Room Thirteen

Room Thirteen was created to fill a niche in the online music magazine sector. When Room Thirteen were originally starting, a simple goal was set - to achieve the best alternative online music magazine. For those involved in Room Thirteen, the music industry is as important to us as it is to you. We realised that online music magazines often lacked... in content due to insufficient updates or simply because they were online-counterparts to printed material that received priority. Our plan was to change this. To reach our target goal, we follow some simple steps. These include updates to the site on a daily basis, original features, up to date news, unique reviews and reader-contributions. We also aim to cover smaller, unsigned bands - giving them the opportunity to showcase their talents online. We also offer full coverage of what is best described as the "mainstream-alternative" sector - covering all your favourite bands ranging from Tool to Marilyn Manson to The Manic Street Preachers. In the summer of 2003, Room Thirteen incorporated as a limited company and launched on Monday 20th October 2003. Since that time our readership has steadily increased and month-by-month our figures continue to grow. In 2004 we started to increase our advertising efforts and look at other opportunities for Room Thirteen. Room Thirteen is actively looking at concert promotion, CD production and sponsorship to increase awareness and promote our brand. During July 2004, our new designed site went online - based on feedback from our readers we decided to change the way certain aspects of the site works. This process is continual but we feel that the main face-lift was completed at this time. By mid-2004 the number of contributors at Room Thirteen had increased and our name had gained some weight in the industry. We were working with most major record labels and were even listed as one of four associate website of Download Scotland 2004's - this allowed us to run our first mega-giveaway involving a pair of two-day tickets and a crate ...Read More