Eternity Issue No. 4
DJ Ratty interview · “free tapes with this issue” · early UK rave magazine
1993 (exact month not established)
Early issue of Eternity, the Wakefield-based underground rave magazine, with an exclusive DJ Ratty interview promoted on the cover. The rear cover is unusually informative about the publication's own self-conception and distribution: Eternity describes itself as covering rave events, DJ and MC profiles, drug information, scene news and readers' letters, and advertises a nationwide network of record shops and specialist outlets.
Read the catalogue note →- Condition
- Good appearance from supplied exterior photographs.
- Completeness
- Interior collation not established from the supplied cover photographs. The cover advertises “free tapes with this issue”; no accompanying tape is shown, so the original tape premium is not evidenced as present.
Catalogue note
Early issue of Eternity, the Wakefield-based underground rave magazine, with an exclusive DJ Ratty interview promoted on the cover. The rear cover is unusually informative about the publication's own self-conception and distribution: Eternity describes itself as covering rave events, DJ and MC profiles, drug information, scene news and readers' letters, and advertises a nationwide network of record shops and specialist outlets. As Issue No. 4, it belongs close to the magazine's emergence from the early-1990s hardcore rave scene.
Advertised programme: DJ Ratty is physically named as the issue's exclusive interview subject. No cover artist or photographer credit is visible in the supplied photographs.
Historical context: Issue No. 4; DJ Ratty cover interview; 70p where sold; rear cover identifies Eternity Magazine at Robin Hood, Wakefield and lists a nationwide outlet network.
Condition note: Front and rear covers show age-related handling wear, edge and corner wear, light creasing and surface marks. Covers remain strongly coloured and legible. No interior pages were photographed, so binding, pagination and internal condition have not been assessed.
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Event details are drawn from the held object and the qualified catalogue research above. A printed bill establishes an advertised booking, not confirmation that a performer appeared.
Why this object matters
Early Eternity preserves the rave scene's own editorial voice and a printed relationship between magazines and tapes. That is outstanding participant-media evidence, but covers alone do not establish the full editorial package or the advertised tape's presence. Keep the assessment provisional below the more fully documented Fracture issues and campaign newsletter.
Evidence limits: Cover evidence does not establish full interior contents or the presence of the advertised free tapes.
Historical context
Issue No. 4; DJ Ratty cover interview; 70p where sold; rear cover identifies Eternity Magazine at Robin Hood, Wakefield and lists a nationwide outlet network.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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