i thought i'd be sadder about this but tbh it feels like a mercy killing, and i'd kinda made my peace with the nme being dead a pretty long time before it turned into a freesheet anywway
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
it's still going to be available online isn't it? that's a kind of alive -- wait we're all dead aren't we
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
if only
i guess it'll be online for as long as time inc can continue to squeeze pennies out of it but tbh i have even less idea who bothers to look at the online edition these days than who bothered to pick up the freesheet
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
went to the website and all the top stories seemed to be Oscars-related
― nashwan, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
They haven't even bothered making an announcement on their similarly Oscars-heavy Facebook page.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
the final NME print cover is a conceptual hommage to this LP: http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cale-05-kevinayers.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
yikes
― maura, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
Well, I would never have expected Buzzcocks to make it onto the final NME cover!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I guess now Mark E Smith has gone...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
a fitting tribute to the paper's birth in 1976 and it's continuing commitment to the best in new pop
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
can i just tip my hat to Matt for trying to delimit this guff to one active thread and also thanks for not making it the swagger thread
― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link
didwenevergetthissortedlads.txt
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Shenanigans
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-nme-editor-reveals-shenanigans-12145655?x
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
terrible editor claims terrible editor wasn't terrible
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:34 (six years ago) link
poll each paragraph of that or do we have better things to do?
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
The boss of the music magazine between 2002 and 2009, Conor McNicholas had a front row seat to stars like Dave Grohl, Pete Doherty, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:41 (six years ago) link
i was gonna post that specific line, sends a thrill thru the pulse
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:44 (six years ago) link
Mirror article hashtags:
Danny Baker Dave Grohl Joni Mitchell Reading and Leeds Festivals Kasabian Kings of Leon The Killers The Strokes Hospitals Giving birth
Seems to be more about white dudes behaving badly than about music.
― koogs, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:48 (six years ago) link
Hospitals Giving Birth had their moments.
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
Is 'wide passion' a misprint?
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
I remember Dave Grohl almost killing a journalist by throwing an unopened can of lager full pelt at their head after they’d sprayed him with beer for a cover shoot backstage at Reading Festival. (Only a swift duck saved the hack.)
https://cdn.birdwatchingdaily.com/2013/10/ducks-Mallard.jpg
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:57 (six years ago) link
I caught a glimpse of (hair + eyebrows dyed jet black) Terry Christian yabbering incoherent cliches about this on the news and he was credited as a music journalist. How on earth do you get to the age of 57 and still be Terry Christian?
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
Some are born Terry Christian, some achieve Terry Christianity and some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 8 March 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
A cover featuring Amy Winehouse
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2018 10:40 (six years ago) link
some have Terry Christian thrust upon them.
ew
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 March 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
#RIPNME This is from an NME photo shoot in 1997. Kenickie on the Staten Island Ferry. Should mention NME wouldn’t put us on the cover because we refused to strip off and be painted gold. pic.twitter.com/Gly7MKQ4ym— Emma Jackson (@EmmakJackson) March 7, 2018
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
on the NME's masthead since at least the early 90s iirc
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:00 (six years ago) link
since 1973 iirc
http://www.paulgormanis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nick_Kent_1.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
probably but i wanted to note *cough* honourable exceptions
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
honourable saelf-pimping klaxon: i wrote an obit in 2009 for steven wells which i think describes the good and the bad of the nme i cared about (which was never quite the nme i actually wrote for): http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/06/steven-wells-1960-2009-sleep-gently-sweet-foe/
lol as my sister just pointed out, i now have to jam another sentence into my book at late proof stage: thank you ipc for yr thoughtful timing you were always garbage >:(
― mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
Excellent timing from a promotional point of view though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:11 (six years ago) link
I was genuinely saddened by Swells' death. He was a big part of my formative years.
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
xp haha yes, i am still thinking like a sub-editor not a future mogul: MUST CHANGE THAT
G. K. CHESTERTON ON SWELLSY: "It is many years now since this colossus of crime suddenly ceased keeping the world in a turmoil; and when he ceased, as they said after the death of Roland, there was a great quiet upon the earth."
― mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
Swells was always one of my absolute faves even when i was getting cross with him for being mean about some music i liked or when he was doing that C4 breakfast programme being mean about football
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link
That's a great piece on Swells there, Mark.
The woeful Luke Haines was making derisory comments about Swells and pretty much everyone else at NME on Twitter yesterday, and was evidently searching Twitter carefully enough to catch my subtweet of him and try and set the millions of Auteurs on me.
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
when everyone else was either tittering at Sean Ryder's big + clever *authentic* homophobia. Wells took the fucker down a peg or two with that Working Class Zeroes piece iirc.
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
or editing it out of interviews, I meant to add.
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:30 (six years ago) link
start a twitter war abt swellsy w/luke haines to promote my book y/n
― mark s, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
if there was an a-hole that needed murking up, it's that fool.
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
y
he has 8,000+ followers, but most of those followers have +/- 90 followers and seem to be suffering frontal lobe damage so i'd say n
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
that's several thousand more than i'd've guessed and i enjoy much of his work
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
his professional baddie shtick is so lame tho
its hilarious that he's so anti-music-press when he is the archetypal only-the-music-press-cares-about-him artist.
― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
I'll take him on with my 14 followers (4 of them porn bots).
― calzino, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
4 Non Bots
― Finnegans woke (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
Shenaniganshttps://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/former-nme-editor-reveals-shenanigans-12145655?xassumed this would be McDickless but c'mon, you could have used a trigger warning
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
lover Swells so much I attempted to special-order his novel from bookshops in Australia for years
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
thanks autocorrect
I must have stopped reading NME before Swells got good, because he wasn't when I was reading it.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link