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About Counterfeit Counterfeit is a new Music and Arts Zine put together to support and give exposure to budding new bands, artists and groups throughout the North of England. We provide a platform for writers and photographers to show off their work, whatever their background.
The magazine, rather than an executive holds the opinions of its members above its own, all content submitted to the magazine belongs to the author and we endeavour to publish every article, review or image. Members are encouraged to go out and root out the things we all miss, new and forgotten scenes. If you would like to get involved or be featured in our magazine, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with a brief outline of how you'd like to help out. Who we were Counterfeit is the descendant of Sandman Magazine and follows many of its principals and practices – reviews and articles covering local and mainly unsigned bands who wouldn’t otherwise be written about in the national press. The print edition of Sandman was founded in 2002 by Mark Roberts and Jan Webster at a time when there wasn’t much media representation for the wealth of talented unsigned bands in Sheffield. The magazine grew swiftly, packing out the Boardwalk for the launch gig, and quickly earned a reputation as a credible and honest magazine. It took a while for some bands to come round to the idea of the mag as sometimes it could be brutally honest. However if we got two reviews of the same gig that contrasted totally, we would always print both of them. The magazine didn’t have a ‘house’ opinion, it was simply a forum for over 500 different writers, all with their different views, to express their opinions through. By 2005 there were 5 Sandman Magazines, in Sheffield, Leeds, Hull, York and Nottingham and to keep expanding the team decided to combine all the separate mags into one bumper edition. They then expanded into Manchester with a full editorial team and started covering Leicester, Lincoln, Derby, Bradford, Liverpool and many more cities in between. September 2008 saw the last print edition as the magazine looked to the future and evolved into a web based magazine. Environmentally friendly media. The last upload was made on Sunday 3rd May 2009 You can read the Sandman archive here |
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