The Fly (magazine)
| Editor | JJ Dunning |
|---|---|
| Categories | Music |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Circulation | 104,568 |
| Publisher | MAMA Group (HMV) |
| First issue | 1999 |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.the-fly.co.uk |
The Fly is a free music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. The magazine is published by the HMV owned MAMA Group.
The magazine started as a listings leaflet in Camden, north London, for the Barfly music venue on Chalk Farm Road. In 1999 it went national.
Contributors also write for other publications including The Guardian Guide, Q magazine, NME, Kerrang! and The Huffington Post.
The magazine has a review section featuring new releases (both singles and albums) and live concert reviews. The remainder of the magazine is devoted to articles and interviews with artists generally promoting new releases or tours. The Fly also features new bands alongside more established acts in the pages of its new bands section, "OnesToWatch", which was sponsored by Levi's until 2010.[citation needed]
The Fly is A5-sized, and is distributed around record shops, bars and venues around the United Kingdom. In 2008, the magazine announced its circulation had increased to 105,212 at a time when many other publications had reported a sharp decline in circulation.[1]
The Fly has a history for supporting bands early, having given the likes of Razorlight, Muse, Foals, MGMT and Coldplay their first cover features.[citation needed]
The current editor is JJ Dunning, who took over the role from Niall Doherty when he moved to Q magazine in February 2011.
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The Fly relaunched its website in April 2008 with both a virtual magazine section and an online archive of all previous issues. In Summer 2008, a new feature titled "In The Courtyard" was launched, in which bands were filmed playing stripped-down versions of songs in the courtyard outside The Fly's office.
The sessions were rechristened The Fly Sessions in 2012, when the website was again relaunched.[2]
Bands who've performed so far include Doves, Gaz Coombes, Everything Everything, The Cribs, Noah and the Whale, Warpaint, Black Lips, Dry The River, Badly Drawn Boy, The Kooks, J Mascis, Edwyn Collins, Jake Bugg, Ben Gibbard and Low[citation needed].
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