A recent Demographic Questionnaire for MusicWeb showed that most of our visitors are showing a few gray hairs (or even no hair at all) and Retirement is on the mind if it has not already happened. I find myself in the same position so to cheer us all up I am offering the magazine The Oldie as an amusing diversion. The special offer for MusicWeb is as follows:

For UK residents by following this link you can have three sampler issues for just £1. You will need to submit your bank account details for direct debit to get this but can cancel if you did not enjoy the three issues. After that a subscription of £17.95 will be deducted every six months for six issues.

If you take out a subscription MusicWeb will receive a one-off payment of £2.50. (If you decide not to go ahead why not donate £2.50 to MusicWeb anyway here)

For residents outside the UK I am afraid I cannot offer any free copies. The deal for you is that you can have 14 issues for the price of 12 plus a free Oldie 2010 Annual (worth £9.99). The subscription price is Europe = £39, USA/Canada = £40, RoW = £49. Follow this link to the overseas ordering page.

What is The Oldie?

RICHARD INGRAMS         
WRITES: “After editing Private Eye for over twenty years, I decided in 1992, along with a group of friends (Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor and Stephen Glover), to launch The Oldie. The aim was to produce an antidote to youth culture but, more importantly, a magazine with emphasis on good writing, humour and quality illustration. Eighteen years later, The Oldie can well claim to be a success story, attracting some of our best writers, illustrators and cartoonists.

We provide all you should expect from a quality monthly magazine – reviews of arts and books, great features, independent opinions – as well as some things you might not expect, such as our ‘I Once Met’ column, where readers write about their encounters with the famous or infamous, ‘Still With Us’, which catches up with people you might have thought were dead, and our ‘Anorak’ slot, where each month a different geek confesses to their private passion.”

“The most original magazine in the country” - The Independent on Sunday