If it wasn’t for one particular site, then this one would simply not be here today. That website was Renegade Conservatory Guy and there may just be a snifter of a chance that it could be coming back to our screens, though not quite in the same format.
Tweets hint at return
Take a look at these few tweets from Matthew Glover, owner and creator of that website:
I’m thinking about bringing RCG back, but in a different format.
— Matthew Glover (@RenegadeGuy) March 18, 2015
Just ordered a new domain name for myself: http://t.co/ANCPa0gUmo. Unfortunately, I let the old .co.uk lapse and someone bought it!
— Matthew Glover (@RenegadeGuy) March 19, 2015
@glazingblogger not really. I’m thinking of doing something a bit different. It’s not a definite yet.
— Matthew Glover (@RenegadeGuy) March 20, 2015
It’s not quite a definite, as you can see from his reaction to me question. But from a completely selfish perspective it would be good to have another good blogging website to lock horns with. For such a vocal industry with many personalities and dare I say it, egos, there seems to be a distinct lacking of independent magazine sites.
I don’t mean the online versions of our print media, but site-only operations that give totally independent analysis and opinion. There was a time when RCG and DGB were running at the same time, and there were a few more threatening to break through. But running sites like these and keeping them updated is a big task, not everyone has the time or resources to do it.
Time will tell if RCG does come back or not.
