Has The NME Got Good?

cover says £2.50, when does it start being free?

september

That's a great cover.

So this week will be the last ever paid for issue of NME. or as the NME state "the first chapter" ends. re 1952 - 2015

NME magazine: front cover
https://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/photos/a.499102104166.300902.9577714166/10154076158264167/?type=1&theater

Bumper 132 pages "Massive Collectors Issue" looking back on the history of NME. with a price tag of £3.50

The NME are also asking what is your favourite NME cover? 50 choices
http://www.nme.com/ratemy/383583/what-s-your-favourite-ever-nme-cover

There then will be a break in publishing the NME until 18th September. Presumably to give staff and the editor time to produce a few dummy copies of the new look magazine. Whilst carrying on with new updates on the website / twitter / facebook / email newsletter etc. There is a lot of celebrity lite Buzzfeed type trash on the NME facebook feed.

The last time there was a break in publishing the NME was due ta a NUJ strike in 1984, you'd have to ask Uncle Sinker about the details.

NME list of covers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NME_covers

1984

NME was not published in June and July this year due to a NUJ strike.

Predictably boring/same old shit selection of covers in that farewell montage.

do you mean the final front cover? i wouldn't say PJ Harvey, MIA and Public Enemy was the same old shit if so.

FREE NME available everywhere *not including Scotland or Wales, South West England...
http://i.imgur.com/LoOR6D6.png

http://www.nme.com/map

When?

Will London get them a day early like before?

Why not as its the only place you can get it!

http://i.imgur.com/yJcdrcW.png
http://i.imgur.com/jQOgGvV.png
http://i.imgur.com/mam5KJ6.png

seriously, i have to make a trip to topman in the shopping centre if i want to read the nme now?

xp bunch of whiners, oh wait

from Cosmic Slop's map:

Head
84 The Mall, Golden Square Shopping Centre, Warrington

promisingly, this place went out of business last week

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I LIKE WHITE GUYS PLAYING GUITARS!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! RHIANNA ISN'T REAL MUSIC!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WHAT'S THIS, NME!? WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! YOU'VE LET ME DOWN YOU'RE MEANT TO BE ABOUT WHITE GUYS PLAYING GUITARS!!! I'M COMPARING NME WITH SMASH HITS AND CLEARLY I NEVER READ A SINGLE FUCKING ISSUE!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! NOEL GALLAGHER THE LIBERTINES ARCTIC MONKEYS OASIS THE STROKES!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I'M GLAD I LIVED THROUGH THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHERE NME WAS ALL ABOUT PROPER MUSIC AND REAL WHITE GUYS PLAYING GUITARS AND MUSIC WAS SO MUCH BETTER BECAUSE IT WAS REAL MUSIC NOT THIS CRAP POP DANCE CRAP!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! YOU'RE SO HIPSTER, NME! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

There was someone on there complaining about the rihanna cover but also about the amount of morrissey/arctic monkeys/libertines/oasis covers. Maybe the NME isnt for them?

just do what my pal is doing and post the spice girls cover when people post about how nme was great in the britpop era and never covered "manufactured pop music"

NME is dead.
XFM is dead.
There's nothing left to live for.

^this guy is taking the piss, surely?

Looks like it is Friday's NME will come out

Gotta get down (London) on Friday

"A great man once said to me he loves all music from A to Z... Abba to Zappa" clearly the best bit of that sheet of nitwit flypaper above

hearty lols @ nitwit flypaper

well, I will get one tomorrow thanks to being in LDN tomoz, will wait until I see what is INSIDE!

But it does sound like what happened when Zigzag became a free mag back in the nineties, two issues?

I doubt the advertisers will be pleased that large parts of the UK wont be able to get it.

XFM is dead? :-O

(A: even worse)

tbf XFM already died once in 1998

Love the guy going "I remember when it was all Suede, Pulp, Mansun on the cover", who has presumably blocked out the Spice Girls and Robbie Williams covers from the same era.

I guess, for being the first of this new method, the 1st front cover acts as a mission statement.

There was someone on there complaining about the rihanna cover but also about the amount of morrissey/arctic monkeys/libertines/oasis covers. Maybe the NME isnt for them?

― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cornelius Cardew or gtfo imo

Nah, they just want the circulation to be as high as possible from the off.

Effectively it has gone (inner) London only, if that map is exhaustive, as that's about the only place with the density of distribution distribution to get a pick-up rate attactive to advertisers.

A bit like the conservative party, it makes a gesture towards including the rest of the country, but is only really interested in one square mile in London, ho ho

I used their map to see based on my workplace postcode.

It looked like I was in the highlands/islands.

I make Aberystwth and Fort William the two places on mainland uk furthest away from an nme distribution point.

It's a pretty fun map tbf to nme

was looking for a map of university student distribution to compare it to, but no joy

Aberystwyth is a uni town. Presumably an algorithm crunched the numbers and determined that the size of student population did not make it worth the transport costs of distribution to the west coast of Wales.

If you're really desperate for a copy every week I'm sure you can subscribe for the cost of postage. Why you would want to when all the articles will be online and will presumably be getting flimsier and flimsier anyway is a different question.

Yes.

you can pay for postage & packaging to have it delivered if you don't live near a distribution point

£36 per year / works out at under 70p week

NME Magazine Subscription
https://www3.magazinesdirect.com/az-magazines/n/6756/nme.thtml

what year did the nme cost 70p? some time in the late 80s / early 90s?

It seems it went from 65p to 75p round about 1992-3

http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l800/pict/141418119298_1.jpg

Brian?

http://cdn.discogs.com/VZvDbKR201YEAmOzTIAVCbBW2oU=/fit-in/599x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5833821-1403981334-7414.jpeg.jpg

Number of album reviews in this week's issue: three, plus five 30-word capsules. And of those three, the shortest is suffixed with "read the full review on NME.com".

Number of gig reviews: zero. But there are five whole pages of gig previews, covering a whopping 10 well-known acts.

Elsewhere, the axe has fallen on virtually all coverage of lesser-known/emerging acts, with the Radar section reduced to a single page, covering a single artist.

There's only one long-form feature: Peter Robinson's uncharacteristically characterless and PR-y interview with Rihanna. ("As well as being fashion's most exciting muse, Rihanna is now the ultimate muse for the planet's greatest songwriters and producers.") Chvrches get a double page spread, but only one page with text. And that's it for your music features.

Total number of news stories: three at a pinch, or one (new Libertines tour) if you take a stricter definition of "news story".

Full page picture stories include "10 best costumes from Bestival", "what's on your headphones" (which doubles as "what are you wearing", "things we like; this week's objects of desire" (headphones, bag, shoes, razor, coat etc - full page ad on facing page for the razor listed in the feature).

Worst issue ever.

Right, I shall stroll out and get one.

LivStStation? Or elsewhere..

lol, it's raining man, don't do that to yourself.

Someone thrust a copy into my hand earlier today and it's pretty much exactly as you would expect. DFS ad in there as well, you didn't get that in the Britpop era.

xpost Man, isn't it just?

will kick back for a bit.

I see from Sky News, there's a ton of them outside Westminster tube station.

They just had Ringo on, 'yeah, on your phone now, back then biggest newspaper in the world, yeah, peace love'

Someone left the papers out in the rain
I don't think that I can take one
cause they're all gone soggy