actually mailed me a copy of the october issue! I know they said they would but considering how they seemed to think of us while we interned this summer, i doubted this was anything more than a ‘uh-I-really-should-try-to-be-polite-and-provide-a-copy-of-the-magazine-they-have-contributed-to’ gesture.

But then yesterday, it actually got delievered... i was quite excited to see how the final edit of the kooks article I wrote would be. i expected them to make changes but what i didn’t expect was them re-writing the entire article apart from 2-3 sentences (literally!!!) and still putting my name in the by-line. They wanted to get a certain opinion and perspective on the band and their music across (which is fair enough, it’s their publication) and mine were clearly different – but I would rather they had NOT put my name on something i in no way want credit for and that i in no way want to (or can) answer for...

but, on a positive note, they did use a few of my album reviews (which weren’t edited quite as heavily!) – enjoy your 2 stars, razorlight. They also used shaun’s duncan james review which is just pure genius...