And I always end up headless in a Beat Motel...
Welcome to the cyber squat of Beat Motel Zine, stumble around at your leisure and learn the dirty habits of our writers and a little bit of what the zine is about. Actually I'll tell you here, nobody likes having to hunt around webshites for anything, sheesh, we're busy people with important things to do in important places (we wish).

Beat Motel is published every now and then, it’s meant to be quarterly but never is. Beat Motel is a ‘no stress’ publication, meaning we flat out refuse to get stressed over any aspect of the zine, and also refuse to succumb to any pressure levied on us by bands, labels, PR agents etc. Beat Motel has no specific agenda with regards to music, but we like to think our politics are pretty clear, basically ‘be excellent to each other, relax, and have fun’.

Beat Motel is kinda a punk zine but our musical tastes are pretty broad and a bunch of our writing has chuff all to do with either punk or music. We like laughing at childish rubbish but we also sometimes like being serious. We'll be using this webshite to give you information on each issue we put out and a bit of junk about our writers but that's about it. All the actual content will be in the printed zine. We like real zines and don't want this site to become a webzine, not that there's anything wrong with webzines, but hey, you can't read them on the crapper!

We review releases (CDs, DVDs, Vinyl & Wax Cylinders), we review live music and books. We also review nice presents and technical do-dads that cool folk send us, well at least we would if anyone sent any gidgits. What’s a gidgits you may ask, and if you have to ask them I guess you’re not the right person to send us gidgits. But as we’re a ‘no stress’ publication there’s little point in bugging us about stuff you’ve sent in to review, read Beat Motel and you’ll get a flavour of our tastes. Actually that being said we are very open to new music, putting out a zine and refusing to listen to new music is a bit like being a dog and refusing to sniff other dog’s arses. Well apart from the whole arse sniffing aspect I guess, we’re not really into that sort of thing, so if you bump into us on the streets there’s little point in dropping your trolleys, although it would amuse us greatly. Thanks for reading, the word ‘poo’ is funny.

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Beat Motel
PO BOX 773
Ipswich
IP1 9FT
ENGLAND

Email us at:
poo at BeatMotel.co.uk

Everyone that emails us gets added to our mailing list, that's just the way it is!

Submissions...
We are always looking for contributions to the zine, send in your column, interview or absolutely anything else and there's a strong chance we'll immortalise it in print! Don't bother getting in touch first to ask permission, just send it over!

Looking for exposure for your crappy band?
We're in bands ourselves so we know how much time you all spend scouring the web looking for addresses to send your crap efforts to in the hope of global adulation. Feel free to send us stuff to review but make sure you check out our review policy first.

Review Policy...
We'll review pretty much anything, so send in your demo, album, zine, book, game, dvd, pies and we'll do our best to get round to writing about them. Don't be hassling us about it though, if you've sent something in for review then hold your bloody horses, pestering us by any method of communication to ask if we've reviewed you yet is a sure fire way to get us angry, and you wouldn't like us when we're angry.
We don't review MP3s, if you can't be arsed to send us a cd we can't be arsed to review you.
If you disagree with the slating you've got then tough, you can't please everyone all the time, if you don't want our opinion (and after all it is only an opinion) then don't send your stuff to us!
We review as much as possible, but we can’t promise to review absolutely everything as we get a jaw dropping amount of stuff every day. You stand a better chance of getting reviewed if you show originality, passion or include some sort of bribe!
If your press sheet contains the phrases 'hottest live act' or 'best kept secret' it will be shredded and used to light small fires and your cd will be used as a bird scarer on our allotment.

Our Email Address...
To avoid us getting spammed to death the Beat Motel email address will change every now and then, to check you have the right address come back and check it here on our webshite.