It’s always been a mystery to our beloved readers as to how we at Analogue spend our time. In celebration of Issue Two’s arrival, we give you, A Day in the Life.

12:00 The truck arrives from Belfast! Containing Issue Two! 2,000 Copies! We carry it up 4 flights of stairs! Ailbhe whinges!

12:15 We begin searching for the trolley which will allow us to distribute all around town. The trolley has disappeared.

12:25 We give up searching for the trolley for the mean-time. Ailbhe brings copies of Analogue to the Buttery. Bren brings them to the Hamilton Building, and Gareth brings them to the Arts block.

12:30 The trolley is found! Paul, Bren and Ailbhe power on down along Wicklow St, George’s St, Camden St, finishing up at the Bernard Shaw.

12.35 Bren tries to give Ailbhe a lift back in the trolley. She gets very worried and won’t stay on it. She may have squealed.

14.00 - 16.00 We all break up to go to classes. We are all very intelligent.

16.00 Dan joins in and we visit Freebird Records. Bren and Gareth return. The trolley is loaded once more, and the exodus to Harcourt St begins.

17.00 Loaded trolley + Dame St + Christmas Shoppers = Bad Idea.

17.15 Gareth and Ailbhe formulate a concept for a sitcom. They reference it constantly for the next 10 minutes before it gets too annoying to carry on.

17.25 The trolley breaks. Then it’s fixed. We cross our fingers it won’t break again.

17.30 Dan carrying more than one stack of magazines = Bad Idea. They fall all over the street.

18:00 We arrive at Tripod, leave the rest of the magazines and return to Trinity. Too early to start drinking? No.

9:00 Having bought sundries in the shop, and being in possession of a stack of envelopes to fill and post, we settle into Gareth’s.

19.15 We listen to some Pavement.
19:30 Gareth plays most of Guns ‘n’ Roses’ hits on the kazoo.

20.00 We argue for far too long while trying to decipher whether we’re in the middle of listening to The Field/Fields/Feels/Feedz. Seriously. It goes on for about 15 minutes.

20.30 Nicola arrives! She has a torch that is also a pen that is also a torch. We are amazed.

21.00 We write some poetry. In a race. It’s a poetry race.

21.05 We all read out our new poems. They’re pretty awful.

21.15 We post the envelopes and go to the pub.

There’s a reason why the phrase is ‘party like a rockstar’ and not ‘party like a music journalist’….

Ailbhe Malone is 21 years old. Her father told her the other day that she was 'going to change the world'. She remains sceptical.
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