Whats!Up

We find it hard to believe but we’re celebrating our second anniversary today! Two years ago we launched Messed!Up Magazine in Hamburg after a few weeks of planning. Ms Sis and the editor had done a few interviews together for other magazines but a lunch meeting in mid-January 2018 would change that – why don’t start something on their own …

Many musicians have a tough time making a living off music, partly because they have a hard time accepting that being a working musician/band in the digital age also means running your own small business because you won’t get enough paid for record sales and gigs. That is also what has to happen in order to find success as a …

The editor of Messed!Up is a huge fan of Reading Festival and have spent way too many salaries and years at the festival – but not this year (too much work in Hamburg). However, Reading festival’s promoter Festival Republic dropped the amazing news on a brand new series of tented gigs in Gunnersbury Park in London, just around the corner …

And the day finally arrived! At this day a year ago Messed!Up Magazine went online after months of talking about it and a few more weeks planning for it to happen. The editor and Ms. Sis had talked about it, Ms Anonymous pushed the editor in the right direction and then it just happened out of frustration of not being …

We’re down to the best ten albums of 2018 according to Messed!Up’s two Swedes with questionable music taste if you ask our Germans. It has been rough and at times violent when we compiled the list but after a few beers, a bottle of glögg and too much Swedish pepparkaka we made it. Let’s get what’s obvious about this album …

There’s no secret that most musicians struggle financially in the digital music economy. Hardly no record sales and low-paid gigs due to saturated concert markets forces musicians to use their creativity in new ways to be able to live off their music. Sure, you’ve read about those in the top who get zillions of dollars every year but the reality …