Panic On The Streets' Re-published 28th Feb 2012

Re-issue!
Re-package!
Re-evaluate the maps!

Sell-out. Hope you don't make the top 20,000 book list.

Fair (and not unexpected) comment, however it's not quite as straight forward as it may seem on the surface.

Disappointingly, the 1st issue never got off the ground. The publisher went bust, it was never distributed as intended and I have no idea how many copies they had printed or how many it sold.
Apparently another company bought the rights to all of the publishers titles (including Simon Goddard's 'Songs That Saved Your Life') and I got a letter out of the blue a few months ago from them saying they were going to reprint 'Panic On The Streets' in time for February 2012.

So it was a case of either not being bothered about it and simply allowing it to be printed as it was originally - knowing that some of the sites were no longer as stated and other newer places needed to be included too......
or getting involved, going through each site mentioned, bringing them up to date / deleting them were neccessary and adding the news ones where appropriate.

I figured if my name was being attached to it, then I'd rather the information be correct as of the time of the 2nd print rather than having fans buy something 'new' that was in fact containing out of date information.

And who knows, I may even get a royalty cheque this time!

Phill Gatenby

View the original article here