State Issue #1 (6 March 2008)
Editors	Phil Udell & John Walshe
Categories	Music
Frequency	12 per year
Publisher	Roger Woolman
First issue	March 2008
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Website	www.state.ie

State.ie (formerly State Magazine) is an Irish website and formerly a monthly music magazine, which launched in March 2008 and folded in January 2009 having published a total of nine issues. While the magazine claims to be "going online", founding co-editor John Walshe admitted that it would be on an amateur basis "no one is going to be working full-time on it because we will all be working elsewhere".^[1] Originally the concept of the magazine involved a hard copy of which there was a charge to purchase, however after six issues it was decided to make the magazine's content free to view online. The first issue appeared on Irish shelves on 6 March 2008^[2][3] and featured Michael Stipe of R.E.M. on the cover.^[4] This immediately garnered comparisons between the new magazine's similarities with Hot Press who featured Stipe on their cover at the same time.^[5] At a price of €5.50, State charged €2 more than Hot Press.^[6]

State is published by Roger Woolman and edited by two Hot Press alumni, John Walshe and Phil Udell. Contributors include Evening Herald columnist, The Irish Times reviewer and blogger Sinead Gleeson, Rolling Stones writer Kara Manning, award-winning blogger Niall Byrne (a.k.a. Nialler9^[7]), Event Guide writer David O'Mahony and The Star feature writer Tanya Sweeney. The magazine's art director, Simon Roche, was named designer of the year by the Periodical Publishers Association of Ireland in December 2008.

As of September, 2008 State Magazine has redeveloped its website (state.ie) and confirmed that there would not be a September edition of the Magazine as they were overlooking future production of the magazine. From October until December 2008 the magazine was made available for free of charge from a number of venues around Ireland's major cities and online from the magazine's website, following a number of other magazines such as Mongrel, Connected and Analogue Magazine in providing their print content free of charge. The first freely distributed issue of State featured Kings of Leon on the cover.^[8]. As of January 2009, the magazine will only be available online from its website.

Contents 1 Issues 1.1 The costly ones 2 Cross-border collaborations 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Issues

[edit] The costly ones

The first six issues were available for a fee.^[9]

#	Date of publication	Cover star	Details	Link
1	6 March 2008	Michael Stipe	Goldfrapp, The Jimmy Cake, Cadence Weapon, Stiff Little Fingers, The Kooks
2	3 April 2008	Muse	Portishead, Jape, SXSW	[10]
3	1 May 2008	Gemma Hayes	Republic of Loose, The National, Mick Jagger	[11]
4	5 June 2008	Iggy Pop	Damien Dempsey, Alanis Morissette & Martha Wainwright, The Ting Tings	[12]
5	3 July 2008	Interpol	Tricky, The Hold Steady, Pendulum, Justin Timberlake	[13]
6	7 August 2008	ABBA	Electric Picnic 2008: Tinariwen, David Holmes, Oppenheimer, Tindersticks, That Petrol Emotion, Bodytonic, Pivot	[14]

[edit] Cross-border collaborations

State.ie linked up with AU magazine of Belfast in 2009 to co-host what was described as "a series of cross-border gigs" designed to promote Northern Irish musicians in Ireland.^[15] Alphastates, And So I Watch You From Afar and Conor O'Brien of Villagers and The Immediate all featured.^[15]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official State website
• Roger Woolman's website
• Statement of discontinuity