Depression no more

Moghul is sorry to lean that No Depression Magazine is to cease trading, but hardly surprised.

While an invaluable source of good country music news and reviews, it suffered, like a lot of journlism these days, from a lack of humour and eventually bored too many advertisers and readers.

I'm forever telling the fatty editor of the Champion that what the people of Southport want more than anything is a laugh, but he always shakes his head manfully and claims that a small but significant minority want misery above all else.

I suppose I pay him to make these decisions, but can't help thinking I'd be better off with that on the spots fellow or the chap who writes about pubs.