The story so far and how it got started
Uzinemusic online is primarily a website dedicated to music. We will bring you interviews and reviews of artists and performers we love because they offer their fair share of beauty, sensibility, delicacy and intelligence to music. We will also endeavour to bring you articles beyond the realm of music to explore the wider Arts.
Aline, co-editor of Uzinemusic, introduces uzinemusic online and recalls 16 years of amateur music journalism with 'Le fanzine Uzine' and, if you recognise the headings below, you might just be able to work out one of her favourite bands!
A Night Like This
It all started in 1991, in Caen, France. We were a bunch of students sharing a common passion with those who made the music, those who listened to it and those who tried to make things happen. One day, one of us had the wonderful idea to create a music fanzine that would review music and publish interviews of bands that we liked. It felt great. One cold and rainy night, we met up and discussed this exciting project at length.
The funeral party
'Le fanzine Uzine' was born in December 1991 in Caen, France, and was officially deceased when its two editors moved to Southampton, England, in October 1994.
Pictures of you
It was 1995, only a few months after I had moved to Southampton. Walking back home one rainy day having just bought Nirvana's 'Unplugged' (it just got released) and 18th Dye's 'Tribute to a bus', I felt sad and melancholic. Perhaps I was still trying to make sense out of Kurt's death because it felt only like yesterday that I was at Nirvana's concert in Rennes, taking pictures of the band. It also felt like yesterday that Courtney Love was showing me her locket with photographs of Frances and Kurt inside it. I'm not telling you about my encounter with Nirvana and Courtney Love just to name-drop (although I somehow feel entitled to!) mainly though, I simply wish to share the sadness I felt, like thousands of fans around the world, when I heard the tragic news of yet another young talented man giving-in to drugs and the feeling of inadequacy.
Love song
Uzine was once a vibrant French music paper fanzine created by a bunch of students. Its primary aim was to publish interviews with bands that we loved. Some of these bands were local, some had reached international status and others would not get the coverage they deserved because the music press had decided otherwise. Uzine was a fanzine made by music lovers for music lovers. And still is!
Never
We never made money out of Uzine as this was not our objective. We survived thanks to various government and private subsidies. That's probably why it worked so well.
So what
Uzine Music is a non-profit making entity. Material available on this website is protected by the copyright laws of the UK and other countries. Please do not take advantage financially of any of the material found in this website. If you wish to link this site in an index, that would be lovely, and what would be even more lovely is that you notify us, so that we know.
The kiss
I would like to thank all those who are helping Uzinemusic along the way: the artists and their crew, the friends, the proof-readers, the readers and the IT enabler without whom Uzinemusic would not exist.
