It is dedicated to Mr Stuart Mears, the owner of Jazz Fashion Publishing Limited.The Old School, Higher Kinnerton, Chester, CH4 9AJ.Registered in England, No. 3743871.
He is the publisher of the Skin Deep, Skin Shots and Tattoo Master Magazines. He also puts on the Tattoo Jam and Tattoo Freeze conventions.

Mr Mears came to the attention of the tattoo world by publishing tattoo magazines. Skin Deep is the most well known of these. Not content with owning a magazine he decided to expand into the tattoo convention market, excuse the corporate term but that is how the tattoo world is viewed by Mr Mears. We are a commodity to be exploited.

The first Tattoo Jam convention was in the beautiful Welsh town of Llandudno and was considered by the attendees and artists as a nice friendly well run affair.

The second however was at Doncaster racecourse, a less than idyllic town. Everyone presumed that the venue was changed to accommodate more fans of tattooing. Sadly this proved to be untrue.
The truth was more complicated.
It transpired that the convention was held by a company called "Get Funky Limited" a company solely owned by Mr Mears. After the convention closed its doors Get Funky Limited declared bankrupt owing creditors £161,431.
This sounded alarm bells to many people as they had paid their money to a different company, Jazz Fashion Publishing. Note the name as Mr Mears likes being "Jazzy".

After we spoke to Conway council it appears that Mr Mears was going to be taken to court by them as he approached the council as Jazz Publishing and they refused to be fobbed off. Rather than appear in court he decided to settle with them.
Unfortunately for all of the small creditors he did not pay them.
When we questiond Mr Mears as to why the council was paid he refused to answer the question. Curious.

We will now show you the facts and simply leave you to draw your own conclusions. We think they speak for themselves. All of the facts have been downloaded from Companies House and are in the public domain for all to see.We will not provide any documents that we have downloaded because that would be against Companies House rules. Also that would open the door to Mr Mears to say that we had doctored the files.

However anyone with one pound in their bank account can download the relevant papers directly from the Companies House "webcheck" service should they want to see the actual .pdf files themselves.
Adobe reader will be needed to peruse them. A link is provided below just cut and past the relevant company name into the search box.

Mr Mears is claiming that these documents have been falsified and insists that he will be taking legal action against Companies House for publishing lies about him.

To date these documents have remaind unchanged

Inside Communications v Jazz Publishing

On digging into Mr Mears history we at stuartmears.com have also found out that he is not just content with owing creditors their hard earned money. The evidence can be seen on the link at the bottom of this page. Mr Mears owns 100% Biker magazine. He decided it would be a capital idea, in more ways than one, to register the web domain name of his competitor Backstreet Heroes and then to point it at his own publication to draw people away from the other magazine and to his own instead.

After doing this you would imagine that the owners of the other magazine would be rather annoyed.

Not as annoyed as when the link then changed to a tawdry, holding page which read. "For sale £100,000 www.backstreetheroes.co.uk Interested parties in this domain should eMail info@jazzpublishing.co.uk

Needless to say the legal decision went against Mr Mears.

Nice try though Stuart.

Jazz Fashion Publishing - Current Business
Get Funky - Liquidated on 21/10/2008 owing £161,431
Jazz Holdings -28/02/2005 Liquidated owing £326,720
Jazz Design Limited - 15/03/1999 to 28/02/2005 Liquidated owing £ 256,499
Jazz Car Publishing Limited 15/03/1999 to 28/02/2005 Liquidated owing £252,387
Jazz Bike Publishing Limited - 24/03/1999 to 28/02/2005 Liquidated owing £263,813
Jazz Bureau Limited - 07/03/1995 to 28/02/2005 Liquidated owing £ 261,958
Jazz Print Limited - 27/03/2001 to 28/02/2005 Liquidated owing £601,014
Easyprint (Chester) - Dissolved

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